Episode 206

When the pensionable age for women was raised, in the name of austerity for some, from 60 to 66, it left hundreds of thousands of women, who'd scheduled -or even taken- their retirement on the old rules, with neither work nor pension.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned and the results were some of the most effective, creative and unremitting campaigns in recent history. The WASPIs (Women Against State Pension Inequality) have made life a scorching hell for our rulers, of a kind not seen since the Suffragettes. Joining Sputnik this week are two such suffragettes, fresh from banging the door of 10 Downing St, campaigner and speaker Yvette Greenway, and the campaign director Joanne Welch from the #BackTo60 Campaign.

Indian restaurants have come a long way since the ubiquitous flecked wallpaper curry houses of the 1960s. Chicken Tikka Massala is now Britain's National Dish and these small businesses can be found in every city, town and even village from Lands’ End to John O'Groats. An exhibition at the Birmingham Museum and Arts Gallery Called "Knights of the Raj" charts the rise of this multi-billion pound success story, so we invited the curator of the show, Birmingham-born artist, Mohammed Ali MBE into the Sputnik studio to whet our appetite and tell us more.

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