Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Feminist campaigner Lesley Abdela chooses suffragist Millicent Fawcett. With Matthew Parris and Elizabeth Crawford. From 2006.
For 50 years, Millicent Garrett Fawcett struggled to win the right to vote for women in Britain.
Yet today she is little-known compared to the suffragette leaders who took a more militant course.
Feminist campaigner Lesley Abdela discusses the extraordinary 'MGF', with Matthew Parris.
The expert witness is historian Elizabeth Crawford.
Producer: Peter Everett
First broadcast on 成人快手 Radio 4 in December 2006.
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