KP/AK/5/2/3 - Letter, Annie Kenney to The News of the World, 19/3/1951

Reference code

KP/AK/5/2/3

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Item

Title

Letter, Annie Kenney to The News of the World, 19/3/1951

Date/s

19/3/1951

Quantity & Format

1 Letters (typescript)

Creator

Kenney, Annie, 1879-1953

Creator

News of the World. John Hilton Bureau

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

Annie Kenney writes to the John Hilton Bureu at The News of the World to seek legal advice with regards to protesting against the representation she was subjected to in BBC’s radio play 'The Women’s Rebellion' broadcast six days earlier. The programme was scripted by Jill Craigie and aimed to tell the story of the suffragette movement. But Annie saw her portrayal in it as “quite inaccurate” and in other related correspondence her son, Warwick Kenney-Taylor, tells us that it caused his mother a great deal of distress. Annie was not consulted during the making or production of the programme and after she and the Kenney family made their thoughts on the matter clear, the BBC pulled the play and apologised to Annie.

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Existence and location of copies

A digital copy may be viewed at Suffragette Stories: https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/items/show/62

KP - The Kenney Papers
- KP/AK - Annie Kenney
  - KP/AK/5 - Films; Radio and TV programmes
    - KP/AK/5/2 - BBC Radio Play, 'The Women's Rebellion'
      - KP/AK/5/2/3 - Letter, Annie Kenney to The News of the World, 19/3/1951

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