Original version

BBC World Service West and Central Africa Schedule

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

The History Hour

Podcasts

Factual: Life Stories

Factual: History

A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes

A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.

BBC World Service Online

BBC World Service schedule for American satellite radio and the Caribbean

BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

BBC World Service Australasia

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa Schedule

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

BBC World Service East Asia

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

BBC World Service South Asia

BBC World Service

The History Hour: Kuwaiti Women Secure the Vote

Discussion & Talk

Kuwaiti Women Secure The Vote

11/03/2017 GMT

Kuwaiti Women Secure the Vote

BBC World Service - The History Hour, Kuwaiti Women Secure the Vote

Kuwaiti women win the vote; smog in Mexico, and America's first Islamic terror incident

Kuwaiti women win the right to vote, and women on the front line in World War One; battling smog in Mexico, America's first incident of Islamic terror, and artist Georgia O'Keeffe

Women in Kuwait win the right to vote, and the only women on the front line on the Western Front in World War One; battling smog in Mexico City in the 1980s, the artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and America's first incident of Islamic terror forty years ago.

Photo: the first women candidates for parliamentary elections in Kuwait in 2006, Aisha al-Rashid (R) and Rola Dashti (C) 
(Credit: Yasser al-Zayya/AFP/Getty Images)

Accessibility links

Programme Index

The History Hour

Kuwaiti Women Secure the Vote

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

About BBC World Service