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A short podcast looking at the life and career of Jocelyn Bell Burnell the astrophysicist who discovered pulsars, the beams of radiation emitted by rapidly spinning neutron stars. Part of The New...
A short podcast about Jayaben Desai, a worker who defied stereotyping all her life. In August 1976, she led a walkout at the Grunwick film processing plant in Willesden, London. Desai and her co workers were...
A short podcast looking at the life and career of writer Doris Lessing, a Nobel laureate who has been praised for her ability to inhabit different fictional worlds. Part of The New Elizabethans, a series...
A short podcast looking at Australian born feminist and academic Germaine Greer, who is credited with making feminism appealing and accessible for a large audience of both men and women. Part of The New...
BIRTHMARKINGS is a documentary about how giving birth transforms women’s bodies. The film reframes and destabilises the observer’s reaction to the changes in a woman’s body after she has given birth...
Feature film. The first film directed by a woman in Saudi Arabia exposes the country’s denial of women’s rights while giving Muslim feminism a voice. The film was shot largely clandestinely and tells the...
EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN highlights the lives of thirteen eminent women, a mix of saints and sinners, who lived their lives to the full. It celebrates their achievements, exposes their flaws, but also poses the...
The Pokot people live in a small region straddling the border of Uganda and Kenya. This film presents the consequences of female genital mutilation through the testimonies of Pokot women, doctors and social...
In 1942 soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a secret military program was launched to recruit female mathematicians who would become human ‘computers’ for the US military. Top Secret...
Filmed and edited by socialite and amateur filmmaker Rosie Newman, this 1946 documentary shows members of the armed forces engaged in training exercises as well as fascinating shots of life on the Home...
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