Meet the Author
Adam Sisman
15 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC NewsLatest broadcast: on BBC News Channel HD
Nick Higham meets Adam Sisman who has written a biography of the novelist John le Carré.
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Meet the Author
Adam Sisman
15 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC NewsLatest broadcast: on BBC News Channel HD
Jim Naughtie talks with Adam Sisman about his book Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor.
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Adam Sisman on John Le Carre
28 minutes
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Mariella Frostrup talks to Adam Sisman about his new biography of thriller writer John le Carre, and Aleksandar Hemon and Tahmima Anam discuss writing about arriving. Show more
How the best-selling novelist's remarkable father, Ronnie, cast a long shadow over the family. Read by Stephen Boxer. Show more
The writer meets a literary hero, hits the heights of fame and tackles his most difficult book. Read by Stephen Boxer. Show more
With the Cold War supposedly ended, can the best-selling writer of spy novels find new inspiration? Concluded by Stephen Boxer. Show more
Under his real name of David Cornwell, the future writer meets a man with a route into the spying game. Read by Stephen Boxer. Show more
Oxford, teaching at Eton, MI5. Then, David Cornwell becomes an author known as 'John le Carre'. Read by Stephen Boxer. Show more