Lots of people know something but have no ability to talk about it, and I think we all know we're not wasting our time as soon as he opens his mouth! He once turned me down for a small job, did so politely and directly in 5 words, and I had no feeling of being rejected at all!. And I remember his kind tone 30 years later! John Windsor-Cunningham
Love how David describes perfectly for his English audience, the memorable voice and delivery of actor Alec Guinness... "He had this wonderful “Eeyore” voice... i.e. just like the little donkey Eeyore speaks, so gloomy and wistful, in the many recordings of A.A.Milne's 'Christopher Robin & Pooh Bear' stories. 3:28
I've been listening to his audio books for thirty years. On cassette, then discs, and now digitally. His voice and ability to mimic accents are a real treat.
Same! I had to buy cassette copies of the 1990 production of THE SECRET PILGRIM from eBay and then digitize them just to get back that marvelous performance of his in that book (which I'm fairly certain was my first audiobook ever), and I own the entire Michael Jayston run on Audible. What a legacy JLC has left behind.
he's right about information sorting. got jan 6 wrong. Pearl Harbor is the prime example. And he is right about the cost. People crack me up, thinking how much the government is watching us, honey they cant Afford it.
someone explain to me why john le carre could be so open about his exploits as an ex-spy yet never touched and HOW in God's'green earth could he say 9/11 was an intelligence faiiure when the entire world knows it was planned by design by American intelligence - c i a.
You can see the quality of British education here both public and private. The logic eloquence empathy and depth. His eye and perceptions of inner world in British society was so amazing.
I'm a frenchman of 38 years old, I love reading and writing. I discovered his universe 15 years ago thanks to "The Constant Gardener" and since then I kept on reading him, listening to him. We (with 30 other authors) published in France a collective book in 2018, "Cahier de L'Herne", while he published "The Legacy of Spies". These last years, I've talked with authors and journalists who had worked with him, or wrote about him. In the end of December 2020, I wrote a tribute to his memory. Now, I'm preparing a book dealing with his work as a (extraordinary) writer. Thank you for sharing this interview. Greetings from France
Thank you for posting this. I'm curious about the date. I suspect that it was filmed before Alec Guiness did Smiley's People, because I think that John le Carré / David Cornwall would have been just as pleased with Alec Guiness' second outing as George Smiley. I'm currently re-watching portions of both here on YT. The acting, including the supporting characters, is absolutely stellar in both.
Brilliant Masterpiece Theatre production, spell binding. Ian Richardson dominated every scene he was in. It was a amazing depiction of the culture of the Cambridge 5.
Carré says that the claim of Roger Willis being a mole was utter nonsense. Read "Spycatcher" by Peter Wright and judge for yourselves. He basically had him cornered. As if mere words of doubt would magic away all the ruined operations they experienced. Silly goose.
I have read and reread Tinker Tailor so often that my copy of the book is falling apart. The BBC serisation of it and of Smileys People were superb and I have read this wonderful man's books for decades. I was so sad to hear of his death and am just grateful for the intelligent interviews he left behind, as well as the body of work.
@@Yamah12a I cannot begin to tell you how much I hated the film. Connie, who spoke and understood Russian so perfectly, played by someone who couldn't speak decent English??? The assassination of the girl central to the betrayal of the mole taking place in front of someone who didn't know her??? Toby unrecognisable?? God knows what le Carre himself thought of it, no matter what he may have said in public. As another author once remarked, on seeing a film of her work, "One takes the money and one shouldn't".
@@alidabaxter5849 Kathy Burke was a strange choice for someone as elegant as Connie but there you go. I liked it the first time and my likeness of it has deteriorated every time I watch it since. The music was really good and probably one of the best things but still not a patch on the tense orchestration of the series. Im not excited for a follow up of Smiley's People as I didnt get any love or happiness following Gary Oldman as Smiley. Not bad but certainly not great. 4/10.
@@Yamah12a That was of an entirely different quality. Bear in mind Gary Oldman had had nothing to do with it! It was superbly cast and acted, but I thought the ending of the book was more realistic; the tv series was how you would have liked it to end. Even so, great. By the way, if you don't mind going all the way back to the tv series of Tinker, Tailor, I thought the casting was miraculous and especially because Lady Anne had always been enigmatic to me, and the moment you saw Sian Philips you understood completely why Smiley put up with her, and why his solicitor told him that nobody would divorce Lady Anne.
Rest easy young man. Although not a fellow countryman, I respected his objective look at what he calls 'the secret world' since his time serving the intelligence community during the cold war. He was eloquent and a gentleman anti authoritarian. I shall have to watch the BBC smiley series again in honour of the man. Say hello to Guinness when you meet him!
Was in the middle of reading Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy when the news came that he passed away. What a great author and anti-imperialist voice he was. One of the recommendations of this video is an American conservative rants and raves about his "anti-American politics" which is just *chef's kiss*. Rest in peace, my good lad.
Particularly interesting on the pecking order among the Free World allies during the Cold War, the paranoia that infested the CIA under Angleton, and the similarity of the methods of the postwar US Empire to those of the prewar British.
@@AlphaetusPrime So f*cking sick of "LOL QANON". It's like the new "Cool insult". I have never ONCE gone on that site. You can be anti-Q Anon, while also NOT getting on your knees and kissing the butts of the woke democrats. THERE IS A PLACE IN THE MIDDLE...
Remember: Nazi General Paulus established his headquarters in a Stalingrad department store. How could there have been a department store in Stalingrad if all the ooga-booga fear mongering you see on RU-vid is true?
The Soviet Union had atores, GUM was the most famous, but they usually were not well-stocked, quality was inferior (there is a reason no one in the West was trying to import their consumer products) and access was restrict (took longer to adquire a car, etc.). Also, insiders had better access to good and other products. It does not mean everything was bad, but having stores do not disprove the failings people point in the system.
I'm sure he'd have valuable insight into 2020, which the Britsh press would then censor. And yet he thinks 9/11 was a failure of intelligence, not realizing that it was perpetrated & covered up via the intelligenxe agencies.
