Birkett: Five Full-Cast BBC Radio 4 Crime Dramas

by Caroline Stafford, David Stafford, David Haig (Narrator)

Norman Birkett KC (1883-1962) was a real-life Rumpole - a distinguished and highly skilled lawyer who had numerous successes in the courtroom during his long career. This collection covers some of his most famous cases of the inter-war years, including the dramatic trial of Buck Ruxton; the notorious Dennistoun affair; and the peculiar events surrounding the mysterious cyclist Ronald Light.

Read by: David Haig, Neil Dudgeon, Alison Pettitt, Alun Raglan, full cast, Bonnie

4 pages, Audiobook

Published January 1, 2022

About the author

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Caroline Stafford started her career in the fashion business, heading up her own company for a while and working as a fabric and accessories buyer for Nichol Farhi. She also had occasional forays into journalism with the Daily Mirror, the London Evening Standard and New Musical Express. She and David have, since 1995, collaborated on comedies and dramas, mostly for radio, including Man of Soup, The Brothers, Hazelbeach, The True and Inspirational Life Of St. Nicholas, The Day The Planes Came, The Year They Invented Sex, Feminine Forever and a series of legal dramas based on the true-life cases of Norman Birkett. Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be their biography of the composer Lionel Bart, published by Omnibus Press in 2011, was chosen as BBC Radio 4’s Book of The Week was shortlisted for the Sheridan Morley award and became the basis of a TV documentary, Reviewing The Situation - The Life Of Lionel Bart, made with John Wyver and Mick Conefrey at Illuminations Productions and transmitted by BBC4 on 4th Dec 2013. Their newest book Cupid Stunts - The Life And Radio Times Of Kenny Everett was published in May 2013.

Reviews

[Gretchen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable stories and cast. Enjoyed learning about the real Birkett as well.