Murder of Quality - John le Carre - BBC Saturday Night Theatre
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- A Murder of Quality is the second novel by John le Carré. It features George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters, in his only book set outside the espionage community.
Retired spy George Smiley is contacted by a wartime colleague, Miss Elsa Brimley, who now edits a small Christian magazine, Christian Voice. She tells Smiley that she has received a letter from a reader, Stella Rode, claiming that her husband is plotting to kill her. The woman's husband is a teacher at a public school in the town of Carne. It so happens that Terence Fielding, brother of a classics professor who was one of Smiley's close associates in British intelligence during the war, is a house master at the school. However, before Smiley can intervene, Stella Rode is murdered. Since Stella's father and ancestors had been long time subscribers of the magazine, Brimley feels obligated and guilty over the woman's death, asks Smiley for help, with whom she had worked during the war as his secretary. Smiley travels to Carne to investigate.
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Thank you. Excellent drama. Much better than modern BBC radio plays.
It's the writing, I think. Masterful.
Just in case anyone is interested, this was broadcast on 5 October 1968
I have listened to this a few times and never tire of it. Excellent.
Thanks Chesterton Radio.
Thoroughly enjoyed this play. The actors were superb indeed. Highly recommend!
1962. John le Carre's second novel (his third was his breakout work - THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD)
In the earlier books (starting in 1961) George Smiley had a biography suggesting he'd been born in 1906, but in TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY, 1974, the character was retconned to suggest 1915 as his year of birth. It would have been easier to abandon the name/character of Smiley but he'd been so well formed in the four novels to precede TINKER, TAILOR that tinkering around with the details of his biography/age was a far more acceptable compromise. Imagine the KARLA TRILOGY without George Smiley - sacrilege!
I'm addicted to the elocution of the time. When did the English lose this wonderful clipped accent. I love it.
The clipped accent, or “Received Pronunciation”, was artificially developed for clarity when speaking over the emerging telephone and wireless technology of the time. As with all accents, it changed over time - it fell out of favour as technology advanced and clarity improved. There was also a societal backlash against RP, as regional dialects were hardly ever portrayed on spoken media, which left a huge section of society feeling they weren’t represented and therefore were treated as ‘less worthy’ in employment, job interviews etc.
We never spoke like this, it’s just the BBCs projection of how we speak. I have a Lancashire accent of which I’m extremely proud, my family came from Ireland and settled in a village called Arkholme that is on the river Lune, we were given the name of Ireland (of which I am extremely proud) because the locals either struggled or couldn’t be bothered to use our name, but that was pre 1630s so I’m over it now. Lol.
My grandparents did speak like this and my father like Jacob Reese Mogg. I like to occasionally slip into it for fun or emphasis. Otherwise it sounds ridiculous nowadays which is rather a shame.
We can understand every word. With contemporary films, particularly American, they are so fixed on speaking realistically that I can never make sense of the rapid slurred mumbled audio.
You can still hear that public school accent. Try going to The Proms and sit in the more expensive seats.
Enjoyed this drama. Thank you.
Once again thank you so much for downloading this wonderful drama. Thoughly enjoyed it. Sat and listened to it in one go. Love from South Africa 😘😘
Manchester Hippodrome Ardwick Green …Gaumont Theatre ..Oxford Theatre, and Odeon Theatre ,Oxford Road .Manchester I worked in them all in late 50s and 1960s. Those were the days…….loved every minute of it……this photo reminded me of those days.xxxxx
Love this one, can listen to any production. Thank you for this one. I so enjoy these dramas now I've finally found them.
Has anyone heard the terrific dramtization of Smiley's People? I listened to it maybe 5 times in a week and then suddenly it was taken down and I haven't had sight nor sound of it since.
A play of quality...a cast of quality... most entertaining
Great stuff! Am enjoying these dramas too much!
Dear Chesterton Radio,
Thank you for downloading a Murder Of Quality; I enjoyed listening to it immensely and will definitely listen to it again. I am a recent subscriber to your channel and look forward to listening to many more excellent plays like this.
Tfs and Best Wishes from Australia
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Thank you for the synopsis. But listeners, don't read past the second paragraph unless you want to know the whole story.
Yes, there's a difference between giving a synopsis and giving away spoilers!
yeah you give the right amount of info I always go to comments first to see if you have posted a synopsis Thank you
@@janegriffiths7733 You're so kind!
@@euniceprobert9060 Indeed there is...I hadn't read your and tottie mae's comments so i read on and found out "who dunnit"....not happy at all! Mostly Chesterton gives us nothing, why he decided to tell all this time I've no idea...but totally bad form.
So true
Good BBC Radio rendering of this le Carre' story..Perfect for bedtime..
So grateful for these works from 'Chesterton Radio ' .
Although I think, in the interests of more listeners , who may perhaps be put off putting in the effort to listen, against the background sound interferences which this broadcaster can't or doesn't prioritize perfection of sound over facility of output and content ....
It should be pointed out that there are better recordings /or more cleaned up ' recordings , perhaps, of this, and some other plays .
I think I have heard a different, probably more recent version.
There is also a 1991 TV movie version, starring Denholm Elliot as Smiley, Joss Ackland as the headmaster, and Glenda Jackson as the charity woman who gets Smiley involved.
Now, Denholm Elliot was a brilliant actor, who stole every scene, but I'm not convinced he was well cast as George Smiley. (It's hard to think of anyone but Alec Guiness in the role, TBH).
The actor playing Smiley in this version is more in Guinness's mould than Elliot's, so it works well in that sense.
I haven't listened fully to this version yet (at least, not recently - I may have ages ago), but in the TV version, and I think in the radio version that I do remember, there was a distinct suggestion that the headmaster may have had an "unnatural" interest in some of the boys (although he hotly denies it). I don't think that was in the book, so I can't help feeling that the TV adapters, and the radio adapters of the version I seem to remember just put that in to "spice it up" a bit.
