Badass Women from History is a season of interviews with famous dead women. Like Desert Island Discs, but they're dead. And there's no music. Created by Tessa Coates and Ellie White, but written by the women themselves. Taken from their memoirs, letters and writings, everything you hear is in their…
Kristen Jung interview Annie Oakley; the first female superstar in American history, philanthropist and professional sharpshooter who could put out a candle at a hundred paces.
Kirsty Young interview Kitty Marshall; militant suffragette, and founder of Mrs Pankhurst's Bodyguard, a secret group of women highly trained in martial arts who protected Mrs Pankhurst during the Cat and Mouse Act. Kitty unpublished memoir 'Suffragette Escapes and Adventures' can be found in the archives of the Museum of London (50.82/1132)
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