BBC Radio presents four more vintage episodes of John Mortimer's long-running PBS series, Rumpole. Horace Rumpole, brilliant comic and barrister extraordinaire, recounts a stunning career full of murder cases, legal anecdotes, and triumphs and disasters in the courts of law. Rumpole always gets to the heart of the mystery in these four irresistible tales. The program includes the episodes "Rumpole and the Defence of Guthrie Featherstone," "Rumpole and the Stage Folk," "Rumpole and the Fascist Beast," and "Rumpole and the Age for Retirement."
John Clifford Mortimer was a novelist, playwright and former practising barrister. Among his many publications are several volumes of Rumpole stories and a trilogy of political novels, Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained and The Sound of Trumpets, featuring Leslie Titmuss - a character as brilliant as Rumpole. John Mortimer received a knighthood for his services to the arts in 1998.