Persist and Prevail! How many people realised, noticed or even cared that March 8th was International Women’s Day, or that the whole of the month of March is designated as Women’s History Month? The Radio Times The covers of the Radio Times during the first two or three weeks of March 2023 didn’t offer many clues. In fact, any passing alien looking at some of the front covers, would be hard put to know that women even existed. It wasn’t much better once you looked at the programme menus inside the RT, which, remember, does seek to inform much of the population about the multitudes of viewing and listening opportunities available every week. If you searched the pages covering March 8th (International Women’s Day), you might have noticed the occasional nod to it – Film4 screened ‘Little Women’ and Radio 3 valiantly celebrated forgotten women composers. BBC Sounds and Lucy Worsley did their very best too,  But there was not much else going on unless you believe that a repeat of  The Six