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foreign

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hmm

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my

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oh

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so

he henry a box of chocolate he's a

professional for a judge to turn here

for chocolate i never get chocolates hey

crystal do you ever get chocolate

chocolates good heavens no

all the same i lost the case comes out

anytime this might be inviting new dad

it's great boucher innovation officer

anytime dale knight

cheek really yeah i said constantly he

said who's constable addison

i said just the most beautiful constable

in the police force

you said that yes i did come to flatison

i did say that would mr haverbrook

please go to the keeper's office

the policeman is a good boy really he is

a good boy

he do nothing like that you've always

been a good boy to me i mean you ain't

got on my property will you press that

on his worship

i don't know who brought it in there i

wanted him

okay mr morgan hall to see mr fowler

ah wow he's mine

he's mine

thank you

ah mr fowle

not trying to escape i pray

you've been forest what was that you

said

i think i can see your pin forest well

i've no doubt you can my dear philip why

should you want to

see epping forest huh

he did the home stretch

is it i thought i could

get a glimpse of the green between the

chimneys and that shed

look get down get down it's not wise to

be up here

forever trying to look out now come on

yes

there's a mean sleeping wind around

quite treacherous

treacherous yes yes you never know what

a nasty

sleeping wind can do i don't want

anything of that sword to catch you

before uh before what now you

just sit there quietly relaxed in the

warm

and i shall introduce myself

i am morgan hall morgan oh

yes morgan hall the best oh

i'm sorry why barista that's

very dead no way why is that so bad man

gentlemen of your stamp goes wrong it's

uh

it's a long fall why do you see that

it's

different for an individual like me i

i only kept a small seed chop

yes yes i see mr fowl

we are going to remain very calm we are

going to remain very lucid

and we are going to arrive it's a very

bird seed of course

and sally what was it with him bird seed

individuals down our way kept birds

mostly

budgies and canaries the budgies talked

lots of lonely people down our way

they kept them for the talk

mr fowler

we'll help each other

i can quite see how you become

bewildered you think that i am in

trouble as well

then i have some very good news for you

i am free

i can leave here whenever i like

can you of course i can yes whenever i

like

please the police are my friends

family orwell i never mattered

rent paid up oh weak or too early

perhaps

uh temporarily lull in the business

nothing at all

this case will soon put an end to all

that which case

your case my case

your case mr fowler oh oh that's not

important

what i think about all the flavors gone

out of it but really just at the

beginning yeah i can't believe it's me

concerned

mr fowle mr phil

it is your concern never ever let

yourself forget that

you see that is why you are

in here

i just can't seem to bother with it

who seem if i may say so mr fowl who

have adopted an unpleasantly

selfish attitude selfish dog in the

manger

documentary yes unenthusiastic you mean

unenthusiastic

foul i'm i'm sorry

i didn't mean that i'm sorry but there's

so much of this about nowadays so much

of this

ready-made entertainment all these free

billiards national health television

well there's not this citizen fraud that

they used to be you you feel that

now whatever i've done i've always been

mastered keen on my work i never lost

the vision foul

in all my disappointments i've never

ever lost the love of the job

the position in life to which you've

obtained to

precisely yeah years of study i've had

years of study didn't all suddenly

drop into my lap no no

i've i've never studied

years

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years

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my

being years yes

i fed mainly on headings and strong tea

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want to hear some latin only if it's not

too much

trouble not in the least listen actress

non citrius nice i meant citria

affiliates infla granted electo

understand it

reyes judy carter bitter familiars

cremen sine leger

no good i'm no scholar well he had to be

i mean i had to be well of course we all

had to be in my dare

then we'd sit for the examinations the

long

dreaded finals oh we were a tense eager

crowd mr fowler

rugger blues feigned illness rowing men

fainted

those who survived tackled the questions

very very searching were they here

searching

searching questions define rape

describe murder give your views on

adultery

half a page please on indecent assault

right on one side of the paper only

never answer two questions at once

no i just stumped you i dare say well

stopped a good minute yes and no

cheating

no trying to get a glimpse at the other

fellows celluloid calf

or creeping out for a look at a book in

the students lou

but uh when it was over went on vacation

it was a beautiful long summer

pleasant for you a desperate round of

tennis parties

we all tried to snatch at pleasure that

summer if i remember rightly

but we were anxiously waiting

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at last the results the results of the

