Constance Bulwer-Lytton: Suffragette Rebel
A young suffragette, hiding a secret, goes on hunger strike.
Constance Lytton was raised an aristocrat. But when she wakes up to women's suffrage, she goes undercover in solidarity, joining her working-class comrades in prison and staging a series of dangerous hunger strikes.
In History's Toughest Heroes, Ray Winstone tells ten true stories of adventurers, rebels and survivors who lived life on the edge.
As a lady, and part of the English upper-crust, when Constance Lytton was arrested for her involvement in the women's suffrage movement, she was given special treatment in prison. Desperate to be treated like everyone else, she disguised herself as the working-class 鈥楯ane Warton鈥�. But when the time came to endure the horror of force feedings, it took everything she had to hold on to the mantra 鈥榥o surrender鈥�.
A 蜜芽传媒 Studios production for 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 and 蜜芽传媒 Sounds.
Producer: Michael LaPointe
Development Producer: Georgina Leslie
Executive Producer: Paul Smith
Written by Imogen Robertson
Commissioning editor for Radio 4: Rhian Roberts
On radio
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Ray Winstone |
| Producer | Michael LaPointe |
| Executive Producer | Paul Smith |
| Writer | Imogen Robertson |
| Commissioning Editor | Rhian Roberts |
| Producer | Georgina Leslie |
Broadcast
- Tomorrow 15:00蜜芽传媒 Radio 4
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History's Heroes
Ray Winstone tells tales of adventurers, rebels and survivors who lived life on the edge.
