Original version

BBC Radio 4 LW

Woman's Hour

Magazines & Reviews

Podcasts

Factual: Life Stories

Factual: Health & Wellbeing

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.

BBC Radio 4 FM

Jane Garvey

Rebecca Myatt

Shirley Williams

Juliet Gardiner

Virginia Nicholson

Kate Murphy

Woman's Hour: Women in the 1920s

Factual

Women in the 1920s

06/05/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Women in the 1920s

Baroness Shirley Williams joins Jane Garvey to discuss women's lives in the 1920s.

Baroness Shirley Williams, social historian Juliet Gardiner, author Virginia Nicholson and Dr Kate Murphy discuss the changing lives of women in the 1920s. Jane Garvey presents.

The 1920s saw great changes for women: equal voting rights were introduced in 1929, but earlier in the decade "surplus women" were a great subject for debate in newspapers. Following the devastating loss of life in the First World War, some parts of society worried about what to do with young widows and women who would never marry. Baroness Shirley Williams, social historian Juliet Gardiner, author Virginia Nicholson and Dr Kate Murphy discuss the changing lives of women in the "Roaring '20s" as some made the most of increasing freedom and independence by becoming doctors and teachers, and working in a fledgling BBC.

Presented by Jane Garvey
Produced by Rebecca Myatt.

BBC Radio 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Woman's Hour

Women in the 1920s

Contributors

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC Radio 4 LW

About BBC Radio 4