New Posts For Thread: Tinker Tailor Soldier Shyte....https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30983411/tinker-tailor-soldier-shyteJust watched it for a second time and still dont know what the hell is going on.Bought the DVD ...brilliant film.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30983411/tinker-tailor-soldier-shyte?post_id=553425407#553425407Bought the DVD ...brilliant film.Wed, 24 Jan 2018 12:06:03 -0600It's a brilliant film.However, if you have little/no knowledge of the importance/intrigue of the spy network, MI5/MI6 etc then it can be confusing.Read the superb books by Ben Macintyre (eg. A spy among friends, Agent Zigzag etc). Lucid, fascinatinghttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30983411/tinker-tailor-soldier-shyte?post_id=553412175#553412175It's a brilliant film.However, if you have little/no knowledge of the importance/intrigue of the spy network, MI5/MI6 etc then it can be confusing.Read the superb books by Ben Macintyre (eg. A spy among friends, Agent Zigzag etc). Lucid, fascinatingMon, 22 Jan 2018 03:48:27 -0600It would be nice if everyone had to write a piece of music before they left school at 16 , to be taught like a mathematical formula some would be good , some poor , some very good naturally It would be nice to look at your friend and say, gosh how dihttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30983411/tinker-tailor-soldier-shyte?post_id=553410395#553410395It would be nice if everyone had to write a piece of music before they left school at 16 , to be taught like a mathematical formula some would be good , some poor , some very good naturally It would be nice to look at your friend and say, gosh how diSun, 21 Jan 2018 16:11:26 -0600yes the notes stab softly and melancholy trickles out I wish we could go back to the times of tinker tailor soldier spy and know that everything would be ok for the next 50 years Unlike the next 50 ?https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30983411/tinker-tailor-soldier-shyte?post_id=553410347#553410347yes the notes stab softly and melancholy trickles out I wish we could go back to the times of tinker tailor soldier spy and know that everything would be ok for the next 50 years Unlike the next 50 ?Sun, 21 Jan 2018 16:02:29 -0600Yes it was. Geoff's Nunc Dimittis (the closing theme to the Tinker Tailor TV programme) was played live by an orchestral section at his funeral. As you can imagine, there was not a dry eye in the church!https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30983411/tinker-tailor-soldier-shyte?post_id=553410261#553410261Yes it was. Geoff's Nunc Dimittis (the closing theme to the Tinker Tailor TV programme) was played live by an orchestral section at his funeral. As you can imagine, there was not a dry eye in the church!Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:49:21 -0600I liked Brideshead revisited theme mokegibboni, although not jazz very evocative .Could only have been Englishhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30983411/tinker-tailor-soldier-shyte?post_id=553410151#553410151I liked Brideshead revisited theme mokegibboni, although not jazz very evocative .Could only have been EnglishSun, 21 Jan 2018 15:36:13 -0600A_T is correct ' The Spy who came in from the Cold ' is a small masterpiece One of the greatest films ever madehttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30983411/tinker-tailor-soldier-shyte?post_id=553410107#553410107A_T is correct ' The Spy who came in from the Cold ' is a small masterpiece One of the greatest films ever madeSun, 21 Jan 2018 15:31:16 -0600I was a good friend of Geoffrey Burgon who wrote the music for that TV series (plus other TVs series as well.) He's sadly missed. We were on the point of forming a jazz combo a year or so before he passed away, but it never came to fruition as he soohttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30983411/tinker-tailor-soldier-shyte?post_id=553410023#553410023I was a good friend of Geoffrey Burgon who wrote the music for that TV series (plus other TVs series as well.) He's sadly missed. We were on the point of forming a jazz combo a year or so before he passed away, but it never came to fruition as he sooSun, 21 Jan 2018 15:19:16 -0600great book, great tv series, average filmfor a great espionage film watch The Spy Who Came In from the Coldhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30983411/tinker-tailor-soldier-shyte?post_id=553409957#553409957great book, great tv series, average filmfor a great espionage film watch The Spy Who Came In from the ColdSun, 21 Jan 2018 15:11:36 -0600There is a related subplot where the Circus has a spy in Russia but I cannot remember the codeword used for the "product" -- ie the information passed by the spy. To maintain the Russian spy's cover, Circus gives him back some intelligence in returnhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30983411/tinker-tailor-soldier-shyte?post_id=553409499#553409499There is a related subplot where the Circus has a spy in Russia but I cannot remember the codeword used for the "product" -- ie the information passed by the spy. To maintain the Russian spy's cover, Circus gives him back some intelligence in returnSun, 21 Jan 2018 14:04:14 -0600