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Radio 4,09 Jul 2026,14 mins

Series Ten Fights That Made the Green Movement

9. Crackdown

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Just Stop Oil is 鈥渉anging up the hi vis鈥 after three years of throwing soup at paintings, interrupting theatre performances, and blocking roads. It鈥檚 2025. They鈥檝e been racking up arrests - and opponents - and now, the UK government has passed a string of new laws cracking down on disruptive protest. They say they鈥檝e achieved their aims - a ban on new oil and gas licenses - but were they policed to extinction? With their hardcore campaigning for the climate, did these activists prompt a change in law that made all green activism harder? Presenter: Justin Rowlatt Producer: Alix Pickles Series Producer: Ellie House Editor: Matt Willis Sound Design and Mix: James Beard Production Coordinators: Maria Ogundele, Brenda Brown, Sabine Schereck Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke Archive: 鈥楯ust Stop Oil is Hanging up the Hi Vis鈥, Just Stop Oil, 27/3/2025 Just Stop Oil Louise M25 protest, Just Stop Oil, 7/11/2022 Lord Deben on Just Stop Oil, ITV Robert Peston, 5/7/2023 Rupert Read talking about The Climate Majority Project, Some Dare Call It Conspiracy podcast, 24/4/2024

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