Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 4,21 Sep 2001,30 mins

Sylvia Pankhurst

Great Lives

Available for over a year

Barbara Castle and biographer Mary Davis discuss the life of suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst. With Joan Bakewell. From September 2001. The biographical series in which a distinguished guest chooses someone who has inspired their life. Will their hero stand up to intensive scrutiny and merit the description of having led a great life?

Programme Website
More episodes