In October 2012, she appeared before an All Party Parliamentary Group on women's sport, with Katherine Grainger, Hope Powell and Tanni Grey-Thompson. "Women having freedom to play sport leads directly to women having political freedom," said Balding. In 2013, to mark the centenary of Emily Wilding Davison's fatal intervention in the 1913 Derby, Balding presented a documentary about Davison for Channel 4 called "Secrets of the Suffragettes". Also in 2013, she presented a BBC documentary about the Queen called "The Queen – a Passion for Horses". Other factual documentaries for the BBC have included "Britain By Bike", "Operation Wild", and "Britain's Hidden Heritage".