You still have 6 days left to listen so I don't want to spoil it for all of you but it starts with Obama and his first piece of legislation is a bill that ensures equal pay for men and women..
... then it goes on to talk to Ann Leslie about how she is one of the highest paid people on Fleet St but still couldn't get a mortgage in her own name.
(I like Ann Leslie because she's a clear thinker and a strong speaker. When she appears on Question Time you know it's worth watching.)
Then it wades through the various waves of feminism and the label of feminism - well, paddling more than wading - and discussions of why women don't want to identify themselves as feminists and it's quite interesting.
There was
a lot of giggling.
The point is made that there never was any bra burning, society just wants to remember it that way.
Although some did get put in a public bin...
... and everyone said 'it was never about the bras' but Ann Leslie let's the side down by saying that for her some of it was about bras.
The flour bombing of the Miss World contest was discussed and turns out to have been a bit of a mistake. The bombs were planned but not until much later in the evening, the signal was to be some clacker thing, but then Bob Hope annoyed everyone and someone got so irritated that they let their clacker go off by mistake and all the others thought it was the signal so started the assault two hours early or summat.
The founding feminist on the phone from the States says 'hey, I really don't want to come over as having no sense of humour but there's a lot of laughter going on in this discussion and very little discussion. This was a serious time too, don't forget' (I paraphrase).
The flour bomber says 'No! LOL!! It was seriously fun, you mean'.
Ann says 'Come on, it's lack of laughing that puts people off, we should laugh a lot more and then people will enjoy it more. What's NOT funny about people making mistakes and protest working out better than expected' (I paraphrase again).
Ann says '' Amazing, isn't it, how history is so often completely down to cock-ups...''
No paraphrase there.
Here's an Irish feminist story for you:
As remembered by me -- from Nell McCafferty's telling of it on the Late Late Show.In 1971 the Irish Women's Liberation Movement - Ireland's subsequent leading women in broadcasting and politics, including future presidents - had the idea to travel to Belfast to get The Pill and bring it back to Dublin.
Then, it was only available from your doctor and technically you had to be married and technically you were only given it for 'regulation of the cycle' - definitely not a contraceptive because contraception was still forbidden. It was even forbidden to bring any form of it into the country.
So this group of formidable women gathered the press and got on the train to the North and told the press to be waiting for them when they returned after lunch.
They got off the train laden with all sorts of goodies.
They waited for arrest by custom officers, none came, so the women held their contraband up and threw as much of it as they could into the crowd of supporters.
The crowd scrabbled on the ground to grab the little pills and condoms and although some people chose to inflate the condoms and wave them around as balloons there was hopefully a dedicated group of women who ran home with them and presumably had lots of sex.
How liberating. These women had shown how to defy these ridiculous laws written to make sure that women got pregnant and carried on the national and catholic lineage. They had proved that you could import the contraband and not get arrested.
It ploughed the ground for individual rebellion and a few years later for the court case that changed the laws.
It was only recently that they admitted that when they had arrived in Belfast and rushed eagerly into the chemist and demanded to have The Pill they had discovered they needed a prescription there too. They had no time to even seek one, their train home was leaving almost immediately.
So they bought as many condoms as they could afford and a good old pile of aspirin, walked through the customs barrier defying arrest and threw aspirin into the crowd as protest.
It is remembered as the condom train and the time the pill was thrown onto the streets and a complete success but society wants to recall it that way.
How Nell McCafferty laughed when she revealed the story on a TV show recently. She was drunk out of her mind at the time of telling, I reckon, so who knows the real truth, but if that train wasn't fun I don't know what would be.
is funny.