
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 gay, something his father could not bring himself to acknowledge.
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Cast

Matt Ryan
Charlie Bullard
Jamie Martin
Colin Parker

Charles Dance
Jack Wolfenden

Sean Biggerstaff
Jeremy Wolfenden

Samantha Bond
Jill Wolfenden

Mel Smith
David Maxwell Fyfe

Pip Torrens
Frances Graham Harrison

Amy Phillips
Priscilla Wolfenden

Haydn Gwynne
Mary Cohen

Richard Lintern
Goronwy Rees

Mark Gatiss
PC Butcher

Colin Stinton
Dr. Kinsey
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