Barbara Castle Barbara Castle Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, PC, GCOT ("née" Betts; 6 October 1910 – 3 May 2002) was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979, making her the longest-serving female MP in the history of the House of Commons until that record was broken in 2007 by Gwyneth Dunwoody. She later became the Member of the European Parliament for Greater Manchester from 1979 to 1989 and subsequently a member of the House of Lords, having been granted a life peerage in 1990. One of the most significant
The Woman Who Lived The Woman Who Lived "The Woman Who Lived" is the sixth episode of the ninth series of the British sci-fi series "Doctor Who". It was first broadcast on BBC One on 24 October 2015. It was written by Catherine Tregenna and directed by Ed Bazalgette. The episode is set in England, 1651, featuring a highwayman revealed to be Ashildr (now going by the name of "Me" and under the alias of The Knightmare) and "her fire breathing accomplice", when "The Doctor, on the trail of an alien artifact, is brought face to the face with the consequences of his own