The Verb: Funny Women

Ian McMillan explores funny fiction by women with Helen Lederer, the writer and comedian (and now creator of the 'Comedy Women In Print: Book Prize'). Plus, researcher and performer Dr Naomi Paxton, who has written about the use of comedy as a political took in the Women's Suffrage movement, and Joanna Neary, whose alter ego the repressed housewife, Celia Jesson, tries her hand at comedy