Hot Desk

Social Worker Clare Barker and her colleagues have to move offices and embrace hot desking. All this while Clare has a new student to wet nurse. Brian is struggling to keep control in the classroom.

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 thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her.

Each week we 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
Brian ...... Alex Lowe
Megan ...... Nina Conti
Nali ...... Nina Conti
Ray ...... Richard Lumsden
Helen ...... Liza Tarbuck
Simon ...... Andrew Wincott
Libby ...... Sarah Kendall
Alice ...... Alex Tregear
Abigail ...... Eleanor Crooks
Dexter ...... Will Howard
Bob ...... Robert Blythe
Neighbour ...... Ben Crowe
Terence ...... Ben Crowe
MC ...... Ben Crowe
Simon's girlfriend ...... Bharti Patel

Producer Katie Tyrrell.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2013.