The Rise and Fall of Francis Cook

During all of his career in the Crown's legal service, Cook is actually attending in the House of Lords. So he will have been, even though he's not elected an MP, sitting in every single Parliament. And what do you think propelled him into public life? To be a lawyer is to be part of the public life. It's impossible to separate the two. He's extremely ambitious and if he is going to get the top of the tree within his field, that just is public life. I mean, it's a world in which rivalry and ambition and jealousy and intrigue are all coming together. Are we in the past or the present now? What is extraordinary is how they sometimes