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32 years ago today, a peace movement made up mostly of women gathered together to show their resistance to lethal weapons being held in Berkshire. Around 70,000 people formed a 14-mile long human chain linking the nuclear warhead factories at Aldermaston and Burghfield to the then US airbase of Greenham Common. The Greenham Common women had already been at their camp in Newbury for two years by this time. Many were evicted by police in 1984, before the camp finally closed down in 2000. Some of the women involved in both sides of the nuclear disarmament debate, recalled what happened at the Greenham Common. Mary Millington went to Greenham Common Peace Camp in 1982 and stayed there for five years. Lady Olga Maitland watched the human chain being formed on television, and consequently set up an opposition group, Women and Families for Defence. Shirley Huxtable has lived next to Greenham Common for nearly 40 years, and was often caught in the middle of the protests. This clip is originally from 5 live Daily on Friday 3 April 2015.
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