:00:10. > :00:15.Colonel Gaddafi's last foreign minister claims British spies had
:00:15. > :00:19.links with the regime just days before the uprising. Abdul Ati Al-
:00:19. > :00:26.Obeidi, now imprisoned by opposition forces, tells the BBC
:00:26. > :00:33.MI6 agents visited Tripoli. Where MI6 still here in January and
:00:33. > :00:39.February of this year? Yes. baby trial that could show whether
:00:39. > :00:43.MI6 was involved in the illegal transfer of terror suspects to
:00:43. > :00:47.Libya. My concern has been to remove any stain on Britain's
:00:47. > :00:51.reputation and to deal with these accusations of malpractice, so as
:00:51. > :00:55.to enable our security services to get on with the vital work that
:00:55. > :01:00.they do. We will be asking whether the latest allegations will affect
:01:00. > :01:05.relations with the new Libya. The worst growth figures in 10
:01:05. > :01:09.years for Britain's shops and services. A survey sparks new fears
:01:09. > :01:13.for the economic recovery. The first batch of free schools
:01:13. > :01:19.open up their classrooms, but critics say pushy parents will grab
:01:19. > :01:23.all the places. Is England's green and pleasant
:01:23. > :01:28.land really in trouble? George Osborne gets involved in the
:01:28. > :01:32.planning row. Sir Alec Guinness made the part his
:01:32. > :01:42.own. Now Gary Oldman plays George Smiley in a remake of Tinker,
:01:42. > :01:43.
:01:43. > :01:52.Tailor, Soldier, Spy. I think it is a little sexier. A little crawler.
:01:52. > :01:56.-- more cruel. There is a sadistic side to George.
:01:56. > :02:01.And on the BBC News Channel I will have all of the sports news ahead
:02:01. > :02:11.of the euro qualifiers tomorrow and a warning for Andy Carroll from
:02:11. > :02:21.
:02:21. > :02:27.Good evening. David Cameron says claims that Britain's intelligence
:02:27. > :02:34.services were involved in the illegal transfer of prisoners to
:02:34. > :02:38.Libya will be checked out by an independent inquiry. The Libyan
:02:38. > :02:42.foreign minister tells the BBC that links between the two countries
:02:42. > :02:46.continued just days before the uprising began in February. Abdul
:02:46. > :02:50.Ati Al-Obeidi, now in custody, has been speaking to Jeremy Bowen in
:02:50. > :02:53.Tripoli. Libya was an important ally for
:02:53. > :02:57.Britain and America after Colonel Gaddafi agreed to give up weapons
:02:57. > :03:01.of mass destruction in 2003. But the documents found in Tripoli
:03:01. > :03:06.suggest that in their eagerness to get his help in fighting the war on
:03:06. > :03:12.terror, MI6 and the CIA were embarrassingly close to the Colonel
:03:12. > :03:16.and his regime. The British embassy in Tripoli was
:03:17. > :03:22.looted in May by a regime that felt betrayed, but it had been the
:03:22. > :03:26.centre of an unlikely friendship. This place became a bridgehead in a
:03:26. > :03:30.land of opportunity. Libya was good for business, and it was good for
:03:30. > :03:35.security. All of that changed very quickly and by the time a regime
:03:35. > :03:42.mob came to attack the building during the NATO bombing campaign,
:03:42. > :03:46.the businessmen and the diplomats and the spies were long gone. Abdul
:03:46. > :03:50.Ati Al-Obeidi was Colonel Gaddafi's last foreign minister. He is now a
:03:50. > :03:56.prisoner. He confirmed that Britain's spies were here, working
:03:56. > :04:03.with the regime, until revolution. We are MI6 still here in January
:04:03. > :04:13.and February of this year? Yeah. One were they doing? -- what were
:04:13. > :04:19.
:04:19. > :04:22.Abdul Hakim Belhadj, military commander of Tripoli, is at the
:04:22. > :04:26.centre of the row about the documents now kept at his
:04:26. > :04:30.headquarters. The allegation is that MI6 joined the CIA in
:04:30. > :04:39.illegally returning him to Tripoli, when he was a suspected Al-Qaeda
:04:39. > :04:44.ally. The key documents, seen by the BBC, are memos from MI6 dated
:04:44. > :04:50.March 18th, 2004, and headed for the urgent personal attention of
:04:50. > :04:56.Moussa Koussa. He ran Libya's police state. In it, MI6 is eager
:04:56. > :04:59.to claim a key role in Mr Belhadj's rendition. They say it is the least
:04:59. > :05:03.they can do for you and Libya, to demonstrate the remarkable
:05:03. > :05:09.relationship they have built over recent years. The document is
:05:09. > :05:14.signed with the letter M. That was Mark Allen, head of counter-
:05:14. > :05:18.terrorism at MI6. Now he is with BP, which won a huge contract with
:05:18. > :05:28.Libya in 2007. How important was Mark Allen in relations with Libya
:05:28. > :05:41.
