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Rumpole's Return
- Narrated by: Robert Hardy
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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- Jenny Murphy
- 10-02-18
excellent
oh lord excellent writing fantastic narration. griping tale of human relationships and legal gump without one boring moment. such fun.
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- Annie
- 25-06-18
Superb vintage Rumpole narrated by wonderful Robert Hardy
Loved listening to this. The story has several twists and turns and of course makes one chuckle all the while. Robert Harry’s narration is brilliant- so effortless. Shame more narrators don’t learn from people like him.
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- FictionFan
- 30-07-22
Good fun!
Following a string of lost cases tried in front of Judge Bullingham, Rumpole has taken this as a sign and retired with She Who Must Be Obeyed to live out his twilight years in Florida, at the home of his son and his son’s American wife. However a very little of the Florida lifestyle is sufficient for Rumpole, so when he gets a letter from the lovely Phyllida née Trant (Rumpole prefers to forget her married name) asking his advice about a matter of blood, he sneaks off, flies home, and resumes his career, much to the annoyance of the young man who has moved into his room in chambers in the interim.
The Rumpole books are always entertaining, and this is no exception. All the regular characters appear, and all the running jokes are reprised. While any of the books can be read on its own, they do sometimes rely a little on the reader having some familiarity with the characters and how they’re connected to each other, either from previous books or from the excellent TV series which actually came before the books. I was sorry to find that the wonderful TV Rumpole, the late Leo McKern, had never done narrations for the books, but Robert Hardy made an excellent substitute. The books are matched so closely to the TV series that I could see all the characters in my head, and somehow that really enhanced the audiobook experience. Thoroughly good fun!
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- Susan Kelly
- 18-12-23
brilliant narration
Robert Hardy kept the spirit of the Rumpole character with great diction and right amount of comedy
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- BLISSFULL
- 27-09-23
Rumpole's Wonderlust.
I really enjoyed this.
Robert Hardy is a wonderful narrator and brings Rumpole alive, just like Timothy West & Leo Mckern.
This was so good that I'm gonna get all the books,because I feel as if I'm missing something as the audiobooks and the TV adaption don't seem to be the same with Rumpole seemingly putting it about on the audiobooks resulting in a possible fathering of two kids by another woman!!!
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- andy bennett
- 19-01-23
Excellently written & read
A great tale told in his unmistakable style by a superb reader, Thoroughly enjoyable story
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- Cath Romney
- 14-08-22
Brilliant
Brilliant as ever. The plot was excellent and the narration superb. Enjoyed every minute.
Thank you John Mortimer
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- Steph W
- 01-07-22
A solid Rumpole Romp
Rumpole is supposed to have retired but is bored in the forever sunny Florida. he needs little persuading when the Portia of his Chambers wants to pick his brain about a juicy murder in London.
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- David
- 02-05-22
Vintage like a bottle of Chateau Fleet
Another amusing story in the Rumpole series performed brilliantly by Robert Hardy. An easy listen and highly enjoyable.
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- Mrs H.
- 22-03-22
Hugely enjoyable
This is tremendously well read by Robert Hardy and the story with its humour and an intriguing murder keeps one thoroughly engaged.
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