# Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

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- Book: [Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-le-carre/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy) ([Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-le-carre/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy.md))
- Authors: [John le Carré](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-le-carre)
- Publisher: bbc_digital_audio
- Medium: audio
- Length: 3 h
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- ISBN: 978-14-0843-990-6
- Published: 2010-01-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 3 h

## Description

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 Carré’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