Rumpole The Golden Thread  other st..., John Mortimer
Rumpole The Golden Thread  other st..., John Mortimer
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Rumpole: The Golden Thread & other stories
Three BBC Radio 4 dramatisations

Author: John Mortimer

Narrator: Full Cast, Julian Rhind-Tutt

Unabridged: 2 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/04/2019


Synopsis

Three thrilling full-cast dramas starring Julian Rhind-Tutt as the irrepressible Horace Rumpole

Rumpole and the Golden Thread
In Africa defending an old pupil in a murder trial, Rumpole is arrested. When Phillida arrives to bail him out, a spark between them is rekindled...

Rumpole and the Official Secret
Rumpole defends a civil servant accused of selling secrets and is embroiled in a wine fraud. Meanwhile, Phillida tells Rumpole she plans to leave her husband and asks him to keep it a secret, and Horace considers what that might mean.

Rumpole and the Quality of Life
Ballard’s wedding looms and Rumpole faces a life-changing decision about his own marriage. Hilda expects him to join her in Cornwall, but Phillida hopes he will leave to be with her at last…

For fifteen years, Rumpole has fought, won and occasionally lost myriad cases – and fallen in and out of love with both wife Hilda and ‘the Portia of our Chambers’, Phillida Erskine-Brown. These three episodes leave us guessing until the very end – will Rumpole finally leave ‘She Who Must be Obeyed’ for Phillida?

Julian Rhind-Tutt stars as Rumpole, with Jasmine Hyde as Hilda, Nigel Anthony as Claude Erskine-Brown and Cathy Sara as Phillida.

About John Mortimer

John Mortimer (1923–2009) was a playwright, novelist, and barrister. He wrote many radio, film, and television scripts, including the British television series Rumpole of the Bailey, and won the British Academy Writer of the Year Award in 1979. He retired from the bar in 1984 and was knighted in 1998.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alex on January 16, 2021

This was actually pretty good. I was surprised. This series is a rewrite of the old Rumpole of the Baily stories in a different universe where Rumpole is a young man still trying to figure out if he wants to stay married... or run away with Phillida Trent (or whatever she is called. I think he calls......more