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- Call For The Dead | BBC RADIO DRAMA: Did Samuel Fennan commit suicide or was he murdered? The Department would like to think it was suicide, but Smiley is not inclined to sacrifice truth to political expediency. And he finds in Mendel a willing ally.
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by John Le Carre, adapted for radio in five parts by Rene Basilico.
Starring George Cole as George Smiley and Alfred Burke as Mendel with Douglas Blackwell as Peter Guillam and Richard Hurndall as Maston.
BBC World Service production
Author:
John Le Carre
Adapted for radio by:
Rene Basilico
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson
George Smiley:
George Cole
Mendel:
And Alfred Burke
Peter Guillam:
Douglas Blackwell
Maston:
Richard Hurndall
Adam Scarr:
George Innes
Josie:
Jane Williams
First broadcast: Mon 9th Oct 1978, 22:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM - Розваги
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Call For The Dead | BBC RADIO DRAMA: Did Samuel Fennan commit suicide or was he murdered? The Department would like to think it was suicide, but Smiley is not inclined to sacrifice truth to political expediency. And he finds in Mendel a willing ally.
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BBC RADIO DRAMA💖
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by John Le Carre, adapted for radio in five parts by Rene Basilico.
Starring George Cole as George Smiley and Alfred Burke as Mendel with Douglas Blackwell as Peter Guillam and Richard Hurndall as Maston.
BBC World Service production
Author:
John Le Carre
Adapted for radio by:
Rene Basilico
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson
George Smiley:
George Cole
Mendel:
And Alfred Burke
Peter Guillam:
Douglas Blackwell
Maston:
Richard Hurndall
Adam Scarr:
George Innes
Josie:
Jane Williams
First broadcast: Mon 9th Oct 1978, 22:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM
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Loved the much under-rated George Cole as Smiley.
Untrue. Overused misplaced label.
It suprised me, just how good he was and how he fit right in, especially since Alex Guinness became the almost definitive Smiley. I loved the new (older) approach.
Google GEORGE COLE and see what a hard start to life he had.
Adopted. His adopted father had to work several jobs despite having many health problems - all started by a gas attack during WWI.
He really did claw his way out of the gutter BUT Alastair Sim made him a type of apprentice and did a lot to keep him focused (including homing Cole and his Mother for a decade).
Sim came from a comfortable Edinburgh middle class home but clearly had a heart of gold. Cole died in 2015 aged 90. He lived a long and a very full life. Can't ask for more.
Outstanding radio play, close to original novel. Many thanks indeed.
I've neither heard this nor read it! So glad to find another Le Carre. Thank you so much for posting!
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Simply brilliant no need to say anything else
SUPERB STORY WONDERFUL AUTHOR GREAT PLEASURABLE ENJOYMENT
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What a wonderful dramatisation of a (to me) hitherto unfamiliar John Le Carré novel. I love the clever crafting of the story, and the Carré-esque balance of idealism, pragmatism and regret. Also, I had no idea that George Cole was such a versatile actor. Thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you.
A great story, thanks. 🏴
The novel was an inauspicious introduction to the incomparable Smiley. Its sales were not originally very successful, but encouraged le Carre's publishers to produce a second little-known Smiley novel called 'A Murder of Quality' (equally worth finding in 2nd-hand bookshops). Small beginnings for a monumental saga. This BBC Radio version has many necessary deviations from the original plotline, but is superbly well done in the opinion of this lifelong espiophile.
Thank you! ❤️
I liked this a lot. Thanks
Thanks for the information.
Thank you so much. Absolutely loved this. Wonderful listen while walking.
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Love the John Le Carre George Smiley books, and the radio dramas. Haven't heard this one before with George Cole as George Smiley, I see it's from the 1970s. I will certainly enjoy it, thanks so much for uploading. 😊😊
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Neither have i. I saw the tv series with sir ALEC Guinness First time i heard this
Thank you! delighted to find this on the roto tonight
I'm gobsmacked by how much the lead sounds exactly like George Smiley AND Alec Guinness?
Thank you. This certainly adds colour on Mendel when I read the book again.
This was filmed as The Deadly Affair with my favourite Smiley, James Mason, and my favourite Mendel, Harry Andrews.
As much as I love George Cole anything with Alfred Burke is a joy to listen to.
George Cole not as convincing by a long shot as Guinness of course. Alfred Burke superb as always. Love his Public Eye series on TV (Talking Pictures) from the mid-70s.
George Cole brings out the class disadvantages Smiley faced within the Service more effectively than Alec Guinness did
George Cole is a good Smiley!
@@Alan_Mac I thought so too. Just perfect.
