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Chambers: The Complete Series 1-3

By: Clive Coleman
Narrated by: Alex Lowe, David Harewood, full cast, James Fleet, John Bird, Lesley Sharp, Rebecca Front, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Sarah Lancashire, Sue Johnston
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Summary

All 14 episodes of the legal sitcom about a group of barristers who never let justice get in the way of making money.

John Fuller-Carp, the Machiavellian head of chambers at Forecourt Buildings, is determined to become a QC and will perform almost any moral contortion to achieve his goal.

When left-wing Ruth Quirke, rumoured to be a High Court judge's daughter, applies to join his chambers, Fuller-Carp's imagination goes into overdrive and promotion seems inevitable. However, his attempts to project a 'New Labour' image cut no ice with Ruth, and the two are soon at each other's throats. Fortunately, his partner Hilary Tripping is much easier to manage (if somewhat ineffectual) and his clerk Vince, though deeply dodgy, is happy to put his criminal contacts and underworld cunning at Fuller-Carp's disposal.

In these three series, he ends up on the wrong side of the law, is embarrassed over animal rights, tries to join the Masons and gets embroiled in a bet with a rival barrister. Meanwhile, Ruth gets a job as a 'Legal Eagle' on breakfast telly, decides to adopt a baby and fakes a family for a client while Fuller-Carp fiddles the books. And when a legal firm invites John, Ruth and Hilary on a team-building outward-bound weekend, disaster ensues....

Clive Coleman's sitcom set in perhaps the country's least spectacular law chambers stars John Bird as John Fuller-Carp, with James Fleet as Hilary Tripping and Lesley Sharp and Sarah Lancashire as Ruth Quirke. Among the guest stars are Peter Serafinowcz, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Rebecca Front.

Production credits

Written by Clive Coleman

Produced by Paul Schlesinger

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 17th April-15th May1996 (Series 1), 11th May-8th June 1998 (Series 2), 9th-30th March 1999 (Series 3)

Starring John Bird and Sarah Lancashire

©2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
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Absolutely Hilarious

Bravo. Encore. Please. Each episode is about different events in the lives of 3 barristers and their wily clerk. The actors are all superb. I wish more series had been written.

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hilarious

One of the funniest series I have heard, a great pity there is not more of them

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CHAMBERS

The humour is superb. The clever dialogue is a joy to listen to.
The actors have been well chosen
I can’t praise Chambers enough.
I hope that Clive Coleman will write more.

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good old fashioned comedy ☺️

very funny remember it being on the radio 😃.
great to be able to listen when ever I want.

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Brillant

Brilliant casting dry humour and makes you think differently about the legal profession.I wonder how near the truth it is.John Bird again outstanding

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Painful

Just painful. If this was from the 1980s it might be a quaint time capsule, as it is though it's a cliché mess.

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