BBC4 is repeating Smiley's People from Tuesday at 10pm. Alec Guiness' Smiley remains definitive despite other good attempts at the role on radio and the cinema. A pity the BBC never got around to doing The Honourable Schoolboy, my favourite of the Karla trilogy.
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We did a Smiley-thon a couple of Christmases ago, on DVD. It was striking that however compelling Guinness is in both series, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is by some margin a more successful piece of TV work than Smiley's People - imho, of course.Originally posted by Belgrove View Post
Agreed that it's a great shame Honourable Schoolboy never got the treatment."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Smiley's people is the one he nabs Karla in ... what a delight and yes what stopped them doing the Hon Schoolboy?
Do it all again and spoil us!
And thanks for the pointer!!!According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.Comment
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Oh. (On checking) I had confused Belgrove with Karafan and imagined your smiley toolbar had reappeared
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It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Originally posted by french frank View PostOh. (On checking) I had confused Belgrove with Karafan and imagined your smiley toolbar had reappeared.
- the thought had occured to me, too!
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The travel budget? The map endpapers in my hardback first edn say it allOriginally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Post
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Even more backstory than in the others to get across, a challenge for the adaptor I'd guess.Comment
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Thank you for the pointer, Belgrove. I have not seen this before and really enjoyed the episode last night - some terrific performances. Great to see Eileen Atkins, looking older then than she does now. I was disappointed in the film version of TTSS - I mean, I thought it was OK - somehow the pace seems to lend itself better to TV. Look forward to the rest of it.Originally posted by Belgrove View PostComment
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well it might have then but 14 episodes at a snails pace is nothing to Netflix or Prime or HBO ... but the Cold War is passé?According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.Comment
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