KP/AK/5/3 - BBC TV programme, 'The Suffragette'

KP/AK/5/3

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BBC TV programme, 'The Suffragette'

1951

A few months after the broadcast of the radio play 'The Women's Rebellion' (see sub-file KP/AK/5/2), a television programme entitled 'The Suffragette' was planned. In the light of the reaction of Annie Kenney and her family to the radio play, the script for the TV production was submitted for Annie's approval in advance. This play was fictional, but based on the life of Charlotte Marsh. The file contains: correspondence between Annie Kenney, Christabel Pankhurst, Jessie Kenney, and Warwick and Joan Kenney-Taylor, and Norman Swallow and Eric Stenton of the BBC; a copy of the script of the play; and a copy of Radio Times, 8-14 July 1951 containing a related article by Cicely Hamilton.