Synopsis:
Charles Dance stars as Jack Wolfenden in this brand new 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 decriminalization 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 queer, 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. Also starring Sean Biggerstaff, Samantha Bond, Haydn Gwynne and Mel Smith.

Press Comments:
“Julian Mitchell has turned the dustbowl-dry workings of a Home Office Committee chaired by an agonizing academic into compelling (and often very funny) TV”
Guardian

“Mitchell – and the production team – invested this film with intelligence and wit”
Daily Mail

“A thought-provoking piece”
The Independent

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