Tag Archives: lesley abdela

The Voice

LISTEN: Great Lives: Millicent Garrett Fawcett

By The Voice | Sun 19th June 2016 - 1:30 pm

The BBC has made their programme in the Great Lives series on Millicent Garrett Fawcett available free on iPlayer.

Listen to it here.

Lesley Abdela talks to Matthew Parris on Fawcett’s life and achievements and the way she campaigned, rejecting militancy and building up support for a variety of causes so that it eventually became obvious that women should have the vote.

She talks about how, as a teenager, Millicent, her sister and a friend discussed how they were going to break into male dominated areas like medicine and politics.

There’s also the story of her being robbed and when the thief appeared in court, the property he stole was described as that of Fawcett’s husband.

Matthew Parris was pretty rude to Lesley Abdela, telling her that her name sounded like a council estate named by Ken Livingstone. She dealt with that by saying she’d be very pleased for that to happen.

Continue reading »
Posted in News | Also tagged and | 3 Comments
Advert

Recent Comments

  • Iain Donaldson
    Thanks Mim, That's fair as a description of the counting process, but I think it's worth separating the voter experience from the administrator experience. ...
  • Peter Martin
    @ Kira, I don't think many, if anyone, are seriously suggesting that we should all be exactly equal regardless of the effort we might put in. The question...
  • Iain Donaldson
    I think the main point of disagreement concerns the relationship between fiscal autonomy and monetary sovereignty. It is certainly true that only a currency ...
  • Iain Donaldson
    I think there is actually significant common ground between the comments by both Petyer and Kira, and the original article. The article does not argue that c...
  • theakes
    As someone who is paying for a grand-child at a private school and a Liberal left of centre person since 1961 I really think Tom needs to relax. The school has...