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Night Waves: John le Carré

John le Carré

12/09/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, John le Carré

John le Carre talks to Anne McElvoy to mark 50 years of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

Author John le Carre talks to Anne McElvoy to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his ground-breaking Cold War espionage novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

In a special event recorded in front of an audience at London's Royal College of Music Anne McElvoy talks to John le Carré to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his groundbreaking Cold War espionage novel, The Spy who Came in from the Cold. It's the book which brought him international fame and which was described by Graham Greene as 'the best spy story I have ever read'. He discusses his extraordinary childhood as well as the state of Britain today, and the revelations of whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden.

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