Audiobooks narrated by Simon Russell Beale
Reads the George Smiley novels complete — Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is the pick on this site — and also plays Smiley in the BBC radio dramatisations, which the store sells under the same titles at under three hours apiece. Check which one you are buying. Also Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy, Montefiore's The Romanovs and his own memoir.
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Books sold as more than one recording, with Simon Russell Beale among the options. Each page says which one to buy and why.
Recordings featuring Simon Russell Beale
A selection from Simon Russell Beale’s Audible UK catalogue, not the whole of it: 17 titles, with the type column saying what kind of recording each one is. Checked against the UK store; lengths are as the store gives them.
Watch the type column. 1 of these is abridged — a shortened text, not the whole book, for the same credit. Why that keeps happening →
| Title | Author | Length | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | John le Carré | 12h 8m | Solo |
| Smiley's People | John le Carré | 14h 12m | Solo |
| The Honourable Schoolboy | John le Carré | 20h 31m | Solo |
| Call for the Dead | John le Carré | 4h 50m | Solo |
| A Murder of Quality | John le Carré | 5h 9m | Solo |
| The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | John le Carré | 6h 58m | Solo |
| Karla's Choice | Nick Harkaway | 10h 42m | Solo |
| Regeneration | Pat Barker | 8h 52m | Solo |
| The Eye in the Door | Pat Barker | 8h 12m | Solo |
| The Ghost Road | Pat Barker | 6h 54m | Solo |
| The Romanovs | Simon Sebag Montefiore | 28h 46m | Solo |
| The Keys to the Street | Ruth Rendell | 11h 20m | Solo |
| A Piece of Work | Simon Russell Beale | 11h 50m | Own work |
| Agrippa | Robert Harris | 9h 55m | With 1 other |
| Winter in Madrid | C. J. Sansom | 6h 21m | Abridged |
| Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Dramatised) | John le Carré | 2h 50m | Full cast |
| The Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas | John le Carré | 18h 59m | Full cast |
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