This is John le Carre talking about the cathedral city of Wells, in Somerset. The author of "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold" has made his home just outside Wells, and found that he has moved into a traditional world. He himself is a "...See moreThis is John le Carre talking about the cathedral city of Wells, in Somerset. The author of "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold" has made his home just outside Wells, and found that he has moved into a traditional world. He himself is a "modern" man, acutely sensitive to the attitudes of the twentieth century, and tonight's documentary is a reflection of the feelings of such a man looking at the past - its beauty and its social consequences.
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