{"podcast":{"title":"Law and Disorder: News, politics and more, from a legal perspective","slug":"law-and-disorder-news-politics-and-more-from-a-legal-perspective-6759162","podcast_index_feed_id":6759162,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/65aa5c04a3555100168f5eec","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/65aa5c04a3555100168f5eec","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/65aa5c04a3555100168f5eec/1746198139250-271485cd-969a-4646-bbaa-bd2713bc72f1.jpeg","author":"Podot","episode_count":113,"summary":"Law and Disorder is a new weekly podcast looking at the biggest issues in the news through the prism of the law. We've brought together three of the UK's best legal minds: recently retired High Court judge Sir Nicholas Mostyn, barrister and human rights campaigner Baroness Helena Kennedy, and Charlie Falconer, a Labour peer and former Lord Chancellor. Subscribe now for weekly episodes disentangling the thorniest of subjects, from Rishi Sunak's Rwanda bill to the situation in Gaza, via Post Office scandals, Prince Harry and privacy and much, much more. Law and Disorder is a Podot podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T14:17:01.767841+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/law-and-disorder-news-politics-and-more-from-a-legal-perspective-6759162"},"episode":{"title":"100 Years of Adoption","slug":"100-years-of-adoption","published_at":"2026-06-25T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/law-and-disorder-news-politics-and-more-from-a-legal-perspective-6759162/100-years-of-adoption","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/law-and-disorder-news-politics-and-more-from-a-legal-perspective-6759162","url":"https://shows.acast.com/law-and-disorder-2/episodes/100-years-of-adoption","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/65aa5c04a3555100168f5eec/e/6a3c60195bb8a79968f73cf5/media.mp3","summary":"This year marks a century since the creation of the first legal framework for adoption in England and Wales through the Adoption of Children Act 1926. This week we hear from the former High Court judge of the Family Division, Sir Mark Hedley, as well as former Conservative minister, Michael Gove - who also happens to be adopted - to find out more about adoption legislation over the years; what went right, what went wrong, and what could (and should) change in the century to come. Law and Disorder is a Podot podcast. Hosted by: Charlie Falconer, Helena Kennedy, Nicholas Mostyn. Executive Producer and editor: Nick Hilton. Associate Producers: Ewan Cameron & Lulu Goad Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"This year marks a century since the creation of the first legal framework for adoption in England and Wales through the Adoption of Children Act 1926. Thi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1964,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/law-and-disorder-news-politics-and-more-from-a-legal-perspective-6759162/episodes/100-years-of-adoption/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/law-and-disorder-news-politics-and-more-from-a-legal-perspective-6759162/100-years-of-adoption.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}