Suffragettes | Women recall their struggle to win the vote
CHANNEL | Radio 4
FIRST BROADCAST | 03 May 1983
DURATION | 19 minutes 57 seconds
Janet Cohen hosts a profile of Victoria Lidiard, the last surviving suffragette to have been imprisoned. From her background and upbringing through to her endurance of police brutality and the 'Cat and Mouse' act, the programme includes contributions from Ms Lidiard herself, a sprightly lady in her nineties, as well as Lord Fenner Brockway, a supporter of the movement, and feminist historian Dr Sue Bruly.
The commemorative plaque pictured was unveiled in Hove in 1996 by Betty Boothroyd - then Speaker of the House of Commons. It is designed in the suffragette livery of purple, white and green.
Dame Ethel Smyth remembers a window breaking campaign.
Memories of an aerial leafleting campaign.
Risking arrest to campaign for the tax-paying woman's vote.
The achievements of the suffragette leader are recalled by her daughter.
A suffragette and a photographer remember an eventful court case.
A reunion with medals and memories.
A schoolgirl suffragette.
A smashing time in Pall Mall.
Lilian Lenton explains the 'Cat and Mouse' Act.
Memories of a militant suffragette.
Remembering when Emily Davison leapt under the King's horse.
Driving Mrs Pankhurst.
Two eminent peers share their experiences of the suffrage movement.
Two veterans of the suffragette movement talk about the early days of the campaign.
Mrs Pankhurst's chief organiser shares her story.
Joan Bakewell meets a veteran suffragette.
Views of a working-class suffragette.
The story of the last surviving suffragette.
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