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The dramatic life of Emilie Peacocke, the first woman journalist on the Daily Express. Janys Chambers's play with Kathryn Hunt. From June 1999.

Emille Peacocke (1882-1964) - daughter of a well-respected Northern newspaper family - takes Edwardian Fleet Street by storm, as she refuses to take no for an answer in her quest to become a real journalist.

Her subjects range from Suffragettes to Archbishops, trousseaux to the Telegraph, as she makes her mark as the first woman journalist on the Daily Express.

The final play in a trilogy examining the lives and writing of three pioneering women journalists.

Janys Chambers' dramatised account stars Kathryn Hunt as Emilie, Melissa Sinden as Mary McArthur, Sarah Parks as Lady Lytton, Morgan George as Herbert Peacocke, Russell Dixon as Ralph D Blumenfield, Alice French as Young Emilie, James Nickerson as Randal Charlton and Geoffrey Banks as Arnold Bennett.

Directed at Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Manchester by Polly Thomas.

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in 1999.

45 minutes

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