Classic Serial - The Complete Smiley - The Secret Pilgrim - Episode 3

Simon Russell Beale stars as the intelligence officer George Smiley and Patrick Malahide as Ned in a three-part dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carre's classic novel The Berlin Wall is down, the Cold War is over. Smiley emerges from retirement to accept an invitation to dine at the Sarratt training school. Over coffee and brandy he beguilingly and provocatively offers the eager young men and women of the Circus' latest intake his thoughts on espionage past, present and future. In doing so, he prompts Ned, one of his former Circus colleagues and the pilgrim of the book's title, into a profound examination of his own eventful secret life. Part 3: Ned's routine vetting of a cypher clerk takes a remarkable turn, and George Smiley bids his final farewell. Ann ..... Anna Chancellor Frewin ..... Toby Jones Serg. Hawthorne ..... Sam Dale Ken Hawthorne ..... Michael Shelford Leonard Burr ..... Nigel Hastings Sir Anthony Bradshaw ..... Rupert Vansittart Producer Patrick Rayner This production concludes BBC Radio 4's major undertaking of dramatising all of the eight novels that feature the spymaster George Smiley, played throughout by Simon Russell Beale.