The Documentary Podcast
The Documentary Podcast
BBC World Service
Her Story Made History: Vigdis Finnbogadottir
27 minutes Posted Feb 21, 2018 at 4:00 am.
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In 1980, the tiny country of Iceland did something no other nation had done. They elected a female head of state. BBC chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet travels to Reykjavik to meet Vigdis Finnbogadottir. Now 87, she was president for exactly 16 years and remains the longest-serving elected female head of state of any country to date. "That’s what I have given to the girls of this country," she says: “If she can, I can.”