A former head of MI5 has claimed that real-life James Bonds could never afford to drive an Aston Martin.
Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller interviewed Dame Judi Dench, who played M in seven James Bond films, on Radio 4's Today program, and said her agents were given bicycles to travel round on, "if they were lucky", while comparing reality with the fiction seen on screen, Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Speaking to Dench, Manningham-Buller said her own staff would have been sacked had they treated her in the way the franchise suggested.
