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John le Carre's George Smiley novels, adapted for radio

The Complete Smiley: Call for the Dead

14/05/2011

Call for the Dead

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Complete Smiley, Call for the Dead

George Smiley uncovers a deadly conspiracy linked to his past.

Dramatisation of John le Carre's first novel. Smiley investigates when a civil servant commits suicide, and uncovers a conspiracy linked to his past. Stars Simon Russell Beale.

Dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carre's first novel. 

London, the late 1950s, and a disenchanted George Smiley is engaged in the routine job of security vetting. When a Foreign Office civil servant commits suicide not long after being cleared of Communist sympathies, Smiley investigates and uncovers a deadly conspiracy with its roots in his own wartime past. 

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

With Benjamin Askew and Jonathan Tafler.

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