One day in 1936, the barrister Clifford Mortimer banged his head on the door frame of a London taxi and was immediately struck blind. He would never be able to see again. Then in his early 50s, he nev

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No jury in the land could deny that Rumpole of the Bailey remains one of British television’s most beloved creations. The winning combination of John Mortimer’s sumptuous scripts and Leo McKern’s rich

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