In other media

Licence To Queer has been featured in magazines, newspapers, podcasts and films.




June 2024: David’s article on why Bond fans should read Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is published by Ian Fleming Publications Limited.

June 2024: David was asked by Charlie Higson to share his views on the alleged ‘wokeification’ of Bond, ahead of the release of the paperback edition of On His Majesty’s Secret Service.

January 2024: David appears on Build-a-Bond, imagining what a Bond film made in 1958 with all queer creatives would have been like.

December 2023: Live launch of Mark Edlitz’s new book on David Zaritsky’s YouTube channel, The Bond Experience

December 2024: David appears in an article for Fatherly by Ryan Britt

https://www.fatherly.com/entertainment/james-bond-wellness-fitness-style

October 2023: David joins the Really, 007! podcast for a detailed discussion of Charlie Higson’s On His Majesty’s Secret Service, with fellow guest - and Licence to Queer contributor - Chris Eeles.

Licence to Queer's David Lowbridge-Ellis joins the James Bond Cocktail Hour podcast to discuss what could have been Timothy Dalton's film as 007. On the basis of this script, it could have had a drastically different tone! The podcast is split into two parts.

July 2023: ‘Keeping the British end up’ The magazine for 007GB Club members.
David is the Editor and contributed several items. Become a member here: https://www.007gb.co.uk/

13th April 2023: Ryan Britt for Esquire

13th April 2023: Lewis Knight for Radio Times

March 2022: Spy Hards podcast episode 123 ‘The General’

December 2022: Roger Moore’s Cubby Hole podcast

December 2022: Thunderballs Radio Show Season 1 Episode 12 (music cue request)

November 2022: My Movie DNA. I had a great time on Johnny Andrews’s podcast, for a change talking about my favourite films beyond Bond. I set myself the mission of *not* talking about 007. Did I succeed? (SPOILER: No. No I didn't)

October 2022: Endorsement for the BFI Classic From Russia With Love by Llewella Chapman

October 2022: British GQ. I was interviewed by writer Jack King for an article released on James Bond Day.

October 2022: Cinematologists podcast

September 2022: Really, 007! podcast reflecting on connections between Bond and the Queen

September 2022: Chatting with Roland Hulme on his YouTube channel about Kim Sherwood’s Double or Nothing.

August 2022: Discussing Bond’s great romances with Manish on his podcast, It Pod To Be You

August 2022: Interviewing Götz Otto with ‘Really, 007!’

A dream come true!

August 2022: Really 007/Behind The Stunts interview with Paul Weston.

I asked Paul to say his line from The Living Daylights and he did. I can die happy now.

Febaury 2022: Queer 007 characters: In conversation with Calvin Dyson

December 2021: Josh Gay’s Selling Secrets Podcast

November 2021: IM GEHÖRGANG IHRER MAJESTÄT podcast - ‘Camp is forever’

November 2021: Conversation with the writers of The James Bond Lexicon on the Really, 007! podcast

October 2021: The Flick Lab podcast

October 2021: The Independent (article by Adam Bloodworth)

October 2021: Bond and Banter No Time To Die Round Table (podcast)

September 2021: THE FACE (magazine article by Adam Bloodworth)

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September 2021: Really, 007! ‘Anniversary Special’ (podcast)

August 2021: Bringing Back Golden Eye (feature film)

I had a cameo appearance as one of the fans excited for GoldenEye’s return - not an acting stretch by any means!

August 2021: From Tailors With Love (vlog, podcast and article)

July 2021: Interviewed by novelist Roland Hulme

June 2021: Bond And Banter ‘Jack’s Birthday Show’

May 2021: Bond And Banter ‘Jim Fanning’ (podcast)

May 2021: Really, 007! Diamonds Are Forever (podcast)

March 2021: Bond and Banter ‘Ernst Stavro Blofeld’ (podcast)

October 2020: Spy Hards (podcast)

June 2020: The AV Club (documentary)