The Forum: Elizabeth Fry: The Angel of Prisons
Bbc World Service

The Forum is cousin to Radio 4’s In Our Time. There is the same astute and resourceful compere, with Rajan Datar depping for Melvyn Bragg. There is the same panel of expert witnesses drawn from near and far, the same relentless switching between detailed exposition and wider context, and the same faintly exhausted final moments when it becomes clear that a mighty vessel of interrogation and debate has brought safely home to port.
In jinking his way around the substantial topic of Elizabeth Fry and nineteenth-century prison reform (1 October), Datar was joined by Fry’s biographer, Averil Douglas Opperman, the criminal barrister and one-time prison chaplain, Harry Potter, and the historian, Rosalind Crone. As with Lord Bragg and his colleagues, the backdrop was often as revealing as the subject framed in its authenticating light.