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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

Caring social worker Clare Barker is now Acting Team Leader at the Family Centre. Stars Sally Phillips. From May 2010.

The team at the Family Centre has been shaken around and shuffled about.

Clare is now Acting Team Leader, as Irene has job-swapped. And whilst Irene is in Melbourne the team here are joined by Libby – an Aussie and a lezzie, proud to be both, and after Clare’s job.

But it is in the nature of hell to be unchanging, and most of the regulars are present and correct for a further round of frustration, despair, disappointment, team meetings and 11 o’clock cakes at the Sparrowhawk Family Centre.

Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all the right jargon but never a practical solution.

A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in other people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. Clare is in her 30s, white, middle class and heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her.

Join Clare in her continued struggle to control both her professional and private life

In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare.

Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden

Clare ... Sally Phillips
Helen ... Liza Tarbuck
Brian ... Alex Lowe
Ray ... Richard Lumsden
Libby ... Sarah Kendall
Simon ... Philip Pope
Megan/Na ... Nina Conti

Producer: Katie Tyrrell

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in May 2010.

30 minutes

Last on

Fri 12 May 2023 04:30

Broadcasts

  • Wed 4 Dec 2019 23:00
  • Thu 11 May 2023 09:30
  • Thu 11 May 2023 14:30
  • Thu 11 May 2023 19:30
  • Fri 12 May 2023 04:30