Great Aunt Mary's Tune

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Lucy Neal goes in search of a home for the valuable archive of her once renowned great great aunt, Mary Neal, suffragette, social-worker, colleague and later adversary of Cecil Sharp during the great English Folk Dance revival at the start of the twentieth century.

Readers: Geraldine James and John Rowe.

Producer: Beaty Rubens

Lucy Neal reviews the archive of Victorian reformer and suffragette Mary Neal.

Mary Neal was a suffragette, social-worker, colleague and later adversary of Cecil Sharp during the great English Folk Dance revival at the start of the 20th century.

Lucy Neal goes in search of a home for the valuable archive of her once renowned great great aunt.

Lucy Neal reviews the archive of Victorian reformer Mary Neal and the divisions in the English Folk Dance movement. From 2007.

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