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Deeds not words | 4. Cat and mouse

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The suffragettes’ relationship with the British establishment was fractious to say the least. As well as experiencing police brutality on the streets, the activists were subjected to violent force-feeding in response to hunger strikes in prison. But, as we reveal in the fourth episode of our new series Deeds not words, when faced with this opposition, the suffragettes found ingenious ways of fighting back. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This October, a remarkable true story comes to the big screen. I have Tourette syndrome and it makes me tick. In the film, critics are calling powerful and life affirming. The problem is that people don't know enough about Tourette's. I can sit here, but I can help this lad. Laugh out loud funny and uplifting. That young man would not harm a fly and he makes a damn fine cup of tea.

1:27.6

With a brilliant lead performance, it's unmissable.

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Starring Robert Arameo, Maxine P, Peter Mullen and Shirley Henderson, I swear in Cinemas October 10.

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1:47.0

You found me in Parliament Square and it's a scene that you probably would recognise from the evening

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news.

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Just over there is where the political correspondents

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