This podcast tells the story of Hilda Burkett and Florence Tunks, two militant suffragettes who staged an arson attack on the Bath Hotel, Felixstowe, in April 1914. It is a dramatisation based on Home Office documents from The National Archives that detail the imprisonment and forced feeding of Burkett and Tunks. A secondary source called ‘Felixstowe’s Last Bath Night’, written by Wayne Bennett, was the inspiration for the trial re-enactment.
The story was written and produced by Michael Mahoney, Education & Outreach, with the help of the following performers: Ela Kaczmarska, Sandra Shakespeare, Gary Thorpe, Jon Ryder-Oliver, Iqbal Husain, Rachel Hillman and Boyce Keay.