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  • Published: 2 January 2020
  • ISBN: 9781787534506
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 2 hr 56 min
  • Narrators: Timothy West, Prunella Scales, Matt Smith

Rumpole: The Teenage Werewolf & other stories

Four BBC Radio 4 dramatisations





Timothy West stars as Rumpole in these four fantastic radio dramas

Timothy West stars as Rumpole in these four fantastic radio dramas

Rumpole and the Teenage Werewolf
Rumpole heads to the Home Counties to defend Ben, a teenager accused of sending emails deemed to be sexually harassing, and of an actual physical attack on a girl.

Rumpole and the Right to Privacy
Rumpole leaves the Old Bailey to defend a civil case: an editor of a local newspaper who is accused of breaching a successful businessman's right to privacy.

Truth Makes All Things Plain
If one man can be counted on to fight injustice and insist on a fair trial for everyone, whatever their circumstances, it is Horace Rumpole. So when the beautiful Tiffany Khan learns that her husband has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism, she calls for his help right away.

The Past Catches up with us All
As he struggles to win justice for his client, Rumpole finds that his marriage to She Who Must Be
Obeyed is, rather like his waistcoat, straining at the seams.

Timothy West stars as Rumpole and Prunella Scales as Hilda, with Matt Smith as Ben, Nigel Anthony as Claude Erskine-Brown and Michael Cochrane as ‘Soapy Sam’ Ballard.

Cast and credits
Written by John Mortimer
Directed by Marilyn Imrie

Rumpole and the Teenage Werewolf
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 19 July 2006
Horace Rumpole - Timothy West
Hilda Rumpole - Prunella Scales
Hermione Swithin - Felicity Montagu
Mr Beazley - Nicholas Le Provost
Chris Swithin - Philip Jackson
Ben Swithin - Matt Smith
Judge Denis Wintergreen - Karl Johnson
Adrian Hodinott - Sean Baker
Felicity Halliday - Ellie Beaven

Rumpole and the Right to Privacy
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 26 July 2006
Horace Rumpole - Timothy West
Hilda Rumpole. - Prunella Scales
Mr Rankin - David Shaw-Parker
Claude Erskine-Brown - Nigel Anthony
Liz Probert - Elaine Claxton
Hugo Winterton - Anton Rogers
Gervase Johnson - Stephen Critchlow
Sir Mike Smedley - Kim Durham
Mrs Justice Erskine-Brown - Joanna David

Truth Makes All Things Plain
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 15 August 2007
Horace Rumpole - Timothy West
Hilda Rumpole - Prunella Scales
Judge Bullingham - Christopher Benjamin
Tiffany Khan - Lily Bevan
‘Soapy Sam’ Ballard - Michael Cochrane
Bonny Bernard - Bruce Alexander
Dr Mahmood Khan - Shiv Grewal
Barrington Whiteside - Geoffrey Whitehead
Will Timson - Ben Crowe
Peter Plaistow - Christopher Scott
Mrs Justice Templett - Joanna David
Fred Sugden - Kim Durham
Ian Antrim - Nigel Anthony

The Past Catches up with us All
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 22 August 2007
Horace Rumpole – Timothy West
Hilda Rumpole – Prunella Scales
Claude Erskine-Brown – Nigel Anthony
Fred Sugden – Kim Durham
Dr Mahmood Khan – Shiv Grewal
Will Timson – Ben Crowe
Judge Bullingham – Christopher Benjamin
Bonny Bernard – Bruce Alexander
Barrington Whiteside – Geoffrey Whitehead
Peter Plaistow – Christopher Scott

  • Published: 2 January 2020
  • ISBN: 9781787534506
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 2 hr 56 min
  • Narrators: Timothy West, Prunella Scales, Matt Smith

About the author

John Mortimer

John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist and former practising barrister. During the war he worked with the Crown Film Unit and published a number of novels, before turning to theatre. He has written many film scripts, and plays both for radio and television, including A Voyage Round My Father, the Rumpole plays, which won him the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.He has written four volumes of autobiography, including Clinging to the Wreckage and Where There's a Will (2003). His novels include the Leslie Titmuss trilogy, about the rise of an ambitious Tory MP: Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained and The Sound of Trumpets, and the acclaimed comic novel, Quite Honestly (2005). He has also published numerous books featuring his best-loved creation Horace Rumpole, including Rumpole and the Primrose Path (2002) and Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders (2004). All these books are available in Penguin.He lives in what was once his father's house in the Chilterns. He has received a knighthood for his services to the arts. His authorized biography, written by Valerie Grove, will be published by Viking in Spring 2007.

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