Anyone familiar with Garrett Millerick’s world-weary, acerbic stand-up will find plenty to enjoy in Do Gooders, his new Radio 4 workplace sitcom. Set in the office of a mid-level charity, The Alzheimer’s Alliance, with resentments frequently expressed towards more successful fundraising causes, the show boasts an enviable cast of comic talent. Spanning class and generational tensions, the characters of Frank Skinner, Ahir Shah, Ania Magliano, Fay Ripley and Lisa McGrillis variously butt heads with each other and Millerick’s supremely blithe, privately educated Clive.

With the team scrabbling for donations via a series of ill-fated initiatives such as public sponsored walks, the episodes nevertheless focus on the personality clashes, with Skinner’s demotivated old stager Ken resisting the woke-ier initiatives of Magliano’s ardent feminist and Instagram addict Lauren. Meanwhile, Clive is constantly trying to scam a jolly to an exotic location and upsetting just about everyone along the way. He also attracts the irritation and censure of his boss Harriet, the straight-ish one in an environment supposedly for facilitating philanthropy but which is full of grasping self-interest.

New boy Achi (Shah) is no different in this respect, but his more innocent tendencies afford the rest of the characters opportunity for relatively subtle exposition in an otherwise loud, clamouring bonfire of egos that relies on (and delivers) a regular count of cracking lines. There’s nothing desperately radical to the ensemble formula but that’s a huge part of Do Gooders’ timeless appeal, instigating petty conflicts for the servicing of as many snappy jokes as possible. 

Do Gooders is out now on BBC Sounds.