AuthorJohn Le Carre
NarratorVarious
Duration3h 56m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Plays and Dramatisations
PublisherAudio Go Ltd
VersionAbridged
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the bestselling novel by John le Carr‚, 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.' Magnus flies back to England to attend the funeral-and doesn't return. As Mary and MI6 spymaster Jack Brotherhood desperately try to find out his whereabouts, it soon becomes clear that Pym has been keeping secrets from both his family and his employers, the British Intelligence Service. Hiding out in a remote cottage in Devon, where he goes by the name of Mr. Canterbury, Magnus begins to write his memoirs-retracing his rise and fall and revealing how Rick led him step by step into a double life of deception, broken promises and betrayal...
Author: Carre John Le
Author Carre John Le
Narrator Various
Duration 20h 32m
The second book in the 'Search for Karla' trilogy which follows 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'. George Smiley is chief of the battered British Secret Service at a time when the betrayals of a Soviet double agent have riddled the spy network. Smiley wants revenge. His method is attack, the quarry Karla, Soviet Chief of Espionage, the battleground Ho...
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Author: John Le Carre
Author John Le Carre
Narrator The Author
Duration 11h 47m
From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion, to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John le Carr‚ has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carr&sbq...
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Author: John Le Carre
Author John Le Carre
Narrator Tom Hollander
Duration 8h 28m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Legacy of Spies by John le Carr‚, read by Tom Hollander. Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to L...
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Author: Carre John Le
Author Carre John Le
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 6h
A murder in one of England's leading private schools leaves everybody asking, why? One of the school masters finds that his wife has been killed in their home. But before she died, the victim wrote a letter in which she predicts her own murder - at the hand of her husband. George Smiley investigates.
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Author: John Le Carre
Author John Le Carre
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 33m
Brought to you by Penguin. Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of Londo...
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Author: Carre John Le
Author Carre John Le
Narrator Full Cast, Bernard Hepton, Kenneth Haigh
Duration 2h 59m
You're not to disturb, annoy or offend. They're walking on a knife edge out there, anything could tilt the balance.' Missing: one junior diplomat and 43 of the British Embassy's most confidential files. The timing is alarmingly significant: with neo-Nazi riots and radical student demonstrations, the threat to Germany's security is all too apparent....
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Author: Carre John Le
Author Carre John Le
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 51m
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 journ...
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Author: Carre John Le
Author Carre John Le
Narrator John Le Carre
Duration 11h 15m
The missing man: Harting, a Junior Something in the British Embassy in Bonn. The missing files: forty-three of them, all confidential. The timing: appalling and probably not accidental. London's security officer Alan Turner is sent to Bonn to find the missing man and files, as Germany's past, present and future threaten to collide in a nightmare of...
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Author: Carre John Le
Author Carre John Le
Narrator Simon Russell Beale Et Al
Duration 2h 49m
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'. The Berlin Wall is down, the Cold War is over, but the world's second oldest professio...
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Author: Carre John Le
Author Carre John Le
Narrator Tom Baker
Duration 3h 11m
Tom Baker stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of John le Carr‚'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...
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