Poster of The Mark Steel Lectures - Season 2 - Episode 5 - Sylvia Pankhurst

The Mark Steel Lectures - Season 2 - Sylvia Pankhurst (Episode 5)

Plot: Tracing her life from schooldays in radical Manchester to retirement in rural Essex, when Haile Selassie occasionally came to call, Sylvia Pankhurst the revolutionary and Rastafarian sympathiser is brought to life as only Mark Steel can. From a bed-in with Keir Hardie to Kill Bill style ju-jitsu, here’s everything you didn’t know about this pioneer of democracy
Episode Aired On:
Friday, December 3 2004
19 years ago