The Honourable Schoolboy (Espionage, Spy, Thriller)

Staring Peter Vaughan as George Smiley

[@ravarga4631]

Great questions for pub quizzes: what is the name of C? Double points if you know Karla's real name. M? Q? The undiscovered other mole? Karla laid false trails by suppressing files of no value to him so Circus would chase red herrings and allowing Circus to know files that were valuable but could be sac rificed to show Circus it was on the right track. Look at how he left the swiss based couriers.

[@radiovaultmadness]

Fantastic, Happy New Year Ravarga. Stay tuned for many more 🙂

[@Th0ughtf0rce]

Do you have Smiley's People with Bernard Hepton as Smiley?

[@halfdayofthejackal9372]

Nothing against Vaughan, but all I hear is the genial Harry Grout 😂

[@geoffnightingale2846]

Yup. That's Grouty alright.

[@judithtrigg1694]

Love George smiley.thank you.and happy New year.

[@radiovaultmadness]

Thank you Judith, Happy New Year, stay tuned for more 🙂

[@JoanKentBible]

Thank you, an afternoon of BBC radio drama. I enjoyed the play and loved the voices. Perhaps one of the accents could have been better. 😊

[@peterhiggs1844]

Old boy. Sport!

[@jimb9063]

Core, pips, the lot. Jerry is one of my many favourite creations of JlC, Charlie Marshall and Craw being two others, your eminence.

[@melaniebrehl6632]

Thank you!

[@michaelkluko3660]

SPOILER ( comment on the ending)! .. so Jerry was an actual traitor. And for a second time, George ended up ousted. I have not read the books . But I think this sets up Smileys People chronologically. ? I always have an image of Guinness when I listen to these . ❤

[@matthewgabbard6415]

Not so much a traitor, but more of a fool. A hopeless romantic who lost his shot over a girl he just met. That’s why the story doesn’t really work for me. That and LeCarre’s constant need to preen and act like the Americans are all fools and the Brits the true intelligence service.

[@michaelkluko3660]

@@matthewgabbard6415 OK, cool thanks I get it. But even as being an American, I don’t have a problem with any author promoting his or her Nationalistic slant. Think about it would you rather be watching Matt Helms movies or James Bond movies? Lol.

[@user-oz8mr3bt8e]

I've just finished the book. And...Gosh, why did he do that ? Couldn't he just run away with her ?

[@ws768]

​@@matthewgabbard6415It's the Brits who get screwed, It's the Brits who fail. I really don't get your comment. But then again, maybe I'm just an American Fool. One sees what one wants to see.

[@richardsmedley2794]

​@ws768 the nonsensical voice of someone one sandwich short of a picnic.

[@andrewhunt9519]

Just be careful contributors, that your telephones don't develop laryngitis.

[@howard1beale]

Thank you

[@ozzy5146]

many voices not well projected

[@radiovaultmadness]

Hi Ozzy. Stay tuned in, there might be something you like in a future upload instead 🙂

[@donepearce]

No. This one is all a bit too camp and "actorly". Not a patch on Tinker Tailor

[@matthewgabbard6415]

Old Jerry was a bit of a flake wasn’t he? Who loses their head like that over a woman he’s just met

[@ws768]

Yes he was, wasn't he?

[@bsastarfire250]

Happened to me !

[@mikestirewalt5193]

Voices are way overdone.

[@jeanettesdaughter]

Love Connie. So smart. Is she in love with George⁉️ What a couple. Oh well, men love pretty women to their utter degradation.

[@doreekaplan2589]

Huh? Nuts for the vast majority.

[@RichardPhillips1066]

The accents are hilariously bad , especially the Chinese:)

[@luluappler]

oh my word! the "Chinese" is sickingly bad 🤢🤮

[@nancypotter6772]

Maybe they used Mickey Rooney. Reminiscent of Mickey Rooney's Mr. Yumiosi in Breakfast at Tiffany's; the only difference is the British/Chinese aa opposed to American/Chinese.

[@70galaxie]

awful

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Le Carre churning out 2 nd rate stuff. Same old ..same old. MI 6 as a cosy club for ex public schoolboys . Moles. Karla . The Circus..blah.blah.blah...yawn !

[@alanlawrence2954]

I say, old man, steady on... I went to school with, Le Carre... Splendid fellow.

[@johnneville403]

I listen to a lot of radio plays here on KZbin and often see your comments posted. A genuine question. Do you ever like anything you listen to?

[@2msvalkyrie529]

If you disagree with any of the points / criticism I make then feel free to refute them . Rather than generalised whining .I assume you loll around in your armchair , drooling slightly and simply taking in everything you hear irrespective of merit .? This IS 2 nd rate stuff filled with the usual LeCarre cliches.

[@holmes5517]

Don't listen then. Return to your Beyonces and other rubbish that seems to be in today's world of no taste.

[@anaderol5408]

@@johnneville403 He may be a confirmed masochist or a frustrated literary critic who, unlike mere listeners or readers, do not have the luxury to just stop listening or reading and moving on.