´óÏó´«Ã½

On 'All Things Considered' this week (Sunday 20 June at 8.30am, repeated on Thursday 24 June at 5.30am) Roy Jenkins' guest is the former Anglesey MP Keith Best, who has spent the past twenty years championing some very unfashionable causes.

As director of Prisoners Abroad, he worked on behalf of British people who had landed up in some of the worst jails in the world - innocents among them, but others who had committed very serious crimes.

For 16 years he has fought in the sensitive area of asylum seeking, as chief executive of the Immigration Advisory Service.

And he has just become chief executive of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, which alongside its welfare work campaigns against the use of torture in all circumstances, and it's on one of his first public engagements in that role that he's been in Wales this weekend.

Whatever his achievements in these areas, however, Keith Best will be remembered by many for a spectacular fall from grace when a conviction involving multiple share applications ended his parliamentary career and put him in Brixton prison before his sentence was commuted to a fine.

For further information

Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture

Tel: 020 7697 7777