George Bernard Shaw Press Cuttings

George Bernard Shaw

Written in 1909, Shaw pokes fun at the suffragettes' British campaign for votes for women. General Mitchener is a veteran of the North West Frontier, but how is he going to cope with a suffragette found chained outside to a door scraper - who turns out to be the Prime Minister in disguise, dressed in women’s clothing?

But Michener has a plan: “The Suffragettes are a very small body; but they are numerous enough to be troublesome - even dangerous - when they are all concentrated in one place.... but by making a two-mile radius and pushing them beyond it, you scatter their attack over a circular line 12 miles long. Just what Wellington would have done.”

Adapted by Jack Willis and produced by David H Godfrey, this production features performances by Arthur Lowe, Clifford Norgate, Gerald Cross, Sheila Manahan, Joan Sanderson, and Sonia Fraser.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.