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Call for the Dead (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron, Anna Chancellor
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Radio/TV Program
- Release date: 07-10-09
- Language: English
- Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited
Regular price: $10.33
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Publisher's Summary
This dramatisation, set in London in the late 1950s, finds Smiley engaged in the humdrum job of security vetting. But when a Foreign Office civil servant commits suicide after an apparently unproblematic interview, Smiley is baffled. Refusing to believe that Fennan shot himself soon after making a cup of cocoa and asking the exchange to telephone him in the morning, Smiley decides to investigate - only to uncover a murderous conspiracy with its roots in his own secret wartime past.
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- Thomas
- 07-13-09
Brilliant
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-19-18
warning: this is not the unabridged novel
this is not the unabridged novel, it is an abridged audio dramatisation. Bit misleading, really.
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- Andyjn
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Very good
This is an excellent bbc drama. The cast is good. And the story is entertaining.