Bidge Smith: Mervyn Thompson vs. Six Angry Women - a podcast by RNZ

Women activists were protesting against all forms of oppression in 1984 when Auckland university lecturer and playwright Mervyn Thompson was kidnapped, beaten and chained to a tree by six women who accused him of being a rapist. Thompson was never charged with rape, and his kidnappers have never been identified. That same year, Bidge Smith became Auckland University Students' Association Women's Rights Officer and spoke out in support of the anonymous women who carried out the attack. She appears in the documentary Six Angry Women which premieres on TVNZ 1 this Monday 8 March at 8.30pm and can then be seen on TVNZ OnDemand.

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