Ep 104 Mother-Daughter Feminism & The Train

This episode is a special live recording of The Women's Podcast from our National Theatre, The Abbey, in Dublin City Centre to celebrate mothers, daughters and feminism, inspired by the wonderful Rough Magic musical The Train. The Train is the story of the remarkable media coup orchestrated by the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement in 1971 that changed the social landscape of Ireland. Determined to challenge the laws of the Irish State, a group of 47 trailblazing women take a train to Belfast and return to Dublin with forbidden contraceptives, condoms and the pill - except of course it was aspirin masquerading as the pill. This episode was recorded upstairs in the bar of The Abbey before Wednesday night's production. You can catch The Train this weekend in Dublin, or at The Mac in Belfast April 19-23.