0:00:02 > 0:00:04# Nana was a suffragette Almost the last alive
0:00:04 > 0:00:07# Nana was a suffragette
0:00:07 > 0:00:09# Over 95
0:00:09 > 0:00:12# She sang, "Votes for women
0:00:12 > 0:00:14# "Is just the beginning
0:00:14 > 0:00:19# "You haven't seen anything yet"
0:00:19 > 0:00:22# Oh, Nana was a suffragette. #
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Ah, good afternoon, Thomas. Welcome to the jam sale.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32Yes, unfortunately, I don't have any jam.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35- But I have made this. - Oh, what is it?
0:00:35 > 0:00:37Well, it will assist us
0:00:37 > 0:00:40in showing the donor that every ha'penny counts.
0:00:40 > 0:00:41Yes, perhaps we might call it a...
0:00:41 > 0:00:44a visual chart for the calculation of total funds - or some such.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46Wonderful idea! How does it work?
0:00:46 > 0:00:48You ask me how much we have raised thus far,
0:00:48 > 0:00:50I refer to this and I tell you.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53How much have we raised thus far, Thomas?
0:00:53 > 0:00:54Ummm...
0:00:57 > 0:00:58..nuppence!
0:00:58 > 0:01:01Goodness. What a clever thing! Well done!
0:01:02 > 0:01:04Ooh, am I the first one?
0:01:04 > 0:01:07No, I believe that would be me and Thomas.
0:01:07 > 0:01:12Oh, yes! Oh, no! Oh, I didn't bring any jam. I am so sorry.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14Moderation ate all the gooseberries
0:01:14 > 0:01:17and then John filled the rest of the jars with tadpoles.
0:01:17 > 0:01:21Hello, Margaret, Eva, Master Grisham.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25- I've brought my jams.- Oh, good. - Shall I talk you through them?
0:01:25 > 0:01:26Yes, please, Gwen.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30Strawberry jam.
0:01:31 > 0:01:32Plum jam.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39Right, yes...thank you, Gwen. Well done.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42I just don't understand jam sales.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44What don't you understand, Eva?
0:01:44 > 0:01:46Well, we're making jam to sell to each other
0:01:46 > 0:01:49- to raise money for ourselves.- Yes.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51Why don't we just give the money to ourselves
0:01:51 > 0:01:53and not bother with the jam business?
0:01:53 > 0:01:56Oh, Eva! How could you say such a thing?
0:01:56 > 0:01:58Well, if I asked, Charlie would just give us a guinea.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00"Just give us a guinea"!
0:02:00 > 0:02:03A jam sale is not just a way of raising funds, Eva,
0:02:03 > 0:02:05it is a bonding, unifying activity -
0:02:05 > 0:02:09a way of creating passion and interest in our cause.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11These jars of jam will cohese our group
0:02:11 > 0:02:13and galvanise the wider society.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18Goodness, Margaret, I had no idea how important my jam was.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20If I'd known, I'd have brought my damson.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25- Can you manage the jam stall, Thomas?- Yes, I think so.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29Afternoon, ladies, Thomas.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32There's a letter for you. It's got a London postmark.
0:02:32 > 0:02:37The return address is WSPU, Caxton Hall, London.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39It's from the Women's Social and Political Union!
0:02:39 > 0:02:41Goodness, Margaret, how exciting!
0:02:41 > 0:02:43The WSPU!
0:02:43 > 0:02:44(What's that?)
0:02:44 > 0:02:45(I'm not sure.)
0:02:47 > 0:02:48Emmeline Pankhurst.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52- Oh, open it, Margaret! Open it! - I'm here! I'm here!
0:02:52 > 0:02:57Apologies for my mild tardiness, we are just returned
0:02:57 > 0:03:00from luncheon with the Smuths of Sheffield.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03Yes, THE Smuths.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07Oh, Emily, I love your hair like that!
0:03:08 > 0:03:10I hate it.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Jonty Smuth was there, of course.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15He was quite taken with Emily's recital.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17- Oh, what did you sing? - Some Hildegard of Bingen.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21Oh, I adore Hildegard of Bingen! Was it the Canticles Of Ecstasy?
