I wonder why Jayston was replaced with Michael Byrne as Guillam in Smiley's People, 1982? Jayston's IMDB list of credits isn't particularly busy around 1982 - his only work that year was narrating Timewatch. I like Michael Byrne but Jayston is my favourite Guillam. I thought Benedict Cumberbatch was miscast in the role (2011) and I never understood why they retconned the character into a secretive homosexual. Guillam knew there were no true secrets in the Circus.
I watched the film and thought it really quite a cynical and cheap attempt to cash in before le carré né cornwall popped his clogs. between the duty clerk at the circus and prideaux/haydn relationship there was a strong ish undercurrent in the books and adaptations which they probably wanted in the film for demographic i.e. commercial reasons
He's the very best narrator of the very best spy drama.....ever, since it is based on the truth, of course not in every detail, but still in principle.
THE FILM VERSION IS SUBSTANDARD GARBAGE UTTER TRASH AND A STAIN ON THE WOBDERFUL WRITING OF DAVID CORNWALL THE B B C GUINNESS VERDION TGE ORIGINAL IS SUPERB OF OUTSTANDING MERIT
The "unabridged" version is a collection of stories, not just this one. It's not a "long" story in the first place. Each word is efficiently and expertly crafted.
This one of the great books. Please take the time to listen to or read the unabridged. It’s worth the time. It’s one of the books I read every year and I pick up something new each time. It’s not just a story, it’s literature.
Thanks for another wonderful story, great adaptation of the best intelligence novel & so nice to have it read by Peter from the original series. PEACE AND LOVE TO EVERYONE ❤❤.
Folk, do you remember who played Karla? Sir. Patric Stewart before he's become worldwide famous as Capitain Picard. Great production. Love Le Carré's novels.
Marvellous. I've read the book, seen the mini-series andd the film. This audiobook rounds it off, a wonderful conclusion to a beguiling story of power struggle and betrayal. Thanks for uploading.
@@RootlessNZ West Side Story is based on Shakespeare so stranger things have happened. This is the abridged version, the unabridged version is over ten hours longer - but well worth the 13 hours of listening to le Carre fans. It's also narrated by Michael Jayston, like most le Carre audiobooks up to around 2015. Tom Hollander and Toby Jones narrated the last two, in 2017 and 2021.
To anyone visiting this Tinker-Tailor audiobook page, this is one of the best audiobooks I have ever heard. It was released by >Listen For Pleasure Ltd.< in 1981, so audio-cassettes. I took mine to a small company that does conversions to CD, so no problem.
This is absolutely brilliant, thank you so much! Do you also have the unabridged version of this? Or The Wind in the Willows read by Michael Jayston? (Only 2 parts are available on YT) Thank you!
The BBC series was far superior to the movie. All of the main actors in that series defined the characters they played to the point where no other actor could touch them.
Poppycock! Such enthusiasm clouds our judgement when the two adaptations remain entirely complementary to each other and the novel! One cannot compare a 6 hour series with a 2 hour movie (the latter includes portrayals and performances by an amazing cast Alex and Ian would be proud for all associations!). Having studied the novel, series and movie in depth, and given how each reflect the differing periods while enticing their contemporary audiences, all three remain masterpieces. Each captures their target audiences with unique, original performances. The most recent adaptation more than rises to the challenges eluded to in your commentary - Further testament to its success.
12 hours 48 minutes is the length of the unabridged version. And every page matters. Every sentence. Every minute of the audiobook. It's simply not possible for the intricate details of this classic to be conveyed in 2 hours 39 minutes. Nearly 80% of the unabridged (original) version would need to be disposable (redundant) in order for this version, with four fifths thrown away, to work. Obviously it doesn't work. It's like watching a version of THE GODFATHER that's been cut from 3 hours to 36 minutes. What 144 minutes would you leave out?
