John Le Carre Reads: 'A Small Town In Germany': (1987) Full Audiobook Drama. HD 

Not many books have been written by actual spies! J.LeCarre gave talks at MI 5 and the CIA, dozens of times!

Thanks for listening

John le Carrre is a non de plume!

Glorious modulated voice

Michael Jayston's voice is the one I most associate with le Carre's books but he died about 6 months ago, aged 88. le Carre's last 3 books were narrated by Tom Hollander (A Legacy of Spies) John le Carre (Agent Running in the Field) and Toby Jones (Silverview). Siverview was published after le Carre had died and one wonders how much of actually completed by Carre - it's not his strongest work. The other two are excellent and do not hold back on being hugely critical/disgusted/flabbergasted at the self inflicted lunacy of Brexit. I'll miss the man and his books.

He has got a great voice, benefit of a private education. Can't hear much Dorsetshire in there !

@@paulleverton9569 his Son is bringing back George Smiley in a brand new book

Thanks for sharing!

I regret never visiting Germany before reunification - especially Berlin. A few square miles of West German Berlin, with all the consumer goods of the capitalist free world, surrounded by hundred of miles of the deprived and crumbling communist East. I can imagine what psychological impact the huge difference made. Just cross over from the Baltic states that joined the EU into Belarus, which stayed loyal to Moscow to their old style autocratic leaders. The difference in the standards of living HUGE!

Pretty-much every country in the world.

Try listening to an American talking about being American 😂

@@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts listening to/ reading about Brits talking about themselves is how I learned so much about them. (I 'm American.) Different regions, customs, ways of speaking. Love your name, btw.

@@terinn7115 that's very nice of you to say. I panicked when it wanted me to think of a name! We live in his town, my first husband and I used to read his books when we were young and dream of moving to the West country. I wish that the British had kept their traditional values. Unfortunately, all my life we've been about fifteen years behind the worst of American culture. I see a lot of English people spouting horrible things about Muslims and migrants on the internet and of course they are not the source of our countries problems. If we make people welcome and included them in our society they wouldn't end up trying to all live together in the same ghettos. When I was younger when we lived and travelled across Europe we could be proud to be British. I can remember people shaking my dad's hand in Yugoslavia! People remembered how the British had been in the war, and for years after. You could always spot the British abroad because they would be trying to queue in countries where people just crowd 😂 or struggling with a phrase book, because we don't learn languages. But we have lost our quiet ways and good manners. Especially the older generation. We've forgotten very quickly what it was to be materially poor & how to do without. It's made people hard and intolerant.we laughed when America chose a cowboy actor for the most important, responsible job in the land. Then someone voted for Boris Johnson 🤦😭 it's not migrants who have sold off our infrastructure to a few corporations, and taken taxes and provided no services in return. We have people living in tents in every country town,nurses having to supplement their wages with food bank donations. When I think of my great aunts and grand parents who came through the war,many of them through the blitz and their great humour, their decency and self respect, I wonder what they would make of it all. Young people who are so damaged by parental neglect of the basics ( attention, cuddles, proper food, being listened to, routine & security) and parental interference ( psychobabble, drugged for being a child,Over analysed and not given a sense of humour or perspective) it's hard to make any sense of. I've gone off at a bit of a tangent! I think these are problems in many countries. And the rise of the far right as an identity is a problem too. It's easier than taking responsibility for the part we play in the loss of traditional identities. I often wish I was Christian, just so I could attend the empty churches & send my children to Sunday school.it seems like the angry people want other people to behave like 50 years ago, but not themselves. I don't know 🤷

​@@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6tsBeautifully said. I think that the past may seem rosier than it was. I remember a lot of racism and poverty and brutality 70 years ago. We were shielded by our youth and yes the world was a lot less populated. I do suspect that the sins of our forefathers are being visited upon us and the tribalism which ever simmers below the surface is bubbling up in the most unattractive ways. As a species we are wonderful and awful all at once. Watching Trump in the States and Boris Johnson and a whole list of unsavory leaders is heartbreaking. Even in Canada we seem poised to take a right wing swerve in a new leader called Poilievre. I can't quite fathom the idea that the democracies of the West seem about to embrace Fascism ( when has that ever taken us anywhere we want to go). I find myself apologizing to young people for the awful mess we seem about to leave them. In many ways we live in an age of miracles and yet a savagness beats in our hearts. Like you I wish I could find solace in religion. It really is a funny old world and who knows maybe we will surprise ourselves and embrace our better angels. Till then we have the sweet voice of John Lecarré to accompany us through the long night. Hope this has not been too dark a sending but rather more of a....sigh I see it too and I wonder what will come.

He may not of been proud of being British, I think that it is difficult to embrace any nation state in a jingoist way if you are mildly aware of our collective history. I do think he was very practiced in loving the less than perfect. There seems to have only been the one person he could not love and it was his mother. I wonder if that is why his women always remain ciphers while his male characters while flawed are fully fleshed and understandable. Another great writer who had this problem was Steinbeck. He only wrote saints or whores for women. Sorry that was a tangent to what I wanted to say. I think he knew history. He had seen how the sausage was made but he could not have written of these very British characters if he had not loved them warts and all. He might have wished them to be better but seen them for who they were.

I found it in a charity shop not long after he sadly died. Been looking and preserving my old Le Caree audiobooks in tribute.

@@MediaArchive2-z9f Oh yes! Bring more. ✅. And any other espionage/spy audiobooks. My favorite genre.

No worries!

Glad you liked it!

Koool reading your own work.

he got Irish Citizenship just died he tragically died.