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  • Smiley’s People by John le Carre – Explored Part 2

    Smiley’s People by John le Carre – Explored Part 2
    2026/08/05
    This episode we are back from a summer break with part two of our discussion of John le Carré’s 1979 novel Smiley’s People with returning guest Charles Beaumont, a former undercover MI6 operative and author of A Spy Alone and A Spy at War. We debate Connie Sachs repetitive return, talk Smiley and sex-clubs and […]
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    46 分
  • Smiley’s People by John le Carre – Explored Part 1

    Smiley’s People by John le Carre – Explored Part 1
    2026/06/22
    This episode we discuss John le Carré’s 1979 novel Smiley’s People with guest Charles Beaumont, a former undercover MI6 operative and author of A Spy Alone and A Spy at War. Beaumont describes first discovering le Carré at university through The Honorable Schoolboy and argues the Cold War novels still illuminate modern Russia’s state cruelty […]
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    45 分
  • Spy fiction as Travelogue with David Goodman

    Spy fiction as Travelogue with David Goodman
    2026/06/08
    This episode I’m joined by author David Goodman, author of A Reluctant Spy and the new sequel Solitary Agents. We talk about reading John le Carré as a kind of travelogue and why place matters so much in spy fiction. David shares how his dissertation on spy novels was a stepping stone to writing espionage […]
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    52 分
  • John le Carre vs. Ian Fleming

    John le Carre vs. Ian Fleming
    2026/05/25
    This episode I welcome back author and Bond expert Jeremy Duns to tackle the “le Carré or Fleming?” debate from a different angle: what they thought of each other. We talk generational differences (Fleming shaped by WWII, le Carré by Cold War service.) We read an Allen Dulles interview where Fleming praises The Spy Who […]
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    1 時間 6 分
  • Le Carre Cast Reads – My Family and Other Spies by Alistair Wood

    Le Carre Cast Reads – My Family and Other Spies by Alistair Wood
    2026/05/11
    This episode we have another episode of le Carré Cast Reads, where we look at a book that I think fellow le Carré fans will enjoy. This time it’s the nonfiction memoir My Family and Other Spies. I’m joined by it’s author Alistair Wood. Alistair grew up living in the Service’s training camp and his […]
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    1 時間 1 分
  • The Naive and Sentimental Lover by John le Carre – Explored Part 2

    The Naive and Sentimental Lover by John le Carre – Explored Part 2
    2026/04/27
    This episode we are back with author James Wolff to continue to discuss John le Carré’s novel The Naïve and Sentimental Lover. We talk more about these characters, James Kennaway’s Some Gorgeous Accident, and the reality of marriage vs reality. What song by a well known band is based on the novel? What did le […]
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    38 分
  • The Naive and Sentimental Lover – Explored Part 1

    The Naive and Sentimental Lover – Explored Part 1
    2026/04/13
    This episode I’m pleased to have returning guest, author James Wolff to the show. We discuss John le Carré’s novel The Naïve and Sentimental Lover. If you’ve never read the novel and aren’t really interested in doing so, this is the show for you! We talk about the strange love triangle at the heart of […]
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    42 分
  • Talking Smiley and more with Matt Gourley

    Talking Smiley and more with Matt Gourley
    2026/03/30
    This episode I welcome podcaster Matt Gourley to the show for a wide ranging conversation about all things George Smiley. We talk about Matt’s work podcasting on James Bond, how he started reading le Carré, and the difference between Bond and Smiley. We make an attempt to cast Tinker, Tailor using only former James Bond […]
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    40 分