Read by Graham Roberts.

Always wary of pompous judges, "their assembled lordships who like nothing
less than being judged themselves," British barrister Horace Rumpole faces
off against them once again, defending six new clients in this 1995
collection of stories, the author's first collection to have been written
as short stories and not as adaptations of his TV scripts. Here many familiar
characters continue, though their roles are much reduced in scale, compared
to author John Mortimer's longer novels. The biggest and most pleasant
surprise is that Rumpole's cantankerous wife Hilda, long a fixture known as
"She Who Must Be Obeyed," has written her own story here, her recognizable
"voice" describing her marriage and giving a new slant to our views of Rumpole.
Other stories in this collection include: "Rumpole and the Way Through the
Woods," in which Rumpole deals with animal rights and foxhunting; "Rumpole
and The Little Boy Lost," in which he defends a kidnapper; "Rumpole and the
Model Prisoner," in which he deals with a feminist who wants revenge on
a fellow barrister for calling her "fat"; "Rumpole and the Rights of Man,"
which takes him abroad to the European Court of Human Rights"; and "Rumpole
and the Angel of Death," in which he defends an unabashed proponent of
euthanasia who is accused of murdering his old friend, "Judge Chippy."

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