Airs Sunday, March 22, 2020, at 6 p.m. The BBC World Service presents remarkable stories of women's history, told by the women who were there. Selected from its Witness program, audiences will hear moving, inspiring and even outrageous stories about a few of the most important women in living memory.
Story order:
Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique
Madame CJ Walker
The Invention of the Sports Bra
The rise of Angela Merkel
The murder of Anna Politkovskaya
The rural women's movement of South Africa