Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor (Omnibus)

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Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor by Adrian Fort (Omnibus)

The fascinating life of the first woman to take a seat in the British Parliament.

The fascinating life of the first woman to take a seat in the British Parliament in 1919. Read by Anna Maxwell Martin.

The fascinating story of Nancy Astor, the first woman elected to take a seat in the British Parliament.

Born in 1879, hers was a fascinating life.

From straitened beginnings in the Civil War-ravaged Deep South of America to marriage into one of the world's richest families.

She also ran a straight-talking campaign conducted door-to-door in one of the most deprived areas of Plymouth which brought her a political career that lasted more than two decades, from 1919 until 1945.

Far from being a hardened campaigner who had suffered for the cause of female suffrage, she was already near the centre of ruling society, having married one of the richest men in the world. 

Thought not British, Nancy became a trailblazer and beacon for the generations of women who would follow her into Parliament.

Biography written by Adrian Fort..

Omnibus of five parts abridged by Alison Joseph.

Read by Anna Maxwell Martin.  

Producer: Kirsteen Cameron.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2012.

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