Rumpole: The Age of Miracles @00000043@ other stories (Audio book) - Three BBC Radio 4 dramatisations

Benedict Cumberbatch plays Horace Rumpole in this fourth collection of dramatic court cases Rumpole and the Bubble ReputationErskine-Brown is working on a sordid ABH and affray case which allegedly occurred in a Soho night club. When he and Rumpole visit the disreputable scene of the crime, they meet Maurice Machin, the editor of the Daily Beacon, whose paper is being sued for libel.Rumpole and the Age of Miracles Hilda's distant relation, The Reverend Timothy Donkin, looks set to be defrocked as Canon of Lawnchester Cathedral unless Rumpole can convince an Ecclesiastical Court that adultery did not take place in the nearby Saint Edithna Hotel.Rumpole and the Tap End Tony Timson finds himself in hot water when charged with the attempted drowning of his wife April, while sharing a bath with her. Rumpole not only defends Tony, but also finds he must protect Judge Guthrie Featherstone QC, who upsets women everywhere with sexist pronouncements about their proper place in the tub.Run time: 2 hours 20 mins approx.

Product details

• Authors: John Mortimer
• Assisted by: Nigel Anthony (Reader / Narrator), Anthony Nigel (Reader / Narrator), Full Cast (Reader / Narrator), Benedict Cumberbatch (Reader / Narrator), Full cast (Reader / Narrator), Jasmine Hyde (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: BBC Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: CD-Audio
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781785299018
• ISBN: 978-1-78529-901-8
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 126 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Media Tie-In, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary