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Description:When in 1970,four women disrupted the Miss World contest by hurling smoke bombs and eggs at the contestants,their actions made headlines everywhere as one fo the most vocal expressions of what people were just learning to call feminism. What has happened to the women in the thirty years since ? Have their experiences lived up to the hopes that impelled them to make their protest ? The programme uses the lives of the four women to explore some of the gains and losses that the feminism that they so famously espoused has delivered - or failed to deliver. To mark the aniversary of the Equal Pay Act.