Extras Wanted for New PBS Human Rights Trial Program Pilot Starring Ogletree & Cherie Blair
Law and international affairs leaders will be among a number of well-known attorneys showcased in an upcoming PBS series on human rights trials that is being produced by Penn State Public Broadcasting.
And for those who expect to be in central Pennsylvania within the next week there’s even a chance to participate as extras in the audience of the pilot World on Trial program, which is to be filmed Sept. 20, notes a Penn State University press release.
The pilot, which is expected to air in January, will feature professor Charles Ogletree of Harvard Law School as a lead prosecutor seeking to ax a “headscarf law” enacted in France in 2004, while barrister Cherie Booth Blair, the wife of the former British prime minister, Tony Blair, will serve as the presiding judge, the Daily Collegian reported.
Rémy Schwartz of France will defend the law, and a World on Trial website will offer supplementary materials, the article notes.
For more details about being an extra in the trial audience, read this Penn State page.
A subsequent Centre Daily Times article reports about the filming of the headscarf law trial.
Updated on Sept. 21 to link to subsequent Centre Daily Times article.
