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Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster.

I'm Constantine Kitten and this is a show for you if you're bored of people

arguing on the internet over subjects they know nothing about at trigonometry we

don't pretend to be the experts we ask the experts we're here the world famous angel comedy club and our

amazing guest this week is one of the foremost human rights campaigners of

the last half century. Peter Tachio, welcome to Chigonometry.

Nice to join you. Thank you very much for coming on.

Well let's start by asking fundamentally the question that we always want to know about

is how did you come to be the person that you are today?

I heard you speaking about the fact that one of the things that started your human

rights journey was finding out about a man who was going to be hanged in Australia, and he was hanged in fact despite the fact that the

evidence wasn't particularly solid in that case and you said that it kind of

triggered in you a suspicion of authority.

And I think that's a feeling that lots of people share,

for our generations probably the Iraq war is a good example of something

that triggered this lack of faith in figures of authority.

But not everybody then goes on to have the life that

you've led, which is being assaulted over 300 times, a citizen's, two attempts to

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