The Russia House 1/4 by John le Carré

Cold war espionage thriller, adapted for radio. Starring Tom Baker.

An English book publisher (Baker) is approached by a mysterious woman wielding a bulky manuscript, at a book fair behind the Iron Curtain, and asked to keep a promise he had made to publish a volume of memoirs written by a Soviet scientist. But the memoirs are of more than passing interest to British military intelligence, as they seem to contain clues to the top secret workings of a nuclear weapons system.

Adapted for radio by the BBC, from the novel, as a full cast dramatisation.

By John le Carre , dramatised by Rene Basilico , and starring Tom Baker as Barley Blair and Valentina Yakunina as Katya.

Theme music by Max Harris
Producer John Fawcett Wilson Rpt

Unknown: John Le Carre
Unknown: Rene Basilico
Unknown: Tom Baker
Unknown: Valentina Yakunina
Music By: Max Harris
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
Ned: John Rowe
Harry: Michael Turner
Walter: John Webb
Wicklow: David Bannerman
Zapadny: Constantine Gregory
Goethe: Boris Isarov
Bob: Bruce Boa
Brock: Simon Treves
O'Mara: Geoffrey McGivern
Wintle: Paul Brooke
Paddy: Christopher Fulford
Cy: Eric Meyers
JP Henziger: Ted Maynard