0:03:21 > 0:03:26# Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh... #
0:03:26 > 0:03:28No, 11,000 virgins.
0:03:28 > 0:03:30Oh, I adore that one, too!
0:03:30 > 0:03:34# Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh... #
0:03:34 > 0:03:37So who is this Jonty Smuth?
0:03:37 > 0:03:40Only Sheffield's most eligible bachelor,
0:03:40 > 0:03:44heir to the Smuth spoon-manufacturing empire.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47Some halfwit she barely knows.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49Ah, that takes me back to my courting days.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53- We are not courting!! - Ooh, Emily, Margaret's had a letter
0:03:53 > 0:03:59- from the WW... What was it? The Emmeline Pankhurst Society.- Really?
0:03:59 > 0:04:04Is she coming to your jam sale? Why on Earth would she write to you?
0:04:04 > 0:04:07Well, after the runaway success of our march on the post office,
0:04:07 > 0:04:09I wrote to Emmeline Pankhurst -
0:04:09 > 0:04:11courtesy of the Women's Social and Political Union -
0:04:11 > 0:04:14informing her of our little Banbury Suffrage Group.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17I hoped for nothing more than a perfunctory note of acknowledgement.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20- I never expected a reply! - What did you write?
0:04:20 > 0:04:22Oh, just a 15-page letter with diagrams
0:04:22 > 0:04:24and a comical poem about suffragettes.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26- You wrote a comical poem? - Yes, I did.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28"Proud To Be A Suffragette". Want to hear it?
0:04:28 > 0:04:31- Is it long?- Ooh, yes, Margaret!
0:04:31 > 0:04:34Oh, er, let me see if I can remember it.
0:04:34 > 0:04:35Um...'Proud to be a suffragette!
0:04:35 > 0:04:37'We fight to find our rights well met!
0:04:37 > 0:04:38'We climb on chairs and stand on soap box,
0:04:38 > 0:04:40'We'll never be the ones you out-fox.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42'We march and sing from dawn to dusk
0:04:42 > 0:04:43'And call to Asquith, "Our vote's a must".
0:04:43 > 0:04:46LIGHT APPLAUSE
0:04:46 > 0:04:48I thought you said it was comical?
0:04:49 > 0:04:53- Yes, perhaps not comical, more light hearted. It gets funnier later.- How?
0:04:53 > 0:04:56Oh, well, verse 14 is VERY funny.
0:04:57 > 0:04:58Do share.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00'You shackled us to our wifely duties,
0:05:00 > 0:05:02'Now we're marching in our booties
0:05:04 > 0:05:06'To shout to government, "Enough's Enough!"
0:05:06 > 0:05:07'You must give in or we'll get rough!
0:05:07 > 0:05:09'Although within the bounds of law -
0:05:09 > 0:05:11'We're suffragettes! Now hear us roar!'
0:05:11 > 0:05:14I don't see how that's any funnier.
0:05:14 > 0:05:18- Well, the booties is funny, isn't it?- No.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20Oh, do read the reply, Margaret!
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Oh, erm...
0:05:23 > 0:05:27'Dear Mrs Unwin" - that's me! - "Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst...
0:05:27 > 0:05:30"thanks you for your letter and has asked me to convey that
0:05:30 > 0:05:33"though she very much enjoyed your poem,
0:05:33 > 0:05:36"she felt she should point out it was not, strictly speaking,
0:05:36 > 0:05:38"comical.
0:05:38 > 0:05:43"However, in coincidence with Mrs Pankhurst's impending tour
0:05:43 > 0:05:44"of Oxfordshire next Wednesday,
0:05:44 > 0:05:48"our esteemed leader and a small phalanx of her closest lieutenants
0:05:48 > 0:05:52"would be delighted to attend a rally of your Suffrage Society
0:05:52 > 0:05:54"with a view to inducting your group
0:05:54 > 0:05:57"officially into the ranks of the WSPU."
0:05:57 > 0:05:59Oooh," lieutenants".
0:06:00 > 0:06:03I don't think they're those types of lieutenants. More, lady tenants.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06Well, any port in a storm.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09Emmeline Pankhurst is coming here?
