Great Lives: Joan Rhodes, Strongest Woman in the World

Series 56, episode 8

Anna Maxwell Martin proposes Joan Rhodes, who was abandoned by her parents as a child to find fame in the 1950s and 1960s as a wrestler and strongwoman, able to rip up phone books and bend nails. The programme features archive of her holding up 14-stone cricket commentator Brian `Johnners" Johnstone, as well as the voice of the woman who knew her well - Triona Palmer, author of An Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove. Presented by Matthew Parris

Cast (unconfirmed)

Matthew Parris
Anna Maxwell Martin