Free Thinking - Suffragette. Thatcherism and Conservatism now. James Fenton.
James Fenton, winner of this year's PEN Pinter Prize. A review of the film Suffragette & Anne McElvoy talks to Charles Moore and Kwasi Kwarteng about Margaret Thatcher's legacy
James Fenton discusses his career as a poet and journalist ahead of collecting the PEN Pinter Prize 2015 in a ceremony tonight. New Generation Thinker Naomi Paxton researches the plays performed by Suffragettes. She offers her verdict on the film Suffragette, starring Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter and Carey Mulligan. And Margaret Thatcher left Downing Street 25 years ago. Anne McElvoy is at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester to discuss her legacy with her official biographer, Charles Moore, and Conservative MP, Kwasi Kwarteng.
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