0:06:09 > 0:06:12Yes. Next Wednesday.
0:06:12 > 0:06:13Oh, goodness.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15And she wants to make us one of her!
0:06:15 > 0:06:17This is so exciting!
0:06:17 > 0:06:19Don't you get excited, Emily.
0:06:19 > 0:06:20Next Wednesday, you'll be visiting
0:06:20 > 0:06:23the spoon-manufacturing plant at the Sheffield Smuths.
0:06:25 > 0:06:26I will not!
0:06:26 > 0:06:29I knew a Lieutenant in Genoa.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32He invited me to his barracks, where he taught me chess,
0:06:32 > 0:06:37and I would often play late into the night with his privates.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42I'll have to spruce up the hall, varnish the floors,
0:06:42 > 0:06:44fix that wobbly cobble on the path.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47Forge a new weathervane, in the shape of Pankhurst's face?
0:06:47 > 0:06:50Yes, excellent idea, Helen. Can we do that, Mr Millar?
0:06:51 > 0:06:56Oh, er...I'll talk to Bert.
0:06:56 > 0:07:01The colliery band - that's what we need, to lead a welcome parade!
0:07:01 > 0:07:06Mr Sweet with his euphonium. He's got the fastest fingers in Banbury.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09Ooh, you must introduce me.
0:07:09 > 0:07:13- Yes! Us, we, all of us... - Not me.- Not Helen.
0:07:13 > 0:07:19..dressed as a living tableau of outstanding women through the ages!
0:07:19 > 0:07:23You, Gwen, as Joan of Arc. You, Eva, the Virgin Mary.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26And you, Myrtle, Catherine the Great.
0:07:26 > 0:07:30- Can't I be the Queen of Sheba? - Yes, yes, why not?
0:07:30 > 0:07:33And you, Margaret, as Queen Boadicea.
0:07:34 > 0:07:35Or Barbara Grant.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37Who's Barbara Grant?
0:07:37 > 0:07:39She wrote an epoch-defining article
0:07:39 > 0:07:42on the rules of lighthouse maintenance, in 1864.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44She rewrote the rule book on rule books.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47Might I be part of this tableau?
0:07:47 > 0:07:50Well, it's for outstanding women, Thomas, sorry.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53Yes, yes, I think I see.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56Though, perhaps, I might compose a piece for the colliery band.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59I have been toying with some movements in the pentatonic scale.
0:07:59 > 0:08:00Quite revolutionary.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02Oh, yes, oh, yes!
0:08:02 > 0:08:04Margaret, if there's going to be music,
0:08:04 > 0:08:07I could get my little rabbits to do a gymnastics display?
0:08:07 > 0:08:10They could do their human pyramid?
0:08:10 > 0:08:13On the bottom you've got Liberty, Charity, Patience, Providence, Prudence.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16On top of that, Justina, Earnestina, Constance, Clemence.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19On top of that, Chastity, Virginity and Abstinence
0:08:19 > 0:08:22and on top, Moderation, like a little fat cherry!
0:08:24 > 0:08:27And where's John?
0:08:27 > 0:08:30Oh, we just dress him up as a Pharaoh and let him run around.
0:08:32 > 0:08:37Oh, such a shame you shan't be here to welcome Emmeline Pankhurst, Helen.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40It won't be the same without you.
0:08:40 > 0:08:44It's pathetic. All this fuss just because Goulden Girl is coming to Banbury.
0:08:44 > 0:08:45Goulden Girl?
0:08:45 > 0:08:50Goulden was her maiden name. We were at school together.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54You were at school with Emmeline Pankhurst,
0:08:54 > 0:08:57the holiest warrior of them all?
0:08:57 > 0:08:59- Why didn't you tell us? - Why on earth would I?
0:08:59 > 0:09:01She was eminently forgettable.
0:09:01 > 0:09:06A mousey little thing, plain and stout with a shrill little laugh.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08She always had to be best at everything
0:09:08 > 0:09:14and she would trill around the corridors intoning Carmen in that tinny vibrato of hers.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16I barely remember her at all.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19She sounds enchanting.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23- Well, she wasn't. She couldn't even tie a bow.- Nor can I!
