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- A lesbian Don Juan, a suffragette and a 17th-century Italian painter are just two of ten remarkable women who speak to us in this drama documentary - an intimate portrait of their lives and a woman's view of history.
- Discussions of contemporary books, plays, films and other art subjects, by Australian critics. From ABC studios. Developed from same-named ABC radio programme..
- "A film of Newent was produced in 1966 and after seeing this Newent Local History Society were motivated to produce an updated version that residents and visitors can look back on in the future and see what this historic market town looked like. Scenes include items that date back over 1,000 years to modern housing developments. Interviews with residents, the canal, the Onion Fair, the Armistice Parade, the schools and the bellringers are all included as well as some of the hidden corners of the town". (DVD case note, "Newent A Snapshot In Time 2008", Newent Local History Society, 2008).
- A large group of people are filmed disembarking from a river pleasure steamer onto a quayside. Many of them are seen close enough to be identified.
- "Anne Lister, an outwardly conventional gentlewoman living in Halifax at the beginning of the last century, had a secret life that would have shocked local society. Her diaries, written in such a complex code that they were not deciphered until the 1980s, reveal that she was really a lesbian Don Juan." (Radio Times, 30/4-6/5/1994).
- "The remarkable story of two women who became the subjects of experiments by men. Dr James Barry was born a girl but lived most of her life disguised as a man. And Hannah Cullwick, a working class woman turned into a high-class lady". (Radio Times, 21/5-27/5/1994).
- "The drama documentary series about the lives of extraordinary women continues with a look at two pioneering journalists. In 1858, Victorian editor Bessie Parks founded the first newspaper run by women for women. Fifty years later, Emilie Peacocke became one of the first women reporters to work in Fleet Street". (Radio Times, 7/5-13/5/1994).
- "Seventeenth-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi has been remembered more for being a loose woman than a talented artist. At the age of 17, she was raped, and the record of the trial reveals how her reputation as a woman and a painter was ruined." (Radio Times, 14/5-20/5/1994).
- "The only two British women to write first-hand accounts of slavery: Mary Prince, who was born into slavery in 1788 and left her owners after moving to London, and Lady Maria Nugent, the wife of a slave owner in Jamaica in 1801'. (BBC Active, video synopsis, 2005).
- "In 1912 Sarah Benett, aged 52, and 54-year-old composer Ethel Smyth shared neighbouring cells in Holloway Prison. Their crime was breaking windows - a tactic used by suffragettes to draw attention to their fight to win votes for all women. Sarah Benett's recently discovered diary sheds light on their remarkable tale". (Radio Times, 21/5-27/5/1994)