John le Carre is among the world's best-selling novelists. His first big success was The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, published in 1963. Melvyn Bragg talks to him, at his home in Cornwall, about his life and his novels.
Executive producer BILL MORTON Producer BEN REA
(The serial of John le Carre's novel Tinker. Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins next Monday)