Rumpole: A BBC Radio Collection
32 BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramas
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John Mortimer
An irresistible collection of sparkling stories featuring John Mortimer's beloved comic creation.
Horace Rumpole is the most erudite, astute, and seldom defeated of barristers in the annals of the Old Bailey. In these 32 dramas, arranged in order of broadcast, four distinguished actors don the wig and white band to portray our hero as he recalls his long, eventful career.
Timothy West stars as the older Rumpole in eight cases in which he proves, despite scurrilous rumours to the contrary, that he is alive, well and as adept as ever at getting to the heart of crimes ranging from sexual assault to terrorism. He also has hopes of becoming a QC at last - but his marriage to She Who Must Be Obeyed is under pressure...
Joining Timothy West for another seven legal adventures, Benedict Cumberbatch plays the young, feisty, devastatingly acute Rumpole. We flash back to the 1950s, as he meets and marries Hilda, embarks on his first big murder case 'alone and without a leader', and defends clients including an aristocrat, a shoplifting clergyman and a gardener accused of blackmail.
Returning as young Rumpole, Cumberbatch takes us through six more curious cases. It is 1964, and Horace takes on a new pupil - Phyllida Trant, the 'Portia of our Chambers' - only to find himself becoming smitten with her. Forced to consider the path his life has taken, he comes close to giving up the law...
With the Sixties swinging, Julian Rhind-Tutt gives us a Rumpole in his prime, recounting ten tales which find the tireless defender swapping sides to appear for the prosecution; coming to the aid of a doctor accused of unprofessional conduct; and suffering the indignity of wrongful arrest. We leave him facing a life-changing decision: after many years of falling in and out of love with both women, will he finally leave Hilda to be with Phyllida?
Also included is a special 90-minute Christmas episode starring Desmond Barrit, in which Rumpole indulges in a little seasonal, charitable blackmail and solves an audacious crime at the panto.
Production credits
Written by John Mortimer
Adapted by Richard Stoneman
Directed by Marilyn Imrie.
A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4
Sax quartet version of Gershwin's 'They Can't Take That Away From Me' arranged by Julie Hodge and performed by 'Sax' (Luiza Beddoes, Kate Mylnar, Janine Ng and Julie Hodge)
Pantomime music written by Neil Brand
Cast
Older Horace Rumpole - Timothy West/Desmond Barrit
Young Horace Rumpole - Benedict Cumberbatch/Julian Rhind-Tutt
Hilda - Prunella Scales/Joanna David
Young Hilda - Jasmine Hyde/Cathy Sara
Phyllida - Cathy Sara/Patience Tomlinson
'Soapy Sam' Ballard - Michael Cochrane
Claude Erskine-Brown - Nigel Anthony
Fig Newton - David Shaw-Parker/Geoffrey Whitehead
Bonny Bernard - Bruce Alexander/Nicholas Le Provost/Matthew Morgan
Judge Bullingham - Christopher Benjamin/David Shaw-Parker/Stephen Critchlow
Liz Probert - Elaine Claxton
First broadcast BBC Radio 4 between 25 December 2001 and 9 May 2018
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I haven't stopped and returned an audiobook in ages, but now I have to, in the middle of the night.
I'm sad, irritated and disappointed by this and will probably go back to Dorothy L. Sayers.
(That collection suffers from mannerisms, too, but it has heart and wit so they may be forgiven or called endearing.)
So every episode is just a lawyer mouthing off and winning regardless? And the listener doesn't need to know how he got there, just substitute bravado, hurr hurr hurr?
But the worst for me was the two main parts, Rumpole and Hilda, just absolutely hating each other's guts beginning to end.
"Because men are like this and women are like that, dontchaknow, HAHAHAHAHA. He's clueless, she traps him in matrimony, HAHAHAHAHA. He escapes to work because she is a tyrant, HAHAHAHAHA. Their kid barely exists except to annoy the hell out of both of them, HAHAHAHAHA. He constantly runs into much younger women and only bad luck keeps it in his pants for him, HAHAHAHAHA. A real thigh slapper. Just f*cking sad!
Props to Audible for letting me return this dinosaur that even I could not love. 😢 Before it gives me ingrown toenails and a hatred of all the sexes.
I'm sorry, I really tried to like it, but...
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