[1] The series, directed by Waris Hussein and Moira Armstrong, dramatized the fight for the right to vote for British women.

It covered the period from the 1890s to 1919 and followed the suffrage movement as it was influenced by the Pankhursts: Richard, Emmeline, Christabel and Sylvia, and Annie Kenney.

Georgia Brown played Annie Kenney, a mill worker who joined the cause and eventually became a dynamic speaker for the movement.

Lady Constance Lytton, an upper class activist for women's suffrage who underwent force feeding in prison, was played by Judy Parfitt.

It includes many excerpts from their speeches, diaries, letters, memoirs, other writings and various newspaper cuttings, photographs, and cartoons.