Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

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.

Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with an all-star cast, including Anna Chancellor, Alex Jennings, Kenneth Cranham, and Bill Paterson, this epic dramatization brilliantly depicts the complicated moral dilemmas of post-war espionage. This classic spy thriller is the first in the Karla trilogy.

This adaptation was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 - 29 November to 13 December 2009. View Less