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VAN HELSING TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY 9PM,

(2011) 15

BBC4

Excellent adaptation of John le Carre’s 1974 novel, showing as part of tonight’s tribute to the spy genre.

Gary Oldman is George Smiley (above), called upon to sniff out a mole in MI6 during the Cold War’s deepest winter.

(2004) 12

9PM, ITV4

Action horror featuring a mishmash of the monsters that Universal Studios plundered from Gothic literature. Hugh Jackman is the monster-hunter who assists warrior Kate Beckinsale in her family’s quest to rid the world of long-lived vampire Dracula.

FANTASTIC VOYAGE (1966) U

9PM, TALKING PICTURES TV

An enjoyable sci-fi thriller in which a submarine and its crew are miniaturised and injected into the bloodstream of a Soviet scientist to save his life, against the clock. There’s a Cold War subplot that most forget – it’s the idea of the human body as hostile terrain that captures the imagination.

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