I ask no other epitaph on my tomb but "SHE TRIED TO FOLLOW TRUTH.”

Our podcast today brings you a remarkable individual - campaigner, activist, socialist and theosophist.

One of the great orators in British history, Annie’s ability to effect change for those marginalised in society defied convention at a time when women had no vote, supposedly no voice and her place was firmly in the home.

As Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw put it she ‘bounded’ into different movements with passion and resolution and inspired vilification and admiration in equal measure across continents.