Smiley Radio Plays
9 books in seriesThe Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas Summary
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Book 1-8
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The Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas
- BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: full cast, Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
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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.
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brilliant
- By clivep on 20-06-16
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The Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas
- BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- Narrated by: full cast, Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 02-06-16
- Language: English
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Book 1
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Call for the Dead (Dramatised)
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron, Anna Chancellor
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Simon Russell Beale stars in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of John le Carré's first novel, which introduced his most famous character, George Smiley. This dramatisation, set in London in the late 1950s, finds Smiley engaged in the humdrum job of security vetting. But when a Foreign Office civil servant commits suicide after an apparently unproblematic interview, Smiley is baffled. Refusing to believe that Fennan shot himself, Smiley decides to investigate.
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Brilliant
- By Thomas Broom on 13-07-09
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Call for the Dead (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron, Anna Chancellor
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Release date: 10-07-09
- Language: English
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Book 2
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A Murder of Quality (Dramatised)
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale, Geoffrey Palmer, Marcia Warren
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
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A Murder of Quality, set in the early 1960s, sees George Smiley investigating a murder in a public school. When the wife of one of the masters is found bludgeoned to death, Smiley, out of loyalty to an old friend, agrees to look into the case. But his investigation raises a multitude of questions. Who could have hated Stella Rode enough to kill her? Why was her dog put down shortly before the murder? And what did Mad Janie see on that fatal night?
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interesting story and dialogue
- By Colin on 17-04-10
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A Murder of Quality (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale, Geoffrey Palmer, Marcia Warren
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Release date: 11-06-09
- Language: English
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Book 3
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Dramatised)
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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It is 1962: the height of the Cold War and only months after the building of the Berlin Wall. Alec Leamas is a hard-working, hard-drinking British intelligence officer whose East Berlin network is in tatters. His agents are either on the run or dead, victims of the ruthlessly efficient East German counter-intelligence officer Hans-Dieter Mundt.
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Brilliant but short.
- By Peter on 22-08-12
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 31-07-09
- Language: English
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Book 4
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The Looking Glass War (Dramatised)
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Simon Russell, Piotr Baumann, Ian McDiarmid, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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When word reaches 'The Department' - an ailing section of British intelligence - that Soviet missiles are being installed close to the West German border, it seems the perfect opportunity to show Control and Smiley, their rivals over at the Circus, that The Department still has value. Former spy Fred Leiser is lured back from retirement to investigate, and manages to cross the border into East Germany in a dangerous night-time operation.
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Maybe my favorite LeCarre novel?
- By Mike EAds on 07-03-16
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The Looking Glass War (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Simon Russell, Piotr Baumann, Ian McDiarmid, Philip Jackson
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Release date: 01-10-09
- Language: English
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Book 5
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Dramatised)
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale, Anna Chancellor, Alex Jennings, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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Smiley, wrestling with retirement and disillusionment, is summoned to a secret meeting with a member of the Cabinet Office. Evidence has emerged that the Circus has been infiltrated at the highest level by a Russian agent. 'Find the mole, George. Clean the stables. Do whatever is necessary.' Reluctantly Smiley agrees, and so embarks on a dark journey into his past a past filled with love, duplicity and betrayal.
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A great dramatisation of a classic spy tale
- By Alistair on 27-01-10
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale, Anna Chancellor, Alex Jennings, Kenneth Cranham, Bill Paterson
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-01-10
- Language: English
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Book 6
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The Honourable Schoolboy (Dramatised)
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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George Smiley has become acting chief of the Circus, but the credibility of the British Secret Service has been shattered. Smiley's adversary is Karla, the Soviet officer who masterminded the Circus's ruin. His battleground is Hong Kong and his choice of weapons is the Honourable Gerald Westerby. A brand new Radio 4 full cast dramatisation of the classic George Smiley novel by John le Carre, starring Simon Russell Beale. This is the sixth in the major new series of all eight George Smiley spy thrillers on radio.
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The Honourable Schoolboy
- By Mike on 26-03-11
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The Honourable Schoolboy (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 11-02-10
- Language: English
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Book 7
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Smiley's People (Dramatised)
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale, Anna Chancellor, Lindsay Duncan, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
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When a Russian émigré is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, Smiley is called out of retirement to exorcise some Cold War ghosts from his clandestine past. What follows is Smiley the human being at his most vulnerable and Smiley the case officer at his most brilliant; and it takes to a thrilling conclusion his career-long, serpentine battle with the enigmatic and ruthless Russian spymaster Karla.
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The Perfect Smiley
- By Gillian Lazarus on 11-01-21
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Smiley's People (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale, Anna Chancellor, Lindsay Duncan, Maggie Steed, Alex Jennings, Kenneth Cranham
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 26-05-10
- Language: English
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Book 8
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The Secret Pilgrim (Dramatised)
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale, Patrick Malahide
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
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Simon Russell Beale stars in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation of John le Carré’s last Smiley novel.George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess ‘the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin'.
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The Secret Pilgrim (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale, Patrick Malahide
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 19-07-10
- Language: English
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