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Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, (née Catlin; born 27 July 1930) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and academic who served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection from 1974 to 1976 and Secretary of State for Education and Science and Paymaster General from 1976 to 1979. Originally a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), she was one of the 'Gang of Four' rebels who founded the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981.Williams was elected to the British House of Commons for Hitchin in the 1964 general election. She served as Minister for Education and Science from 1967 to 1969 and Minister of State for Home Affairs from 1969 to 1970.
Vera Brittain: Anti-Bombing Campaigner
During WW2 the feminist and writer, Vera Brittain, spoke out against the saturation bombing of German cities. Her stance won her enemies in Britain and the USA. Vincent Dowd has been speaking to her daughter Shirley Williams about the impact of her campaign.
Photo: Vera Brittain at Euston Station…
Women in Britain get the right to vote
On 6th February 1918, women in Britain were given the right to vote for the first time. The campaign for women's suffrage had begun decades earlier. But it wasn't until the final months of the First World War that the British parliament relented and said property-owning women over the age of 30 cou…
Vera Brittain: Anti-Bombing Campaigner
Baroness Shirley Williams recalls her mother, WW2 anti-bombing protestor; 20 years since a mass killing in Omagh, the African-American photographer whose coverage of Martin Luther King's funeral won him a Pullitzer Prize, plus when TV finally came to South Africa and the birth of the instant noodle…
Our online Legacy explored across the generations at York Theatre Royal
Legacy is a new play written by Paul Birch for the York Theatre Royal as an intergenerational collaboration: its cast is made up of Youth Theatre members as well as actors aged 65-plus from the local community.
Exploring themes of corruption and the uses—and misuses—of individuals' online identiti…
Cancer screening, the Windrush Generation, Audiograms
(0:32) Breast screening – the Numbers: 450,000 women have accidentally not been invited for breast cancer screening
(07:26) Counting the Windrush Generation: What do we know about those who might be lacking documentation
(11:15) Has Nigel Farage been on Question Time too often? We chart his appeara…
Ep 43: The Texas Eyeball Killer, Part II
Erin describes the life of Charles Albright, the man suspected of murdering Mary Pratt, Susan Peterson, and Shirley Williams and of attacking multiple other Oak Cliff women. And- surprise!- this is not the end of the series after all. The 3rd and final installment will be available this weekend. In…
An Indigenous Peoples' History
Karina and Matthew talk about looking honestly at history, tribal land acknowledgements, and engaging young people in the history going on today. Joining are special guests Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, authors of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People, adapted from t…
The Munich Air Disaster
The plane crash that killed eight of Manchester United's top players, the courage of the British Suffragettes, uncovering South Africa's nuclear secrets, plus tracking down Nazis in South America and the attack on a South Korean airliner ahead of the Seoul Olympics.
(Photo: Plane wreckage at Munich…
Narrative Painting and Discovering Your Artistic Voice, with Gabriela Dellosso
I’ve heard from many of my fellow artists about the struggle to find their artistic voice. Have you struggled with finding yours? What has helped you in your pursuit? My guest is narrative painter, Gabriela Dellosso known for her homage portraits, she paints historical representations of women arti…
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