'Le Carré’s interview was filmed in 2019. It would be his last. He died in December 2020. And while the circumstances were sudden — a fall in his home — the writer had been 88 when sitting down with Morris. It is not an age when one is unaware that time is finite. Now, The Pigeon Tunnel shares with The Fog of War (after which Robert McNamara died in 2009) a sense of legacy.

“You make me sound like the Grim Reaper,” Morris says. Not quite, I say. But the Grim Reaper’s documentary maker? He pauses. I worry I’ve offended him. “No, I like it!”'

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