Last week the Bar Council announced that it is teaming up with the UK’s second-most venerable anachronism, the BBC, to produce a documentary about – you guessed it – life at the Bar.

The programme is backed by funding from the Open University – where 98% of all practising barristers obtained their law degrees – and will follow the careers
of various students, pupils and counsel in a bid to lift the metaphorical wig from the profession’s impenetrably
esoteric scalp.