
The Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas
BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
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Narrated by:
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full cast
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Simon Russell Beale
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John le Carré
About this listen
The complete collection of acclaimed BBC Radio dramas based on John le Carré's best-selling novels, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley. With a star cast including Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron, Brian Cox, Ian MacDiarmid, Anna Chancellor, Hugh Bonneville and Lindsay Duncan, these enthralling dramatisations perfectly capture the atmosphere of le Carré's taut, thrilling spy novels. 'Call for the Dead' is the first Smiley novel, which sees him looking into an apparent suicide only to uncover a murderous conspiracy; 'A Murder of Quality' finds Smiley investigating a murder in a private school; 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' introduces Alec Leamas, a British intelligence officer whose East Berlin network is in tatters; 'The Looking Glass War' features former spy Fred Leiser, lured back from retirement to investigate a claim that Soviet missiles are being installed close to the West German border; 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' is the first book in the Karla trilogy, and sees Smiley searching for a mole who has infiltrated the Circus; 'The Honourable Schoolboy' sees Smiley determined to destroy his nemesis, Karla, and his spy networks; 'Smiley's People' finds George Smiley called out of retirement to exorcise some Cold War ghosts from his clandestine past; and 'The Secret Pilgrim' sees Smiley invited to dine with the eager new recruits at the Circus. He offers them his thoughts on espionage and, in doing so, prompts a former colleague to re-examine his own eventful secret life.
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Le Carre dramatisation at its best
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Good Radio Play
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A classic
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Simon Russell Beale is outstanding as Smiley.
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I don't think there is a better espionage storytelling author than LeCarre.
Classic Storytelling
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Compelling listening, great dramatisation.
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came from the famed BBC drama department. It was well produced and extremely well acted. However, I did find it a little confusing to follow at times and it required a lot of concentration to try and follow the story and which character was talking. I think I would have followed the stories better if I'd listened to a narration of the books rather than the interpretation of those stories through play.
Engaging
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‘Bullfrog in a Sou’wester” threads his way through the internal intrigues of his own MI5 to weed out the the Russian spy in a great collection of about 17 hours of suspenseful drama, that largely differ but centre around the spy intrigues that get away from the James Bond Cannes glamour and Aston Martins. Instead it plays against the dreary realistic backdrop of post war England and Eastern Europe with only a black Humber from the staff car pool for transport!
It’s my go to audio book on a restless night, I can just about recite it. Congrats to the BBC for a wonderful full cast production which they do so well.And God bless Audible for making it available to buy the whole collection
BBC drama at its English best
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1.confirms 'The Honourable Schoolboy' as the weak point of the Smiley trilogy. Hard to understand its relevance.
2.if you read/listen to nothing else pick 'The Spy who came in from the Cold' and its reprise 'A Legacy of Spies' (although not part of this audio collection) as the quintessential le Carre.
The Spy who came in from the Cold sits with Koestler's Darkness at Noon as genre-defining.
Brilliant, even it was not Alec Guiness as Smiley!
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I live in Thailand part of the year and the use of almost comic Chinese accents for Thai people was especially jarring. Today these would be considered patronising and racist.
The stories themselves are quite good but some are depressing as the whistful memories of an old man
A product Of it's time
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