@@paulleverton9569I also wish for finer gradations of playback speed! I'm running this at 0.75, but would love to try 0.9 or 0.85 ! I slowed down a machine narrated section of a Cussler Novel on Vogue audiobooks and it helped Now I found the settings option, I may try it on Smart Mark Agee in Weekly Skews on Trae Crowder's RUclips, or if I play anything delivered by Simon Whistler.
think Fawn or Vaughan (?) is Smiley's goon. at least Haydn makes it to the incarceration facility in this version harsh about Peter Guillam. jayston plays peter guillam in the acclaimed BBC adaptation. Percy Alaline is a bit of a stock glasgow/edinburgh burr
RIP Michael Jayston
Sir Alec Guinness and Michael Jayston were so great in the series
Absolutes perfection!!
I adore his voice, wonderful presentation. One of my all time favourites, love Le Carre.
Great hearing Michael Jayston..who was perfect in his role opposite Alec Guinness in the original Tinker TV masterpiece...
Around 11:13:00 Michael Jayston reads his own lines from the BBC's adaptation. I'm sure it must've struck him.
I wonder why Jayston was replaced with Michael Byrne as Guillam in Smiley's People, 1982?
Jayston's IMDB list of credits isn't particularly busy around 1982 - his only work that year was narrating Timewatch.
I like Michael Byrne but Jayston is my favourite Guillam. I thought Benedict Cumberbatch was miscast in the role (2011)
and I never understood why they retconned the character into a secretive homosexual. Guillam knew there were no true secrets in the Circus.
I watched the film and thought it really quite a cynical and cheap attempt to cash in before le carré né cornwall popped his clogs. between the duty clerk at the circus and prideaux/haydn relationship there was a strong ish undercurrent in the books and adaptations which they probably wanted in the film for demographic i.e. commercial reasons
He's the very best narrator of the very best spy drama.....ever, since it is based on the truth, of course not in every detail, but still in principle.
THE FILM VERSION IS SUBSTANDARD GARBAGE UTTER TRASH AND A STAIN ON THE WOBDERFUL WRITING OF DAVID CORNWALL THE B B C GUINNESS VERDION TGE ORIGINAL IS SUPERB OF OUTSTANDING MERIT
THANK GOODNESS SMILEYS PEOPLE HAS NOT BEEN RUINED BY THE TALENTLESS CRETINS
The "unabridged" version is a collection of stories, not just this one. It's not a "long" story in the first place. Each word is efficiently and expertly crafted.
So this is the whole original novel? 2hrs and 40min seem too short.
This one of the great books. Please take the time to listen to or read the unabridged. It’s worth the time. It’s one of the books I read every year and I pick up something new each time. It’s not just a story, it’s literature.
Very much enjoy Jayston’s narrations
Thank you! Hope it stays here!
Michael Jayston has a wonderful voice. 👍😊
if slightly effete
@@michaelfraser5723hardly.
I'm slowing him down because I'm midwestern US@@michaelfraser5723
Thanks for another wonderful story, great adaptation of the best intelligence novel & so nice to have it read by Peter from the original series. PEACE AND LOVE TO EVERYONE ❤❤.
If anyone has Len Deighton’s audiobooks, Game Set Match, Hook Line Sinker 😊 pls pls upload. The narrator is as excellent as this 😍
Folk, do you remember who played Karla? Sir. Patric Stewart before he's become worldwide famous as Capitain Picard. Great production. Love Le Carré's novels.
Marvellous. I've read the book, seen the mini-series andd the film. This audiobook rounds it off, a wonderful conclusion to a beguiling story of power struggle and betrayal. Thanks for uploading.
Just the Musical to go then for the full set ?
@@2msvalkyrie529 I'm waiting for the announcement which I'm sure will come any day now. Even better, an opera!
@@RootlessNZ West Side Story is based on Shakespeare so stranger things have happened.
This is the abridged version, the unabridged version is over ten hours longer - but well worth the 13 hours of listening to le Carre fans.
It's also narrated by Michael Jayston, like most le Carre audiobooks up to around 2015.
Tom Hollander and Toby Jones narrated the last two, in 2017 and 2021.
michael jayston died yesterday. he's brilliant reading this, in the bbc's tinker production, and in many other roles
I didn't know this until you mentioned it, appreciated. Thanks for the memories Mr. Jayston.
A perfect start to my day. Thank you!
