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Archive on 4: The Greenham Effect / BBC Radio 4, Saturday 4 September
On 27 August 1981, a group of around 40 women set off on a march from Cardiff to RAF Greenham Common, located near Newbury in Berkshire. Their protest was sparked by the British government’s decision to allow cruise missiles to be stored at the airbase. They set up what came to be known as the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, which would only be disbanded 19 years later, in 2000.
The Greenham protests have become synonymous with the last nervy years of the Cold War and also with opposition to Margaret Thatcher’s brand of Conservatism. And yet there are other stories here too, less redolent of the 1980s: most notably the way the Greenham protesters
