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Smiley wrestling with retirement and disillusionment is summoned to a secret meeting with a member of the Cabinet Office. Evidence has emerged that the Circus has been infiltrated at the highest level by a Russian agent. 'Find the mole George. Clean the stables. Do whatever is necessary'. Reluctantly Smiley agrees and so embarks on a dark journey into his past - a past filled with love duplicity and betrayal. Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley and with a star cast including Anna Chancellor Alex Jennings Kenneth Cranham and Bill Paterson this epic dramatisation brilliantly depicts the complicated moral dilemmas of those who practise post-war espionage and illuminates the murky corners of le Carre's classic spy thriller - the first in the Karla trilogy. '...a worthy
audio version of the seminal spy drama brilliantly depicting the complicated moral dilemmas of post-war espionage and allowing Beale room to shine as the character of Smiley really comes into his own' - Herts Advertiser". 'beautifully paced in a dramatisation which captures the essence of the book whilst working supremely well in its own right in the radio medium' - "Chichester Observer". 'This period dramatisation could not be bettered' - "Observer"."

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Smiley wrestling with retirement & disillusionment is summoned to a secret meeting with a member of the Cabinet Office. Evidence has emerged that the Circus has been infiltrated at the highest level by a Russian agent. ' Find the mole George. Clean the stables. Do whatever is necessary'. Reluctantly Smiley agrees & so embarks on a dark journey into his past
- a past filled with love duplicity & betrayal. Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley & with a star cast including Anna Chancellor Alex Jennings Kenneth Cranham & Bill Paterson this epic dramatisation brilliantly depicts the complicated moral dilemmas of those who practise post-war espionage & illuminates the murky corners of le Carre's classic spy thriller
- the first in the Karla trilogy. '...a worthy audio version of the seminal spy drama brilliantly depicting the complicated moral dilemmas of post-war espionage & allowing Beale room to shine as the character of Smiley really comes into his own'
- Herts Advertiser". 'beautifully paced in a dramatisation which captures the essence of the book whilst working supremely well in its own right in the radio medium'
- " Chichester Observer". ' This period dramatisation could not be bettered'
- " Observer"."

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