0:09:23 > 0:09:26- She was left-handed.- So am I!
0:09:26 > 0:09:31- And extremely weak at napkin folding.- I also! Oh!
0:09:31 > 0:09:33Do you think she has many friends?
0:09:33 > 0:09:35I wonder if she and I might start a correspondence...
0:09:35 > 0:09:37I could perhaps precis my essay on female physiognomy
0:09:37 > 0:09:40and give it to her and she and I could discuss it at length.
0:09:40 > 0:09:44- I mean I certainly won't bombard her or monopolise her. - Oh, there's no fear of that.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47I imagine she will dislike you intensely.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51You are exactly the sort of girl that she would sneer at and...
0:09:51 > 0:09:52pick on!
0:09:52 > 0:09:55Goodness, really? No!? Did she?
0:09:55 > 0:09:56Was she...a bully?!
0:09:56 > 0:09:58No, no, no, not that.
0:09:58 > 0:10:03- Oh! Oh! Oh! Everybody! Oh! - What is it, Gwen?- Mrs Pankhurst's letter! It's dated the 30th March.
0:10:03 > 0:10:09I know for a fact that was a week ago because Mother has her ears syringed that day every year
0:10:09 > 0:10:10and also it's my birthday.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14- Let me see! - Is it your birthday, Gwen?
0:10:14 > 0:10:17No, that letter was written a week ago.
0:10:17 > 0:10:21She's right. Mrs Pankhurst is coming today at four o'clock.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24Oh! Oh! Oh! Nobody panic!
0:10:25 > 0:10:27Everybody stay... Nobody stay...
0:10:27 > 0:10:29Absolutely calm!
0:10:29 > 0:10:30Pull yourselves together,
0:10:30 > 0:10:33she's just another miner's daughter on the make.
0:10:33 > 0:10:34Help move the chairs, at least, Helen!
0:10:34 > 0:10:37- Where are you moving them?- I don't know!- Breathe, Margaret, breathe.
0:10:37 > 0:10:41- I can't... I can't... - Hands above your head!
0:10:41 > 0:10:43- It's not helping! - Hands down.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49- Thank you, Helen.- Not at all.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51All will be well. All will be well.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53There goes our tableau.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55No, no, Myrtle, it will go ahead - merely abridged!
0:10:55 > 0:10:59We may have to lose some outstanding women, but the message will shine through.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02Shall I see if any of the marching band boys are about now?
0:11:02 > 0:11:04I can make my ten-minute trifle, it only takes ten minutes.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07Yes, I'll make it in the colours of suffragism!
0:11:07 > 0:11:10- Excellent.- What are they? - Purple, white and green.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13What about the costumes for the tableau?
0:11:13 > 0:11:15I shall cohese and galvanise, Margaret.
0:11:15 > 0:11:20- All we need are sheets and ivy! - Well done, Gwen! Excellent!
0:11:20 > 0:11:24- Oh. I haven't any ivy or sheets.- We do!
0:11:24 > 0:11:28We have a whole bundle of old linen we were taking to the workhouse, don't we, Mother?
0:11:28 > 0:11:30- I'll go and get it. - I can come and help you!
0:11:30 > 0:11:33No, you will not! I shall fetch them.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35Thank you, Helen. I'll get my trifle started.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38Emily, wait in the kitchen with Gwen!
0:11:39 > 0:11:44I will need an exotic haunting intro and a veil...
0:11:44 > 0:11:45I can play this.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48Perhaps you could play The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba by Handel!
0:11:48 > 0:11:51- Do you know it?- I think so.
0:11:53 > 0:11:59MUSIC: London's Burning
0:11:59 > 0:12:02Yes, perhaps try just slower and more hauntingly.
0:12:03 > 0:12:08PLAYS VERY SLOWLY
0:12:10 > 0:12:13I like your hair, Emily!
0:12:13 > 0:12:15I hate it!
0:12:15 > 0:12:20I can't bear that I shall meet Emmeline Pankhurst looking like a trussed up chicken.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Why must women slavishly adorn themselves like painted mannequins?
0:12:25 > 0:12:26May I help you?