It's interesting that in the story, Smiley is acting more like a police detective than a spy. Maybe it's a direction that Le Carre was thinking of taking him in at the time, although in subsequent novels he was back in the espionage world, although he did need some detecting skills in that.
EDIT: Maybe I didn't mean the headmaster: I think I meant Fielding, who is apparently a housemaster, not the headmaster.
That's right there is a background noise in many parts of the play. Very annoying but the play was great.
Thanks for the synopsis
Thank you so much for doing this and I appreciate it SO much. I feel bad even suggesting this because it feels super entitled but, still, it would be super cool if you put the year in the description when it was available. I always wonder about when they’re from. Not that I want you to go out of your way, but if it was readily available where you get them. ❤️
Oh! This one is from 1981, I think! I just found a Wikipedia page.
Hello, it was broadcast on 5 October 1968
@@greentambourine2323 thank you.
A few familiar voices in this .
Much enjoyed , on a chill night - almost perfect for a who dun it .
Very ingenious and enjoyable. The twists in the plot are particularly original as they involve the different lights that are shone on the murder victim's character - kindly woman misjudged or... (I'll say no more for fear of creating spoilers). Thank you for uploading.
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Love this. ❤️ Third time listening to it
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Thank you I 'm bit of a le carre fan and especially of george smiley. Keep up the good work
I love George Smiley!
Wonderful radio play of the Le Carre’s second novel. Also a biting commentary of the British elite public school system.
Oh yes darling they are ever so…. I’m surprised they can even bare to speak to each other….snooty, and terribly pompous.
@@kathleensmith644 tell us you are American without telling us you’re American lol. If you listen to American tv or radio during this era you’ll hear the mid-Atlantic “American” accent is very similar to a British accent and not really pompous just how people spoke.
Been a long admirer of the late, great Joan Sanderson, from tv (Please Sir and Fawlty Towers), film (Prick Up Your Ears) and radio (After Henry). She remained in demand throughout her long career, a testement to her many talents.
I throughly injoyed the radio drama old boy. The eloucution of the old English language uper-classs wonderful. I belive one should study and imitated and petfect the english languages in order to speak proper English. Please, come we have more of the same. Your awfully kind....old boy.
Don't you just love the way the English can say so much in code? "He's not the marrying kind." = Gay.
“No sign of interference.”
"Confirmed bachelor" used to be another one.
@@mikewellwood1412 😀 my mother said that the other day!
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Sadly all my childhood cinemas, and there were many, are either knocked down or (one beautiful 1930's building) are now supermarkets. The large multi cinemas are just not the same, no 'soul'.
@@suspendeddisbelief401 indeed..of the lyrics of Stevie Wonder, I wish those days would come back once more.
Excellent
I love these stories. Does anyone know of non murder stories like these? My mom is 97, doesn't care for thrillers.
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John le Carre does not exist he is really David Cornwall who was in fact a member of the British "Secret World" Many of the characters here re-appear in his later work.. Smiley lived (in fiction) in Bywater Street (which exists) along the side of the Chelsea Classic movie theatre in London. I would walk down the street and for the fun of it pick out the fictional characters housel - Silly but true. Davis Cornwall would show an early version of each spy based novel to the London authorities to see that he had not released any sensitive material. These were the days of the Soviet Red Menace, China todays arch enemy was still serving rice to the populace in the 1960's and on and on and on!
Brilliant 🤩
Clever story
There are many who still speak with the proverbial “plum in the mouth” my sister in law speaks like this.
Listened to this for the entertainment (and it's excellent) but at the end it became surprisingly relevant to my current life. People like Stella Rodes actually do exist and they actually are evil.
Keep well away from them!! Don't engage, you can smell this kind.
Wonderful!
Great one. Although I prefer the ones made by Bernard Hepton, but this one is also fantastic. Thanks!!!!
I knew Bernard Hepton, lovely man and that voice! I could make him laugh out loud when I could get him to say certain things in that Hepton way that he had with voice projection which made me go all gooey 🤗
@@beebee4095 I have been collecting his audio drama plays here and there, but it is so difficult... I would need a list of this works. I would like to have them all. And the list must be long (only audio dramas).
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I wish I couldn't hear the hissing sounds , but the it is a very old recording !
For heavens sake,,it's a free radio mystery,,and still you get complaints about hissing,some people are never satisfied
Haha this made me laugh as I have tinnitus and until I read this I thought it was just that.
I,don't think this was a complaint,just a comment.
Originally Broadcast 10/5/1968.
@@Gillby47 😆. Me too, glad Christine pointed it out. 👌. 🐢
I remember an Agatha Christie story where a parcel containing a clue to a murder was sent to a charity.I wonder which was first this or Agatha Christie.
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I've listened to many versions of this, and I'm still never sure whodunnit! Self doubt!!
Love love this 3rd listening ❤
Remember headmistress joan sanderson in the hit comedy itv series please sir.
And in Fawlty Towers!
George Smiley .... David Bird
Fielding ......... Patrick Barr
Miss Brimley ..... Joan Sanderson
Rigby ............ Peter Williams
Rode ............. Michael Spice
Miss Truebody .... Pauline Letts
Perkins .......... Brian Hewlett
D'Arcy ........... Denys Hawthorne
Dorothy D’Arcy ... Delia Paton
Mad Janie ........ Maureen Beck
Jill ............. Elizabeth Cassie
Shane Hecht ...... Claire Davenport
Charles Hecht .... Edward Jewkesbury
Ann Snow ......... Jill Cary
Simon Snow ....... John Pullen
Produced by David Geary.
Adapted for radio by Frederick Bradnum.
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