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The Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas

BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation

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The Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas

By: John le Carré
Narrated by: full cast, Simon Russell Beale
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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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Editorial reviews

"A radio triumph...Simon Russell Beale's pitch-perfect master spy." ( Financial Times)
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Le Carre’s best characters brought to life in their original context - from London to Berlin, Paris, Moscow, Vientiane, and the jungles of Cambodia - the stories are compelling, the performances convincing. Brilliant and clumsy espionage from the 1940s to 1990s. Listening theatre!

Le Carre dramatisation at its best

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Of course I read it in my youth but it was great to relive the stories with these superb dramatizations.

A classic

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The conversations with Anne work extremely well. Great audio quality. The actor voicing Bill Hayden is also perfect.

Simon Russell Beale is outstanding as Smiley.

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BBC Radio Play, Good cast, Good Actor Playing Smiley. As with all abridged works i yearn for the detail. but overall a good listen. Particularly if you have not read the original works.

Good Radio Play

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Perfect casting, this production really takes you there with the characters. George Smiley is exactly as you’d imagine him from the book.

Great Production

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