Saturday, April 06, 2013

An enduring comic character …

 The joys of a hungover hack. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)


The many prose stories that Mortimer went on to write are more than just TV spin-offs … . They have an independent, and enduring, life. McKern’s stentorian Rumpole on the small screen may have defined the character in the public mind, but what we find in the stories is a subtly different creature: camper, more feline, more Mortimeresque.

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