BBC Radio - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (2009 BBC Audiobooks Ltd UK) - John le Carré

Written by John le Carré
Read by Various
Format: FLAC
Dramatization

BBC Audio - John le Carré - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (2009 BBC Audiobooks Ltd UK)

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley and Brian Cox as Alec Leamas.

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’.

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. Leamas is recalled to London - where, to his surprise, instead of being washed up and consigned to a desk he’s offered a chance to have his revenge by becoming a pawn in a brilliantly-conceived plot to destroy Mundt. But in order to do so he has to stay out in the cold a little longer…

Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a distinguished cast including Brian Cox as Alec Leamas, this compelling dramatization perfectly captures the atmosphere of le Carre’s taut thriller.

CAST:

Simon Russell Beale – George Smiley
Brian Cox – Alec Leamas
Ruth Gemmell – Liz Gold
Michael Feast – Peters
Henry Goodman – Fieldler
Sam Dale – Mundt
John Rowe – Control
Richard Dillane – Peter Guillam
Siobham Redmond – Elvira/Elsie/President
Jamie Newall – Ashe
Liza Sadovy – Miss Crail/Commissar
Benjamin Askew – CIA Man
Phillip Fox – Man at Labour Exchange/Caretaker
Stephen Hogan – Doorman/Agent
David Hargreaves – Grocer

Frist broadcast:
BBC Radio 4
July 5, 2009

This BBC Radio 4 adaptation was dramatised by Robert Forrest

TRACKS:

01 - Part 1 of 3
02 - Part 2 of 3
03 - Part 3 of 3

Ripped from the original CD’s using Exact Audio Copy (secure mode) and converted to FLAC8 using dBpoweramp.