BBC2’s new series, Under Offer: Estate Agents on the Job, would not be complete without at least one Jewish representative. And he is Gary Hersham, founder of London’s Beauchamp Estates, whom the Beeb’s blurb calls “estate agent to the super-rich”.

The former British Friends of Haifa University chairman was shown literally encountering an elephant in the room in last night's episode. A client has a full-size model of the beast in her Mayfair Georgian townhouse.