Written by Sarah Boston
'Alarmists may view these indications of female independence as more menacing to established institutions than the education of the lower orders.'
(THE LEEDS MERCURY 1832)
Tonight's programme celebrates the campaign for equal pay and opportunities for women from the end of the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Speakers: LAETITIA FAIRFIELD, JESSIE STEPHEN , MURIEL JAMIESON , SARAH CHATER , AUBREY WISE, MP, SALLY GROVES
Narrator Geoffrey Wheeler
with the voices of GEOFFREY BANKS, ROSALIND KNIGHT OLIVE PENDLETON , MARAH STOHL BRIAN TRUEMAN , PETER WHEELER
Producer MICHAEL GREEN
BBC Manchester