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Welcome to Spycast, the official podcast of the International Spy Museum.

I'm your host, Sasha Inver, and each week I take you into the shadows of espionage, intelligence, and covert operations across the globe.

When the night manager aired in 2016, it was an instant success. Based on the 1993 John Le Carre novel of the same name, the series centered on former British soldier Jonathan Pine. He's recruited by MI6 to infiltrate the secret network of a notorious arms dealer.

Ten years later, this series returns, without Le Carre ever having written a sequel before he died.

Georgie Banks Davies, the director of this second season, gives us a behind-the-scenes look at how the series charts new territory for Pine in the world of espionage.

Welcome, Georgie. I know you're in New York for the premiere of the second season of Night Manager.

Congratulations. Thank you so much. Thank you. So let's start by talking about why this show, which was received to massive acclaim,

why it took 10 years for a second season.

It's a really good question, Sasha, because, of course, in television, it's so often that

you would go immediately into the next season, especially of something so successful because

the audience is craving it.

But the simple answer is there was not another book, and it's based on the Le Carre novel of the same title, The Night Manager, and he wrote one novel. It was always the intention that the book would be one season, a limited series, six parts, that's it. I've always, you may not have killed off some of the great characters that get killed off in the book and in the

season if we knew it was coming back. And Tom Hiddleston, he plays Jonathan Pine in the show,

tells a great story about that they, in 2016, when that show came out, they took it to Berlin Film

Festival. And they sat together afterwards and had dinner with the director of that season,

Suzanne Beer, and Tom and John

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