examinations

what's it say i pass up well done well

done

third class ah well still huge huge

scraped home

that's what i thought that's what i

thought mr fowle when they painted my

name up on my london chambers

it was my own room soon it would be

filled with clients

criminals financiers mysterious ladies

in distress

so i wrote to the only woman in my life

to tell her

perhaps in five years time when i built

up my practice

i might make a certain proposal

meanwhile i could afford to kill a

little time with the crossword

doing some pretty big cases now

dance of large fruit two words

three and five you're not still at it

i'm still waiting for a brief but you

were you must be better at the

crosswords now

not very much as the years pass there

come to be clues you can no longer

understand

so all that training wasted the talents

rust and the lady went down with her

ship

tragic yes it was

tragic my wife was never called up value

we must carry on about you that's what

i'm here for

you're here too i am here to defend you

can't be done why ever not i know who

killed her

who me

really mr fowl i

have all the respect in the world for

your opinions

but we must face this you're a man of

very little education

that's true i mean one is only to glance

at you to see that you are a person of

well very limited intelligence great

great great great quite frankly

you think you killed your wife

seems so to me mr val look at yourself

objectively

now on questions of birdseed i have no

doubt at all that you may be in family

but on a vital point like this might you

not be

mistaken don't answer that before you

drop the bomb of a reply

consider who will be wounded are the

innocents to suffer

i only want to be honest but you're a

criminal mr fowler

you've broken through the narrow fabric

of honesty

you are free to be kind be human

and to do good

news but what i did to her was

mr fowle she's passed out of your life

you've set up new relationships

you've picked out me

picked out yes selected

i didn't know no of course not that's

the whole beauty of the thing

you didn't know me you came to me under

a system of chance

invented like the football pools to even

out the

harsh inequalities of the world you see

you dear val are my

first

explain the dark brief yes of course i

can yes

now then criminals who have no money and

their friends

luckily you're one of them are entitled

to choose any barrister sitting in the

courts to defend them

barrister gets brief and is uh

remunerated on a modest

scale busy lawyers wealthy lawyers

lawyers with nice well-paid cases coming

on

leave the court at the double when a doc

brief is about to be given away

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we regulars who are not busy sit on i've

been a regular for years

we sit and we hope we hope one day to be

chosen

it's not etiquette you see foul however

badly you want the work to wave at the

prisoner or

whistle or try to catch his eye by

hoisting some sort of little flare

i didn't know but what you can do is

choose the most advantageous seat

the seat any criminal would naturally

point at it's the seat

under the window and for ten years my

old friend tuppy morgan bagged it each

day at 10.

almost once a year a criminal pointed

him out

mr fowle top he was a limpet on that

seat

was he but this morning something

possibly a cold perhaps death kept him

indoors

so i had his place and you spotted me no

doubt

my glasses polished my profile drawn and

learned in front of the great window

i never noticed

i never noticed but

when they asked you to choose a lawyer

uh well i i just shut my eyes and

pointed

so even you mr farr didn't choose me

not all together

law is a haphazard business isn't it yes

um it does seem a bit uh

chauncey of course mr fowle you are

very fortunate

oh yes yes i must confess you

hurt me temporarily

might have been kinder to have kept me

in ignorance

anyway what he's done is done it

and foul you sir

try to remember that you're dealing with

a fellow man

and and all the hopes that i've pinned

on you

sorry yes i will of course i will

good well now come along let's get down

to business

yes

get our minds in order yes sort things

out

now then now there's this uh

this wife of yours um doris

doris

a bitter unsympathetic woman

no no no no no she was

always cheerful she loved to joke

oh if i would i should be very careful

about that file but i will but

i mean if you'd known doris she laughed

all day

and all night

yes and what sort of what sort of jokes

did this stories appreciate

well all sorts

pictures in the papers

jokes on the wireless laughs and

crackers

she kept them from christmas to

christmas and trotted them out in august

yeah right here

dukes if we'd have read the tully whom

do you know me yeah no terry

yeah you couldn't share them my val

well not to the uh not to the same

extent

i i didn't always see the

funny point yes

no point and then

of course you'd quarrel violently

oh no no no

so

that looks miserable it might never

happen

she said that every night when i came

home

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did you get that miserable face from

