We are delving into the world of civil rights this week to meet a man who inadvertently contributed to the single most important moment in Gay rights history.

Peter Wildeblood was a man happy to keep his public and private lives irreconcilably separate. A successful journalist with many friends he had no reason to think that the regressive anti homosexuality laws still on the statute books would ever be used against him. That was until the threat of communism in America led to a crackdown on homosexuality in high office, and as foreign correspondent for the Daily Mail Peter Wildeblood just so happened to be friends with many a successful gay man.

Finding himself on trial to suit the government's agenda of appeasing the Americans Peter decided that he was not going to try and disown his sexuality, instead making a stand that helped to shift the public perception on same sex relationships in the process... A bold strategy indeed, but would it keep him from being sent to prison?

Guest Host: Ollie Green

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