Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy will be airing on BBC Two on Sunday night – a perfect watch to close the week.

In the early 1970s during the Cold War, the head of British Intelligence, Control (Sir John Hurt), resigns after an operation in Budapest, Hungary goes badly wrong. It transpires that Control ...

This 2011 Cold War spy drama sees Gary Oldman in the titular role of George Smiley, with Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Benedict ...

and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," with Gary Oldman, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Tom Hardy. He also looks at more field operation scenes and comments on the state of counterintelligence from the Cold ...

After words of encouragement from family friend and fellow Sherlock and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy actor, Toby Jones (BA Drama 1989), it was Manchester’s culture that drew London-born Benedict up north ...

George Smiley, the deputy to the head of British intelligence, is forced into retirement after an operation ends in disaster with the death of an MI6 agent. Smiley is later recruited by the government ...

The Cold War espionage film sees an all-star cast and is directed by Tomas Alfredson, who is also behind for the likes of Let ...

The 2011 film was a huge box office success and gained widespread critical acclaim after it was released, winning awards at ...

With this quick-witted and sexually supercharged espionage caper, Steven Soderbergh and his screenwriter David Koepp (Jurassic Park) have just remade Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy for the Industry ...