Episode 1: Consent through the Ages

16:47, Thu 25 Nov 2021

Consent is the cornerstone of our current laws on rape and sexual offences - but that wasn’t always the case. In this episode, Dr Laura Lammasniemi tells us how consent was discussed in court in the Victorian era, and Dr Gwen Seabourne explains how we thought of rape back in medieval times. Finally Dr Vanessa Munro brings us back to the 21st century and explains what our current laws say about consent.

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(MP3 format, 71 MB)

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