5. Dear John le Carré...
From the puffed up and overpraised, to those he thinks may have been unfairly discounted, Ian Sansom is writing to some key figures from modern literary history.
'Dear John le Carré,
I’ll use your pseudonym, John le Carré, or your cover name, or whatever you called it, if you don’t mind. I don’t suppose you’d want me to call you by your actual name, David Cornwell...'
From the puffed up and overpraised, to those he thinks may have been unfairly discounted, Ian Sansom imagines he's writing to some key figures from modern literary history.
Ian rounds up his series of fanciful communications, with a few letters to the late English-Irish spy novelist John le Carré.
Producer: Conor Garrett
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