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Common Ground

Mar 8, 2024

 

In this episode we get physical and hear how the Greenham and Aldermaston experience gave women confidence in their bodies and voice – subverting stereotypes and challenging societal preconceptions of themselves.

Bridgerton actor Adjoa Andoh reveals how taking part in Embrace the Base as a young woman galvanised...


Nov 8, 2023

The battle for justice went well beyond the high fences of Greenham Common and Aldermaston. In this episode we hear how the peace women travelled across the globe in the fight to rid the world of nuclear weapons. We hear how former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev paid tribute to them after signing a major peace treaty...


Jul 2, 2023

The Greenham experience was transformative for many of the women who explored their sexuality, combined activism and motherhood - and revelled in the potency and protection of a women-only movement. Hear from Sue Say who set up an artificial insemination project for women, Abbie Silk, the young lesbian student,...


Apr 19, 2023

It’s now more than 40 years since Embrace the Base when 30,000 women joined hands around the perimeter fence of RAF Greenham in Berkshire to protest against the siting of American nuclear weapons on the Common.

On a freezing weekend last December, many of those who’d taken part in that historic protest, reunited...