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Was it all worth it?
Forty years after the achievement of votes for women, this programme recalls the time when women's suffrage was a burning issue, and considers the changing status of women.
Ruby Miller, ex-Gaiety girl; Mary Richardson, Suffragette; Charlotte Marsh, Suffragette; Lady Davidson, D.B.E., M.P. and a girl of twenty-one using her vote for the first time in the current local elections are among those who give their answers to the question, 'Was it all worth it?'

3.15 Keep Fit with Eileen Fowler
From the BBC's Midland television studio
All instructions for exercises demonstrated by Eileen Fowler since January 1957 (which she is repeating on Monday afternoons till mid-June) and previously published in a pamphlet and in supplements to Radio Times, are reprinted in a new pamphlet obtainable from [address removed]. Price 2s. 6d. post free. Postal orders please, not stamps.

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Contributors

Panellist (Was it all worth it?):
Ruby Miller
Panellist (Was it all worth it?):
Mary Richardson
Panellist (Was it all worth it?):
Charlotte Marsh
Panellist (Was it all worth it?):
Lady Davidson
Producer (Was it all worth it?):
Lorna Pegram
Exerciser (Keep Fit):
Eileen Fowler
Arranged by (Keep Fit):
Ann Shead
Music arranged and played by (Keep Fit):
Helen Shields
Presented by (Keep Fit):
Desmond O'Leary

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