The complete collection of acclaimed BBC Radio dramas predicated on John le Carre’s bestselling novels, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley.

With a star cast including Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron, Brian Cox, Ian MacDiarmid, Anna Chancellor, Hugh Bonneville and Lindsay Duncan, these enthralling dramatisations perfectly capture the atmosphere of le Carre’s taut, thrilling spy novels.

Demand the Dead may be the initial Smiley novel, which views him looking into an apparent suicide and then about The Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization uncover a murderous conspiracy;

A Murder of Quality finds Smiley investigating a murder in an exclusive school;

The Spy Who Came in through the Cool introduces Alec Leamas, a Uk intelligence officer whose East Berlin network is in tatters;

The Looking Cup War features former spy Fred Leiser, lured back again from retirement to research a claim that Soviet missiles are being installed close to the West German border;

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is the initial book in the Karla trilogy, and sees Smiley looking for a mole who has infiltrated the Circus;

The Honourable Schoolboy sees Smiley determined to destroy his nemesis, Karla, and his spy networks;

Smiley’s People sees George Smiley called out of pension to exorcise some Cool War spirits from his clandestine past;

THE TRICK Pilgrim sees Smiley invited to dine with the eager new recruits on the Circus. He presents them his thoughts on espionage and, in doing so, prompts a previous colleague to re-examine his personal eventful secret life.

‘A radio triumph…Simon Russell Beale’s pitch-perfect professional spy’ – ‘Financial Situations’.

Length of time: 19 hours.