Great Lives

4.30PM, RADIO 4 (FM)

Matthew Parris’s guest this week is the Northern Irish TV presenter Andrea Catherwood, who will be championing the Irish rebel countess Constance Markievicz. A revolutionary Irish nationalist, Markievicz was the first woman elected to Parliament, although, along with fellow Sinn Fein members, she refused to take up her seat in the House of Commons in 1918.