Rumpole of the Bailey (radio series) Rumpole of the Bailey (radio series) Rumpole of the Bailey is a radio series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer based on the television series "Rumpole of the Bailey". Five different actors portrayed Horace Rumpole in these episodes: Leo McKern, Maurice Denham, Timothy West, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Julian Rhind-Tutt. Since 1980 there were a number of different BBC radio productions derived from the Rumpole stories. Essentially there were two different series and three Christmas specials – yielding a grand total of 40 episodes. Some were new radio adaptations of scripts previously produced for TV; some
Guy Henry (actor) Schiller's "Mary Stuart", which transferred to the West End. He had previously played the same character in the 1986 TV drama "Lady Jane". From December 2008 to March 2009 he appeared as Andrew Aguecheek (alongside Derek Jacobi) in the Donmar: West End production of "Twelfth Night". In April and May 2009 he appeared in "Hay Fever" at the Chichester Festival Theatre. In 1987, Henry appeared in the episode 'Rumpole and the Official Secret' from Season 4 of "Rumpole of the Bailey". In the early 1990s, he played the acerbic, demonic Dr Walpurgis in "The Vault of Horror", a BBC Halloween