First broadcast 11th November 1991.

A radical college professor accused of murder refuses to disclose his alibi while Ballard and Erskine Brown learn domestic lessons about the right to silence.

Leo McKern ... Horace Rumpole
Marion Mathie ... Hilda Rumpole
Patricia Hodge ... Phyllida Erskine-Brown
Julian Curry ... Claude Erskine-Brown
Peter Blythe ... Samuel Ballard Q.C.
Rowena Cooper ... Marguerite Ballard
Abigail McKern ... Liz Probert
Jonathan Coy ... Henry
James Grout ... Mr. Justice Ollie Oliphant
Christopher Benjamin ... Sir Denis Tolson
Andrew Robertson ... Hayden Charles
Maurice Roëves ... Clive Clympton
Sheila Ruskin ... Mercy Charles
Trevor T. Smith ... Martin Wayfield
Pauline Letts ... Mrs. O'Leary
Jemma Churchill ... Audrey Wystan
Anthony Dawes ... Mordaunt Bissett Q.C.
Angus Lennie ... Mr. Beazley
Simon Carter ... Librarian
Russell Porter ... Christopher Perkins
Beverley Jennings ... Aerobics Instructor
William Lawford ... Usher