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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 isles fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged, and deceptively standard, he has a head like a metal trap which is said to possess 'the cunning of Satan and the conscience of the virgin'. The Berlin Wall is down, the Freezing War has ended, but the world's second oldest profession is very much alive. Smiley allows an invitation to dine with the willing young men and women of the Circus' latest absorption, and over coffee and brandy, by flickering firelight, he beguilingly offers them his personal thoughts on espionage history, present, and future. In doing this, he prompts one of his former Circus colleagues into a looking examination of his own eventful hidden knowledge life. Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a recognized cast including Patrick Malahide as Ned, this engrossing dramatisation brings le Carré's masterful book vividly alive.
