Greenham Common 10 year anniversary
- Title
- Greenham Common 10 year anniversary
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop
- TX Date
- 5 Sep 1991
- Year of production
- 1991
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- Duration
- 00:04:30
- Description
- Paola Tich(?) reports on the ten year anniversary of the women’s peace camp at Greenham Common against US nuclear missiles on the air base. Thalia Campbell remembers her times on site, visiting it today; Commons speech by Michael Heseltine, the then Defence Secretary, announcing the arrival of the missiles in 1983; vox pop with protesters over the years; interview with irate local MP Michael McNair-Wilson. The camp remains today despite the last missiles leaving last March.
- Contributors
- Michael McNair-Wilson; Thalia Campbell; Paola Tich(?)
- Keywords
- USA; UK; Protest movements; Nuclear weapons; Missiles; Anti-nuclear movements; Greenham Common; Reminiscence; Anniversaries; Military bases; Protest songs
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