Maxine Peake on Ellen Wilkinson
Great Lives
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The Confidence of Nancy Astor
She strikes me as somebody that she would have got there by hook or by crook. At the 30s, was such a political hotbed, wasn't it, of... I think she sort of married her feminism to everything else she looked at. The Labour movement always came first, you know, because she was obviously in the Communist Party. And when that became sort of problematic, she always was so loyal to the Labour movement. There's a really beautiful story actually, which I kind of could be lifted right out of any kind of period drama - where she goes to Russia in 1921. She meets Lenin, she sees... It's the Conference of Communist Women, and she's more
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