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yes yes i can see that there is a

certain

sunday evening appearance to you

cat got your tongue place the tuna that

old fiddle face

where's the funeral yeah i say my dog's

got no nose

how does he smell disgusting

hey can you tell me what is it's got 22

legs two wings and yellow all over

i don't know a chinese football team i

see i couldn't always

laugh she'd be doubled up across the

table

gasping as if her lungs was full of

water

for the sunday papers dig this then he

break them the corn spreaders with wild

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oats

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then she'd go under bubbling like a

drowning woman

made meals difficult indigestible

i i i would have laughed but uh the

jokes never tickled me

tickle head did they well anything did

yeah anything a little comic

our names were misfortunate your names

you should be marked on that

on our wedding day oh we're over here

please would you uh thank you very much

uh around here

around by the tree thank you so much

madam are you over there sir

group yourselves around the happy couple

yes you sir on the end so very nice

you sir with the young people behind yes

and the children in front yes come on

children hurry up thank you very much

that's fine oh madam please sir

madam now the reception is later would

you come along and have your friends

please thank you very much yes put

yourself next to your uh husband there

on the end thank you that's lovely now

then everybody smile

all right mrs fowler now we're cocking

here not real bird

it in

she laughed so hard we we couldn't get

her straightened up for the photograph

fond of puns i gather you're trying to

say any sort of joke

i had a little aviary out the back and

as

she got funnier i spent more time with

my birds

budgies are a little um a lot like

little palettes

they have uh circles around their eyes

gives them a sort of

sad tired look

i i found them very restful and

sympathetic

until one of them spoke out at me

what did it say don't look so miserable

it might never happen

she taught it during the day while i was

out at work

it didn't mean to irritate it was wrong

of her foul to

lead on your bird like that yes

yeah it wasn't him that uh brought me to

it

it was bates and the lodger

another man at long last

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good evening this is the foul house

it is mrs powell yes that's right

let me introduce myself i'm frank

bateson i need a room it just so happens

i saw the ad mr phil put up down the

sweet shop

you know humorous type of lodger

required what is it

yeah that appeals to me because i like a

joke

you do i mix police and if i

say so myself they called me the scream

of the station

and if you can make a cop my laughter

wasn't that a risk what a slight perhaps

but it went all right i mean look what

happened

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they were always laughing together yeah

he knew more jokes than she did

trying to steal her away before your

eyes that's what i thought

yes yes i can see it all now

a crime of passion unfaithful wife

cream personnel in flagrante

because you wouldn't know what that

means anyway well don't worry i shall

have it reduced to manslaughter in a

jiffy

wronged husband and there's never a dry

eye in the jewelry box

continue

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so

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wow

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he can never see anything subtle

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calling for you of course terribly going

i i thought all was well they were

getting so friendly

yes i thought i wouldn't have longed to

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wait

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oh

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go go go with sid wagner and the ringers

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wow

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so

i spent more and more time with my birds

i used to come home late and uh always

be careful to scrunch the gravel at the

front door so they could

uh

i went to bed early and left them with

the light program

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up

on sunday mornings i suggested she took

him breakfast in bed

entrusted them and they deceived her oh

they deceived me all right have your

conclusive evidence

oh they deceived me and i trusted them

to do the right thing

especially after i'd seen what i'd seen

in there in the bedroom fell

must wear i mean but the evidence

yes i know but well i suppose if we must

reverse

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got my horoscope in there come on make

yourself comfortable when were you born

anyway

september the 1st honor don't tell us

you're a virgin

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come on what's it say laughter leads to

love

the weekend offers much scope to your

cheerful disposition

the touch of romance is in store on

sunday morning

now seeing them like that you'd think

he'd do the right thing wouldn't you

but he didn't far

i'm not sure that i'm getting the adrift

of your evidence

well when he'd first put his knee under

her

i thought he'd do the decent thing

i thought i i'd have peace in my

little home at last

the wireless set will be dead silent

the end of all that happy laughter

no sound but the twitter of the budgies

and the squeak of my own shoes

on the linoleum

just found you wanted them too

well you must admit my hopes were raised

pretty high

then one evening i came home

um

hey son

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thank god i'm still respectable

oh no thank you for

safety in marriage

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i realize i did wrong

you could have left who'd have fed the

birds that thought was uppermost

so it's not a crime of passion

no no if you put it like that now

foul i've worked

and i've waited for you now you're the

only case i've got

and the most difficult i'm sorry

i mean a man could crack his head up

against the case like you and still be

far from a solution

can't you see how 12 honest hearts will

snap like steel

when they learn that you ended up your

wife because she wouldn't leave you

but if she had left there wouldn't have

been the lead no no

there's no doubt about it there's no

doubt about it

as i look at you now i can see that

you're an

unsympathetic figure

yes well there it is yes yes

i shall need a brilliant strike to save

you brilliant stroke

unexpected move something

pulled out of a hat

i have it i have it

quite brilliant the surprise witness

witness yes the surprise witness

picture the scenes

the courtroom is silent the jury

about to sink the accused prosecution

flushed with victory but wait

now it's my turn

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well look at me though

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my lord if your knowledge it pleases