0:12:27 > 0:12:31Oh, yes, please. Could you two crumble the sponge?
0:12:31 > 0:12:34I know you've got your best frock on, Emily, but I'm in such a rush!
0:12:38 > 0:12:42I'm adding a drop of lavender food colouring into the suffrage custard.
0:12:42 > 0:12:43How clever of you, Gwen!
0:12:43 > 0:12:49This crumbly sponge is like the merciless sand dunes of an endless desert
0:12:49 > 0:12:51betwixt me and the ocean of...
0:12:51 > 0:12:54Purple custard! Ready for pouring!
0:12:55 > 0:12:59Thomas, we're in need of your musical prowess!
0:12:59 > 0:13:02Excuse me, Gwen, Miss Emily.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09Are you excited about singing for Mrs Pankhurst, Emily?
0:13:09 > 0:13:11I do hope she likes my trifle.
0:13:11 > 0:13:12I hate Mother.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14Oh, Emily, you shouldn't say such a thing!
0:13:14 > 0:13:17Why? It's true! She's horrible!
0:13:17 > 0:13:23Beastly. Look at this stupid hair, shoving me at squinty faced boys who make jokes about poor people.
0:13:23 > 0:13:29Oh, Emily, if only you knew how lucky you were, the whole world ahead of you.
0:13:29 > 0:13:34Suitors lining up left, right and centre, a wedding bed, children.
0:13:34 > 0:13:38Those are the things dreams are made of.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40Not my dreams, Gwen. Not mine.
0:13:40 > 0:13:44I had one proposal from Kenneth Hillingdon.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47There's not a day goes by that I don't re-live that moment.
0:13:47 > 0:13:51Him holding up a dandelion to me, down on one knee by the dung heap.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55Why did you refuse him?
0:13:55 > 0:13:58He was a bit, not quite right in the head
0:13:58 > 0:14:03and he had a very protuberant Adam's apple and halitosis.
0:14:06 > 0:14:10But Mother disapproved, so...
0:14:11 > 0:14:14Emily! What have you done?
0:14:16 > 0:14:19- Goodness! Emily! Are you quite all right?- Emily, you're naked!
0:14:19 > 0:14:22I'm sorry, Miss Emily, you're undressed.
0:14:22 > 0:14:25I want to meet Emmeline as I am. I am wearing my hair down like this
0:14:25 > 0:14:29- because I believe that the hair bun is women's iron mask.- Is it?
0:14:29 > 0:14:31Uncover your eyes, Thomas. It's only hair.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34But will I compromise your sweet virtue?
0:14:34 > 0:14:37The hair bun is a mocking helmet of harnessed power and freedom.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39Is it? I had no idea!
0:14:39 > 0:14:42I'm back, I'm back. Emily!
0:14:42 > 0:14:45What on earth do you think you're doing?!
0:14:45 > 0:14:46It's my hair.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49No it is not! It belongs to me
0:14:49 > 0:14:50and Jesus!
0:14:53 > 0:14:57I am wearing my hair as nature and God intended me to.
0:14:57 > 0:15:01I always thought that God preferred us to wear our hair in buns.
0:15:01 > 0:15:02He most certainly does.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Did the Virgin Mary wear her hair in a bun?
0:15:04 > 0:15:06No, but I do think she had a fringe.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11No, the Virgin Mary did not have a fringe, Gwen.
0:15:11 > 0:15:15Well you can't see it but it's definitely there.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17Fringes weren't invented then.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20Margaret would know. Margaret, when were fringes invented?
0:15:20 > 0:15:21No-one invented the fringe, Gwen,
0:15:21 > 0:15:25but Joan of Arc most certainly made them popular.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27The Virgin Mary did not have a fringe,
0:15:27 > 0:15:31nor did she walk around with her hair billowing in the fornicacious wind.
0:15:32 > 0:15:33Put it up at once!
0:15:33 > 0:15:38It's the fashion! Very much a la mode in bohemian Chelsea.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40I think she looks beautiful.
0:15:40 > 0:15:46Like a Rossetti heroine glowing and warm from a bed of sin.
0:15:47 > 0:15:52Some of us are capable of enduring duty in the exaltation of our ideals, Mother.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54Oh, get off the cross, Helen! We need the wood!
