Disgraced peer Jeffery Archer, former England footballer Stan Collymore and actress Honor Blackman are all on a celebrity jury taking part in new BBC television programme which features a fictitious rape trial. The programme will follow the cross examination in court – by real barristers - as well as the Jury’s deliberations. So is it an imaginative new way of airing a serious issue or an ill judged step too far?
Martha talks to Joan Smith, columnist and broadcaster and to Stephen Lambert, from RDF Media Group who made the programme for the BBC.
The Verdict will be broadcast on BBC2 early in 2007. |
