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Start the Week: Justice: with Simon Stephens, John Podmore, Shami Chakrabarti and Mike Hough

23/01/2012

Justice: with Simon Stephens, John Podmore, Shami Chakrabarti and Mike Hough

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Justice: with Simon Stephens, John Podmore, Shami Chakrabarti and Mike Hough

Andrew Marr with John Podmore, Simon Stephens, Mike Hough and Shami Chakrabarti.

Andrew Marr looks at the idea of 'justice', with former prison governor John Podmore, playwright Simon Stephens, criminologist Mike Hough and Director of Liberty Shami Chakrabarti.

Andrew Marr explores the idea of Justice on Start the Week. In a satire on the International Criminal Tribunal, the playwright Simon Stephens, asks how far such a court can deal with perpetrators of terrible crimes, when the accused neither recognises its authority, or shares its morality. Closer to home John Podmore looks back at 25 years as a prison governor and inspector, in a damning indictment on Britain's prison service. The criminologist Mike Hough asks why people obey the law, and questions whether the threat of punishment is ever a deterrent. And the director of Liberty Shami Chakrabarti defends the right to civil liberties and freedom of speech, even of those many may consider to be unpalatable.

Producer: Natalia Fernandez.

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