The Pankhursts | Deeds Not Words | 1

British Scandal

Wondery

Scandal, Alice Levine, Great Britain, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, British, England, History, Matt Forde, Documentary

4.5 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In 1918, women were allowed to run for Parliament in the UK. But most couldn't even vote. Ten years later, that finally changed. At the heart of that monumental shift was a family who wouldn't take no for an answer.

Do you have a suggestion for a scandal you'd like us to cover? Or perhaps you have a question you would like to ask our hosts? Email us at [email protected]

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Wundry Plus is better than ever with updates just for our UK listeners.
0:04.1	Wundry Plus subscribers can listen to British scandal early and ad free.
0:08.2	Join Wundry Plus in the Woundry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:11.9	Start your free trial now.
0:14.0	Hi Matt, so shall we just get going?
0:20.0	Yes, I have got an amazing series.
0:24.0	Oh, oh, sorry, I think I'm leading this week.
0:26.7	No, it's about the suffragette, so I'm going to read it.
0:29.0	I just think it makes more sense.
0:31.9	Yeah, do you? Because I've obviously done lots of reading and I think it kind of makes
0:38.0	Yeah, that's lovely. That's a really sweet little hobby you've got going there, but um this is politics and I'm a man so
0:44.8	yeah yeah it's obviously a movement about women's rights and women's right to
0:49.1	vote and giving women a voice so do you think it feels like kind of a bit ironic if I was going to do it and then you've
0:54.3	taken it from me and you're going to do it?
0:56.3	Let me just explain to you why it's just more sensible, it's just more calm if you just let the man read it out.
1:05.0	Okay, fine, honestly, I just don't even know if I've got the fight in me.
1:08.0	Yeah, I don't think the optics are going to be great and it won't look great on social media,
1:11.0	but yeah, go for it.
1:12.0	What, won't be good for me?
1:14.0	I think it'll look terrible for you.
1:15.5	I was coming to the point actually that as an ally I think I'm going to graciously stand aside and I'm going to let you read this series.
1:27.0	Right, yeah I must have missed that. Okay.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -161 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wondery, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Wondery and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.