Schedule Announced for the BBC Four Broadcast of Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women’s Lives, Curated by Royal Court Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone

Transmission times have been released for the BBC Four broadcast of SNATCHES: Moments from 100 Years of Women’s Lives, a series of eight monologues written by EV Crowe, Rachel De-Lahay, Tanika Gupta, Zinnie Harris, Theresa Ikoko, Charlene James, Vicky Jones and Abi Morgan to mark the 100 years of Suffrage, produced by BBC Studios Pacific Quay Productions.

Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women’s Lives is created in association with the Royal Court Theatre and is curated by Royal Court Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone. The cast features Jodie Comer, Siobhan Finneran, Romola Garai, Shirley Henderson, Liv Hill, Corinne Skinner-Carter, Kiran Sonia Sawar and Antonia Thomas. The 15-minute monologues are inspired by women who have spoken out, challenged the status quo or made a stand – often at great personal cost.

The monologue series was commissioned by Cassian Harrison, Channel Editor BBC Four and Emma Cahusac, Commissioning Editor for Arts. The Directors are Vanessa Caswill and Rachna Suri with Debbie Christie as the Executive Producer.

Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women’s Lives will be broadcast on BBC Four at 10pm Monday 18 June 2018 – Thursday 21 June 2018. Please find details of the broadcast running order below.

 

Compliance

Written by Abi Morgan

Directed by Vanessa Caswill

With Romola Garai

BBC Four

10pm, Monday 18 June 2018

A hotel room meeting between a young actress and her powerful producer.

 

Outside

Written by Theresa Ikoko

Directed by Vanessa Caswill

With Corinne Skinner-Carter

BBC Four

10:15pm, Monday 18 June 2018

A women celebrates her 100^th birthday while outside the revolution is beginning.

 

Bovril Pam

Written by Vicky Jones

Directed by Vanessa Caswill

With Jodie Comer

BBC Four

10pm, Tuesday 19 June 2018

It’s the early 1960’s, stuck between Victorian England and the sexual revolution, a secretary in the typing pool finds herself.

 

Pig Life

Written by EV Crowe

Directed by Vanessa Caswill

With Shirley Henderson

BBC Four

10:15pm, Tuesday 19 June 2018

It’s 1991 and rape in marriage has been made illegal. Our character is shocked to realise what she has been living through.

 

Reclaim the Night

Written by Charlene James

Directed by Rachna Suri

With Liv Hill

BBC Four

10pm, Wednesday 20 June 2018

1977 and the first Reclaim the Night march takes place in Leeds in response to the curfew imposed on women to protect them from the Yorkshire Ripper.

 

Pritilata

Written by Tanika Gupta

Directed by Vicky Featherstone

With Kiran Sonia Sawar

BBC Four

10:15pm, Wednesday 20 June 2018

It’s 1932 and Pritilata leads an attack against the European Club in an attempt to gain Independence from the British.

 

Multiples

Written by Zinnie Harris

Directed by Rachna Suri

With Siobhan Finneran

BBC Four

10:00pm, Thursday 21 June 2018

Accused of the murder of her three babies a woman educates herself to prove the expert witness wrong.

 

Tipping Point

Written by Rachel De-Lahay

Directed by Rachna Suri

With Antonia Thomas

BBC Four

10:15pm, Thursday 21 June 2018

In the not too distant future, a pregnant woman besieged by angry trolls and white supremacists contemplates what world her unborn child will enter.