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Vera Brittain: Anti-Bombing Campaigner

Vera Brittain: Anti-Bombing Campaigner

FromThe History Hour


Vera Brittain: Anti-Bombing Campaigner

FromThe History Hour

ratings:
Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Aug 18, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Baroness Shirley Williams recalls her mother, WW2 anti-bombing protestor; 20 years since a mass killing in Omagh, the African-American photographer whose coverage of Martin Luther King's funeral won him a Pullitzer Prize, plus when TV finally came to South Africa and the birth of the instant noodle.



Photo: Vera Brittain at Euston Station, London, in 1956. Credit: Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Released:
Aug 18, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

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