Fighting for the Vote
Peter West tells the story of the Suffragette protests of the early 20th century. With interviews, film and photographs.
It took women from 1866 to 1918 to win the vote. Peter West tells the story of the struggle, with film, photographs, and eye-witness accounts. Dame Christabel Pankhurst, leading member of the Suffragette Fellowship; Lady Astor; Lady Violet Bonham Carter, and Lord Pethick-Lawrence are among the people describing their own part in these events.
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Votes for women: a suffragette remembers
Duration: 02:39
Credits
Peter West………………………………………………… Presenter
Baroness Asquith, Violet Carter………………….......... Interviewee
Nancy Astor……………………………………………….. Interviewee
Lionel Gadstone………………………………………...… Interviewee
Phyllis Green……………………………………………… Interviewee
Jessey Kenney……………………………………………. Interviewee
Charlotte Marsh………………………………………….... Interviewee
Winifred Mayo Matters-Porter………………….............. Interviewee
Christabel Pankhurst…………………………………....... Interviewee
Grace Ree Pothick-Lawrence………………………........ Interviewee
Marian Reeves………………………………………..…... Interviewee
Gordon Richardson……………………………………...... Actor
Mary Stocks……………………………………………….. Interviewee
Paul Johnstone…………………………………………..... Producer
Nancy Thomas…………………………………………..... Director
Broadcast
- Tue 14 May 1957 22:05Â鶹ԼÅÄ Television Service
