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The secret pilgrim

Simon Russell Beale stars in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation of John le Carř's last Smiley novel. George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess 'the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin'. The Berlin Wall is down, the Cold War is over, but the world's second oldest profession is very much alive ...

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  • "Simon Russell Beale stars in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation of John le Carř's last Smiley novel. George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess 'the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin'. The Berlin Wall is down, the Cold War is over, but the world's second oldest profession is very much alive ..."@en
  • "George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged, and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess 'the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin'. The Berlin Wall is toppled, the Iron Curtain swept aside. The Secret Pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in British Intelligence all his adult life. Now, at the end of his career, he is forced to revisit his secret years. Ned illuminates the brave past of his hero and mentor George Smiley who, in one unforgettable evening, gives back to him the dangerous edge of memory to frame the questions that have haunted him for thirty years."
  • "A veteran British spy master invites us on a tour of his three decades in the "Circus" running spies or "joes" from Poland, Estonia and Hungary."@en
  • "Two master secret agents share all they know in this exciting tale of post-Cold War spying. Ned about to retire from teaching recruits the intelligence business, invites veteran spy George Smiley to address his class. As George relates one tale after another, Ned recalls his own forty exhilarating years of espionage across Europe and the Far East."@en
  • "The Berlin Wall is toppled, the Iron Curtain swept aside. The Secret Pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in British Intelligence' the Circus' all his adult life. Now, approaching the end of his career, he is forced by the explosions of change to revisit his secret years. Ned illuminates the brave past of the legendary George Smiley, his hero and mentor who, in one unforgettable evening, gives back to him the dangerous edge of memory that empowers him finally to frame the questions that have haunted him for thirty years."
  • "Approaching the end of his career, a soldier of the Cold War who has been in British Intelligence all his adult life, is forced by the explosions of change to revisit his secret years."@en
  • "Nothing is as it was. Old enemies embrace. The dark staging grounds of the Cold War, whose shadows barely obscured the endless games of espionage, are flooded with light; the rules are rewritten, the stakes changed, the future unfathomable. The man called Ned speaks to us. All his adult life he has been in British Intelligence--the Circus--a loyal, shrewd, wily officer of the Cold War. Now, approaching the end of his career, he revisits his own past. He invites us on a tour of his three decades in the Circus, burrowing deep into the twilight world where he ran spies--"joes"--Poland, Estonia, Hungary."@en
  • "Nothing is as it was. Old enemies embrace. The dark staging grounds of the Cold War, whose shadows barely obscured the endless games of espionage, are flooded with light; the rules are rewritten, the stakes changed, the future unfathomable. The man called Ned speaks to us. All his adult life he has been in British Intelligence--the Circus--a loyal, shrewd, wily officer of the Cold War. Now, approaching the end of his career, he revisits his own past. He invites us on a tour of his three decades in the Circus, burrowing deep into the twilight world where he ran spies--"joes"--from Poland, Estonia, Hungary."@en
  • "After the Berlin Wall came down and opened up new changes in eastern Europe, John le Carř's stunning novel, The Secret Pilgrim, takes us behind the scenes into the former Cold War world.Nothing is as it was. Old enemies embrace. The dark staging grounds of the Cold War, whose shadows barely obscured the endless games of espionage, are flooded with light; the rules are rewritten, the stakes changed, the future unfathomable..."
  • "Ned considered delivering his own speech to the new "Joes" at Saratt, but in the end, he called on George Smiley, the legendary officer who had retired to Cornwall. Smiley's "fireside chat" gives the dangerous edge back to Ned's memory, transporting him to his own beginnings as an agent in the 60s when the Red Peril was everywhere.--"@en
  • "Ned, a fledgling British Secret Service agent, comes into his own as a master spy, thanks to the tutelage legendary spy George Smiley."@en
  • "Ned is the Secret Pilgrim, a loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in British Intelligence all his adult life. Now, just as retirement is within his grasp, he is forced by the explosions of change to revisit his secret years and face the questions that have haunted him for thirty years."
  • "PLAYAWAY: George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged, and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess 'the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin'. The Berlin Wall is toppled, the Iron Curtain swept aside. The Secret Pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in British Intelligence all his adult life. Now, at the end of his career, he is forced to revisit his secret years. Ned illuminates the brave past of his hero and mentor George Smiley who, in one unforgettable evening, gives back to him the dangerous edge of memory to frame the questions that have haunted him for thirty years."
  • "PLAYAWAY. Ned is the Secret Pilgrim, a loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in British Intelligence all his adult life. Now, just as retirement is within his grasp, he is forced by the explosions of change to revisit his secret years and face the questions that have haunted him.."
  • "Ned considered delivering his own speech to the new "Joes" at Saratt, but in the end, he called on George Smiley, the legendary officer who had retired to Cornwall. Smiley's "fireside chat" gives the dangerous edge back to Ned's memory, transporting him to his own beginnings as an agent in the 60s when the Red Peril was everywhere."@en

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  • "Spy stories, English"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Talking books"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Audiobooks"
  • "Spy stories"
  • "Spy stories"@en
  • "Audiobooks, Fiction"@en
  • "Radio adaptations"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Adventure stories"
  • "Drama"@en

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  • "The secret pilgrim"
  • "The secret pilgrim"@en
  • "The Secret Pilgrim Library Edition"@en
  • "The secret pilgrim [a George Smiley novel]"@en

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