:05:41. > :05:48.and Britain? He was very important So he was really involved in all
:05:48. > :05:58.sides of the diagram? Yes. What is he like? I don't know him. What do
:05:58. > :05:59.
:05:59. > :06:03.you expect? Intelligence, or spy to be. Tripoli has a new start without
:06:03. > :06:07.Colonel Gaddafi, but when he was the West's friend, that could still
:06:07. > :06:11.stay in Britain and America. The last revenge on countries that
:06:11. > :06:14.became his enemies. David Cameron said the latest
:06:14. > :06:20.allegations about Britain's involvement in the transfer of
:06:20. > :06:25.terror suspects was this -- significant, but he warned against
:06:25. > :06:29.any rush to judgment. The inquiry will be carried out by Peter Gibson.
:06:29. > :06:36.The retired judge is already inquiring whether the UK was
:06:36. > :06:40.involved in the his treatment of detainees overseas. Did British
:06:40. > :06:42.intelligence get too close to the Libyan counterpart? David Cameron
:06:43. > :06:49.said the allegations were significant and should be
:06:49. > :06:52.investigated. He also reminded MPs that in 2003, two years after 9/11,
:06:52. > :06:55.there were terrorist groups in Libya allied to Al-Qaeda.
:06:55. > :07:00.intelligence services are trying to work for the good of the country to
:07:00. > :07:04.keep us safe. It is very important to remember the circumstances at
:07:04. > :07:08.the time. Britain should never be complicit in torture and
:07:08. > :07:12.extraordinary rendition and we should make sure that is the case.
:07:12. > :07:15.Labour in Government, he said, were right to get close to Libya but to
:07:16. > :07:23.gullible. The Foreign Secretary at the time said the allegations were
:07:23. > :07:27.serious. It was a consistent policy of the previous Government and his
:07:27. > :07:32.to be opposed to any complicity in torture, ill-treatment, unlawful
:07:32. > :07:36.rendition. But given the serious nature of these allegations it is
:07:36. > :07:39.entirely right that they should be examined in every detail. The task
:07:39. > :07:44.of going through the secret documents found in Tripoli at the
:07:44. > :07:46.weekend will fall to an existing inquiry, led by Sir Peter Gibson,
:07:46. > :07:51.which is already looking at allegations that terror suspects
:07:51. > :07:55.were mistreated abroad. Rendition is effectively the unlawful kidnap
:07:55. > :07:58.of people, carrying them across borders and putting them into
:07:58. > :08:01.jurisdictions where it is known perfectly well they will be
:08:01. > :08:06.mistreated. The British Government also condemns that, which is why it
:08:06. > :08:09.would be so serious if it turned out that agencies answerable to the
:08:09. > :08:13.British Government had been engaging in that sort of behaviour.
:08:13. > :08:16.The Government is treading a fine line. David Cameron said that
:08:16. > :08:20.allegations of torture should be condemned and investigated, but
:08:20. > :08:25.equally his officials accept that when fighting terrorism, sometimes
:08:25. > :08:29.Britain has to deal with regimes that do not share its values. So
:08:29. > :08:34.what MI6 new and it has to be investigated but it is not clear
:08:34. > :08:38.tonight when that inquiry will start.
:08:38. > :08:41.Let's go back to our Middle East Editor in Tripoli. How will the
:08:41. > :08:46.latest allegations, including the ones made in your report, affect
:08:46. > :08:49.relations between the two countries, do you think? Before I get on to
:08:49. > :08:54.that, I need to say that we have approached the Foreign Office and
:08:54. > :09:02.Mark Allen, and neither would comment on what was said. As for
:09:02. > :09:05.the Libyans, well, I was in Abdul Hakim Belhadj's headquarters today,
:09:05. > :09:09.the man at the centre of all of this. They were following what
:09:09. > :09:13.happened in London very closely. They were interested in what David
:09:13. > :09:18.Cameron had to say. At his celebratory fire, by the way,
:09:18. > :09:23.nothing sinister. -- that his celebratory fire. They were
:09:23. > :09:27.interested in what he had to save and they were following it as well.
