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With the Sixties swinging, Julian Rhind-Tutt gives us a Rumpole in his prime, recounting ten tales which find the tireless defender swapping sides to appear for the prosecution; coming to the aid of a doctor accused of unprofessional conduct; and suffering the indignity of wrongful arrest. We leave him facing a life-changing decision: after many years of falling in and out of love with both women, will he finally leave Hilda to be with Phyllida? Author John Mortimer’s creation, Rumpole Of The Bailey, is a phenomenon. Following one-off plays on BBC1 in 1968 and 1975, Thames Televsion took up the mantle, resulting in over 40 dramas between 1978 and 1992. A similar number have been produced on BBC Radio over the years. Suffering from toothache, Rumpole is in no mood for his client’s boring testimony or Justice Gwent-Evans’ impatience. But when he argues with the judge, he is warned in no uncertain terms about his future conduct. Soon, Rumpole finds himself on trial and facing the end of his career… The Englishness of this film is what strikes you now: the insouciance, the irony, the emotional reserve, all of it illumined by the American love affair. In an earlier film, The Tall Guy, Curtis created an Anglo-American special relationship between Emma Thompson and Jeff Goldblum, before seeing how it worked better with the woman in the senior partner role. It’s a year-round indulgence, not just for Valentine’s.

Macdonald, Marianne (10 December 2009). "Julian Rhind-Tutt - the Wing man". Evening Standard . Retrieved 16 January 2013. For Music teachers, this is a fantastic resource that covers everything you need to cover right up to and including A level Music Technology - I've used it for AS/A2, GCSE and BTEC students very effectively. If you are a little 'techno-phobic', this is a great, user-friendly introduction to all aspects of Music Technology - it will break you in gently by explaining how, why and what each bit of a studio is used for. If you've been recording since the advent of the Phonograph, this book will help you explain what you know without Maths or Physics confusing your listeners - the 'how it works' diagrams are amongst the best I've ever seen. If you don't know something in this book, your students will be missing out on their Technological education! It really does cover all the basics in a non-scientific, musician-friendly way. In the context of another actor's career - Harrison Ford's, say - this post-radio, pre-Green Wing period would sound like a limbo, a point where you're just pootling about having theories about Hugh Grant's acting style, and waiting for your big break. (Regarding the theorising, incidentally: "People may choose to criticise Hugh Grant, and say he's the same in every film, he just flutters around and does his thing. That's rubbish. Nobody does what he does better than he can. I've watched him. He has such extraordinary and pinpoint control over everything he does. He's a stealth bomber of poshness! He is a brilliant, brilliant actor. Because we can all have a pop. I could come on and faff around and be a bit posh and slightly hesitant, and so could countless other actors I could think of, and none of us could do it like he could. The same could be said of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, and countless other people. Nobody does what they do better than them. You have to find your own truth.") I play a horrible press secretary," says Rhind-Tutt of his role in the Abi Morgan-written show, all "high waistbanded trousers and thin ties". Episode one aired last Tuesday and Rhind-Tutt's performance has been acclaimed ("The star of the show," wrote one reviewer). It is The Hour's sleek 50s costumes, if not its subject matter, that have invited comparisons with Mad Men, but Rhind-Tutt says he's never seen the US show. "In my limited experience of TV dramas, taking as long as they do to come to fruition, I can well imagine Abi Morgan sitting down to write this before the creators of Mad Men were born."Rhind-Tutt won't tell me anything at all about the second series. "Could it be shit? It could be. Anything could be. But I doubt it. I never really had any idea. I didn't know they were going to do that weird thing where it all went fast. I don't know anything. This could prove to be one of the most unhelpful journalistic encounters you've ever had. I imagine I know enough to say that if you enjoyed the first series, it's a fairly safe bet you'll enjoy the second series, because it's even better. It takes all the innovative elements of the first series and applies a more cogent structure to it, now that we know what we're doing. The story's evolved in a more structured way." Did he think the first one was a bit haphazard? "That would be a terrible inference on your part."

When the call for Green Wing came through, Rhind-Tutt had decided not to do any more telly, which seems a little previous because he hadn't actually done that much. "I'd spoken to my agent a couple of hours earlier, saying, 'I'd like to get off the television, I'd like to get off this stuff of being a normal, regular actor.' I wanted to play a syphilitic violin player in a European art house movie. And they said, 'There's some bunch of people in a church hall on Tottenham Court Road somewhere, trying to get a comedy together. They're all quite nice, it might be quite a laugh, there's no harm in going down, is there?' I said, 'That's the last thing I want to do.' And then I nipped down there. That was two years ago." Except it must have been more. "Yes. It was three years ago."

In 2008, he narrated a short film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [4] In 2015 he appeared in the TV series The Bastard Executioner as Lord Pembroke. [5] In 2018, he appeared as the Marquess of Blayne in the Hulu original series Harlots. [6] Personal life [ edit ] I see that I do not have a shelf for humour. But what would I include except Wodehouse and Mortimer and Townsend? Tom, who at 94 is the oldest member of the family said: "It was great to meet cousins and descendants of my grandfather’s siblings who I had never met before and really has been a joy to work with my younger cousins and nephew to put this book together. My poor words cannot adequately describe Rumpole and his delicious mischief, but if you read this collection, you'll be hooked. This is a polite man - as for the rest of it, the talent leaps off the telly, the wit leaps off everything he says. One day he'll be a national treasure, and I think probably in a Hugh Grant timescale (which is to say, pre-40s), rather than a Pete Postlethwaite one (where you have to wait until you're 60).