You don't have to say anything: in the criminal justice process

Joanna Hardy-Susskind is a criminal defense lawyer. It is their job to represent people, guilty or innocent, who were charged with crimes that range from minors to the terrible area. When those in the outside world find out what they do, they often have the same question: “Why do you do this in these dusty jurisdiction in front of these impressive guides who carry a stupid costume for unusual dress, everyone was approaching in Latin?”

You don't have to say anything is your answer. It is a close -up of one of the most fundamental but misunderstood pillars of every society, a branch of the state that most people rarely come across. In ten short episodes, we are led in every phase of the criminal justice process: from the back of the police car and the interrogation, behind the scenes as lawyers and lawyers who have an impact on their plans, and the (often crumbling) court itself.

Hardy-Susskind makes a committed moderator (it is not so different that you support yourself in court when you think about it), and it is opened through her less glamorous experiences. But the true magic of this series are the people who interviewed them, “under the wigs, under the uniforms and in the dock”. Most of them moved from all, is one of their former customers who tell his panic when he was shaken from his sleep and arrested in the night before his university interview, and what it felt like it was to be in a courtroom years later when the jury gave her “unpaid” judgment.

This series deletes the criminal judicial system not the opposite, if at all, as a hardy-suss child, how and why things go wrong. The program, however, demy the center of the people involved, and contrary to the misleading stories, which were pushed by police television shows and legal dramas. In the end, this is a system “with real humor, heart and humanity – and less Latin than you might think”.

You don't have to say anything
BBC Radio 4

[See also: The woman who made the rape kit]