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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy received critical acclaim. Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 83% based on 229 reviews, with an average rating of 7.80/10. The site's critics' consensus states: "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a dense puzzle of anxiety, paranoia, and espionage that director Tomas Alfredson pieces together with utmost skill."
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was broadcast as three one-hour episodes, from Sunday 29 November to Sunday 13 December 2009, in BBC Radio 4's Classic Serial slot. The producer was Steven Canny . [ 27 ] The series was repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra in June and July 2016, and has since been released as a boxed set by the BBC.
Bill Haydon is a fictional character created by John le Carré who features in le Carré's 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. He is a senior officer in the British Secret Intelligence Service who serves as a Soviet mole. The novel follows aging spymaster George Smiley's endeavours to uncover the mole.
"Tinker, Tailor" may also refer to: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, a 1974 spy novel by John le Carré; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, a 1979 TV adaptation of the novel; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, a 2011 film adaptation of the novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief", a song released on the 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool by ...
Toby Esterhase is a fictional character who appears in several of John le Carré's spy novels that feature George Smiley, including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, Smiley's People, and The Secret Pilgrim. Esterhase also makes a cameo appearance in Le Carré's A Legacy of Spies.
Gary Oldman has been barred from reprising his Tinker Tailor Solder Spy role, the actor’s manager and frequent producing partner has claimed.. The Harry Potter star, 66, led the 2011 film ...
Jim Prideaux is a fictional character created by John le Carré.He appears in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and is a minor character in A Legacy of Spies.He is the head of the "scalphunters", a division of MI6 (called "The Circus" in le Carre's books) dedicated to especially dangerous counterintelligence missions often involving violence or assassinations.
He is a character in the novels The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and The Looking Glass War, and is referred to in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and several others, usually by le Carré's recurring protagonist George Smiley, who served as Control's right-hand man. "Control" is a nom de guerre, based on the real codename for the head of MI6. The ...