Editor’s pick: Were the suffragettes terrorists?
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🗓️ 18 December 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:50.3 | I'm Ellie Cawthorne. |
| 0:56.2 | For today's podcast, we're bringing you an editor's pick, |
| 1:00.2 | in which a member of our team chooses one of their own personal highlights from our back catalogue. |
| 1:05.4 | Today's episode is my own personal pick, |
| 1:07.9 | a conversation I had back in 2018 with the historian Fern Riddell about the |
| 1:13.1 | violence of the suffragette campaign. That year marked the centenary of some women in Britain |
| 1:18.3 | getting the vote and I was interviewing Fern about her book, Death in 10 Minutes. I thought this |
| 1:24.2 | would be an interesting interview to revisit, not just because Fern is such an engaging speaker, and it's a subject that I personally find fascinating, but also because the debate that Fern sparked about whether we should see the suffragettes as terrorists really seemed to hit a nerve with listeners last time round. So Fern, thanks for joining me. |
| 1:44.9 | You're welcome, really. |
| 1:45.7 | So your new book, Death in Ten Minutes, looks at The Life of Kitty Marion, |
| 1:49.3 | who was a musical star turned suffragette. |
| 1:51.6 | Could you perhaps introduce us to Kitty Marion, |
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