talking cardigan

talking cardigan
   a broadcaster with staid and conventional views
   Dressed perhaps in old-style attire, unlike his more aggressive, dismissive, and sometimes arrogant colleagues who appear to be given more airtime:
    The Oxbridge mafia of the BBC regards him as a talking cardigan, a left-over from the Richard Baker era. (Daily Telegraph, 10 June 1997 — the cultured Baker was polite and fair to those whom he interviewed)

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