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When the female workers from Helen's factory go on strike, Margaret tries to convince them to join the BICCPRWS. She plans a speech about the cause, but no one turns up. Emily secretly joins the striking women, while Gwen struggles with the various tasks given to her. Eva and Myrtle share a bottle of
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The Banbury Intricate Craft Circle Politely Requests Women's Suffrage league create placards for their planned picket outside the Post Office. When the statue of Venus in the library is vandalised, seemingly by a group of Suffragettes, PC John Thackery is sent to investigate and interview the members
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Hynes found that she could not let go of the characters she had created and thought the BBC might want a comedy instead. In 2011, Hynes wrote a new treatment, which focused on her characters and their craft circle in a Banbury church hall. She said "I thought, it would work if you went really retro
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The sitcom is set in 1910 and focuses on the women of the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle and their level of commitment to the women's suffrage movement. Having seen the Women's suffrage movement in London, Margaret (Jessica Hynes) returns to Banbury and asks the ladies of her local craft circle to
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Margaret returns from London, where she has witnessed the Women's suffrage movement first hand, and asks the ladies of the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle to support the cause and begin their own suffrage league. However, Margaret's idea receives opposition from Helen, who decides to set up an
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Christine Gernon directed the series, which was set in two locations; a church hall and the kitchen. Hynes wanted the show to have "a deliberately retro-sitcom feel" and explained that writing and filming a show set in a studio was unlike anything she had previously done. The first series was
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with it, to make it much easier to relate to these women, who are warm, who are failing. Comedy only really works if you are failing. I made it deliberately restrictive, a church hall and a kitchen, nowhere to go to, nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. I just loved that."
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commented "This is gentle, ever-so-slightly earnest comedy. The fact that it's played more or less dead straight, rather than being a knockabout gag-fest, means it might struggle to find an audience. But it's all the more impressive for its approach." The
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and controller of the channel, Janice Hadlow, stated "I'm delighted to welcome the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle to BBC Two. With brilliant writing from Jessica Hynes and a fabulous cast including Rebecca Front, Judy Parfitt and Adrian Scarborough,
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with an exploding pie by the Banbury Free Suffrage Army. Although their trip seems thwarted, Gwen arrives in male disguise and they follow her lead. Getting onto a train, they meet Eva and Helen's husbands and Winston Churchill himself
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in the schedules Griffths said "And far better a smaller debut and potential to grow a following on BBC4 than a big trumpeted arrival on mainstream station only to be greeted by dismay and criticism, that poor
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support the cause. The group start up their own suffrage league called Banbury Intricate Craft Circle Politely Requests Women's Suffrage (BICCPRWS), but the league faces opposition from Helen (
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Margaret and her friends are planning to go to London to meet the notorious anti-suffragist Sir Bismuth Albemarle. However, the train station is closed to women after an attempt to attack
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was used for the external view of the Hall shown at the start of each episode, and the dimensions and layout of the main room of the Village Hall are reflected in the show set.
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Dr Hamm's Invigorator, which promises to make the drinker feel better. After drinking the invigorator, Gwen gives a rousing speech about how badly she is treated by the others.
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as her TV highlight of the week. She quipped that the episode contains some good lines and hinted at becoming better in future episodes. Referring to the placement of
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The members of BICCPRWS attempt a hunger strike, but struggle to uphold it when Gwen brings cheese to a meeting. Helen plans for Emily to be married to Bertie Smuth (
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The BICCPRWS are planning to stage a pantomime written by Margaret, but she reveals that she burnt her script following criticism from her husband, Osbert (
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comes to visit the Craft Circle, after Margaret writes her a letter and a poem, with a view to inducting the group into the league of the
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The village hall is turned into a polling station for the general election. The women are taken hostage by renegade suffragette Betty (
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had been picked up for a full series of six episodes. This was confirmed by the BBC on 12 June. Series two was broadcast on
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for a third series. A spokesperson for BBC2 commented, "After two great series, sadly there won't be any more
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During the titles the song "Nana Was a Suffragette" is played. It was written and performed by Jules Gibb.
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and the first to be commissioned for BBC Four. A second series was commissioned in June 2013 and aired on
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do well, then there would be a possible re-commission, which would see where the character's stories go.
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was the last sitcom to be filmed before a live audience at BBC Television Centre. The Village Hall in
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is a wonderful addition to comedy on the channel." The series began airing from 21 January 2015.
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in 2009 after she read a piece about a suffragette plot to assassinate former Prime Minister
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Hynes plays "bright-but-stifled matron" Margaret. The actress told Vicki Power from the
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announced that Richard Klein and Shane Allen had commissioned the three-part comedy
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was the first sitcom filmed in front of a live audience to be commissioned for
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on 30 May 2013. The sitcom is about a group of women in 1910 who form a
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was shortlisted for the Best TV Situation Comedy accolade at the 2014
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On 31 March 2015, the BBC confirmed that they would not be renewing
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movement. Hynes originally planned to write a comedy film about a
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on BBC2 as the channel looks to bring new comedy shows through."
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Series 1 and 2 were released together on DVD on 2 March 2015.
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Art in the women's suffrage movement in the United States
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called the third episode "the best" of the first series.
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recorded on 3, 10 and 17 March 2013 in Studio 3 (TC3) at
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Jessica Hynes, Barunka O'Shaughnessy and Morwenna Banks
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portrays the group's president and antagonist Helen.
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