BBC Radio - The Looking Glass War (2009 BBC Audiobooks Ltd UK) - John le Carré Audiobook

Written by John le Carré
Read by Various
Format: FLAC
Dramatization

BBC Radio - John le Carré - The Looking Glass War (2009 BBC Audiobooks Ltd UK)

Simon Russell Beale stars in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of John le Carré’s fourth Smiley novel.

George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess ‘the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin’.

When word reaches ‘The Department’ - an ailing section of British intelligence - that Soviet missiles are being installed close to the West German border, it seems the perfect opportunity to show Control and Smiley, their rivals over at the Circus, that The Department still has value. Former spy Fred Leiser is lured back from retirement to investigate, and manages to cross the border into East Germany in a dangerous night-time operation. But the world has changed since The Department’s glory days during the Second World War. The harsh realities of the Cold War now prevail, and there is no place for heroes…

Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a distinguished cast including Ian McDiarmid and Philip Jackson, this compelling dramatisation perfectly captures the atmosphere of le Carré’s chilling novel of deception and betrayal.

CAST:

Simon Russell Beale – George Smiley
Ian McDiarmid – Leclerc
Patrick Kennedy – Avery
Philip Jackson – Haldane
John Rowe – Control
Piotr Baumann – Fred Leiser
Fenella Woolgar – Sarah
David Hargreaves – Woodford
Ben Crowe – Jack Johnson
Annabelle Dowler – Carol
Stephen Hogan – Peersen/Major Dell
Philip Fox – Wilf Taylor/Sutherland/Offical
Matt Addis – Lansen/Instructor/Captain
Lizzy Watts – Airline Girl/Young Girl/Bett
Ania Sowinski – Anna
Benjamin Askew – Guard/Sergeant

First Broadcast:
BBC Radio 4
September 20, 2009

Last broadcast:
BBC Radio 4
September 27, 2009

This BBC Radio 4 adaptation was dramatised by Shaun McKenna

TRACKS:

01 - Part 1 of 2
02 - Part 2 of 2

Ripped from the original CD’s using Exact Audio Copy (secure mode) and converted to FLAC8 using dBpoweramp.