Big Women

Series 1 Episode 1
First Broadcast: Thu 2 July 1998

Primrose Hill, London, 1971: Stephie, her husband Hamish and their two boys, host a meeting for women - this is '70s consciousness-raising in action.

In comes the young housewife Zoe with her three-year-old daughter Saffron; the aptly named Daffy who is dipping her toe into feminism; the powerful and brilliant Alice and the driving- force behind the group, the charismatic Layla.

During a night of fierce arguments, naked dancing and some illicit snogging, they decide to launch Medusa, a feminist publishing house.

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