Chambers (series)

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Chambers
Genre	sitcom
Starring	John Bird Sarah Lancashire Nina Wadia James Fleet Jonathan Kydd Jeremy Clyde John Hodgkinson John Rowe
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC
Original run	2000 –

Chambers was a BBC produced radio and television sitcom. It was written by barrister Clive Coleman and starred John Bird and Sarah Lancashire 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.

John Bird plays the lead role of John Fuller-Carp, a barrister in charge of Forecourt Chambers. His coleagues are Hilary Tipping, a rather ineffectual young man, and Ruth Quirke, initially a rather militantly left wing feminist. After Lesley Sharp left the role after the first series and Sarah Lancashire took over, Ruth became more of comic neurotic, but many of the 'original' Ruth's harder characteristics were later given to the character who replaced her in the second run of the television series, Alex Kahn.