Shoulder to Shoulder
How women fought for the vote
Shoulder to Shoulder is a 1974 BBC drama serial created through the collaboration of actress Georgia Brown, filmmaker Midge Mackenzie, and producer Verity Lambert. A dramatisation of the history of the women's suffrage movement in Britain, focusing on the Pankhurst family and their fight for women's right to vote, the six-part series, starring Siân Phillips as Emmeline Pankhurst, is considered a landmark in feminist television drama.
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Siân Phillips
Emmeline Pankhurst · 6 eps
Patricia Quinn
Christabel Pankhurst · 6 eps
Georgia Brown
Annie Kenney · 5 eps
Angela Down
Sylvia Pankhurst · 5 eps
Sally Miles
Flora Drummond · 5 eps
Sheila Allen
Mrs Pethick-Lawrence · 3 eps
Maureen Pryor
Dr Ethel Smyth · 3 eps
Fulton Mackay
Keir Hardie · 3 eps
Ronald Hines
Mr Pethick-Lawrence · 2 eps
Robert Hardy
Asquith · 2 eps
Michael Gough
Dr Richard Pankhurst · 2 eps
Lans Traverse
Zellie Emerson · 2 eps
