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Philip Dodd explores eighteenth-century attitudes to the law, crime and punishment. Norman S Poser, Emeritus Professor at Brooklyn Law School, is the author of Lord Mansfield: Justice in the Age of Reason. Antonia Hodgson's first novel is called The Devil in the Marshalsea. Dr Lucy Powell is a former BBC Radio 3 and AHRC New Generation Thinker. Geoffrey Robertson QC is a civil liberties barrister and author. Producer: Harry Parker.
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