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Free Thinking: Sarah Maldoror, Storm Jameson, The Hague Congress

Sarah Maldoror, Storm Jameson, The Hague Congress

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Sarah Maldoror, Storm Jameson, The Hague Congress

Ahead of International Women's Day, Shahidha Bari hears stories linking women with war.

Shahidha Bari hears research on a 1915 international women's peace congress, the work of Storm Jameson with WWII refugee writers and the Algerian war film made by Sarah Maldoror.

1,300 women met in The Hague in 1915 to discuss votes for women, human rights and the importance of peace.  Jennifer Thomson shares her research into how this fed into the development of the women's movement and fed into organisations like the United Nations.  Storm Jameson (1891-1986) was President of the English branch of PEN International during WWII and helped many writers flee war torn Europe. Katie Cooper has been reading her newly re-published autobiography Journey From the North. Sarah Maldoror (1929 −2020) is best known for her feature film Sambizanga which looked at the 1961–1974 war in Angola. New Generation Thinkers Alex Reza and Sarah Jilani discuss her film-making career.  Shahidha Bari hosts. 

Producer: Ruth Watts 

You can find a collection of Free Thinking episodes exploring Women in the World from Julian of Norwich to Hilma Af Klint, women warriors to stepmothers, landladies and divas.

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