having been transformed into an acclaimed 1979 BBC television series starring Alec Guinness. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has been praised as an introspective take on 1970s espionage, with one ...

In this month's subscriber essay, Manu Ekanayake revisits the BBC adaptation of John Le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to explore ideas of Englishness and patriotism corrupted by the Establishment ...

The Oscar-winning star portrays the ageing spymaster in 2011’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, in which he must uncover a Soviet mole at MI6 during the early 1970s. Critically acclaimed and a box ...

Back in 2011, Oldman took on a very different spy role to Jackson Lamb in Tomas Alfredson's excellent all-star adaptation of classic John le Carré novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It sees Oldman ...