Timewatch

Timewatch· Season 13 · Episode 4

Presumed Guilty - A Women's History of Divorce 1945-1969

S13E04·March 9, 1994·50m·BBC Two

In the decades leading up to reform of the divorce laws in 1969, thousands of women suffered the injustices of a system that treated a failed marriage as a criminal offence. Timewatch tells the stories of some of these women, and the terrible price they paid to end their marriages.

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