Last year on Saturdays you regularly heard special stories from the makers of Today about the lives and ideas that lie behind current events. This week you can listen to some of them again.
Today the story of Tessa Colen, about the Dutch Hans de Vries, who almost became world famous as 007.
In the 1960s there was a feverish search for a new interpreter of the most iconic role in film history. That almost became the Dutch Hans de Vries. How did an unknown outsider come so close to this world role?
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You can find a Spotify playlist with all the other Saturday stories from Today here.
- A podcast from:
- Tessa Colen
- Assembly:
- Yeppe van Kesteren
- Final editing:
- Mirjam van Zuidam