'Letters to the Overrated' (2024) A Comical Polemic About John le Carré - Ian Sansom

This was first broadcast on 16 February 2024. It is an episode of the show, 'The Essay', on the Jimmy Savile network, Radio 3. The writer and narrator is Ian Sansom.

From the puffed up and overpraised, to those he thinks may have been unfairly discounted, Ian Sansom imagines he's writing to some key figures from modern literary history.

Ian rounds up his series of fanciful communications, with a few letters to the late English-Irish spy novelist John le Carré.