wha what what do you want okay safer

don't expect to do this entirely off the

cuff without some sort of rehearsal uh

no

come along come along

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yeah you see

already you appear anonymous and vaguely

alarming

now foul i want you to forget

your own personality you are the judge

yes you are sir tommy banter a small

alarmed man a man

who served with distinction in the great

war at

sentencing soldiers through long terms

of imprisonment

a man without friends

unexpectedly adored by a great niece

three years old

i am you are

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him

now my lord i ask your lordship sleeve

to call the

surprise witness certainly

what certainly

the heavens this is like practicing

bullfights with a kitten

here is an irregular application by the

defense something that might twist the

trial in the prisoner's favor

and prevent you catching your connection

attaining cross your breakfast is like a

lead weight on your stomach

the dog brick your ankle on the way

downstairs now then

blind yourself with rage and terrible

justice

no you might not call a surprise witness

that's better

my lord if your lordship would listen to

me

certainly not you've had your chance

let's get on with it

my lord justice must not only be done

but must clearly be seen to be done

no one knows as yet what my surprise

witness will say

perhaps he will say that the prisoner

there

is as guilty in his black heart as your

lordship thinks

but perhaps gentleman of the jury

perhaps we may have trapped

an innocent if so shall we deny him

the one door through which he might walk

to freedom

public outcry would never die down here

here what was that

the public outcry ah yes

excellent but uh don't forget that

you're the judge

silence i'll have all those noisy people

put out

very well you may call your witness but

keep it short

call the surprise witness

i swear to tell the truth the whole

truth what is your name

uh but foul

the surprise witness oh yeah

you may not need a different knife he is

precise

yes well we're stuck there aren't we oh

but surely you can think of something

come along now come along

martin jones

good yes

no mr martin jones i believe that you

knew mr fowler all my life

yes always find him uh to be

respectable uh

a quietly spoken man and uh clean living

yes mr jones mr martin jones

where was mr fowle when the crime

took place

he was

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my lord um would your lordship

sharpen his pencil and take this down

you dare say that to him

carelessness mr fowle the first

essential in an advocate

is uh your lordship's pencil poised

yes get on with it where was the accused

in your home perhaps

in my home

all the evening

playing quest

i went to collect him and

we left mrs fowle happy and well

further to which when i returned with

him

mrs fowle had been removed to the county

and general hospital

my lord i demand the prisoner be

released

certainly can't think what all the fuss

was about

release the prisoner and reduce all

police officers in court to the rank of

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pc

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well found yourself

aren't you going to thank me

words don't come easily to you do that

no very hard

anyway anyway i think we pulled your

chestnut out of the fire

all we have to do now is to make sure of

this fellow jones

okay yes but um

i uh i don't know

a very good fella but don't interrupt my

thinking there's a good phenomenon

um we have no

surprise witness we made him up

foul yes it's a remarkable thing

but with no legal training at all

you've put your finger on the one fatal

weakness

in our defense

i was afraid it might be so

hardly we better just give in

we do not give in foul not when my life

depends on this case

ah i forgot whatever we

must try yes yes

brain brain go to work

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it'll come to me it will come to me in

