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Front Row: Suffrage art and a celebration of female artists

Suffrage art and a celebration of female artists.

19/02/2018

Suffrage art and a celebration of female artists

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Suffrage art and a celebration of female artists

To mark 100 years since women got the vote we look at suffrage art.

To mark 100 years since women got the vote we look at art created alongside the suffrage campaign and celebrate the contribution of female artists.

To mark the 100th anniversary of women over 30 getting the vote in the UK we have a themed programme looking at the art that was created alongside the suffrage campaign and we celebrate the contribution of female artists.
 
For the last two weeks we've been asking Front Row listeners to nominate their favourite art work by a woman. Jenny Éclair and Rosie Fletcher come into the studio to champion their picks in a head to head choosing Tracey Emin's My Bed and Nora Ephron's script for When Harry Met Sally respectively. 
 
In Spring 1907 the first suffragette play opened at the Royal Court - Votes for Women by Elizabeth Robins. This rarely performed play is being revived by the New Vic in Newcastle-under-Lyme and we speak to adaptor and director of the production Theresa Heskins about whether the play has relevance today.
 
Annie Swynnerton was a suffragist and the first woman to be elected to the Royal Academy of Art.  As a retrospective of her work prepares to open at Manchester Art Gallery, Charlotte Keatley gets a sneak preview and explains Swynnerton's significance.
 
Performance poet Kat Francois reads and discusses a poem commissioned by Front Row to mark 100 years since women got the vote.
 
Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Hannah Robins.

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