John le CarrΓ©: Call for the Dead
Dramatisation of John le CarrΓ©'s first novel. George Smiley investigates when a Foreign Office civil servant commits suicide not long after being cleared of Communist sympathies.
Dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le CarrΓ©'s first novel. London, the late 1950s, and a disenchanted George Smiley is engaged in the routine job of security vetting. When a Foreign Office civil servant commits suicide not long after being cleared of Communist sympathies, Smiley investigates and uncovers a deadly conspiracy with its roots in his own wartime past.
George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale
Inspector Mendel ...... Kenneth Cranham
Elsa Fennan ...... Eleanor Bron
Ann Smiley ...... Anna Chancellor
Peter Guillam ...... Richard Dillane
Maston ...... James Laurenson
Dieter Frey ...... Henry Goodman
Adam Starr/Mundt ...... Sam Dale
Ludo Oriel ...... Janice Acquah
Nursing Sister ...... Caroline Guthrie
With Benjamin Askew and Jonathan Tafler.
Producer Patrick Rayner
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- Sat 23 May 2009 14:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Sat 9 Jan 2021 14:45Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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