The Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas: BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatization

pretty good These stories are presented on 21 each one hour CDs. The stories are two or three hours long. The two hour ones are the Looking Glass War, Call for the Dead, and A Murder of quality. The presentation is in stereo and the speakers are spread (most of the time) across the left-right space so you can keep track of them more easily. There are all sorts of background so. Simply Awesome Voice acting is perfect.Simon Russel Beal almost sounds identical to Alex Guiness.The cast of characters are likewise cast perfectly and use the perfect balance of dark emotion and level enunciation to create gripping stories that measure up to the Hollywood productions starring Guiness and OldmanThe Ambient sound effects are just right and add to the superb visual. Treetown said Great radio dramas. I recently re-read many LeCarre novels and because my work sometimes takes me a long drives or flights, I thought this might be fun. Some of the stories are abridged and sometimes interesting details are edited out.Many of these stories have been made into TV series or movies: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Smiley's People, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,

Duration: 20 hours approx. With a star cast including Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron, Brian Cox, Ian MacDiarmid, Anna Chancellor, Hugh Bonneville, and Lindsay Duncan, these enthralling dramatizations perfectly capture the atmosphere of le Carré's taut, thrilling spy novels. The complete collection of acclaimed BBC Radio dramas based on John le Carré's bestselling novels, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley. He offers them his thoughts on espionage and, in doing so, prompts a former colleague to re-examine his own eventful secret life. Call for the Dead is the first Smiley novel, which sees him looking into an apparent suicide only to uncover a murderous conspiracy; A Murder of Quality finds Smiley investigating a murder in a private school; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold introduces Alec Leamas, a British intelligence officer whose East Berlin network is in tatters; The Looking Glass War features former spy Fred Leiser, lured back from retirement to investigate a claim that Soviet missiles are being installed close to the West German border; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is the first book in the Karla trilogy,

"A radio triumph Simon Russell Beale's pitch-perfect master spy." —Financial Times