The Woman's Hour Balloon Debate

The Woman's Hour Balloon Debate, can you guess what happened?

The long list of candidates:
* Margaret Thatcher, first woman Prime Minister
* Edith Summerskill, Labour politician and women's rights campaigner(1901-1980)
* Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragette (1858-1928)
* Millicent Garrett Fawcett, suffragist (1847-1929)
* Barbara Castle, Labour politician (1910-2002)
* Nancy Astor, first female MP to take her seat (1879-1964)
* Tony Blair, 1997 election of 101 Labour women MPs
* Elizabeth I, Queen of the Golden Age (1533-1603)
* Mary Wollstonecraft, philosopher and writer (1759-97)
* Eleanor Rathbone, social reformer and MP (1872-1946)

The short list of candidates:
Margaret Thatcher
Barbara Castle
Mary Wollstonecraft
Emmeline Pankhurst


So who do you thought would win a BBC Woman's Hour vote? Margaret Thatcher? Don't be daft.

'Margaret Thatcher and Barbara Castle were the first of the candidates to be ejected from the balloon leaving Mary Wollstonecraft and Emmeline Pankhurst. The studio audience selected Emmeline Pankhurst as the woman that they felt had done the most to put women on the political map in the UK..