
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
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 the Great
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Wonderful
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A Fine Compilation
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My own only grievience was that it ended.
So so so happy I added this to my library.
Utterly engrossing
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Where does The Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Definitely in the top tierWhat other book might you compare The Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas to and why?
In the pantheon of BBC productions, this ranks with their Lord of the Rings.What does full cast and Simon Russell Beale bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
George Smiley is such a wonderfully complex character, so frail in some ways and so utterly strong and humane in others. Beale's performance captured this in a way that brings le Carre's masterwork out of the page.If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
It's been done, it wasn't as good.Any additional comments?
The Bbc is justly famous for their radio productions of literature. The entire cast of this sprawling production is excellent, the music is precisely right, the audio production is, of course, beyond compare. All that serves to bring forth a story that was already amazing. I had read the Tinker Tailor books, but the performances here are now my definitive version.Utterly compelling
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George Smiley's Dramatizations
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A Brilliant Collection
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Masterful
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Excellent
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