Chambers (series)


Chambers is a BBC radio and television sitcom. It was written by barrister Clive Coleman and starred John Bird, Sarah Lancashire, James Fleet and Jonathan Kydd in both versions. The radio version was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in three series between 1996 and 1999, and the television version was broadcast on BBC One. The theme music was "Dance with Mandolins" from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.

Premise

John Fuller-Carp is the monstrously egotistical and avaricious barrister heading Forecourt Chambers. His colleagues are Hilary Tripping, a rather ineffectual young man, Ruth Quirke, initially a rather militantly left wing feminist, and Vince Griffiths, the barristers' clerk. After Lesley Sharp left the role after the first radio series and Sarah Lancashire took over, Ruth became more of a comic neurotic, but many of the 'original' Ruth's harder characteristics were later given to the character who replaced her in the second television series, Alex Kahn.

Radio

Main cast

Guest cast

Guest actors included Rebecca Front, Ben Crowe, Joanna Monro, Geoffrey Whitehead, Peter Gunn, Tilly Gaunt, Natalie Walter, Simon Greenall, John Rowe and Emma Clarke and Jeremy Clyde

Episodes

All episodes wee written by Clive Coleman.

Television

Main cast

Guest cast

Guest actors included Elizabeth Berrington, John Leslie, Sara Stewart, Geoffrey Whitehead, Martin Trenaman, Robert Duncan, Roger Allam, Jeremy Clyde, John Hodgkinson, John Rowe, Robert Duncan and Donald Gee.

Episodes

All episodes were written by Clive Coleman, and directed by John Stroud and Gareth Carrivick.