First broadcast 4th November 1991.
Rumpole defends a union activist accused of manslaughter while Hilda goes on strike as Rumpole's cook because of his late hours.
Leo McKern ... Horace Rumpole
Marion Mathie ... Hilda Rumpole
Peter Bowles ... Guthrie Featherstone
Peter Blythe ... Samuel Ballard Q.C.
Julian Curry ... Claude Erskine-Brown
Abigail McKern ... Liz Probert
Jonathan Coy ... Henry
Denis Lill ... Mr. Bernard
Richard Murdoch ... Uncle Tom
Christopher Milburn ... Dave Inchcape
Denys Graham ... Hoskins
Preston Lockwood ... Lord Chancellor
Joanna Van Gyseghem ... Lady Marigold Featherstone
Ronnie Stevens ... Mr. Justice Parsloe
Peter Carlisle ... Wilfred Shadwell
Gordon Gostelow ... Magistrate
Bryan Pringle ... Ben Baker
Ron Pember ... Dennis 'Den' Timson
Robert Austin ... Ernie Elver
Del Henney ... Gerald Jebb
Stephen Gordon ... D.I. Walcroft
Louis Haslar ... Usher
John Mortimer ... Theatregoer in bar at the opera during the interval
David Squire ... Peanuts Molloy
