Nigel Lambert News Today

Look Around You co-creator Robert Popper goes in-depth on the making of the spoof science show that's become a cult classic.

Year of call: 1981 What’s your most vivid memory from being a pupil? Applying for pupillage as a female in the early 1980s was enormously demoralising. Most sets of chambers had no female tenants and although there was some tepid enthusiasm to encourage women into the profession, it amounted to no more than tokenism. I received over 10 rejections for applications from chambers who explained to me that they had already taken on “one woman” and that my application would therefore be declin...