Smiley, now head of the Circus, must rebuild trust in the shattered organisation. He is also determined to destroy his nemesis, Karla, and his spy networks. He recruits Jerry Westerby, occasional...

Michael Jayston reads this taut, suspenseful novel from the master of spy fiction, John le Carré.Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister...

Michael Jayston reads this gripping story of secrecy, betrayal and hypocrisy, from bestselling author John le Carré.Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the...

Michael Jayston reads this thrilling story of espionage, deceit and betrayal, from bestselling author John le Carré.Once, the distinctions were clear: the Circus handled all things political...

A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of John le Carré's fourth novel, starring Simon Russell Beale as Smiley and Piotr Baumann as Fred Leiser.When word reaches 'The Department' - an ailing section of...

A half-starved young Russian man is smuggled into Hamburg during the dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He...

Simon Russell Beale stars in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of John le Carré's novel, which introduced his most famous character, George Smiley.It is 1962: the height of the Cold War and only...

Two seemingly unconnected events heralded the summons of George Smiley from his dubious retirement.The first was an old woman in Paris promised the return of a daughter she’ll never see and...

Magnus Pym, counsellor at the British Embassy in Vienna, has suddenly vanished, believed defected. The chase is on for a missing husband, a devoted father, and a life-time secret agent.Pym’s...

When a Russian émigré is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, Smiley is called out of retirement to exorcise some Cold War ghosts from his clandestine past. What follows is Smiley the human being...

Michael Jayston reads this classic spy thriller from bestselling author John le Carré: the first novel in the ‘Karla’ trilogy.Mr George Smiley is small, podgy and, at best, middle-aged. He...

Michael Jayston reads this gripping thriller from bestsellling author John le Carré.The beautiful Tessa Quayle is murdered near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. And...

Smiley, wrestling with retirement and disillusionment, is summoned to a secret meeting with a member of the Cabinet Office. Evidence has emerged that the Circus has been infiltrated at the highest...

Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Seemingly by chance they bump...

A corporate lawyer from the House of Single & Single is shot dead on a Turkish hillside for crimes that he does not understand. A children’s entertainer in Devon is hauled to his local bank late...