Archive On 4: Mr Lucas’s Diaries Radio 4, 8pm

In 2014, George Leo

John Lucas died at the age of 88 and left 60 years of his diaries to journalist

Hugo Greenhalgh.

In this revealing programme, Mark

Gatiss (right) reads key passages from them, in which Lucas describes the life of a gay man during a time when homosexual acts were still against the law in Britain.

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