Timewatch

Timewatch· Season 7 · Episode 8

A Woman's Story

S07E08·October 5, 1988·50m·BBC Two

One hundred years after the matchgirls strike, this dramatised documentary looks at the life of Annie Besant, strike leader, pioneering 19th-century social reformer, and campaigner for the use of contraception who towards the end of her life turned towards theosophy.

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