Episode 011—Suffering for Suffrage (feat. Joanne Thomson)
Welcome back for more Under the Kilt action! To kick things off we've got a tidy list of ladies who weren't afraid to make a mess. Outlander's Joanne Thomson joins to sing the praises of some of Scotland's fiercest suffragettes.
Our Guest Joanne Thomson!
Joanne as Amy McCallum, Outlander
Joanne as Mary Leigh, Suffragettes
Joanne in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart
The release of suffragettes Mary Leigh and Edith New from Holloway, 1908
News story on Marion Walace Dunlop, English suffragette
Wee Bessie Watson
'General' Flora Drummond being escorted by police
Mary Phillips under arrest
Grace Cadell, medical practitioner / suffragette
Ethel Moorhead, threw an egg at winston churchill
Agnes Brown - one of the 'Brown Women' who walked from edinburgh to london
Mary Moloney - followed churchill w bell
More on Joanne:
Joanne Thomson is an Actor, Writer and Director from Glasgow, Scotland. Since graduating with a BA in Acting from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland she has also trained with the Groundlings Improv School in Los Angeles. She has worked extensively across the UK as an actor and has directed internationally award-winning theatre. Outlander fans will recognize her as Amy McCallum, first introduced in Season 6. Other projects include feature film Kill, DS Lisa Harvey in The Victim, BAFTA winning drama The Suffragettes and In Plain Sight, which won her 2 Best Actress nominations.
Learn more about Joanne at www.joannethomson.co.uk
Follow her at @joannethomson22 on Instagram and Twitter
SOURCES:
Frank, Emma, director. Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley. BBC TV, 2018.
Sheridan, Sara. Where Are the Women?: A Guide to an Imagined Scotland. Historic Environment Scotland, 2021.
Twitter, Twitter, https://twitter.com/ScotSuffragette.
Wright, Valerie. “The Women's Suffrage Movement in Scotland, 1867-1928: A Learning Resource.” The Women's Suffrage Movement in Scotland, 1867-1928: a Learning Resource, 29 Mar. 2022, https://womenssuffragescotland.wordpress.com/.
CREDITS:
Original Theme: Tyler Collins aka “Two Metre Man”
Additional Music: Garreth Spinn
Original Art: Sarah Cruz
Editor: Natalie Younger
Producer: Kathleen Mueller Mason & Natalie Younger
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