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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 3

Maxine Peake

Rupert Penry-Jones

Neil Stuke

Miranda Raison

Frances Barber

Alex Jennings

Theo Barklem-Biggs

John Macmillan

Amy Wren

Jessica Henwick

Phil Davis

Kieran O'Brien

Kirsty Bushell

Elizabeth Bennett

Nicholas Rowe

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Peter Moffat

Silk: Series 3: Episode 5

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Episode 5

Series 3

BBC One - Silk, Series 3, Episode 5

The personal and the professional collide when Martha must fight to defend someone close.

The personal and the professional collide when someone close to Martha needs her help. Determined to fight, is she strong enough to ask the tough questions in order to do her job?

Martha has to put her personal feelings aside when she is asked to defend a close friend from her past. Is she strong enough to ask him the tough questions in order to do her job properly? 

The evidence against him in the case of a gangland execution is overwhelming. Fingerprints and CCTV put Martha's friend firmly at the scene of the crime, but is it all too convenient? With Clive at her side and CW prosecuting, the stakes are high for everyone. How close were Martha and Sean when they were young, and what are their feelings for each other now? 

Billy is shocked when a corrupt solicitor-turned-supergrass from Shoe Lane's past appears to ask for redemption. Meanwhile, battle lines are drawn in chambers as they gear up to an internal tribunal that polarises opinion and Martha begs Billy to tell the truth.

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Martha and Clive increasingly face off in court as they rise to the top of their field.

Martha and Clive are both silks but they're still on opposite sides of the courtroom. Can Martha keep her reputation for winning the unwinnable in the face of Clive's prosecution?

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