Before we start this episode, I wanted to let you know that I will be in conversation with the brilliant author and broadcaster Candice Brathwaite at the Lyric in Soho on the 1st of November, talking all about the themes of this podcast and more. You can book tickets at feign.com.ukh, forward slash, Pandora.

The vast majority of people carry knives are not there to just randomly hurt other people.

Of course not.

There are deep rooted issues as to why they feel that they need to carry one, why they feel that they have little other choice.

Some of these young people, the key question is, why have they not got education and employment opportunities? Why is it that they're

not actually in the middle of the day at work or at school? Why do they not feel that they've got

a huge amount to lose? You're listening to Doing It Right with me, Pandora Sykes, a podcast where I talk to experts about the myths, anxieties and trends of modern life.

There's no such thing as the right life, but what might we be getting wrong?

In this series, I'll be exploring the ins and outs of sex, self-care and sadness,

and lobbing big questions at my guests like, could a four-day work week ever really take off?

Why is society getting lonelier? And what would a fair justice system look like?

This is a podcast that asks what can we do to live life better? Not just for ourselves, but for

everyone. Is the law biased? Alexander Wilson is a criminal and family law barrister, the founder of black women in law,

and the author of Black and White, a young barrister's story of race and class in a broken

justice system.

In September of last year, a tweet Alex wrote about being mistaken for a defendant,

three times in one day went viral.

What does it say about the justice system in the UK? asked Alex, that someone young, female and black couldn't possibly be a barrister.

I spoke to Alex in late August, where we discussed the bar's diversity and access problem, why stop and search doesn't work,

the overrepresentation of black people in prisons, and what that does to young black boys growing up,

and the effect that increase enclosures of free community spaces and libraries has on knife crime.

Plus, she drops lots of little archaic nuggets about being a barrister,

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