This week Pam is taking us back to a time when UK prisons were a cause of concern for parliament (imagine).
However luckily for the Late-Georgians there was a serious Quaker who was ready to do some serious reforming.
Elizabeth Fry was a workaholic idealist from Norwich who was not afraid to get her hands dirty in the stinking cells of Newgate. She was determined to prove that by treating prisoners as humans, you might actually be able to demonstrate their humanity, a concept that Georgian men (not least of all Jeremy Bentham) apparently had never considered.
Guest Host: Pam Loetterle
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