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A Legacy of Spies
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Tom Hollander
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, is living out his old age on the family farmstead in Brittany when a letter summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley and Peter Guillam himself are to be scrutinised under disturbing criteria by a generation with no memory of the Cold War.
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New life into a favourite series
- By Kindle Customer on 10-09-17
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A Legacy of Spies
- Narrated by: Tom Hollander
- Series: George Smiley, Book 9
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 07-09-17
- Language: English
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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
- Series: Smiley Radio Plays, Book 7
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 26-05-10
- Language: English
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A Delicate Truth
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, and a private defence contractor who is also his close friend. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's Private Secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it.
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Gripping listen
- By Mrs Anne Dunne on 02-05-13
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A Delicate Truth
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 25-04-13
- Language: English
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Constant Gardener and Other Stories
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
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The Constant Gardener (Abridged): The beautiful Tessa Quayle is murdered near Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. And her putative African lover and travelling companion has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa’s husband, a career diplomat and amateur gardener at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. On his way he meets terror, violence and conspiracy, but his greatest discovery is the woman he barely had time to love.
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Constant Gardener and Other Stories
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 01-07-22
- Language: English
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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
- Series: Smiley Radio Plays, Book 8
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 19-07-10
- Language: English
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A Perfect Spy (Dramatised)
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: James Fox, Harriet Walter, Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the bestselling novel by John le Carré, starring James Fox, Harriet Walter and Julian Rhind-Tutt. Magnus Pym, Counsellor at the British Embassy, is hosting a dinner party at his home in Vienna when he receives an unexpected telephone call that will profoundly affect his life. Once the guests have gone, Pym breaks the news to his wife, Mary: his father, Rick, is dead. In a state of shock, he says something Mary cannot understand - 'After all these years, I'm free.'
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Great Production.
- By Padraig on 01-04-15
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A Perfect Spy (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: James Fox, Harriet Walter, Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 19-04-11
- Language: English
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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
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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
- Series: Smiley Radio Plays, Book 3
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 31-07-09
- Language: English
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The Mission Song
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: David Oyelowo
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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Bruno Salvador has worked on clandestine missions before. A highly skilled interpreter, he is not a stranger to the Official Secrets Act. But this is the first time he has been asked to change his identity – and, worse still, his clothes – in service of his country.
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The Mission Song
- By Hywel on 03-03-15
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The Mission Song
- Narrated by: David Oyelowo
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 17-11-14
- Language: English
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Silverview
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Toby Jones
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea.
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A fitting finale
- By Amazon Customer on 24-10-21
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Silverview
- Narrated by: Toby Jones
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 14-10-21
- Language: English
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A Perfect Spy
- BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney, Bill Paterson, Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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'Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.' So says Magnus Pym, the spy of the title; and he has betrayed a lot in his life - countries, friends, family and lovers. When Magnus disappears after his father's funeral, MI6 launches an urgent manhunt to prevent his defection. But Pym is on a search of his own - to unravel the mystery of what made him the perfect spy.
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An excellent follow-up (or should that be prequel) to the 'Smiley' series.
- By Rufus on 29-08-17
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A Perfect Spy
- BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney, Bill Paterson, Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 17-08-17
- Language: English
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The Night Manager and Other Stories
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
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The Night Manager (Abridged): In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington, an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. Our Kind of Traitor (Abridged): Set in contemporary, recession-gripped Britain, a left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Single & Single (Abridged): A corporate lawyer from the house of Single & Single is shot dead in cold blood on a Turkish hillside for crimes that he does not understand.
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The Night Manager and Other Stories
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 15-07-22
- Language: English
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The Looking Glass War
- By: John Le Carré
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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Once, the distinctions were clear: the Circus handled all things political while the Department dealt with matters military. But over the years the power and influence had passed to the Circus. Now suddenly the department had a job on its hands. Uncertain evidence suggested Soviet missiles being put in place near the German border, while vital film had gone missing and a courier was dead.
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The Looking Glass War
- By Kindle Customer on 14-03-13
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The Looking Glass War
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Series: George Smiley, Book 4
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 12-07-12
- Language: English
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The Russia House (Dramatized)
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Tom Baker
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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Tom Baker stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of John le Carré’s powerful thriller. In the third year of perestroika, London publisher Barley Blair is sent a manuscript from Moscow. Exposing Russian nuclear threats as a sham, the information - if it’s genuine - could shatter East-West relations. Jazz-loving, hard-drinking Blair is hardly the spymasters’ idea of the perfect agent, yet they are forced to send him to Moscow to make contact.
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Top notch dramatisation
- By Ed Newsome on 04-01-12
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The Russia House (Dramatized)
- Narrated by: Tom Baker
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 15-08-11
- Language: English
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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
- Series: Smiley Radio Plays, Book 5
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-01-10
- Language: English
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A Private Spy
- The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: David Harewood, Florence Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
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John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation but also had an extraordinary life, from his childhood with a con man father to his inimitable career as a writer. From his involvement in the Cold War, time in Berlin, travels to Vietnam and engagement with world leaders, his experiences were truly remarkable. This collection of letters reveals John le Carré—the man, the writer and his world—for the first time and most intimately.
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An extraordinary life in letters
- By Crawford jamieson on 28-02-23
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A Private Spy
- The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020
- Narrated by: David Harewood, Florence Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 13-10-22
- Language: English
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Other George Smiley Stories
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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Call for the Dead (Abridged): George Smiley had liked the man and now the man was dead. But why? Fennan was dead with a note by his body saying his career was finished and he couldn’t go on. Smiley decides to investigate – only to uncover a murderous conspiracy with its roots in his own secret wartime past. A Murder of Quality (Abridged): Miss Ailsa Brimley is in a quandary. She's received a peculiar letter from Mrs Stella Rode, saying that she fears her husband is trying to kill her.
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- By Helen on 26-07-24
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Other George Smiley Stories
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 01-07-22
- Language: English
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Our Game
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
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At 48, Tim Cranmer is a secret servant in retirement, free to devote himself to his manor house, his vineyard and his young mistress, Emma. But a rival in love disappears with Emma, and Tim sets off in pursuit.
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I could listen to Michael Jayston all day.
- By Kirsty Lloyd on 20-07-15
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Our Game
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 13-01-11
- Language: English
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The Tailor of Panama
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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Harry Pendel is the charismatic proprietor of Pendel and Braithwaite Limitada of Panama, through whose doors everyone who is anyone in Central America passes. Andrew Osnard, mysterious and fleshy, is a spy. His secret mission is two-pronged: to keep a watchful eye on the political manoeuvrings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal on 31st December 1999; and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that has until now churlishly eluded him.
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Another great story, another great narration!
- By Mr. Henry Gray on 19-03-18
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The Tailor of Panama
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-10-10
- Language: English
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The Night Manager (Abridged)
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
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In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington, an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. Jonathan Pine is ready to stand up and be counted in the fight against this ultimate heart of darkness. His mission takes him from the cliffs of west Cornwall, via Northern Quebec and the Caribbean, to the jungles of post-Noriega Panama. His quarry is the worst man in the world.
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The Night Manager (Abridged)
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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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
- Series: Smiley Radio Plays, Book 2
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Release date: 11-06-09
- Language: English
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