George Bernard Shaw Press Cuttings

Written in 1909, Shaw pokes fun at the suffragettes' British campaign for votes for women. General Mitchener is a veteran of the North West Frontier, but how is he going to cope with a suffragette found chained outside to a door scraper - who turns out to be the Prime Minister in disguise, dressed in women’s clothing? But Michener has a plan: “The Suffragettes are a very small body; but they are numerous enough to be troublesome - even dangerous - when they are all concentrated in one place.... but by making a two-mile radius and pushing them beyond it, you scatter their attack over a circular line 12 miles long. Just what Wellington would have done.” Adapted by Jack Willis and produced by David H Godfrey. General Mitchener:……….Arthur Lowe The Orderly:………..Clifford Norgate Mr Balsquith:………..Gerald Cross Mrs Farrell:………..Sheila Manahan Mrs Banger:………..Joan Sanderson Lady Corinthia Fanshawe:………..Sonia Fraser Afternoon Theatre: Press Cuttings First broadcast: Wed 6th Jan 1971, 15:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

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