Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy [BBC Radio Collection]
by John le Carré
Karla Trilogy (Drama — 1), George Smiley (BBC Dramatization — 5)
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When his handler is accused of treason, British spy George Smiley is also dismissed from his agency. To clear his name and prove his loyalty, Smiley takes a job from Oliver Lacon, the Permanent Undersecretary to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, in an attempt to identify and capture the real traitor.Tags
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The voice talents are excellent...I think they are making a deliberate effort to sound like the BBC show. But the characters seems more muddled and implausible than in the show and the intrusion of Anne into Smiley's thoughts is contrived. Perhaps it's in a great British tradition that I don't know much about. As in the show Jim Prideaux is an utterly tragic figure but, because he does't get the chance to charm us as in the show, Bill Haydon seems more evil.
A very nicely done radio drama adaptation of Le Carre's book, with a few plot holes that the film left un-addressed repaired.
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David John Moore Cornwell was born in Poole, Dorsetshire, England in 1931. He attended Bern University in Switzerland from 1948-49 and later completed a B.A. at Lincoln College, Oxford. He taught at Eton from 1956-58 and was a member of the British Foreign Service from 1959 to 1964. He writes espionage thrillers under the pseudonym John le Carré. show more The pseudonym was necessary when he began writing, in the early 1960s because, at that time, he held a diplomatic position with the British Foreign Office and was not allowed to publish under his own name. When his third book, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, became a worldwide bestseller in 1964, he left the foreign service to write full time. His other works include Call for the Dead; A Murder of Quality; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy; and Smiley's People. He has received numerous awards for his writing, including the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1986 and the Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers Association in 1988. In 2011 he accepted the Goethe Medal. And in 2020, he accepted the Olof Palme Prize. Ten of his books have been adapted for television and motion pictures including The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Russia House, The Constant Gardener, A Most Wanted Man, and Our Kind of Traitor. Le Carré's memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from my Life, became a New York Times bestseller in 2016. In 2019, he published a spy thriller, Agent Running in the Field. John Le Carré died on December 12, 2020 from pneumonia at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) John le Carre was born in 1931. After attending the univesities of Berne and Oxford, he spent five years in the British Foreign Service. He's the author of eighteen novels, translated into twenty-five languages. He lives in England. (Publisher Provided) show less
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- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy [BBC Radio Collection]
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- This is the 2010 BBC audio adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, starring Simon Russell Beale as Smiley. Please do not combine with the original book, or with any other adaptation.
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