:09:27. > :09:30.This is original sin done by their allies, the British and the
:09:31. > :09:37.Americans. I think they want it to be addressed. That is particularly
:09:37. > :09:41.the case when it comes to the command of Tripoli and his very
:09:41. > :09:47.important Islamist allies, who form one part of the coalition. He has
:09:47. > :09:51.already said that he wants at the very least an apology. Thank you.
:09:51. > :09:56.European stock markets have fallen sharply amid persistent concerns
:09:56. > :10:00.about the state of the banking industry and economic growth. The
:10:00. > :10:06.FTSE lost �50 billion in value. According to one survey of
:10:06. > :10:10.companies, the UK service sector has just recorded its worst
:10:10. > :10:15.economic slowdown for three years. No any of us might be feeling
:10:15. > :10:20.better after our summer holidays but the signs are that the British
:10:20. > :10:25.economy is not. They survey which measures British Activity in the
:10:25. > :10:35.economy, has shown that it has fallen to its lowest point since
:10:35. > :10:37.
:10:37. > :10:42.due -- gene 2009. The services sector was especially downbeat. It
:10:42. > :10:46.saw the sharpest fall since 2001. That is only one month's figure and
:10:46. > :10:50.could have been affected by the riots, but it speaks to growing
:10:50. > :10:54.pessimism about the pace of Britain's recovery. They his is a
:10:54. > :10:58.very disappointing number. It is still signalling growth, but very
:10:58. > :11:02.meagre growth. The rate of expansion has fallen dramatically
:11:02. > :11:05.compared to July. Independent economists have been busy lowering
:11:05. > :11:10.their expectations for growth, not just for the UK but Europe and
:11:10. > :11:15.America, which something is slipping back into recession. In
:11:15. > :11:22.March, the average forecast was for growth in the UK of 1.8% this year.
:11:22. > :11:26.That has now fallen to 1.3%. It could all make for an interesting
:11:26. > :11:30.debate on the Bank of England's policy committee when it meets this
:11:30. > :11:34.week over whether to provide more emergency support for the economy.
:11:34. > :11:38.It also raises questions about the pace of the Government budget cuts,
:11:38. > :11:41.even among some of the people that lobbied for cuts at the last
:11:41. > :11:45.election. People like Bill Gross, who runs one of the largest
:11:45. > :11:49.investment funds in the world. Last year he said the UK was
:11:49. > :11:54.implementing the best combination of monetary and fiscal policies. In
:11:54. > :11:58.an interview for the Times today he said the worst state of the economy
:11:59. > :12:02.call for fine-tuning, or maybe re- routing of the Government plans.
:12:02. > :12:07.Clearly fiscal policy is too tight and has been for some time. The
:12:07. > :12:11.cuts are too far and too fast. It would be better to support growth
:12:11. > :12:14.and employment by easing off on the pace of the cuts. The Chancellor
:12:14. > :12:20.should stick to his deficit- reduction plan because otherwise he
:12:20. > :12:27.risks losing the Triple A status. The cost of borrowing would then go
:12:27. > :12:31.up and damage the economy. The FTSE fell by 3.6% today. At is the
:12:31. > :12:39.second largest one-day fall this year. But index is now 15% lower
:12:39. > :12:45.than it was at the start of July. As the Chancellor often remind us,
:12:45. > :12:49.investors might shun the UK if he does not have that under control.
:12:49. > :12:53.But investors are always nervous when an economy does not seem to
:12:53. > :12:57.grow. The first draft of free schools
:12:57. > :13:02.opened this term. They are run by charities, faith group, and parents,
:13:02. > :13:07.but funded by the state. They are proving controversial. Today Nick
:13:07. > :13:10.Clegg assured critics, including some within his own party, that the
:13:10. > :13:18.schools are not just for the privileged few. Reeta Chakrabarti
:13:18. > :13:23.It's a new term and with it a new school, set up by parents, teachers,
:13:23. > :13:28.businesses and faith groups, free from local council control and free
:13:28. > :13:31.to parents, free schools have arrived. These five-year-olds at a
:13:31. > :13:35.free school in East London are among the first to get this new
:13:35. > :13:40.brand of education. Many of them struingtold find a place elsewhere.
:13:40. > :13:45.One boy had waited for a year. Parents say this school is offering
:13:46. > :13:50.them something different. The way they do the times of the schools,
:13:50. > :13:54.like 8am to 6pm, it's good for parents if they work as well. I
:13:54. > :13:59.think it will be good to start my children's education.
