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The Liberators: Havelock Ellis and Sexual Inversion

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Look how the world is made

The second of an occasional series about people who fought for a revolution in sexual morality.
The strangely institutionalised legal persecution of homosexuals might still be fully operative but for such hesitant pioneer work as was done by people like Havelock Ellis.
Your class of clerk, attorney. writer, literary executor and adviser, poison pen, counsel, publisher, and doctor, played by some of the above and Anthony Brothers with a short conclusion by H. Montgomery Hyde.

Contributors

Writer:
Arthur Calder-Marshall
Producer:
R. D. Smith
Narrator:
Anthony Jacobs
John Addington Symonds:
Raf de la Torre
Henry Labouchere:
Antony Viccars
Havelock Ellis:
John Richmond
John Sweeney:
Kevin Flood
Edith Ellis:
Nicolette Bernard
Bernard Shaw:
Denys Hawthorne
Matthews:
Ian Lubbock
Sir Charles Hall:
Geoffrey Wincott
Inspector Arrow:
John Dearth

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