Shoulder to Shoulder
How women fought for the vote
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.
Cast
Siân Phillips
Emmeline Pankhurst
Patricia Quinn
Christabel Pankhurst
Seasons
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.
E1The Pankhursts
Apr 3, 1974
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.
E2Annie Kenney
Apr 10, 1974
1904: Annie Kenney - a mill worker since the age of ten. What has Women's Suffrage to offer her?
E3Lady Constance Lytton
Apr 17, 1974
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.
E4Christabel Pankhurst
Apr 24, 1974
Black Friday, 18 November 1910. A violent struggle in Parliament Square between suffragettes and police. But why don't the police arrest the suffragettes...?
E5Outrage
May 1, 1974
The campaign grows: suffragettes destroy property and Emily Wilding Davison becomes a martyr to the cause.
E6Sylvia Pankhurst
May 8, 1974
1914: War is declared, and women still do not have the vote.
Storyline
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.
