Women of substance

Jude Kelly missed a trick when she set off in search of that very British creation, the battleaxe, for this week’s Archive on 4.

Jude Kelly missed a trick when she set off in search of that very British creation, the battleaxe, for this week’s Archive on 4. The stage director and now head of the South Bank Centre in London gave us Ena Sharples and Hattie Jacques, Hyacinth Bucket and Thora Hird but no hair-rollered hyenas from the radio files.