Kitty Marion's guest appearances

Kitty Marion

The Radio 3 Documentary

Women Inspire

Toni Morrison

Hedy Lamarr

Sarah Jackson

Dylan Thomas

Steve Jones

Amy Johnson

Andy Warhol

Muriel Spark

John Berger

Mary Shelley

Jayaben Desai

John Ashbery

Robert Lowell

David Attenborough

Philip French

OwlTail

“The greatest enemy of freedom is not the tyrant but the contented slave.”Meet Kitty Marion, the music hall performer who became the most dangerous and revolutionary suffragette of them all.  We chart a journey which spans continents and explore how Kitty’s overriding belief in the rights of women drove her to extreme acts of violence and self-sacrifice.

“The greatest enemy of freedom is not the tyrant but the contented slave.”Meet Kitty Marion, the music hall performer who became the most dangerous and revolutionary suffragette of them all.  We chart a journey which spans continents and explore how Kitty’s overriding belief in the rights of women drove her to extreme acts of violence and self-sacrifice.

Gregory Tate explores why many C19th scientists wrote poetry, as do several today. Fern Riddell rediscovers the astonishing life of Kitty Marion: singer, suffragette, firestarter.

Kitty Marion and The Poetry of Science