In this episode, I talk about episode two of the 1982 miniseries adaptation of Smiley's People. I talk about the folks who made the Gaul Woman famous, the intersection of fate, Bruce Willis, and Alan Rickman, and finally a romantic dalliance between Dame Eileen Atkins and a certain Irish actor. Say it with me in your best British-tinted Eastern European accent: "It must be Max!"

This is the thirty-seventh episode of Thrill is Gone: A podcast about thrillers. This episode marks another episode in our series Tinker, Tailor, Podcast, Spy, where we read all of LeCarre's work from Call for the Dead all the way to Agent Running in the Field. We are also going to be checking out the movies and radio dramas along the way.

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