THE LEGAL WORLD

Sony award-winning Brian King presents a brand new legal series of documentaries taking us into the heart of legal battles being fought both inside and outside courtrooms around the world. We meet lawyers battling with issues of immense local importance, but which also have resounding international implications.

These programmes observe lawyers literally in action, engaged in David versus Goliath type cases, with the odds often stacked against them. Below are a few possible stories, but further research will uncover an even wider range of intriguing and unusual stories from the far corners of the world.

Brian is an award-winning pioneer of radio fly-on-the-wall documentaries. He began his career as a newspaper reporter before moving to radio. After several years producing documentaries for commercial radio he joined the BBC and over the years has produced hundreds of features, documentaries, plays and comedy programmes for Radio 4.

MUSIC & FACTUAL

Coming to BBC World Service in 2010