British Scandal - The Pankhursts

I wrote a series for Wondery podcast, British Scandal on The Suffragettes. You can listen here - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pankhursts-deeds-not-words/id1563775446?i=1000663097641

In a country obsessed with gossip, the great and the good fear one thing more than any other - scandal.

British scandals change the course of history. They bring down governments, overthrow the rich and cause the mighty to fall. Some are about sex, others about money. In the end, they’re all about power. But often at the heart of a scandal, there are ordinary human stories, stories of those caught up in the swirl of outrage. Who was really to blame for what happened? Why did they do it? And when all is said and done, did anything really change?

In 1918, women were allowed to run for Parliament in the UK. But most couldn’t even vote. Ten years later, that finally changed. At the heart of that monumental shift was a family who wouldn’t take no for an answer.