an illuminating flash

that's the way i always go with the

crosswords

never give up hard relentless brain work

i have it batson the launcher yes bits

and the lodger

i never did like him under a ruthless

cross examination you'll never know

he might confess that it was he you see

the flesh

you certainly look much happier what i

am i'm much happier much happier

and once i begin my my ruthless cross

examination

would you like to try you and i

are learning to muck in splendidly

together over this

forward much

mr bason yes sir take your hands out of

your pockets when you address the court

will you

mr batson i understand you were on very

friendly terms with the prisoner's wife

yeah we had a few good old laughs

together

and was the association of an entirely

innocent nature yeah innocent laughs

the christmas cracker variety jokes

without a fence

and to tell those jokes did you have to

sit

very close to mrs fowle how do you mean

did you sit beneath her

i don't understand did she perch upon

your knee

what was that shocked breathing from the

jury

yeah answer my question betsy

you're trying to trap me i'm not trying

medicine

succeeding well she might have rested on

me

once or twice and you loved her guiltyly

am i done and you plan to take her away

with you

i did ask her and when she refused

just a moment where's all this leading

to

your lordship asks me my lord

it is our case that it was this man

batson

enraged by the refusal of the prisoner's

wife

to go away with him who struck the fatal

blow

now do you see where we've got to i do

yes

masterly i think you'll have to agree of

course

yes yes no flaws in this one

uh no flaws uh

no no flaws really no sir um

perhaps a little hitch

a hitch yes uh we'll come along

if you think there's a hitch break it

down well i i don't

really like it no come along phil break

it down if you if you think there is a

hitch please

let's see what you look like i can't

really not after you've been so

kind listen to me all my life i stood up

against the winds of criticism i'm quite

used to it now come along speak up

kill me well

as soon as he left my house bateson was

stopped by a police officer

he'd um he'd lifted an alarm

clock off me and the remains of a bottle

of port

they booked him in straight away you

mean there wasn't time

hardly two hours later the

next-door neighbor observed mrs fowle at

the washing

then i came home

do you want to help me well yes of

course i do i hope i've shown that

but you will keep on putting all these

difficulties in my way oh dear oh dear

oh dear

oh dear i i knew you'd be upset

no it's not that i'm upset no it's just

that i uh

well crave a little help you know a

little

encouragement

you you win this case sir brilliant mind

like yours

yes thank god it is still brilliant here

in all that training

yes yes yes yes with years hard hard

training you'll solve it sir

tubby morgan

you know what i've heard tavi morgan say

wilfred if ever they give you a brief my

dear fellow

always attack the medical evidence

always attack

a doctor remember the jury is full of

rheumatism and arthritis and

disgusting gastric complaints and they

just

love to see a medical man put through it

so go for the doctor go for the doctor

go to the doctor

would you uh like to

i try i don't know no why

why me well i don't know what a police

doctor looks like

well they've usually got uh nicotine

fingers small men

just thinking of ether and karma

do you think i do you think i should

drive i'd enjoy it

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um

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doctor did you say the lady died of

heart failure

no now come along doctor don't fence

with me her heart wasn't normal when you

examined it was it

she was dead so it had stopped

yes then her heart had failed

well uh she had died indeed

of heart failure ah

but and heart failure might have been

brought on by a fit

i see a fit of laughter at a curiously

rich joke on the wireless

i'm very kind though very kind but uh

hollow hollow i don't think my tech on

the doctor was at all convincing well

a bit unlikely but clever clever clever

too clever

too clever no no no no we're not going

to win this case on science fair

science must be thrown out of the window

i mean as i asked those questions i

could see

that i wasn't even convincing you of

your own innocence

but you do respond to emotion fell you

do

as i do you know the

magic of oratory the wonderful wonderful

power of words

well now you're talking and i shall talk

oh if only i could hear some of it words

as

grandest print a golden tongue

a voice like a liar to charm you

out of hell

yes well you lost me there for a minute

yes oh well i was just i was just

drawing on the

riches of my classical education

comforts me on buses and places of that

sort

yes but i shall speak to the jury quite

simply

quite simply

i shall say yes

anyway i wouldn't disappoint you no no

no no no

no no i shall talk for a day

perhaps even two days

and at the end i shall say quite simply

that the closing words yes to clinch

the argument the final final irrefutable

argument if

and as i sink back exhausted

and wipe the real tears off my glasses

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members of the jury

struggling with emotion uh

members of the jury i can't add

anything to the words what the bad is to

say

go out and consider your verdict

they've left the box yeah just a

formality

i wonder how long they'll be at been out

a long time

it really must seem a long time to you

the uh the suspense

yeah if they weren't disagree

part of the other game yeah

members of the jury have you considered

your verdict

we have do you find the prisoner guilty

or not

not guilty

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congratulations

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the journalists dart off to their little

telephones

and what now well they'd make you a

judge but you're probably too busy

there's a queue of solicitors on the

stairs

my old clerk my old clerk writes on my

next brief

a thousand guineas to divorce a duchess

there's all the questions of new clothes

and

laying down the port oh

foul the wonderful new life you've

brought me

yes well i mean it'll be your greatest

day

yes it will yes it will be my greatest

dare yes

we've got to take him up but look here i

haven't finished with him can't you see

that

can't help that he's been called on

i uh i i think you know they

they must want us for the the trial

the trial yes yes yes well uh we are not

worried about that are we

no no no so no not if you say so yes

yes it's all right this way

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don't come with that sir not unless you

