Great Aunt Mary's Tune

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Lucy Neal reviews the archive of Victorian reformer and suffragette Mary Neal.

Lucy Neal reviews the archive of Victorian reformer Mary Neal and the divisions in the English Folk Dance movement. From 2007.

Mary Neal was a suffragette, social-worker, colleague and later adversary of Cecil Sharp during the great English Folk Dance revival at the start of the 20th century.   

Lucy Neal goes in search of a home for the valuable archive of her once renowned great great-aunt.

Readers: 

Geraldine James 
John Rowe 

Producer: Beaty Rubens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2007.

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