Man Alive

Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Jack Pizzey and Harold Williamson discuss the issue of torture in Chile.

Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Jack Pizzey and Harold Williamson present the programme analysing a particular topic in detail. In this edition, the issues surrounding homosexuality are discussed.

GERALD AUSTIN GARDINER has Spent the best part of his life campaigning for a more humane world. His passionate commitment to law reform and his campaign for the abolition of capital punishment, took him right to the top. He was appointed Lord Chancellor to the Labour Government from 1964 to 1970 and was responsible for setting up the Law Commission, a permanent body which reviews British law and proposes reforms to it. Today he is still an active campaigner. He visited Greece under the Colonels' regime, on behalf of Amnesty International. He sponsored the Rehabilitation of Offenders' Bill. He is President of the Howard League for Penal Reform and leads an international campaign to preserve freedom of speech and expression for writers. In 1973 he was appointed Chancellor of the Open University where, remarkably, at the age of 75 he has also enrolled himself as a student.

A look at whether the age of consent should be lowered from its present 16 years. Schoolchildren and teenage parents give their views.

The British people are on the fiddle to the tune of at least £1 million daily - according to a recent survey. Office workers pinch the stationery, supermarkets cheat their customers, even bus conductors and deckchair attendants iron out used tickets, reissue them, and pocket the profits. Some of us call it the perks of the trade: others say it's a symptom of a corrupt and immoral society. Certainly no job seems to be without its perks: fiddling extends from the workman pocketing his paintbrush to the managing director having his home painted by the firm's maintenance man. Tonight we learn just who is on the fiddle - and how. And we ask if anything can be done about it.