The Pankhursts | Women at War | 2

British Scandal

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

4.5 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The Pankhursts’ movement has a new name. The Suffragettes. They're reinvigorated, but fresh-faced Prime Minister Asquith is determined to ignore them. So the Suffragettes resort to a shocking new tactic. One that could prove deadly.

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0:00.0	Matt can you help me with something?
0:05.8	Sure.
0:06.8	I'm just writing some of these sort of suffragette champs and I've got a bit stuck so all
0:10.7	I've got is one two three four votes for women make it law yeah it's good I mean I think we
0:16.0	could do better one two three four don't rock the boat don't ask for more. Yeah no rhymes which is good I guess like pro
0:25.7	women pro rights progressive we need to hold the establishment to account okay
0:30.8	nine ten eleven twelve will take your first answer. We won't delve.
0:36.0	I don't actually even know what that means, so probably not that one. It's very long.
0:39.0	27, 28, 2930.
0:41.0	Protesting all the time will make you dirty.
0:44.7	Don't worry about it.
0:47.1	January 1914, Holloway Prison, London.
0:55.0	Christabelle wakes with a start. Her sheets are sodden with sweat.
0:58.0	She blinks through the darkness.
1:00.0	Tries to remember where she is. A scream cuts through the silence.
1:07.0	Mama?
1:10.0	She tries to sit up, but a stabbing pain in her stomach forces her back down.
1:15.0	She cries out again.
1:17.0	Mama!
1:19.0	And then the noise of heavy keys in a door.
1:23.6	The hard click of a deadbolt.
1:26.6	Christabelle's heart sinks, as she remembers she's in prison.
	...

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