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The remaining James Bond movies are to be released on the Blu-ray format. No release date yet. The titles scored by John Barry are:
You Only Live Twice
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Diamonds are Forever
Octopussy
A View to a Kill
The Living Daylights
The entire series "James Bond - 22 Film Collection" is to be released as a box set too. The DVD set will see a Release Date of: 1 Oct 2012

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We regret to say our discussion forum is now closed for the foreseeable future. Whereas it is true to say it was not often used, we were also constantly having to deal with spammers.

In the meantime we would refer you to The John Barry Appreciation Society page on Facebook where lively discussion often entails.

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LEITH FM 98.8, Edinburgh: two hour show focussing on John Barry, December 30

Lawrence Lettice, Edinburgh (LEITH FM 98.8) focusses on John Barry on his radio show called "Lawrence's Magnificent Movie Music". http://www.leithfm.co.uk/schedule, December 30, 9PM.

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DOCUMENTARY: Pure Imagination: The Leslie Bricusse Story
On: BBC Radio Two
Date: Tuesday 3rd January 2012
Time: 22:00 to 23:00 (1 hour long)

"Following our Friday Night Is Music Night special in December, which marked composer Leslie Bricusse's 80th year, Michael Ball profiles the man behind the music."

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Jon Burlingame has announced on Facebook that his book, THE MUSIC OF JAMES BOND, will be published in October 2012 by Oxford University Press.  This will be fifty years after Dr. No, the first movie in the series, premièred.

"I accepted the assignment in part because I wanted to pay homage to John and his legacy. I think you'll all be very pleased."

Jon Burlingame writes about music for films and TV for Variety and teaches film-music history at USC.

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Intrada: "Ultra-rare 1966 John Barry gem gets expanded CD release!"

Original score copied from "mint condition stereo copy" of the LP plus "Sony vaults contained complete 1/4" session tapes in mono" and "Extra bonus from Mainstream vaults: one reel of original unedited 1/2" 3-track stereo session masters." Read more...

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Local broadcaster and Barry fan Ley Bricknell has produced a John Barry special for Radio Nowhere.  It can be heard here and is thoroughly recommended.

Update April 15, 2015: Link is gone.

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The Observer, article

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Wednesday 28 Dec 2011, 13:00 on BBC Radio York, a one-hour documentary:
York Remembers John Barry; Family and friends pay tribute to the York-born film composer.    

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Don Black's long-awaited radio tribute to John Barry is scheduled for Monday 2nd January between 7 and 9 p.m. on BBC Radio 2.

Don remembers his first sighting of "a classy, elegant chap" on Tin Pan Alley, who ate "like a ballerina" and would despatch indebted film producers with his characteristic "Yorkshire bluntness".

On their music collaborations, he remembers Sir Tom Jones fainting after the sustained end note of Thunderball, and a producer's dismissal of the "lousy tune" and "filthy lyrics" of Diamonds Are Forever.

Don tells of artistic differences during rehearsals for Billy Liar, and the complete failure of another musical, The Little Prince And The Aviator, which closed during preview.

He recalls a memorable night at the home of Leslie Bricusse when he, Quincy Jones, Henry Mancini and Burt Bacharach had to break up a fight between Barry and John Phillips of the Mamas and Papas after the composer challenged Phillips to hum something by Mahler!

This tribute is sound-tracked by some of Barry's best loved compositions, including Born Free, Out Of Africa, The Ipcress File, Midnight Cowboy, Dances With Wolves and several of those classic Bond themes.