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My iPad and audiobooks are two wonderful things salvaged from a year I’d prefer to forget
The new series is a one-story arc – but when they tried this before, the BBC (and a contemptuous Michael Grade) almost wielded the axe
Sir Alec Guinness almost quit Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy after he panicked he couldn't handle the role of George Smiley and even suggested Dad's Army's Arthur Lowe as his replacement.
Alec Guinness almost quit the BBC's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Lydia Spencer-elliott For Mailonline © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo He hunted down Soviet spies in the British intelligence service as George Smiley in the BBC adaptation of John le Carré's novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Yet Sir Alec Guinness almost quit the iconic show after he panicked he couldn't handle the role and even suggested Dad's Army's Arthur Lowe as his replacement. Speaking to the Radio Times, the series' director John Irvin recalled the moment he found the late actor in a 'deep p...