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Votes for Women!

on BBC Home Service Basic

Mary Richardson, a suffragette in her seventies, tells eighteen-year-old Sorrel Bentinck how she endured forcible feeding in prison, set fire to the Countess of Carlisle's house, threw bricks through the Home Office windows, converted the Bishop of London, and suffered all manner of shame and indignity - gloriously - in the fight for the franchise.

(BBC recording)

Contributors

Speaker:
Mary Richardson
Speaker:
Sorrel Bentinck

BBC Home Service Basic

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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