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Gary Oldman embodied the classy, dignified espionage operative George Smiley — the polar opposite of his sweary, farty Jackson Lamb character in Slow Horses — when he played him in Tomas Alfredson’s beautifully made 2011 film of John le Carré’s classic novel. But before that, there was this extraordinary seven-part BBC drama adaptation in 1979, with Alec Guinness in exquisitely poised, enigmatic form as Smiley, tasked with finding a Russian mole in the upper echelons of the British Secret Service. It’s slow, steady and talky — but also spellbinding. The 1982 sequel Smiley’s People is also superb.