sawyl | The Beeb's Tinker, Tailor

I'm not running at full efficiency, thanks to a throat bug, so I've taken the opportunity to watch the BBC's adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy from the late 70s. And impressed. Seriously impressed. The acting is great — Alec Guinness is quite superb as George Smiley — and I really like the way the narrative is given time to unfold, not something that happens often these days.

I also love Geoffrey Burgon's really classy soundtrack, and especially his setting of the Nunc Dimittis that ends each episode: