PICK OF THE DAY

AGAINST THE LAW, 9PM, BBC2

‘ANY man who takes a criminal path should be mindful of the consequences.’ In Fifties Britain, that ‘criminal path’ couldc involve nothing more than seeking out the company of o other men. StarringS Daniel Mays (pictured right), this hard-hitting, fact-based drama tells the true story of journalist Peter Wildeblood, who was jailed for homosexual ‘offences’ more than ten years before such things were decriminalised, in 1967 — before becoming a key figure in changing the law. It’s peppered with powerful reallife testimony from men who lived through this dark chapter of our recent history.