From the Guardian, Made in Dagenham first night review (5th Nov 2014)

And Sophie-Louise Dann's fiery-haired Barbara Castle (for it is

she) has more than a lewd touch of late, great Hylda Baker in her
make-up before she lets rip in the second half with a glass-
shattering number designed to instruct the girls on the need for
pragmatism in politics.

Hylda Baker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6rMJ6bCot4

Possible character inspiration

Barbara Castle Labour's greatest woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=Nj0u_pnAw_s

The Real Baroness: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/1995/jan/22/uk.comment

For a generation of women in their teens and 20s in the 1960s,
including, incredibly, Edwina Currie by her own admission, Barbara
Castle was the only role model that existed for ambitious girls who
wanted to break out of the condemned cell of early marriage and
thwarted careers.
Barbara Castle autobiography:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/may/04/guardianobituaries.obituaries
Her career foundered on an inability to master the key political skill
of building support where it counted, in the parliamentary party.
She claimed to find making political alliances demeaning; her critics
found her wearisomely egocentric. Even her friends distrusted her
temper.

Soon after Oxford, Barbara fell in love with the leading socialist
intellectual and journalist, William Mellor. He was married with a
young child, but, for more than 10 years, they pursued a
tempestuous, semi-public affair, their passion spent equally
between each other and the politics of the left. But although she
knew of the affair, Mellor could never bring himself to leave his wife.
He died, suddenly, in 1942.

http://www.filmeducation.org/madeindagenham/context.html
Interview with Mary Davis, Professor of Labour History at London Metropolitan University.
Transcript

1. What was the historical background to the 1968 strike?

2. How did the work of the women at Ford's compare to that of men?
3. What was the influence of the Womens Liberation movement?
4. What do you think is the long-term significance of the strike?
5. How has the status and position of British women improved since 1968?
6. What can young people do to championing womens rights?

Yorkshire accent tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ueviiMlZC8

1968: The year that changed world history

https://www.theguardian.com/observer/gallery/2008/jan/17/1

The Equal Pay Act 1970 (since repealed) and the Equality Act 2010
http://www.inbrief.co.uk/employees/equal-pay/

Talk about going to see Made in Dagenham in Grantham, mention how underwhelming it was and
how to improve

BY THE SAME AUTHORS AS MADE IN DAGENHAM

One Man, Two Guvnors

Jerry Springer: The Opera
Kombat Opera Presents...

Dagenham machinists recall strike that changed women's lives

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jun/06/dagenham-sewing-machinists-strike

http://www.leftfutures.org/2015/06/the-labour-leadership-candidates-should-turn-to-barbara-castle/