The BBC is dramatising all the Smiley novels. I've only listened to the start of the first one, so far, which contains this description of Maston, the boss Smiley loathes. It is in the voice of Ann Smiley, George's aristocratic and inconstant wife:
That suit! A full inch of creamy cuff on show, and the silver tie, and the grey hair - a barmaid's dream of a gentleman.
I'm also re-listening to the BBC Strong Poison, with Ian Carmichael and Joan Hickson. There are some fantastic bits from that ('I'm told I make love rather nicely' / 'By the way, I don't positively repel you, or anythin' like that?') which I will hunt out.
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