0:15:58 > 0:16:00Emily! We are leaving right now!
0:16:02 > 0:16:04I got as much of the band as I could.
0:16:04 > 0:16:10Everyone except the horn section, and the cymbals, the euphonium, the cornets and the tuba.
0:16:10 > 0:16:15- So...- Two tenor trombones. Only, one of them doesn't think women should have votes.
0:16:15 > 0:16:18So, it's just the one - trombone.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20Well done, Frank!
0:16:20 > 0:16:23The thing is, Mrs Unwin, she's here!
0:16:23 > 0:16:25Mrs Pankhurst is coming up the drive!
0:16:25 > 0:16:29Oh, goodness, she was always early! Oh, good Lord.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33Quick! Quick! Gwen, get the trifle. Get the trifle, Gwen!
0:16:33 > 0:16:35Actually, no, no. There's no time. No time, no time.
0:16:35 > 0:16:40Battalion, troops, troops, troops. Everyone in line. Everyone in line!
0:16:51 > 0:16:53Should I, erm?
0:16:54 > 0:16:59Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, it is a pleasure and an honour to have you at our humble...
0:16:59 > 0:17:03Ah, welcome! Welcome to Emmeline!
0:17:03 > 0:17:05Emmeline Pankhurst.
0:17:06 > 0:17:07Who are you?
0:17:07 > 0:17:10I am Mrs Margaret Unwin, founder of the Banbury...
0:17:10 > 0:17:13Oh, yes, yes, Emmeline knows about you, you wrote her a letter.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15She read about you.
0:17:17 > 0:17:18Um, sorry are you not?
0:17:18 > 0:17:21Yes, she is here.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26Emmeline is I.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33Oh, Mrs Pankhurst, words cannot express...
0:17:33 > 0:17:36Well, they're all you've got, so you'd better get on with it.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38Emmeline is on a tight schedule.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41She must be in Upper Slaughter by night fall.
0:17:41 > 0:17:47Yes, yes, she is here to inspect your battalion
0:17:47 > 0:17:51to see if you are worthy of these hand-stitched
0:17:51 > 0:17:55100% grosgrain silk sashes
0:17:55 > 0:17:59bearing the insignia of Votes For Women.
0:18:01 > 0:18:02Don't touch!
0:18:02 > 0:18:04Sorry erm, Mrs, erm.
0:18:04 > 0:18:06Oh, jam!
0:18:08 > 0:18:10Put it in the sack with the others.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16- (Gwen.)- Oh, sorry, Margaret, I'm so nervous, I forgot.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18It's fine. It will be fine.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42I'm extremely humbled by your response to my letter, Mrs Pankhurst.
0:18:42 > 0:18:46I very much hope that we can walk with,
0:18:46 > 0:18:49beside,
0:18:49 > 0:18:51slightly behind,
0:18:51 > 0:18:57on your long, lonely march to female emancipation.
0:18:58 > 0:19:04How often one yearns for the quick and easy badinage of like-minded gentlewomen...
0:19:04 > 0:19:07I, too, am left-handed and struggle with a bow.
0:19:08 > 0:19:09Napkins are my nemesis!
0:19:11 > 0:19:14Emmeline is only going to say this once.
0:19:14 > 0:19:15Less of this...
0:19:20 > 0:19:21Sit!
0:19:28 > 0:19:29Assemble!
0:19:35 > 0:19:37She begins with a speech.
0:19:38 > 0:19:43They have told us that government rests upon force.
0:19:43 > 0:19:46The women haven't force, so they must submit.
0:19:46 > 0:19:47Well, we are showing them
0:19:47 > 0:19:54that government does not rest upon force at all, it rests upon consent.
0:19:54 > 0:19:59So long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they can be,
0:19:59 > 0:20:04but directly women say, "We withhold our consent to be governed,
0:20:04 > 0:20:08"we will not be governed any longer so long as that government is unjust."
0:20:09 > 0:20:15Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20You can kill that woman.
0:20:22 > 0:20:27But she escapes you then. You cannot govern her.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble...
0:20:34 > 0:20:38..who withholds his or her consent.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40Freedom or death!
