Law and Order
Sociological discussion programme. Law and Order: Laurie Taylor revisits a TV drama series which explored police corruption 40 years ago. What was its impact and what has changed?
Law and Order: the legacy - 40 years ago, GF Newman's quartet of plays, Law & Order, provoked calls from MPs for the author to be arrested for sedition and the summoning of the director-general of the 91热爆 to the 91热爆 Office to explain himself. The dramas explored the role of the Metropolitan Police, the criminal, the solicitor and the prison system around one central story. They provided a savage and uncompromising assessment of the criminal justice system, one in which corruption and stitch ups were common. Laurie Taylor considers the impact of those plays and the extent to which they created a public and political debate which produced positive reform. Four decades later, have we any cause for complacency? He's joined by the writer, GF Newman, Tim Newburn, Professor of Criminology at the LSE and Charlotte Brunsden, Professor of Film & Television Studies at the University of Warwick.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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Law and Order by GF Newman (latest edition published by No Exit Press, 2018)
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- Wed 23 May 2018 16:0091热爆 Radio 4
- Mon 28 May 2018 00:1591热爆 Radio 4
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