Series·1974·1 season

Shoulder to Shoulder

Drama

Shoulder to Shoulder is a 1974 BBC drama serial created through the collaboration of actress Georgia Brown, filmmaker Midge Mackenzie, and producer Verity Lambert. A dramatisation of the history of the women's suffrage movement in Britain, focusing on the Pankhurst family and their fight for women's right to vote, the six-part series, starring Siân Phillips as Emmeline Pankhurst, is considered a landmark in feminist television drama.

Created by Midge Mackenzie, Verity Lambert, Georgia Brown

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The PankhurstsE1 · 75 min

1898: Dr and Mrs Pankhurst and their four children are living comfortably in Manchester. However, in that year an event occurs which will radically change all their lives.

Annie KenneyE2 · 75 min

1904: Annie Kenney - a mill worker since the age of ten. What has Women's Suffrage to offer her?

Lady Constance LyttonE3 · 75 min

1908: Constance Lytton : daughter of the Viceroy of India, she came from one of the leading families in the land. Almost any door was open for her.

Christabel PankhurstE4 · 75 min

Black Friday, 18 November 1910. A violent struggle in Parliament Square between suffragettes and police. But why don't the police arrest the suffragettes...?

OutrageE5 · 75 min

The campaign grows: suffragettes destroy property and Emily Wilding Davison becomes a martyr to the cause.

Sylvia PankhurstE6 · 75 min

1914: War is declared, and women still do not have the vote.

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Siân Phillips
Siân PhillipsEmmeline Pankhurst
Patricia Quinn
Patricia QuinnChristabel Pankhurst

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