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Personally, I’m deeply saddened that there won’t be any more books from le Carré. He’s one of my favourite authors. But those that there are will be read as long as people still read. The best screen adaptations of his work will also surely be appreciated for a long time to come. There have been some excellent films of his novels, including 1965’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (the climax at the Berlin Wall was shot in Smithfield in Dublin, which says a lot about our capital city at the time); The Tailor of Panama; The Constant Gardener; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and A Most Wanted Man, which featured the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in his final leading role. ....
How John Le Carré changed television and paved the way for box-set culture Mark Lawson Curiously, though, the first of these landmarks in upmarket screen drama owed its existence to the second. In the 1970s, the BBC, during one of its periodic crises over justifying the licence fee to politicians and the media, craved a starry, classy, filmed book, and had been negotiating the rights to Waugh’s story of a Catholic aristocratic family. When, unexpectedly, the estate sold the book to Granada Television, Jonathan Powell, running BBC Drama, was asked to quickly find a replacement brainy treat. He settled on the 1974 first volume of Le Carré’s trilogy (later umbrella-titled The Quest for Karla) about the search by George Smiley, a Sherlock Holmes of the spook world, for Russian double-agents in the British secret service. ....