John le Carre reads from The Pigeon Tunnel.

Via BBC Radio, you can listen to John le Carre reading from his new memoir The Pigeon Tunnel (including an explanation for the title and the intersections of his life between real-life espionage and fiction):

• Episode 1
• Episode 2
• Episode 3
• Episode 4
• Episode 5

Cold war exhibition, RAF Museum.

The RAF Museum's National Cold War Exhibition includes biographies of key figures of the period, including the Cambridge spy ring, James Bond, and John le Carré. There are some great quotes from le Carré listed such as "a desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world."

John le Carré on Writers & Company.

Eleanor Wachtel of CBC's Writers & Company interviews John le Carré about his new book Our Kind of Traitor (part 1 here, part 2 here) and writes about le Carré's Cornwall residence here.