The Greenham Effect

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As a child Rebecca Mordan protested at Greenham. Forty years since it began, she explores the peace camp's profound impact on the women there and on the whole of British society. Drawing upon a unique and rich new oral history of over a hundred women who lived, campaigned and threw their all into the Greenham protests, Rebecca explores how their experience changed them and the wider world. She meets the two women who first had the idea of a protest at Greenham, and others who went to jail for their beliefs. She also meets Michael Heseltine, the minister in Mrs Thatcher's government tasked with stopping the protests having any impact. The Greenham Effect uncovers how the methods and experiences of the Greenham women transformed many women's lives and how they now shape protest and female empowerment in our world today.