0:20:42 > 0:20:43Freedom, please.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49I've made you some trifle, Mrs Pankhurst,
0:20:49 > 0:20:52in the colours of suffragism.
0:20:53 > 0:20:57Trifle, eh? Purple custard?
0:20:57 > 0:20:59That's the suffra-gism!
0:21:04 > 0:21:05COUGHING
0:21:11 > 0:21:12Next!
0:21:17 > 0:21:20Since the dawn of time, when Eve stepped from Adam's rib,
0:21:20 > 0:21:22or probably not, er,
0:21:22 > 0:21:27heliotrope spinning molluscs spawned chimpanzee spawned shemen,
0:21:27 > 0:21:32history has been peppered with an astounding array of outstanding women,
0:21:32 > 0:21:35be she Biblical, historical, occidental oriental,
0:21:35 > 0:21:37be she Sheba from the Book of Solomon.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47The Virgin Mary, immaculately conceived!
0:21:53 > 0:21:56Ah, what mystery is woman?
0:21:56 > 0:21:58We're not doing the recorder, Eva.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01Her story is history.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04Marie Antoinette and the guillotine.
0:22:06 > 0:22:07DISCORD PIANO CHORD
0:22:09 > 0:22:12Barbara Grant eulogises the lighthouse.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14Light, light, light...
0:22:18 > 0:22:20That's quite enough of that.
0:22:20 > 0:22:25We shall not win the vote through mummery and mime,
0:22:25 > 0:22:27though, I quite liked your Sheba.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31You, pregnant, how many have you?
0:22:31 > 0:22:34- 14.- Tell him to tie a knot in it!
0:22:35 > 0:22:39Goodness knows what you were talking about!
0:22:39 > 0:22:45Banbury, what makes you worthy of the silken sash?
0:22:45 > 0:22:48You, Princess Hoo Ha, what have you got?
0:22:48 > 0:22:53Well, I have a song of my own composition. Our own composition.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55Well, get on with it.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00# Up, up, up the women
0:23:00 > 0:23:03# Up, up, up we go
0:23:03 > 0:23:05# Up, up, up the women
0:23:05 > 0:23:08# Chose your side Are you friend or foe?
0:23:11 > 0:23:14# March, march, march for glory
0:23:14 > 0:23:16# March, march join the throng
0:23:16 > 0:23:18# March, march, march for glory
0:23:18 > 0:23:21# Lift your heart and sing a song! #
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Sing it again, faster.
0:23:28 > 0:23:29# Up, up, up the women
0:23:29 > 0:23:31# Up, up, up we go
0:23:31 > 0:23:33# Up, up, up the women...#
0:23:33 > 0:23:37The hair is nice and the song is sweet, I'm not sure about her!
0:23:41 > 0:23:45It's all very pretty but it's not going to get us the vote.
0:23:45 > 0:23:49I'm afraid you do not have what it takes to be a true suffragette.
0:23:51 > 0:23:52Yes, she does!
0:23:52 > 0:23:53Who, who said that?
0:23:53 > 0:23:55I did!
0:23:55 > 0:23:57I am her mother and she does have what it takes!
0:23:57 > 0:23:59What is this?
0:23:59 > 0:24:00How dare you talk to her like that!
0:24:00 > 0:24:03You haven't changed at all in 30 years?
0:24:03 > 0:24:06You always were a Miss Bossy Bossy Big Boots!
0:24:07 > 0:24:09And you are?
0:24:09 > 0:24:12- Helen Von Heckling. We were at school together.- No.
0:24:12 > 0:24:16- We sat next to each other in calligraphy?- No.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20- I was the one who accidentally drunk that ink?- No.
0:24:20 > 0:24:26- The one whose drawers fell down during the lacrosse semifinal in front of Princess Mary?- No.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29- I was the one who had the accident on the pommel horse?- No.
0:24:29 > 0:24:33Smelly, smelly, Smellen? Smellen Von Smelling?
0:24:33 > 0:24:34Ahhh!
0:24:37 > 0:24:39Smellen!
0:24:39 > 0:24:44Now Emmeline recognises you! Why did you not say?
