In 2019, it is a struggle to find anyone articulating a case for “doing good”, even disingenuously. While we are still living in a Britain ruled by public school elites, this aristocratic concept of service would appear long gone. How that sense of Christian service could be corrupted into the most mendacious and reckless behaviour was something I was preoccupied with throughout the telling of the story.” Christian service and service to country. The aspect that I latched on to, I think, the one I felt personally, was the idea of service. “The contradictions, the betrayals of loyalty. “What we wanted to reveal dramatically was the complexity of the secret state,” he says.
His understanding of what the story required, he says, was filtered through values born of empire. Tinker Tailor’s director, John Irvin, now 79, is one of the few people still alive who was involved in the production. Terence Rigby and Alec Guinness in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
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