Press Cuttings

Original version

BBC Radio 4 Extra

George Bernard Shaw - Press Cuttings

Drama: Classic & Period

BBC Radio 4 Extra - George Bernard Shaw - Press CuttingsSearch BBC

Written in 1909, Shaw pokes fun at the suffragettes' votes for women campaign.

Written in 1909, Shaw pokes fun at the suffragettes' votes for women campaign. Starring Arthur Lowe as General Mitchener. From 1971.

Arthur Lowe stars as General Mitchener in an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Press Cuttings.
 
Written in 1909, Shaw pokes fun at the suffragettes' British campaign for votes for women. General Mitchener (Lowe) is a veteran of the North West Frontier, but how is he going to cope with a suffragette found chained outside to a door scraper - who turns out to be the Prime Minister in disguise, dressed in women's clothing?
 
But Michener has a plan: "The Suffragettes are a very small body; but they are numerous enough to be troublesome - even dangerous - when they are all concentrated in one place.... but by making a two-mile radius and pushing them beyond it, you scatter their attack over a circular line 12 miles long. Just what Wellington would have done."
 
Co-starring Joan Sanderson as  Mrs Banger and Gerald Cross as Mr Balsquith.
 
Adapted by Jack Willis and produced by David H Godfrey.
 
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1971

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama. With recent favourites from BBC Radio 4.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

George Bernard Shaw - Press Cuttings

Genres

BBC Radio 4 Extra

About BBC Radio 4 Extra