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Maggie Allen - Not Me, But Us

Drama: Biographical

Drama: Historical

Maggie Allen's story of Sophia-Jex Blake, a 19th-century campaigner for women's education.

Maggie Allen's story of Sophia-Jex Blake, a medical pioneer who campaigned for women's education in the 19th century.

Maggie Allen - Not Me, But Us: Beginnings

24/09/2018

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The story of a medical pioneer who campaigned for women's education in the 19th century.

4 Extra Debut. The story of Sophia-Jex Blake, a medical pioneer who campaigned for women's education in the 19th century. Stars Julia Watson.

It's 1866 and self-described "educationalist" Sophia Jex-Blake returns from North America frustrated at opportunities available to women in Britain, particularly in medicine.

Sophie's increasingly convinced she'd like to train to be a doctor, but odds are stacked against her - and the one person she hopes will support her turns out not to be an ally.

Maggie Allen's ten-part dramatisation of the life the medical pioneer who campaigned for women's right to education in the late 19th century.

Starring Julia Watson as Sophia Jex-Blake; Tina Gray as Mrs Jex-Blake; Michelle Newell as the physician and suffragist Elizabeth Garret Anderson; and Richard Derrington as Henry Fawcett MP.

Director: Sue Wilson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.

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