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Drama: Legal & Courtroom

Drama series about life at the Bar and the dilemmas faced by modern day barristers.

Drama series about life at the Bar, the dilemmas faced by modern day barristers, and what it means to become a silk.

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Silk: Series 1

Cameron Roach

Michael Offer

Peter Moffat

Maxine Peake

Rupert Penry-Jones

Neil Stuke

Tom Hughes

Natalie Dormer

John Macmillan

Nina Sosanya

Peter Vaughan

Paul Hilton

Owen Teale

William Chubb

Gerard Horan

Iain Mitchell

Christianne Oliveira

Greg Donaldson

Theo Barklem-Biggs

Jamie Di Spirito

Nick Hendrix

Helena Cullinan

Lorna Gayle

Silk: Series 1: Episode 1

Episode 1

Series 1

BBC One - Silk, Series 1, Episode 1

Under huge time pressure, Martha must defend two very different cases.

Drama series. Martha is given two cases for the next day and must prepare overnight. Can she save both her clients from prison and get a good reference for her Silk application?

Having just won an important case, Martha is given two new cases for the next day, with a chance of getting a good reference for her Silk application. Under huge time pressure, she must prepare overnight, but can she satisfy both the personal and the professional demands placed on her? Or will she be forced to sacrifice one case in order to win the other?

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A six-part series about life at the Bar and what it means to become a silk.

A six-part series about life at the Bar, the dilemmas and problems that modern day barristers have to face, and what it means to become a silk.

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