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  • Published: 4 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9781787534735
  • Imprint: BBC CD
  • Format: Audio CD
  • Length: 2 hr 15 min
  • Narrators: Julian Rhind-Tutt, Jasmine Hyde, Nigel Anthony
  • RRP: $34.99

Rumpole: The Way Through the Woods & other stories

Three BBC Radio 4 dramatisations





Julian Rhind-Tutt stars as Horace Rumpole in this sixth collection of courtroom dramas.

A sixth collection of captivating courtroom dramas, starring Julian Rhind-Tutt as Horace Rumpole

Rumpole and the Way Through the Woods
Rumpole makes friends with a dog named Sir Lancelot, and finds himself defending a hunt saboteur who claims to be guilty of murder. But Horace is convinced that the true culprit is among the hunting fraternity.

Rumpole for the Prosecution
Rumpole’s personal commandment is ‘Thou Shalt Not Prosecute’ – but he breaks this rule to take on a private prosecution brought by a dead girl’s father. However, an obscure literary reference and a piece of evidence that doesn’t fit bring his defender’s instincts to the fore...

Rumpole and the Quacks
Temporarily indisposed, Rumpole consults a charming Indian doctor who later asks for Horace’s help when he is accused of molesting a patient. Meanwhile, Rumpole’s friendship with Phillida Erskine-Brown deepens as both their marriages hit a tricky patch.

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

  • Published: 4 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9781787534735
  • Imprint: BBC CD
  • Format: Audio CD
  • Length: 2 hr 15 min
  • Narrators: Julian Rhind-Tutt, Jasmine Hyde, Nigel Anthony
  • RRP: $34.99

About the author

John Mortimer

John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist and former practising barrister. During the war he worked with the Crown Film Unit and published a number of novels, before turning to theatre. He has written many film scripts, and plays both for radio and television, including A Voyage Round My Father, the Rumpole plays, which won him the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.He has written four volumes of autobiography, including Clinging to the Wreckage and Where There's a Will (2003). His novels include the Leslie Titmuss trilogy, about the rise of an ambitious Tory MP: Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained and The Sound of Trumpets, and the acclaimed comic novel, Quite Honestly (2005). He has also published numerous books featuring his best-loved creation Horace Rumpole, including Rumpole and the Primrose Path (2002) and Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders (2004). All these books are available in Penguin.He lives in what was once his father's house in the Chilterns. He has received a knighthood for his services to the arts. His authorized biography, written by Valerie Grove, will be published by Viking in Spring 2007.

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