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Hello and thank you for downloading Witness from the BBC World Service with me Simon Watts.

Today we're going back to the 1960s and the story of a remarkable group of British

working class women who became known as the Headscarf Revolutionaries.

They fought a successful campaign to reform the

notoriously dangerous fishing industry based in the port of Hull.

59 men dead, free trawlers lost and three more stranded in the unbearably cold waters off Iceland.

In the winter of 1968, Trulerman from Hull paid a deadly price for bringing Britain its fish.

They continued to go with a fish where, even though they knew it was dangerous.

Being a trawler man is always dangerous.

But this time their wives left at home for weeks on end while their husbands were away fishing

said enough was enough.

You wanted to help. You wasn't quite sure what you could do, but you knew that you could do something.

Some of them came to London.

Something they demanded had to be done before more men died.

In the 1960s, the British deep water fishing industry was the biggest in the world.

It was based in the northeastern port of Hull,

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