Set in 1923, a British author named Marie Stopes is having quite the tumultuous life until one day she attempts to sue Dr. Halliday Sutherland for libel, since she thinks he criticized her birth control clinic. A lawyer named Patrick Hastings comes to represent Stopes, and judge Ernest Charles comes to represented Dr. Halliday Sutherland.

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Cast

Bernard Archard

Serjeant Sullivan, KC

Anthony Bate

Dr. Halliday Sutherland

Sonia Dresdel

Professor Louise Mellroy

Leo Genn

Patrick Hastings, KC

Llewellyn Rees

Lord Chief Justice

Peter Sallis

Ernest Charles, KC

Robert Hardy

Narrator