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Jul 15, 2021 · This Week: She Who Must Be Obeyed! Famed for winning his cases, there is one person Rumpole of the Bailey’s titular character will always lose out to – his wife, "She Who...
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He privately calls his wife, Hilda, "She Who Must Be Obeyed", a reference to the fearsome queen in H. Rider Haggard's adventure novel She. His skill at defending his clients is legendary among the criminal classes.
His wife, known as "She who must be obeyed," sometimes thinks Rumpole has been so busy playing parts in courts that he's lost all trace of his own identity. John Mortimer's satirical...
His wife, known as "She who must be obeyed," sometimes thinks Rumpole has been so busy playing parts in courts that he's lost all trace of his own identity. In John Mortimer's satirical...
Horace Rumpole stalked the corridors of the Old Bailey dubbing his wife “she who must be obeyed” while maintaining an air of mild indifference to the drama of sensational court cases.
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Oct 20, 2022 · Rumpole successfully defends a teenager accused of robbery with violence but his victory is marred by the knowledge that though innocent on this occasion, the boy is destined for a life of crime...
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Rumpole of the Bailey: With Leo McKern, Jonathan Coy, Julian Curry, Marion Mathie. The cases of a portly and eccentric criminal law barrister.
