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.
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