Songs of Praise: Season 2018, Episode 5

2018 - 5: Pioneering Women

On the centenary of British women over the age of 30 first getting the vote, Rev Kate Bottley celebrates pioneering Christian women. She visits Mansfield College in Oxford to learn about Constance Coltman, the first woman to be ordained in a UK denomination over a century ago. Josie d'Arby gains exclusive access to a 400-year-old church altar cloth which experts say is from a skirt worn by Queen Elizabeth I. Josie also meets Ruth Awogbade, who launched her own Christian fashion magazine. The music in this programme, from across the UK, is inspired or written by women.