BBC Radio - A Murder of Quality (2009 BBC Audiobooks Ltd UK) - John le Carré Audiobook

Written by John le Carré
Read by Various
Format: FLAC
Dramatization

BBC Radio - John le Carré - A Murder of Quality (2009 BBC Audiobooks Ltd UK)

Simon Russell Beale stars in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of John le Carré’s second 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’.

This dramatisation, set in the early 1960s, sees George Smiley investigating a murder in a public school. When the wife of one of the masters is found bludgeoned to death, Smiley, out of loyalty to an old friend, agrees to look into the case. But his investigation raises a multitude of questions. Who could have hated Stella Rode enough to kill her? Why was her dog put down shortly before the murder? And what did Mad Janie see on that fatal night?

To discover the truth, Smiley must lift the lid on a world of hidden passions and dangerous hatreds…

Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a distinguished cast including Geoffrey Palmer and Marcia Warren, this tense, compelling dramatisation perfectly captures the atmosphere of le Carré’s gripping, sophisticated thriller.

CAST:

Simon Russell Beale – George Smiley
Geoffrey Palmer – Fielding
Marcia Warren – Ailsa
Sam Dale – Rigby
Geoffrey Streatfeild – Rode
Alison Pettitt – Ann Snow
Amanda Lawrence – Janie
Liza Sadovy – Shane Hecht
Matt Addis – Snow
Philip Fox – D’Arcy
Malcolm Tierney – Hecht/Vicar
Benjamin Askew – Perkins
Lizzy Watts - Girl

First broadcast:
BBC Radio 4
May 30, 2009

This BBC Radio 4 adaptation was dramatised by Shaun McKenna.

TRACKS:

01 - Part 1 of 2
02 - Part 2 of 2

Ripped from the original CD’s using Exact Audio Copy (secure mode) and converted to FLAC8 using dBpoweramp.