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.
John Fuller-Carp (John Bird) is the monstrously egotistical and avaricious barrister heading Forecourt Chambers. His colleagues are Hilary Tripping (James Fleet), a rather ineffectual young man, Ruth Quirke (Lesley Sharp, later Sarah Lancashire), 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 (Nina Wadia).
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
All episodes wee written by Clive Coleman.
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.
All episodes were written by Clive Coleman, and directed by John Stroud (series 1) and Gareth Carrivick (series 2).