:13:59. > :14:02.flexibility in terms of more parental involvement in the
:14:02. > :14:06.decision making. So any good suggestions from the parents which
:14:06. > :14:08.is beneficial for the school and for the children as well. Because
:14:08. > :14:13.free schools are independent of the local authority they have the scope
:14:13. > :14:17.to do things differently. Some have smaller class sizes than usual, 24
:14:17. > :14:22.or fewer. Others have flexible opening times, both for the school
:14:22. > :14:26.day and the school term. And exceptionally free schools can
:14:26. > :14:29.employ teachers without a teaching qualification. The Education
:14:29. > :14:33.Secretary, Michael Gove, has said repeatedly that he wants free
:14:33. > :14:38.schools to be set up in poorer areas, such as this in west London,
:14:38. > :14:42.which opens in the next few days. Critics point out that half of the
:14:42. > :14:46.schools opening this year are not in deprived areas, and they say
:14:46. > :14:49.they risk becoming middle class enclaves.
:14:49. > :14:54.A point acknowledged today by the Deputy Prime Minister, mindful
:14:54. > :14:57.perhaps that hills party voted against free schools at last year's
:14:57. > :15:02.conference, Nick Clegg had this message for his own Government.
:15:02. > :15:06.They mup not be the preserve of the privileged few, creaming off the
:15:06. > :15:14.best pupils, while leaving the rest to fend for themselves, causing
:15:14. > :15:18.problems for and draining resources from other nearby schools. The 24
:15:18. > :15:22.new schools will cost up to �130 million and they include a handful
:15:22. > :15:26.of former private schools like this one in Yorkshire, which will now be
:15:26. > :15:31.state funded. Some say the money devoted to free schools should be
:15:31. > :15:34.more evenly spread. Free schools will, of course, take resources
:15:34. > :15:37.from existing education budgets, from existing schools. They may
:15:37. > :15:43.well take pupils from existing schools and this will destabilise
:15:43. > :15:46.the system. 24 is a small start, but with hundreds more predicted in
:15:46. > :15:52.the next four years, it could herald the beginning of something
:15:52. > :15:59.big. Coming up on tonight's programme:
:15:59. > :16:07.Out! The best of British, as the classic thriller Tinker, Tailor,
:16:07. > :16:11.Soldier, Spy gets a 21st century makeover.
:16:11. > :16:15.Just four months after the September 11th terror attacks, the
:16:15. > :16:18.US military began sending prisoners, caught on the battlefield in
:16:18. > :16:22.Afghanistan, to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Ten years later, there are
:16:22. > :16:28.still nearly 200 prisoners there, including some of those connected
:16:28. > :16:33.to the attacks. Mark Mardell visited the prison and looked back
:16:34. > :16:38.on the legacy of Guantanamo. Nestled amid Cuba's tropical hills,
:16:38. > :16:43.a prison which has cast a long shadow. A President vowed to shut
:16:43. > :16:46.it down within a year of taking office. A promise unfulfilled. He
:16:46. > :16:51.called what once happened here a betrayal of American values. At its
:16:51. > :16:55.height it held 700. Now we're assured the remaining 171 inmates
:16:55. > :16:58.are allowed to mix freely. They have art classes and their own
:16:58. > :17:01.library. The official mantra is that their treatment is safe,
:17:01. > :17:07.humane and legal. I know the individuals behind the fence are my
:17:07. > :17:15.enemy. But I'm charged to treat them with dignity and respect and
:17:15. > :17:19.provide humane treatment. That's my mission. High profile prisoners are
:17:19. > :17:23.held in a secret part of the camp. This is a solitary confinement
:17:23. > :17:26.block for prisoners who won't cooperate. We're inside camp five,
:17:26. > :17:29.the maximum security wing here, where prisoners are held who've
:17:29. > :17:35.attacked guards. They're checked every three minutes during the 24
:17:35. > :17:40.hour cycle. Guantanamo Bay is still a name that resonates throughout
:17:40. > :17:45.the world, a potent symbol of the way America changed after 9/11,
:17:45. > :17:48.questioning even basic values of right and wrong. The immense shock
:17:48. > :17:52.of 9/11 left America feeling vulnerable, determined to track
:17:52. > :17:57.down those responsible. We will find those who did it. We will
:17:57. > :18:00.smoke them out of their holes. We will get them running and we'll
:18:00. > :18:04.bring them to justice. Those captured in Afghanistan were
:18:04. > :18:08.categorised not as prisoners of war or criminals, but illegal enemy
:18:08. > :18:12.combatants. It meant they had no rights. Many were shackled to the
:18:12. > :18:18.floor of military planes and flown to Camp X-Ray, a hastily set up new
:18:18. > :18:23.prison in Guantanamo Bay. Phil Mudd was a senior CIA analyst. He said
:18:23. > :18:27.the atmosphere was hot and heavy. The need for information urgent.
