BBC Radio - Call for the Dead (2009 BBC Audiobooks Ltd UK) - John le Carré

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

BBC Audio - John le Carré - Call for the Dead (2009 BBC Audiobooks Ltd UK)

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.

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’.

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 soon after making a cup of cocoa and asking the exchange to telephone him in the morning, Smiley decides to investigate - only to uncover a murderous conspiracy with its roots in his own secret wartime past.

Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a distinguished cast including Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron and Anna Chancellor, this tense, thrilling dramatisation perfectly captures the atmosphere of le Carré’s masterful debut novel.

CAST:

Simon Russell Beale – George Smiley
Kenneth Cranham – Inspector Mendel
Eleanor Bron – Elsa Fennan
Anna Chancellor – Ann Smiley
Richard Dillane – Peter Guillam
James Laurenson – Maston
Henry Goodman – Dieter Frey
Sam Dale – Adam Starr/Mundt
Janice Acquah – Ludo Oriel
Caroline Guthrie – Nursing Sister

First broadcast:
BBC Radio 4
May 23, 2009

This BBC Radio 4 adaptation was dramatised by Robert Forrest

TRACKS:

01 - Part 1 of 2
02 - Part 2 of 2

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