[Jarrod]

Has anyone watched this yet?

2017 sees the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which decriminalised homosexual acts in England and Wales between adult males, in private. While it would take several decades before homosexuals would reach anything like full equality in this country, this legislation marks the beginning of this journey.

But the dramatic events that led to this Act took place over ten years before and are at the heart of Against the Law, a powerful factual drama starring Daniel Mays and Mark Gatiss. Mays plays Peter Wildeblood, a thoughtful and private gay journalist whose lover, under pressure from the authorities, turned Queen's evidence against him in one of the most explosive court cases of the 1950s - the infamous Montagu Trial. Wildeblood, and his friends Lord Montagu and Michael Pitt-Rivers, were found guilty of homosexual offences and jailed. But the public thought the trial unfair and forced a reluctant government to set up a committee to investigate whether homosexuality should be legalised. The committee was led by Sir John Wolfenden. With his career in tatters and his private life painfully exposed, Peter Wildeblood began his sentence a broken man, but he emerged from Wormwood Scrubs a year later determined to do all he could to change the way these draconian laws against homosexuality impacted on the lives of men like him. He was the only openly gay man to testify before the Wolfenden committee about the brutal reality of being gay in this country at that time. In 1957 the committee recommended that the laws be changed. It would take a further ten years before these recommendations would become law.

Woven through this powerful drama is testimony from a chorus of men who lived through those dark days, when homosexuals were routinely imprisoned or forced to undergo chemical aversion therapy in an attempt to cure them of their 'condition'. There is also testimony from a retired police officer whose job it was to enforce these laws and a former psychiatric nurse who administered the so-called cures. All these accounts amplify the themes of the drama and help to immerse us in the reality of a dark chapter in our recent past, a past still within the reach of living memory.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...gainst-the-law

I've just finished it and it really is a good watch.

[arista]

When was it on TV?

I do not have time
to feck about with iplayer

YOU should have done a thread with the
REAL TIME HD 1080i time it was on
then I could record it
On SkyHD
or my VirginHD

[Jarrod]

Originally Posted by arista

When was it on TV?

I do not have time
to feck about with iplayer

YOU should have done a thread with the
REAL TIME HD 1080i time it was on
then I could record it
On SkyHD
or my VirginHD

Wednesday. Can you stop being so arrogant? Some of us don't live our lives strictly by a television guide. Download it in HD from BBC on your Sky box.

[Ashley.]

Mark Gatiss is sort of irritating but I might give it a watch, sounds interesting.

[Crimson Dynamo]

when was this on?

has it been on already as the thread does not say?

[Jarrod]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

when was this on?

has it been on already as the thread does not say?

There's a link to the BBC iPlayer show. I didn't know it was on until I browsed through.

[Jarrod]

Originally Posted by Ashley.

Mark Gatiss is sort of irritating but I might give it a watch, sounds interesting.

He's in the whole thing for 5 minutes, if that.

[hijaxers]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

when was this on?

has it been on already as the thread does not say?

It was on 26th BBc2 and brilliant - part of the Gay Britannia season - lots more good programme's on this season.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Jarrod

Wednesday. Can you stop being so arrogant? Some of us don't live our lives strictly by a television guide. Download it in HD from BBC on your Sky box.

You need to Change.

Yes I can watch it - fecking BBC player
sure and in HD.



I will NOT change
unless someone gets a loaded gun
against my HEAD

[arista]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

when was this on?

has it been on already as the thread does not say?

LT these Young tibbers
are Rude

Sign Of The Times

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by arista

LT these Young tibbers
are Rude

Sign Of The Times

It also encourages people to watch it on BBC 2 when its available on BBC2 HD. People like say Cherie find this distinction difficult to follow, like my old mum who I catch watching her shows on non HD channels when she has a brand new TV and HD.

[arista]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

It also encourages people to watch it on BBC 2 when its available on BBC2 HD. People like say Cherie find this distinction difficult to follow, like my old mum who I catch watching her shows on non HD channels when she has a brand new TV and HD.

LT if you get Full SkyHD
102HD and 105HD are standard

BBC1 has only done HD for regional
on Wales, Scotland etc ,
they have had over 8 years to change the other zones
I am going to the MP in charge
We are FECKING FUNDING THE BBC
FACT