Defending The Guilty
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two
- 2018 - 2019
- 7 episodes (1 series)
Comedy about a pupil barrister and the chambers he works at. Stars Will Sharpe, Katherine Parkinson, Gwyneth Keyworth, Hugh Coles, Hanako Footman and more.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 4
Further details
A series of odd incidents on the Tube lands Caroline and Will with a tough to read client: harmless scissor-wielding crank or weirdo perv?
Speaking of tough to read, Will realises he's spent four months with Caroline and knows barely anything about her. That has to change.
Less inscrutably, Ashley is calling for strike action on the Government's new proposals for legal aid, an act of leadership just in time for his QC application. Pia meanwhile finds herself the leper of chambers, and has no idea why...
Broadcast details
- Date
- Tuesday 8th October 2019
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Will Sharpe | Will Packham |
| Katherine Parkinson | Caroline Bratt |
| Gwyneth Keyworth | Danielle |
| Hugh Coles | Liam |
| Hanako Footman | Pia |
| Prasanna Puwanarajah | Ashley |
| Mark Bonnar | Miles |
| Sofia Barclay | Selina |
| Ingrid Oliver | Fiona |
| Matthew Cottle | Ronald |
| Nick Mohammed | Dr Khaled |
| Elizabeth Bennett | Judge |
| Ned Derrington | Young Barrister |
| Susannah Wise | Toni |
| Kieron Quirke | Writer |
| Tom George | Director |
| Georgie Fallon | Producer |
| Kenton Allen | Executive Producer |
| Saurabh Kakkar | Executive Producer |
| Jim Field Smith | Executive Producer |
| Kieron Quirke | Executive Producer |
| Matthew Justice | Executive Producer |
| Alex McBride | Associate Producer |
| Lucy Jack | Line Producer |
| Robin Peters | Editor |
| Jonathan Paul Green | Production Designer |
| Rachel Freck | Casting Director |
| Wiz Francis | Costume Designer |
| Nick Martin | Director of Photography |
| Emily Bilverstone | Make-up Designer |
| Katie Rodgers | Graphics |
| Lara Singer | Development Editor |
| Paul Judges | 1st Assistant Director |
| Kate Daughton | Commissioning Editor |
Press
This legal comedy is superb: laced with the right amounts of misanthropy and sentimentalism and unafraid of a textbook set-piece such as, tonight, a bungled speech. The relationship between Katherine Parkinson's barrister and Will Sharpe's bewildered pupil, meanwhile, is thawing nicely.
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 8th October 2019