0:24:44 > 0:24:48Forgive, forgive. Touring the country. So many faces.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52What can she do to repair this damage?
0:24:53 > 0:24:55Please may Emily have a sash?
0:24:55 > 0:25:00No! This a war, Smellen, not a prize day!
0:25:00 > 0:25:03We all remember what happened when you stepped on the podium, Smellen?
0:25:03 > 0:25:04BLOWS RASPBERRY
0:25:05 > 0:25:06BLOWS RASPBERRY
0:25:08 > 0:25:09BLOWS RASPBERRY
0:25:12 > 0:25:13Give her some jam!
0:25:15 > 0:25:20You are just meany, meany, Emmeliney!
0:25:20 > 0:25:24You are not fit to lead these good, honest women.
0:25:27 > 0:25:28She departs.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33Oh, Mrs Pankhurst.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35I, I'm sorry that we've failed you.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38We did so want to make a good impression.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40Gwen made her ten-minute trifle in five.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45And Emily and Thomas, they made that song up on the spot.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47And, well, Eva and Myrtle and I...
0:25:49 > 0:25:52Well, I'm proud of what we've done
0:25:52 > 0:25:53and what we've become.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57We may not be brave soldiers like you,
0:25:57 > 0:26:01but sashes or no, in our hearts we are suffragettes,
0:26:01 > 0:26:02united as one.
0:26:02 > 0:26:09Our spirit of militancy comes from a deep and abiding reverence for human life.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14Write that last part down, it was quite good.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22Now, there's a battalion.
0:26:22 > 0:26:26Ezmerelda, fetch the sashes.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31Jolly well done! Well done!
0:26:31 > 0:26:32No, thank you.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36I knew there was something about you
0:26:36 > 0:26:41the moment I read about your attack on the Venus in the Banbury Library.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43- Oh, no, that wasn't us.- What?
0:26:43 > 0:26:46No, we marched to the post office with plackets!
0:26:47 > 0:26:52So you are not the Banbury Free Suffragette Army?
0:26:54 > 0:26:59No, no, we're the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle Politely Requests Women's Suffrage.
0:26:59 > 0:27:03Parthenope, remove the sashes.
0:27:06 > 0:27:07Hat!
0:27:14 > 0:27:16She leaves. Goodbye!
0:27:16 > 0:27:18Goodbye. Thank you so much for coming.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28I'm sorry, Margaret! I've ruined everything, haven't I?
0:27:28 > 0:27:29I shouldn't have said anything.
0:27:29 > 0:27:33No, no, Gwen, it's absolutely fine. No, you did the right thing.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35MUSIC: Ride Of The Valkyries by Richard Wagner
0:27:35 > 0:27:38Peter wanted to play her out as well.
0:27:38 > 0:27:39Oh, thank you.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41I didn't think much of that Emmeline.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43She didn't even pay for our jam.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46Well, I managed to obtain payment of a kind.
0:27:46 > 0:27:47Emily,
0:27:48 > 0:27:50this is for you.
0:27:52 > 0:27:53But you're not allowed to wear it!
0:27:55 > 0:27:59- Would anyone like some trifle? - Oh, yes, wonderful, Gwen.
0:28:05 > 0:28:09- Purple custard?- Oh, yes, that's the, erm, the suffrage, erm...
0:28:15 > 0:28:18# Up, up, up the women
0:28:18 > 0:28:20# Up, up, up we go
0:28:20 > 0:28:22# Up, up, up the women
0:28:22 > 0:28:25# Chose your side Are you friend or foe?
0:28:26 > 0:28:28Thank you, Emily.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30# March, march, march for glory
0:28:30 > 0:28:32# March, march join the throng
0:28:32 > 0:28:34# March, march, march for glory
0:28:34 > 0:28:39# Lift your heart and sing your song! #
0:28:41 > 0:28:46# Nana was a suffragette It's as if she's still alive
0:28:46 > 0:28:51# Nana was a suffragette Their voices still survive
0:28:51 > 0:28:57# Singing, "Votes for women is just the beginning
0:28:57 > 0:29:01# "You haven't seen anything yet" Oh, Nana was a suffragette. #
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