Beautiful accent, articulate and well narrated 💜
Jayston has a powerful subtile thoughtful look with a microexpression and a telling breath instead of a comment, priceless acting.
The choice of narrator is a very good one because le Carre admitted to Jayston that in the BBC's adaptation Jayston was in fact playing him.
To anyone visiting this Tinker-Tailor audiobook page, this is one of the best audiobooks I have ever heard. It was released by >Listen For Pleasure Ltd.< in 1981, so audio-cassettes. I took mine to a small company that does conversions to CD, so no problem.
Super reading , love this
RECORDEMOS siempre y seguro está 🎥 película 🎞️
Thank you.
This is absolutely brilliant, thank you so much! Do you also have the unabridged version of this? Or The Wind in the Willows read by Michael Jayston? (Only 2 parts are available on YT) Thank you!
This is an abridged version, not the original
Very nice indeed. 👍
thank you
Is there any way you could upload Smileys People please?
The BBC series was far superior to the movie. All of the main actors in that series defined the characters they played to the point where no other actor could touch them.
Poppycock! Such enthusiasm clouds our judgement when the two adaptations remain entirely complementary to each other and the novel! One cannot compare a 6 hour series with a 2 hour movie (the latter includes portrayals and performances by an amazing cast Alex and Ian would be proud for all associations!). Having studied the novel, series and movie in depth, and given how each reflect the differing periods while enticing their contemporary audiences, all three remain masterpieces. Each captures their target audiences with unique, original performances. The most recent adaptation more than rises to the challenges eluded to in your commentary - Further testament to its success.
Yes.
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A better title would be: "Smileys People". Book 3 of the Smiley trilogy
12 hours 48 minutes is the length of the unabridged version. And every page matters. Every sentence. Every minute of the audiobook.
It's simply not possible for the intricate details of this classic to be conveyed in 2 hours 39 minutes.
Nearly 80% of the unabridged (original) version would need to be disposable (redundant) in order for this version, with four fifths thrown away, to work.
Obviously it doesn't work. It's like watching a version of THE GODFATHER that's been cut from 3 hours to 36 minutes. What 144 minutes would you leave out?
Great.
Have you got any Leslie Charteris (The Saint) on tape ?
SPOILER ALERT: The mole was.........
Gerald
2 hrs 39 mins? Can that really be the whole book?
It's the abridged version. The unabridged version is 12 hours 48 minutes - but still has the wonderful narration of Michael Jayston.
The clues in the title.
This isn’t about Garrick
Can you do the Tailor of panama
Beware the JuJu man.
abridged books are a crime
The valllyard himself
1:00:00
muffled
4:56
Sadly this great book was read too fast, almost as if Michael Jayston was being paid for brevity and speed.
It's badly speeded up - the posted RECORDING that is
You can change it to 0.75% using the top right settings dial. Think it should probably be run at about 0.85% but don't know how to change to that.
He may have been. This is the abridged version. The unabridged is ten hours twenty minutes longer.
@@paulleverton9569I also wish for finer gradations of playback speed!
I'm running this at 0.75, but would love to try 0.9 or 0.85 !
I slowed down a machine narrated section of a Cussler Novel on Vogue audiobooks and it helped
Now I found the settings option, I may try it on Smart Mark Agee in Weekly Skews on Trae Crowder's RUclips, or if I play anything delivered by Simon Whistler.
Tough guy peter andhis goon fawn lol. Not assets to the tale.
@Ralph Reilly depends how you see it
think Fawn or Vaughan (?) is Smiley's goon. at least Haydn makes it to the incarceration facility in this version
harsh about Peter Guillam. jayston plays peter guillam in the acclaimed BBC adaptation. Percy Alaline is a bit of a stock glasgow/edinburgh burr
@@govansquared4759 peter is in charge of the goon squad, smiley is at arms distance from the goons.
Poor sound quality
Shite sound quality
unlike many commenters I dislike jaystons smiley voice. too fruity and a bit adenoidal. makes smiley sound creepy.
There's no pleasing you. It's a very good take .
There is a slight creepiness..he is a flawed character..