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Rumpole: the sleeping partners & other stories : three BBC Radio 4 dramatisations / John Mortimer. [sound recording]

By: Publication details: London : BBC Audio , 2018.Description: 3 sound discs (135 mins.) : digital ; 12 cmISBN:
  • 9781785298998
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Contents:
Rumpole and the old boy net -- Rumpole and the sleeping partners -- Rumpole and the Portia of our Chambers.
Read by Timothy West, Jasmine Hyde and Benedict Cumberbatch.Summary: Benedict Cumberbatch plays the young, devastatingly acute Horace Rumpole in this third thrilling collection of court cases. Rumpole and the Old Boy Net: With the help of his new pupil, Miss Phillida Trant, Rumpole must defend Mr Napier Lee, who is charged with blackmail. But the alleged victim of the blackmail went to public school with the defendant, and Mr Lee won't sneak on his old school chum... Rumpole and the Sleeping Partners: After a legal ball in the Savoy Hotel, Rumpole and Hilda argue about Rumpole's drunken behaviour and Rumpole decides to sleep the night on his sofa in chambers - strictly against the rules. But there he finds his colleague Erskine-Brown with Phillida Trant, 'working late'... Rumpole and the Portia of our Chambers: Rumpole comes close to giving up the law when forced to consider the path his life has taken by a combination of his attraction to his pupil Phillida, an unsettling case involving an Irish terrorist, and a visit from an old flame of Hilda's.
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Books on CD         Books on CD Hanover Public Library Shelves BonCD FIC MORT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31906001128025

Unabridged.

Rumpole and the old boy net -- Rumpole and the sleeping partners -- Rumpole and the Portia of our Chambers.

Read by Timothy West, Jasmine Hyde and Benedict Cumberbatch.

Benedict Cumberbatch plays the young, devastatingly acute Horace Rumpole in this third thrilling collection of court cases. Rumpole and the Old Boy Net: With the help of his new pupil, Miss Phillida Trant, Rumpole must defend Mr Napier Lee, who is charged with blackmail. But the alleged victim of the blackmail went to public school with the defendant, and Mr Lee won't sneak on his old school chum... Rumpole and the Sleeping Partners: After a legal ball in the Savoy Hotel, Rumpole and Hilda argue about Rumpole's drunken behaviour and Rumpole decides to sleep the night on his sofa in chambers - strictly against the rules. But there he finds his colleague Erskine-Brown with Phillida Trant, 'working late'... Rumpole and the Portia of our Chambers: Rumpole comes close to giving up the law when forced to consider the path his life has taken by a combination of his attraction to his pupil Phillida, an unsettling case involving an Irish terrorist, and a visit from an old flame of Hilda's.

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