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.
Last on
Broadcasts
- Sat 14 May 2011 06:00大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 14 May 2011 16:00大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 15 May 2011 04:00大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 23 Nov 2013 06:00大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 23 Nov 2013 19:00大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 24 Nov 2013 04:00大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 25 Jun 2016 06:00大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 25 Jun 2016 16:00大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 26 Jun 2016 04:00大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 16 Mar 2019 06:00大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 16 Mar 2019 16:00大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 17 Mar 2019 04:00大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra