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Consenting Adults
Charles Dance stars as Jack Wolfenden in this drama by Julian Mitchell which tells the human story behind the so-called Wolfenden report.
Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalisation of homosexuality. But behind the scenes of what was to become a turning point in British social history, there was an even more extraordinary story. Jack’s son Jeremy, then a brilliant undergraduate at Oxford, was himself gay, something his father could not bring himself to acknowledge. From the corridors of power in Whitehall to the squalid public toilets of a Reading park, this is a story of fathers and sons, ambition and prejudice, gentlemen and players.
- Broadcaster:
BBC Four
- TX Date:
September 2007
- Credits:
- Director/s: Richard Curson Smith
- Producer/s: Robert Dawson Scott
- Exec Producer/s: Colin Cameron, Richard Fell