Up the Women The Poem (Season 1, Episode 3)
TV-PG
TV Episode | 30 min | Comedy, History

Up the Women

The Poem (Season 1, Episode 3)

TV-PG

TV Episode | 30 min | Comedy, History

The women are excited when Margaret gets a reply to her letter to suffragette leader Mrs Pankhurst, announcing that she plans to visit the group with a view to their affiliation with the Women's Social and political Union. Only Helen, who ...See moreThe women are excited when Margaret gets a reply to her letter to suffragette leader Mrs Pankhurst, announcing that she plans to visit the group with a view to their affiliation with the Women's Social and political Union. Only Helen, who went to school with Mrs Pankhurst and dislikes her, is unimpressed. Mrs Pankhurst duly arrives in a huge hat, and referring to herself in the third person. Though unmoved by the song and tableau the group the women perform for her she believes that they should be allied because she admired their vandalism of the statue of Venus in the library. Unfortunately Margaret owns up that this was the work of their rival group and the affiliation is withdrawn. Written by don @ minifie-1 See less

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11 cast members

Name	Known for
Jessica Hynes Margaret Margaret See fewer	Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Ryan Sampson Thomas Thomas See fewer	The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015)
Emma Pierson Eva Eva See fewer	Absolutely Anything (2015)
Vicki Pepperdine Gwen Gwen See fewer	Poor Things (2023)
Adrian Scarborough Frank Frank See fewer	Gosford Park (2001)
Rebecca Front Helen Helen See fewer	The Thick of It (2005)
Judy Parfitt Myrtle Myrtle See fewer	Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Georgia Groome Emily Emily See fewer	Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)
Sandi Toksvig Emmeline Pankhurst Emmeline Pankhurst See fewer	No 73 (1982)
Sam Battersea Parthenope Parthenope See fewer	Misfits (2009)
Clare Warde Ezmeralda Ezmeralda See fewer	Cardinal Burns (2012)