Widows' politics is especially eye-catching inthePhilippines because of the personalities involved: the redoubtable Mrs Aquino and the well-heeled, indeed well-shod, Imelda Marcos, whose husband was the dictator Mrs Aquino deposed.
Interestingly the retrospective excludes the episode's latest chapter and one of its most complex, the post-exile era, in which the Marcos family returns to thePhilippines and to politics.