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Audio: Australian Activist Muriel Matters Remembered (ABC Radio)

(2016) ABC World Today, Australia

The ABC’s Europe Correspondent, Steve Cannane talk about how the Muriel Matters Society is trying to raise awareness of the role played by the South Australian activist in the fight to get British women the vote. In 1908 Muriel Matters chained herself to an iron grille in the ladies gallery of the House of Commons and made a speech demanding that women have the right to vote.

This audio complements the ABC News video and article written by Steve Cannane: