Radio 4 - 3.45 pm

[cwg1]

Short story thing. Of course, damn device has been playing up and trying to post for ages...

[AnotherNightWatering]

Am listening... can't believe it on the bbc

[BlackeyedSusan]

Bloody brilliant.

[MouseandCat]

It's perfect

[BlackeyedSusan]

And so bloody clever.

[AnotherNightWatering]

cwg1 Thank you for flagging this up! Fab story.

Here's the link
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bs4f

[StillWeRise]

dont know why theyre calling it fact to fiction, this is all fact

[cwg1]

Brilliant!! Contrasting suffragist Joan, 2nd-waver Joanna and young Jo in 2019, working at a meeting - protestors outside, why #nodebate??

[ErrolTheDragon]

I caught that by accident while I was chopping onions. Well, that's my excuse for tearing up.

Here's to all the waves of Joans, Joannas and Jos.

[Herocomplex]

Very good.

‘From Fact To Fiction’ is a long running theme. A very current topic/news story is made into a short story.

[vaginafetishist]

Oh my gosh I'm just in shock...what have I just heard. Who is this woman?
Amazing...

[vaginafetishist]

The lips glued shut....

[AnotherNightWatering]

twitter.com/HannahJMcGill/status/1200342763646148608

She says she was commissioned.

[earlydoors42]

This was amazing!

[nauticant]

Wow! I'd made a note to listen to this and was expecting the third wave to be about stunning and brave women.

[ErrolTheDragon]

Good work Hannah - and it was well read too.

[Melroses]

Wow - that was good and really enjoyable too.

[NonnyMouse1337]

Wow... I'm impressed by this. Wonderfully woven story across the eras. Brilliant narration.

[vaginafetishist]

nauticant I was too.
She was so clever to put it into the clearest possible terms of men and women. You can't deny what's going on. Of course speaking clearly helps this to happen.

[SpringFan]

Outstanding. I wanted to cheer.

[TiredofthisBS]

That was amazing!

[BarbaraStrozzi]

A great little piece.

[BiologyIsReal]

Great. Really resonates. I'm 76 so in 1974 I was a year younger than the character Joanna and well remember the fights we had for equal pay, the need to get a male guarantor and all that shit.

But where I didn't identify was in the personal and work situation. I married in 1966 and worked full time all my life and my marriage with my late husband was one of total partnership - sharing the money making, the domestic work and parenting. And there were many women like me. In fact nearly all my friends.

Being a second wave feminist was bloody wonderful.

[Zeugma]

I just happened to hear this and it was absolutely WONDERFUL. I’m so glad there’s a thread, I came on here to start one if there wasn’t one already.

[LangCleg]

This is bloody brilliant! Did the BBC censors have a day off?!

DON'T READ THE LEAFLETS!

[TinselAngel]

That made me cry.