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Chambers. Image shows from L to R: Hilary Tripping (James Fleet), John Fuller-Carp (John Bird), Ruth Quirke (Sarah Lancashire). Copyright: BBC.

Chambers

BBC Radio 4 sitcom. 14 episodes (3 series), 1996 - 1999. Stars John Bird, James Fleet, Jonathan Kydd, Lesley Sharp and Sarah Lancashire.

Chambers. Image shows from L to R: Ruth Quirke (Lesley Sharp), Hilary Tripping (James Fleet), Clive Coleman, John Fuller-Carp (John Bird). Copyright: BBC.

Chambers

Legal comedy. Machiavellian Head of Chambers John Fuller-Carp's misadventures as he schemes to become a QC

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
1996 - 1999
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
14   (3 series)
Starring
John Bird, James Fleet, Jonathan Kydd, Lesley Sharp and Sarah Lancashire
Writer
Clive Coleman
Producer
Paul Schlesinger

Chambers is a BBC Radio 4 sitcom from the late 1990s about an ambitious lawyer, John Fuller-Carp, as he repeatedly compromised both moral and legal principles in his quest to become a QC.

Starring John Bird in the main role, James Fleet played Hilary Tripping, with Lesley Sharp (Series 1) and Sarah Lancashire (Series 2 & 3) as Ruth Quirke. Jonathan Kydd played chambers clerk Vince Griffiths.

Production Details

Production company
Laugh track
Live audience

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Wednesday 17th April 1996 on BBC Radio 4 at 12:25pm
Last new broadcast
Tuesday 30th March 1999 on BBC Radio 4 at 11:30am
Length of episodes
30 minutes
Last repeat
Tuesday 18th February 2020 at 5:00am on Radio 4 Extra
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