Broadcast on BBC2, 25 September 1977.

"John le Carré is among the world’s best-selling novelists. Ever since The Spy Who Came In from the Cold was published in 1963, a new le Carré novel has been a major event in the publishing world. His last book, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, was an immediate best-seller, and his new book just out, The Honourable Schoolboy, looks set to repeat the success.

"Melvyn Bragg talks to John le Carré at his home in Cornwall about his life and novels. Also in the programme is le Carré’s dramatisation of a section from one of his earlier novels, Call for the Dead."