Hello, I'm Krestey Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1994, and the presenter was Sue Lawley. My castaway this week is a journalist and feminist. She started young. In

1926 at the age of 19, she became women's editor of the Leicester male. But her

career reached its peak 30 years later when she became women's editor of the Guardian.

Here she encouraged many distinguished writers and the campaigns conducted on her

pages led to the foundation of several important women's organisations, such as the National Housewives Register.

Her support of feminist issues has been ardent, but never strident.

Now 87 and a widow, she can look back on a long and happy marriage and a life devoted to making that of other women better.

She is Mary Stott.

Fury is her fuel, Mary, one of your successes at the Guardian wrote about you.

Do you still get furious about things?

No, furious is an angry word and I'm not an angry person.

You're not an aggressive feminist.

I've never been.

No, no, I'm not aggressive by nature at all.

But what gets you all worked up?

What sort of issues do you care about today at 87?

Oh, it is when women are put down and not given a fair show.

That's one of the things that really does bother me.

Of course, I mean the ill treatment of children and all the things that we all share

and anger about, but I suppose my special thing that gets me stirred up is when I think women aren't getting a fair deal.

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