First time I've heard this version. Excellent and good quality audio too. Thanks 👍
Alex Guinness was the Smiley of my time. It is fascinating to be much closer to the actual time, with that more stiffer upper lip and hidden feelings. Ann makes far more sense in the days of compartmentalising feelings and appearances. And marriage because of marriage and spying being considered gentlemanly
Thank you. This version is rare. I like this one more.
Strongly agree, .this one is better than the Simon Russel Beale version with the annoying voice of Ann. A pity Bernard Hepton did not had a go at it.
Michael Jayston October 29th, 1935 - February 5th, 2024
He played Peter Guillam in BBC's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 1979 - but was replaced for Smiley's People, 1982, by Michael Byrne.
Despite that he went on to narrate many of John le Carre books, becoming the 2nd most associated person with the le Carre universe (after John le Carre).
Jayston was already committed, when offered offered the 1982 job - but his IMDB page only lists him as narrator for one episode of Timewatch during that year. Theater maybe?
Excellent tape!
Few things more suiting for a late afternoon cleaning, and listening. BBC was always so classy. Thank you
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Excellent dramatisation. Enjoyed it thoroughly. ❤
I like him too, it sounds like he gives a bit of a tip of the hat to Alec Guinness
Outstanding. Many Thanks.
Back when BBC broadcast the monarch's English and not Mockney.
I love the old stuff, but language does change .Remember Chaucer at school .''Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can, Everich word, if it be in his charge, All speke he never so ''...
You've never met a monarch.
Oh my. Splendid, just splendid indeed. I so enjoy a spot of tea while I curl up in my shawl, in front of the burn barrel in the back ally, next to the subway grate to listen to Smiley.
Well crafted spy story. Excellently played.
Thank you so much ❤
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Very enjoyable.
Nicely done!
Excellent.
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Taxi - "£1.40, please guv."
These days it'd be more than that to pull out into traffic! 😂🚕
And fifty years before that it would have been a shilling.
I really good yarn. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks for the share.
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I love this story & Le Carré too, but this is an unfortunately flawed adaptation: Call for the Dead predates Spy Who Came in from the Cold - in which Mundt appears prominently - & both books are definitely predecimal currency. Cole is not my choice for Smiley, Guinness will always be unbeatable.
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Love the Wimsey reference at the top
Neat. It was the last thing I listened to before this.
At the Belona Club?
I do love Simon Russell Beale as George ❤
I thought it was going to be Simon Russell Beale when I saw the thumbnail, but this is a different production 😥
Good story, thanks. by the way, 1:06:44 "no no no... say it more strongly, it COMES upon me" - it is a ghost not a twinge of rheumatism"... She says they are doing Caesar but the ghost is in Hamlet isn't it?? or is there another ghost....in .....Caesar?
Terrific, thank you.
Good stuff.
I’m loving this. Thank you
Loved it. Thank you
How much they needed mobile phones those days ?!!😂
Hello Arthur......where is Terry?
Thanks, enjoyed this.
Really good, best one I've heard, thanks
Very good. I really enjoyed it.
r1:06:029ff The directer says it is Caesar is being being practiced and then quotes Hamlet?? "Who goes there"...is corrected and comments Say it more strongly, It is a ghost not a twinge of rhumatism - that ghost is in Hamlet????
I do wish that these otherwise wonderful radio plays would stop having their actors chew or swallow right next to the microphone. Such an abhorrent noise!
George isn't Smiley, can't imagine him studying mediaeval German manuscripts 🌚
So the director drops everything when someone drifts in to join the theatre club.
One of many super-weak plot features.
How old is Elizabeth meant to be??!!
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I always rated George Cole but I don't think he was right to be the voice of George Smiley. It's too kind/compassionate, and it contains too many hints of the working class. Alec Guinness also played a softer, more caring Smiley, than he was in the books. John le Carre made that criticism personally BUT was so impressed by Guinness that he found himself writing later Smiley content to be much more like the Guinness version. Gary Oldman was OK but not hugely memorable. There were no flashes of genius. Simon Russell Beale, who already voiced BBC Radio 4 The Complete Smiley, would be perfect to portray him on film/TV. He already proved that he can voice act Smiley better than anyone else and, in LEGACY, 2013, he played Hookey, an MI5/6 spymaster, in a very paranoid 70's England of angry trade unions, smoke filled rooms and power cuts. It was the best depiction of Smiley I ever saw - even if it wasn't _technically_ George Smiley.
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Which anochradnistic colonial pieces. Interesting from a world view perspective
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George Cole is the perfect Smiley. As is Bernard Hepton in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Much prefer their versions to the later much heralded versions starring Simon Russell Beale. All those silly pointless and unnecessary internal conversations with his estranged and absent wife. that add nothing to the plot.
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