Sleuths, Spies & Sorcerers: Andrew Marr's Paperback Heroes

BBC Four HD

12:00 AM to 1:00 AM

Thursday 5 February

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The broadcaster explores the espionage genre, arguing that the British examples of it allows readers to engage with big questions about the human condition. The conventions of writing about spies are gleaned from Frederick Forsyth, William Boyd, Gerald Seymour, Charles Cumming and former MI5 director general Stella Rimington, and Andrew travels to Berlin in the footsteps of John le Carre, whose experience of witnessing the Wall being erected in 1961 inspired him to write The Spy Who Came in from the Cold