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The Fainthearted Feminist

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC Two
  • 1984
  • 5 episodes (1 series)

A sitcom about a woman who has two teenage children, a baby and a husband. She decides to embrace the principles of feminism. Stars Lynn Redgrave, Jonathan Newth, Sarah Neville, Helen Cotterill, Polly Adams and more.

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Press clippings

Fainthearted Feminist developed from Jill Tweedie's letters, had something to say and Lynn Redgrave to say it in that daughter-of-a-dozen-brigadiers voice so like her mother's.

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 20th March 1984

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