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I don't often read fiction these days. Mostly if I am reading at all, it's history books. Instead I listen to audio books and plays. Currently I am listening to two audio plays. Am half way through a Big Finish Doctor Who audio play, called The Rapture. A clever little play looking atthe power of religion to move people and what happens if that power is misused.
I'm also two parts into a three part BBC audio production of Le Carre's The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. I think it's probably my favourite of the Smiley novels and I adored the 80's tv adaptation of it. When BBC Radio4 announced that they were doing the Complete Smiley, adapting all the Smiley novels I was so excited, but also a little wary. It's so easy to get an audio play wrong, and terribly hard to get it right. But, my worries were unfounded. I have now listened to the first two Smiley plays and parts one and two of TSWCIFTC and have been thoroughly impressed. Neat and well ordered little plays they are. Dark and grainy like Smiley should be. Infused with cold war culture and the weariness of an old spymaster. Very well acted and very well directed.
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