[1] Five different actors portrayed Horace Rumpole in these episodes: Leo McKern, Maurice Denham, Timothy West, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Julian Rhind-Tutt.
1980 – One series – a total of thirteen 30 minute episodes featured Maurice Denham as Horace Rumpole.
2003 – 2012 – In this period, there were seven mini-seasons – a total of eighteen 45 minute episodes featuring Timothy West as Horace Rumpole.
2017 – A further three-part miniseries starring Julian Rhind-Tutt and Jasmine Hyde was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2017.
Featuring respectively Timothy West, Leo McKern and Desmond Barrit as Horace Rumpole.
The first seven mini-seasons starred Timothy West as Horace Rumpole and his real-life wife Prunella Scales as Hilda.