09/02/1971
Production Company: ATV
Director: Robert Kitts
Producer: Brigid Segrave

Lesbians speak frankly about themselves. A psychiatrist suggests lesbianism is more an emotional affair than a sexual one, and all people are bisexual to a greater or lesser degree. Some women have been married, or have children, but all find that they relate and be close to women in a way that is impossible with men.

06/07/1971
Produced by Mary Capps, Mary Kelly, Margaret Dickinson, Esther Ronay, Brigid Segrave, Humphrey Trevelyan

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Four women describe their experience of the 1926 General Strike, life in the 1920s in a South Wales mining village in the Rhondda Valley, and the role of women in the mining community. “A slave to the home” is one participant’s memory of daily life for women – while the men were slaves to the mine owners. The women speak eloquently to camera – they have clearly been put at ease by the filmmakers – as they tell of lost hopes of careers as a teacher or vet, and recall happier times.

09/11/1971
Production Company: ATV
Director: Charles Mapleston
Producer: Brigid Segrave

Documentary following Germaine Greer as she toured the USA to promote her book ‘The Female Eunuch’. By the end of the tour the book was number one on the US bestseller list and Greer was a household name, openly discussing sexual violence and reproductive politics on US prime-time TV, and hosting the Dick Cavett talk show for two nights.

13/03/1973
Production Company: ATV
Director: Brigid Segrave
Producer: Brigid Segrave

The documentary follows the lives of 36 Poor Clare nuns who have taken the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Won the Special Jury Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1973.

Behind the scenes study of the work of the London Zoo.

19/11/1974
Production Company: ATV
Director: Brigid Segrave
Producer: Brigid Segrave

“We want,” says presenter Juliet Mitchell, “to look at the way women are used in the commercial world to sell products, at the way they can get on by using their beauty and their bodies to make a living as models. We want to look at the way advertisements try to tell teenage girls how they could be ’perfect’.”

Part of ‘No Man’s Land’
10/03/1973
Production Company: ATV
Director: Dorothy Denham
Producer: Brigid Segrave, Lis Kustow

“We’re over 18, entitled to a council flat, to have children, to fight and die for our country. But when we go into a shop for something on hire-purchase they say: ‘You haven’t got a man to sign for you ‘”. The speaker is 22-year-old Christine, mother of four. A studio audience discuss the plight of women alone.

Part of ‘No Man’s Land’
03/03/1973
Production Company: ATV
Director: Dorothy Denham
Producer: Brigid Segrave, Lis Kustow

Two short films explore the plight of working women: the first deals with graduates who often end up as nurses or secretaries serving men. The second, a night cleaner earning under £14 a week. The studio audience included the head of an employment agency, a trade unionist, Renée Short MP, and Baroness Seear.

Part of ‘No Man’s Land’
17/02/1973
Production Company: ATV
Director: Dorothy Denham
Producer: Brigid Segrave, Lis Kustow

The studio audience including Germaine Greer, actress Patricia Cutts, a female Salvation Army officer, and Elaine Morgan, a miner’s daughter from South Wales whose book ‘The Descent of Woman’ became an US best-seller, watched a film of teenage girls discussing sex.

Part of ‘No Man’s Land’
10/02/1973
Production Company: ATV
Director: Dorothy Denham
Producer: Brigid Segrave, Lis Kustow

‘No Man’s Land’ was a platform for women’s viewpoints. The presenter Juliet Mitchell shared the strong views held by producers Brigid Segrave and Liz Kustow about women in society. This programme challenges society’s view of marriage.

Part of ‘No Man’s Land’
03/02/1973
Production Company: ATV
Director: Dorothy Denham
Producer: Brigid Segrave, Lis Kustow

Profile of Clive Barnes, Theatre and Dance critic of the New York Times who held the most powerful position in the industry. His review could make or break Broadway productions. Following a decade practicing his craft in England, he was named the dance critic at the New York Times in 1965. Two years later he became the paper’s daily theatre critic, a post he held until 1977.

25/05/1971
Production Company: ATV
Director: Charles Mapleston
Producer: Brigid Segrave

Portrait of Newark’s first black mayor after the city’s notorious 1967 race riots.

06/07/1971
Production Company: ATV
Director: Charles Mapleston
Producer: Brigid Segrave

An investigation into the nature of loyalty and betrayal, illustrated by the case of Klaus Fuchs, the German physicist and atomic spy who passed secrets of the allies Atomic programme to the Soviets.

20/10/1965
Production Company: ATV
Producer: Hugh Raggett
Researcher: Brigid Segrave
Written by: Edward Francis-Williams