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On Night Waves Undercurrents Philip Dodd examines the question of torture.

A British Appeal Court decision recently ruled that evidence extracted using torture would be permissible in British courts, providing no one British was responsible for doing the torturing.

Those now infamous photographs of prisoner treatment at Abu Ghraib prison suggest that unknown levels of the US military have no such qualms about taking part.

More than 50 years after the UN and Geneva Conventions are we accepting that torture in certain circumstances is permissible? Philip Dodd and guests discuss tonight at 9.30



Presenter: Philip Dodd
Producer: Kirsty Pope