:18:27. > :18:32.Let's say we got a new prisoner. I don't know what's going to happen
:18:32. > :18:37.tomorrow. We need to know quickly. Maybe another child will die. The
:18:37. > :18:42.sense of immediatecy was balanced against what we knew were
:18:42. > :18:45.techniques that would come to light someday. Interrogators were given
:18:45. > :18:50.extraordinary powers. A secret memo said those being questioned could
:18:50. > :18:53.be subjected to treatment that may be cruel, inhumane or degrading,
:18:54. > :18:56.arguing it wasn't torture unless the pain was equivalent to organ
:18:56. > :19:00.failure. If you push someone against a wall and all of a sudden,
:19:00. > :19:05.they don't know what's going to happen, they say "I'll talk to you
:19:05. > :19:09.about a plot." Is that fair? Tech nickally that would be torture, in
:19:09. > :19:12.some cases, because that's physical aggression against a prisoner. If
:19:12. > :19:17.you narrow what we did, no information versus pushing someone
:19:17. > :19:20.against a wall, what would you say, is that OK? President Obama said it
:19:20. > :19:26.waents. Neither was the existence of Guantanamo itself. His very
:19:26. > :19:30.first major act as President was signing ab order to shut it down.
:19:30. > :19:33.But it still held inmates judged too dangerous to release. The
:19:33. > :19:37.President halted the military tribunals held there and planned to
:19:37. > :19:41.try prisoners in the USA in normal courts. That was met by a fire
:19:41. > :19:45.storm of protest. Obama's top lawyer, charged with closing
:19:45. > :19:49.Guantanamo, said the objections were ill informed and politically
:19:49. > :19:53.motivated Having terrorists as your next door neighbours, irresponsible
:19:53. > :19:57.rhetoric because no-one was proposing doing that, in the
:19:57. > :20:00.slightest. No-one was proposing jeopardising the security of
:20:00. > :20:07.American citizens by bringing terrorists into this country. It
:20:07. > :20:10.was all about being able to bring people in for trial. Reluctantly
:20:10. > :20:15.the Obama administration has ordered the tribunals to restart.
:20:15. > :20:19.The prisoners will remain here. The place where it all started, Camp X-
:20:19. > :20:22.Ray, has been abandoned. It's likely to be a long time before
:20:22. > :20:28.nature reclaims the prison as a whole. Its impact may linger even
:20:28. > :20:34.longer. For more stories and analysis in
:20:34. > :20:39.the run up to the 9/11 anniversary, there's more on our website. The
:20:39. > :20:44.address is bbc.co.uk/news. The Chancellor has defended the
:20:44. > :20:47.Government's controversial proposal to overhaul the planning system in
:20:47. > :20:51.England. George Osborne says they're essential if the economy is
:20:51. > :20:54.to recover. Critics, such as the National Trust, argue the proposal
:20:54. > :21:00.could have disastrous consequences for the countryside.
:21:00. > :21:04.Jeremy Cooke reports. They call it green belt, protected
:21:04. > :21:09.countryside, which lies in between our towns and cities. Getting
:21:09. > :21:13.planning permission here has been hard for decades, but amid growing
:21:13. > :21:17.housing shortages and hard economic times, there are calls to relax the
:21:17. > :21:22.rules. Campaigners say proposed Government changes to the planning
:21:22. > :21:26.system could mean more development in the countryside. At issue is how
:21:26. > :21:30.much protection we give to areas like this. What you're looking at
:21:30. > :21:37.down there is potentially prime development land. The campaigners
:21:37. > :21:42.say it's also priceless green space. The need is undenyably pressing.
