Mrs America

BBC2, 9pm & 9.45pm

Tonight’s double bill sees Phyllis’s campaign to stop the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment gather momentum, and crowdpleaser George McGovern fight it out with trailblazing AfricanAmerican Shirley Chisholm (Uzo Aduba, right) to become the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate. Then, a year later, the Supreme Court makes an historic judgement legalising abortion.