Author - Len Deighton - Interview - Thames TV - 1983
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2016
- Respected Author, Journalist and historian, Len Deighton is interviews by Afternoon Plus' Trevor Hyett.
First shown: 16/11/1983
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Brilliant bloke - absolutely spot on, all his observations are just as relevant as they were 4 decades ago..... also a superb word smith. Thanks Len.
What a fantastic author and so polite.
He is the ultimate British upstart: a working-class writer who beats the intellectuals at their own game.
I am current re-reading all of Deighton. In the middle of "Bomber" at present. Highly recommended.
A truly knowledgable, thinking man who sees a big picture.
One of the greatest writers.
Really interesting man with a remarkable career. Thank you for making this available I don’t remember seeing Deighton interviewed before. I haven’t read all his books but one short story which made a real impression on me was ‘Brent’s Deus Ex Machina’ which says a great deal about Deighton’s attitude to class.
Such a talented atmospheric writer. All of his books are excellent 👌🏻
Len Deighton’s Bernard Sampson is his best character and Ian Holm is brilliant playing him. The mini series somehow didn’t get ratings, but if you find it, watch it.
Len Deighton is a better novelist than John le Carre. Deighton's comments on government schools and his attitudes toward the upper, "educated" class are brilliant. I also love the JFK "I am a donut" story, apocryphal or not.
Fascinated by his take on school systems,He reinforces all my Anglophile tendencies in the best ways possible
Len is the man . King of the spy thriller . Flemming is good as well and I like them both. But I think Len caught the realism of the genre and the real down to earth tradecraft , where Flemming brings the glam to the world of the ultra rich over the top set. Also the tinker tailor soldier spy stuff was great as well ,
I read Len's 9 book series featuring Bernard Samson not long after they were published.....Several years later I read all nine again. Now in retirement , I'm on "Mexico Set" and fully expect to read the rest also. .... Len & Bern'd are definitely the consumate fictional espionage team from the "Cold War".
2021. There is a British TV series in the works based on The Ipcress File: I remember reading the novel in the Sixties as a schoolboy. Julian Symons called Len Deighton the poet of the spy story, and said he would remember Billion Dollar Brain for the people and places.
good interviewer as well, polite giving short thoughtfull lead questions never talking over the guest not once
Interesting interview. Len Deighton is still alive as of December 2021, at the age of 92.
I watched the first episode of the new tv drama of The Ipress file, and it is very good. The actor in it does look like a young Michael Caine and the production captures that sixties look very well, and I like the camera is filmed in a tilted angle like the original film, really nice touch.
Despite Len Deighton's disavowal of literature, I think there are certainly flashes of poetic brilliance in his very creditable prose style. Le Carre is turgid by comparison. Deighton is much more of a "genre" writer, of spy novels, but his writing is really excellent and often better than that. The only other writer in a similar category of fiction that I would put in his class is the detective writer, Ross MacDonald. Here again, as in Deighton's work, there are flashes of brilliant, original poetry, plus excellent stories very well told.
Great interview. I really enjoy listening to Deighton.
Great guy, 2024 Mr Deighton 94 years old all power to you.