Bon Vivant

Dominic Regan and Seán Jones QC tempt the Bar’s summer palates with best value reds, light pink blush and some upmarket options if you’re feeling flush 

Truth or proof? 

A Very English Scandal , BBC 1 

Directed by Stephen Frears and written by Russell T Davies | Based on A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of Establishment , by John Preston (Penguin) | Starring Hugh Grant as Jeremy Thorpe and Ben Whishaw as Norman Scott | Broadcast May - June 2018 

A referendum does not have to lead to division  

Best books, favourite films, top tracks and an essential:  Counsel invites barristers to share their cultural influences. In this issue, we talk to Tahir Ashraf, recently named in the Muslim 100 Parliamentary Power List and who also runs 5 Chancery Lane Commercial Barristers Chambers  

Novello Theatre, London, 29 April 2018
Shakespeare Schools Foundation 

Should our criminal justice system be the envy of the world?  

Four-part drama series about the 1970s criminal justice system: A Detective’s Tale; A Villain’s Tale; A Brief’s Tale; and A Prisoner’s Tale  

• BBC Four  40th anniversary broadcast: 12 April to 3 May 2018 
• Programme creator: G F Newman 
• Director: Les Blair 
• First broadcast: April 1978 on BBC Two  

Publisher: Macmillan (March 2018)
Format: Hardcover (384pp); eBook; audio book
ISBN: 978-1509841103
RRP: £16.99 

Best books, favourite films, top tracks and an essential:  Counsel invites barristers to share their cultural influences. In this issue, we talk to criminal barrister Tony Wyatt, who also writes as Tony Kent  

"I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages."
– Robert Bosch