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Last broadcast on Mon, 19 Jan 2009, 02:00 on BBC Four (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
The original 1975 outing for John Mortimer's top TV barrister, Horace Rumpole. Rumpole is well known to the hacks at the Old Bailey and is the sort that calls the judge 'Old Darling', but never his wife, aka She Who Must Be Obeyed.
He defends a case of assault, touching on themes of race, police corruption, literacy and his own considerable powers of persuasion.
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Credits
- Horace Rumpole
- Leo McKern
- Mrs Rumpole
- Joyce Heron
- Mr Justice Bates
- Noel Williams
- Ossie
- Herbert Norville
- Writer
- John Mortimer
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