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Call for the Dead

Dramatisation of John le Carre's first novel. Smiley investigates when a civil servant commits suicide, and uncovers a conspiracy linked to his past. Stars Simon Russell Beale.

Dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carre'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.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Sun 17 Mar 2019 04:00

Broadcasts

  • Sat 14 May 2011 06:00
  • Sat 14 May 2011 16:00
  • Sun 15 May 2011 04:00
  • Sat 23 Nov 2013 06:00
  • Sat 23 Nov 2013 19:00
  • Sun 24 Nov 2013 04:00
  • Sat 25 Jun 2016 06:00
  • Sat 25 Jun 2016 16:00
  • Sun 26 Jun 2016 04:00
  • Sat 16 Mar 2019 06:00
  • Sat 16 Mar 2019 16:00
  • Sun 17 Mar 2019 04:00