BBC RADIO FOUR: IN OUR TIME

THURSDAY 21 JUNE 2012, 0900 AND 2130 - AND ON BBC I-PLAYER

Annie Besant

Duration: 43 minutes

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of the campaigner and writer Annie Besant. A radical political voice, Besant was involved in the 1888 matchgirls' strike at the Bryant and May factory, which brought the appalling working conditions of many factory workers to greater public attention. Later she campaigned for self-rule in India, and was a prominent member of the mystical Theosophical Society.
Producer: Thomas Morris.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of the campaigner and writer Annie Besant. A radical political voice, Besant was involved in the 1888 matchgirls' strike at the Bryant and May factory, which brought the appalling working conditions of many factory workers to greater public attention. Later she campaigned... > Show more