The best event of the Charleston Festival took place on its third day.

An audience with Jeremy Hutchinson is a rare treat these days, but this former Queens Counsel absolutely stole the show.

He was erudite, charismatic, entertaining, good humoured, funny, down to earth, fascinating for his stories and inspiring in his praise for advocacy.

Hutchinson grew up with the Bloomsbury set – his mother had an affair with Clive Bell. Interesting though this was in the Charleston setting, this was the least of his claims to fame.

Many people before Thomas Grant had tried unsuccessfully to persuade Hutchinson to write his memoirs.

The result of his and Grant’s collaboration is Case Histories, which outlines the facts of Hutchinson’s famous cases as a criminal barrister and contextualises them to provide a mirror to social change, especially during the 1950s and 1960s, as an admiring Helena Kennedy put it – herself a renowned Queens Counsel charged with high profile cases.

Hutchinson’s list of cases included prosecuting Penguin Books in court for publishing Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and defending Christine Keillor in the Profumo Affair. Mary Whitehouse also featured large.

Hutchinson celebrated his 100th Birthday in March. This was the most incredible fact of all.

Five stars