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Retrial by TV: The Rise and Fall of Rough Justice

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Documentary about the 大象传媒's Rough Justice series, which began investigating miscarriages of justice in the early 1980s and helped overturn the convictions of 18 people in 13 cases.

It is almost exactly 30 years since the 大象传媒's Rough Justice team began investigating miscarriages of justice. The programme can claim to have achieved the overturning of the convictions of 18 people in 13 separate cases, continuing sporadically for over 25 years until it was finally axed in November 2007.

Timeshift looks at the creation of this extraordinary series and reveals what a shock to the system it was. Featuring contributions from many of those involved, it asks how it was that a television programme took it upon itself to question one of the oldest judicial systems in the world.

This documentary is also an opportunity to look at how much television and journalism have changed since Rough Justice was first commissioned. The programme's makers were hired with an open-ended brief that would be almost impossible to repeat today. It may only be thirty years ago, but this is a glimpse into a bygone era.

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Wed 6 Apr 2011 00:25

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Role Contributor
Narrator Robert Murphy
Producer Steve O'Hagan
Series Producer Ben Southwell
Executive Producer Michael Poole

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