The Richard Dimbleby Lecture Season 2018 Episode 1 - Jeanette Winterson

Airdate: 2018-Jun-06

Episode summary:

Jeanette Winterson, award-winning writer and acclaimed author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, delivers the 2018 Richard Dimbleby Lecture. 100 years on from the first women in the UK securing the right to vote, Jeanette asks what we can learn from the Suffragette movement of a century ago, as well as examining the longevity of recent global campaigns promoting the equality of women.Introduced by David Dimbleby from the Palace of Westminster.

About The Richard Dimbleby Lecture series:

A series of lectures broadcast on BBC One in honour of the veteran broadcaster who died in 1965.