Rumpole of the Bailey
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Oct 13, 2026
Olly JarvisGUEST
order.Um, it was, it was in about 2010.
Olly JarvisGUEST
I'd always wanted, um, to write books, and I, you know, I grew up reading, um, John Mortimer's Rumpole of the Bailey books, and I'd always thought I'd love to give that a go, a sort of legal thriller.
Olly JarvisGUEST
And then I took five days off work, locked myself in a room, and said, "Right, this is it.
Olly JarvisGUEST
See what you can do." And I wrote 12,000 words, and which was nowhere near a book, of course, but from then I was, I was hooked.
Olly JarvisGUEST
I, I'd always wanted to write.
Olly JarvisGUEST
And I, I grew up reading, um, the Rumpole books by John Mortimer.
Olly JarvisGUEST
Different, a different time.
Olly JarvisGUEST
Um, but I'd always wanted to see if I could write a book, and I...
Denis MullerHOST
But of course, the other thing that happened as a result of this case was that jury trials in defamation cases were more or less abolished because this was one of those British cases that, you know...
Denis MullerHOST
Y- you remember Rumpole of the Bailey, that wonderful TV program, and you had old, um, Lord Bullingor, what, what his name was?
Nicole ChvastekHOST
Oh, oh.
Denis MullerHOST
The judge who would make the most outrageously prejudicial comments.
Matt SlaterGUEST
Arbitration panels don't normally say that.
Matt SlaterGUEST
This is not High Court, this is not Rumpole of the Bailey.
Matt SlaterGUEST
This is supposed to be people coming to a private hearing, and yes, you argue your side really, really as g- you know, as, as, as hard as you can, and there's no doubt that Man City have been doing that for a long time now, and the Premier League in turn as well.
Matt SlaterGUEST
But f- for panels to say, um, "Some of the people that spoke to us, we don't think they told the truth," i.e., they lied, is quite unusual.
Simon EvansGUEST
I'd overestimated the ability of barristers to think on their feet.
Simon EvansGUEST
I'd been misled by TV dramas, by like Rumpole of the Bailey and so on.
Simon EvansGUEST
and various American dramas where the sort of DA or the district attorney or whatever was both a sort of barrister and a private detective rolled into one and it looked quite exciting and it turned out that there was an awful lot of poring over ancient dusty texts in dimly lit libraries And I literally found myself falling asleep quite often, you know, would just slightly wake up with my face on the book.
Simon EvansGUEST
So that plan had to be changed.
Michael MansfieldGUEST
His name was Jim Robbins.
Michael MansfieldGUEST
I remember distinctly a sort of Rumpole of the Bailey.
Michael MansfieldGUEST
He was a wonderful person.
Michael MansfieldGUEST
And he said, I'm so glad someone else has come because I've got no one to help me do all this work.
Ruth RogersHOST
You didn't go into the-
Benedict CumberbatchGUEST
... you know, Rumpole of the Bailey style.
Ruth RogersHOST
Yeah.
Benedict CumberbatchGUEST
No, no, I didn't.