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Woman's Hour: 16/06/2010

16/06/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, 16/06/2010

Live debate hosted by Jenni Murray. Who's done the most to put women on the political map?

Live debate hosted by Jenni Murray. Who's done most to put women on the UK political map - Margaret Thatcher, Barbara Castle, Emmeline Pankhurst or Mary Wollstonecraft?

At the start of a new era in politics Woman's Hour asks: who has done the most to put women on the political map in the UK? Jenni Murray hosts a live debate in the BBC Radio Theatre, where four advocates try to persuade a studio audience that the individual whose cause they are championing has done the most to give women a voice in British politics. Caroline Flint MP speaks for Labour's trail-blazing Red Queen Barbara Castle; Louise Bagshawe MP advocates Britain's only woman Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; Director of Liberty Shami Chakrabarti argues for the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst; and Professor Mary Beard puts the case for the 'mother of feminism' Mary Wollstonecraft. A show of hands by the studio audience decides which characters are thrown out of the balloon and which one remains.

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