:21:42. > :21:46.One possible indicator of housing shortages is the ratio of income to
:21:46. > :21:50.house prices. In this map, the darker the colour, the greater the
:21:50. > :21:56.difference between house prices and income. Affordable properties much
:21:56. > :22:01.more scarce in the darker areas. And it's not just housing. Here,
:22:01. > :22:06.plans for a 220-berth Marina complex were previously rejected
:22:06. > :22:10.but are now being reconsidered under appeal. The Government says
:22:10. > :22:15.it wants to simplify planning rules, reducing a thousand pages of
:22:15. > :22:19.regulations down to just 52. And crucially, they say, the default
:22:19. > :22:24.answer to planning applications should be yes unless there are
:22:24. > :22:31.strong reasons to reject them. proposed planning guidelines, as
:22:31. > :22:35.far as I've seen them, do provide some protection for the green belt.
:22:35. > :22:39.One's concern is that will gradually be eroded. The Government
:22:39. > :22:43.insists that there will be no erosion in the protection of the
:22:43. > :22:48.countryside, but Chancellor, George Osborne, also says that reforming
:22:48. > :22:51.the planning system is vital to the national ek am nomic recovery. He
:22:51. > :22:57.knows (economic recovery. He knows that the number of planning
:22:57. > :23:00.applications fell to a ten-year low from 2009 to 2010. In total more
:23:00. > :23:07.than 460,000 applications were received. Of those more than
:23:07. > :23:10.330,000 were grantsed. But those who support more
:23:10. > :23:14.development, the Government proposals feel like good news.
:23:14. > :23:17.changes the balance to make it more positive and will help developers,
:23:17. > :23:22.in certain circumstances, to improve the possibility of getting
:23:22. > :23:26.consent. Those who oppose the changes say they threaten some of
:23:26. > :23:30.our most precious land escapes and that any way, developers already
:23:30. > :23:38.hold so called land banks, which have planning permission to build
:23:38. > :23:42.hundreds of thousands of new homes. A date's been set for the eviction
:23:42. > :23:46.of hundreds of travellers from an illegal site in Essex. Basildon
:23:46. > :23:50.Council says it will begin clearing Dale Farm two weeks from today.
:23:50. > :23:54.More than 80 properties built on the former scrap yard don't have
:23:54. > :23:58.planning permission. Around 400 people are affected, many of them
:23:58. > :24:01.say they'll resist eviction. The latest version of the classic
:24:01. > :24:06.John le Carre thriller, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy has had its
:24:06. > :24:09.world premiere today. This time the iconic George Smiley, a role made
:24:09. > :24:14.famous by Alec Guinness is played by Gary Oldman. But will it live up
:24:14. > :24:24.to the expectations of an audience already familiar with the book and
:24:24. > :24:27.
:24:27. > :24:31.There's a mole right at the top of the circus. He's been there for
:24:31. > :24:35.years. George Smiley is back, the sharpest tool in the MI6 box of
:24:35. > :24:39.tricks. He's on the trail of a double agent, who threatens
:24:39. > :24:45.national security. I want to talk about loyalty, Toby. What did you
:24:45. > :24:52.make of it Jim? Gary Oldman is playing the spook in the film
:24:52. > :24:57.adaptation of John le Carre's book Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. It is
:24:57. > :25:06.a role Alec Guinness famously took in this 1979 television series. How
:25:06. > :25:11.does a new Smiley differ? I think it's a little sexier. A little
:25:11. > :25:19.crueler, there's a sort of, bit of a sadistic side to George that
:25:19. > :25:25.we've brought to the fore and I think, the sort of, the
:25:25. > :25:30.disenchantment, he's a sort of disenchanted kind of romantic, the
:25:30. > :25:38.melancholy. The film boasts a role call of top British acting talent.
:25:38. > :25:43.But the director is Swedish. Tomas Alfredson maeld his name with this
:25:43. > :25:49.2008 vampire movie, Let The Right One In. He has brought the same
:25:49. > :25:56.cool Scandinavian style to 1970s London. I came to England the first
:25:56. > :26:04.time in 1972, as I remember it. London was quite different from
:26:04. > :26:11.what it is now. I have very strong images and memories from that
:26:11. > :26:15.period. Since it's a very analogue world, compared to today. This film
:26:15. > :26:20.is not your typical modern thriller. There's none of the fast cutting
:26:20. > :26:27.and non-stop action you get served up in a Bond or Bourne franchise.
:26:27. > :26:35.Quite the opposite. It's more like HBO's The Wire or The Killing. This
:26:35. > :26:39.movie is very, very slow. It is very slow, but it's intellect
:26:39. > :26:44.weal compelling. Each detail is a lair upon a lair. It's a thriller
:26:44. > :26:48.of the mind. Early reviews have been favourable. Could it be a
:26:48. > :26:52.British spy will follow in the footsteps of a British king by