want to land in the dock

that's stupid on me i forgot yes well

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do

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be upstanding in court

herbert fowle you are charged that on

the third day of june last

you did willfully murder doris fowle at

the nest jubilee road epping in the

county of essex

herbert fowl do you plead guilty or not

guilty

not guilty

uh my lord uh members of the

jury this is the most unusual uh

case and uh a case that

uh my lord i feel mr wilfred morgan howe

uh oh my lord uh what's that

morgan hall my lord ah yes mr morgenhall

i take it you don't appear to prosecute

prosecute mr fowle heaven forbid my lord

now

then we must allow mr perkins to open

the case mustn't we

if you could just be a little patient

yes of course my lord my faith has

i'm obliged to your lordship i may

please my lord members of the jury

i appear in this case to prosecute and

my lonely friend mr morgan hall

as i hope he now understands is here to

defend the prisoner

members of the jury

this is a shocking case a truly

appalling case

in the case of the defendant foul one is

dealing with a particularly brutal type

a man who apparently was quite unable to

take a joke

our story begins when the defendant foul

advertises for a humorous type lodger

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um

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win your case mr morgan hall uh

no no

no what i should have said was may

please your lordship

members of the jury

i should have said this poor man

this poor innocent man stands and killed

i could have got him off i know i could

have got him off

it was simply a question of the right

words

the right words to sway the jury

if only i'd said members of the jury

is there one among you who does not

crave for peace

don't you all long for a quiet life

without jokes of any sort

members of the jury gentlemen of the

jury

have you never been tempted those of you

with wives of your own

yes uh half of my heart

here we are sir when shall you please

members of the jury

the king a large branch to decide they

go up

here

that's right that one

may i no big one yeah can't i oh yeah

it's my only means

keep it so does that's right

members of the jury before i was so

rudely interrupted

look at the prisoner members of the jury

has he hurt you

has he done you the slightest harm is he

not the mildest of men

he merely took it upon himself to

regulate his domestic affairs

an englishman's home is his castle do

any of you

feel a primitive urge members of the

jury

to be revenged upon this this gentle

bird fancy you really

do you really want to put an end to this

small seed merchant

one who in happier days might have

passed unnoticed among you

he is in your hands members of the jury

why not let him go now

let him walk out into the sunshine a

free man

poor

you'll be taking this very much to heart

hello sir

hello foul i i

hadn't expected to find you out well

just uh

temporarily i was uh with the governor

do you have some complaint did you no no

no no to tell the truth he uh he sent

for me

you went in fear and trembling

well foul he said uh this

will surprise you but um the home office

came through on the

phone about you this morning and um

that's a government department isn't it

yes yes yes yes well it appears that

they do

in his words come through from time to

time

just on business of course on that old

blower

well he said uh quite frankly he he

admitted that

it shocked him as much as it shocked me

but

uh the drill is as he phrased it

um a reprieve

very brief yes it's uh

it's all over

i'm free but why should you be free

thank you

hmm well it seems that the

uh trial was

no good at all oh good

but why oh

no particular reason mr fowle

there must be a reason nothing happens

in law without a reason

for you won't care to hear

tell me why this governor who knows

nothing of the law should have called

our one and only trial together no good

mr fowl you must answer me my legal

career may depend on it if i'm not to

have

wasted my life on useless trials

you really want to know yes

yes yes

well he said that the um

the barrister they chose for me

was no good an old croc

in his words that he never said a word

in my defense and

uh so my case never got to the jury

he he said the whole thing was

ever so null and void but i'd better be

careful in the future

don't you see it if i'd had a barrister

who'd ask questions

and made clever speeches

i'd be as dead as mutton

your artfulness paid off

the art for way you handled it the the

dumb tactics

it saved me

i'm alive

so are you

i'm free to go back to your birds

mr morgan hall i think

the uh the door has been open for some

time

yes

i suppose it's unlikely that you'll

marry again

unlikely yes

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i suppose it's not impossible that you

might commit some

rather more trivial offence the man

cannot live

mr morgan hall without committing some

trivial offence almost

daily yes oh well then we may meet again

you may need my services i may indeed

the future may not be so black

the uh the sun is shining yes

yes after you mr morgan hall please

oh no no no but a man of your education

should go

first no you lead the way mr fowler

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very well yes

lead the way and as your legal advisor

i will follow at a discrete distance in

order to iron out such

little tangles as you may hope to leave

in your wake

yes

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you