Vera Brittain: Anti-Bombing Campaigner

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 13 August 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

During WW2 the feminist and writer, Vera Brittain, spoke out against the saturation bombing of German cities. Her stance won her enemies in Britain and the USA. Vincent Dowd has been speaking to her daughter Shirley Williams about the impact of her campaign.

Photo: Vera Brittain at Euston Station, London, in 1956. Credit: Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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0:11.8	telly we share what we've been watching
0:14.0	Cladie Aide.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:24.9	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to
0:32.1	watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:36.5	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:41.5	telly we share what we've been watching.
0:43.7	Cladie Aide!
0:45.7	Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:48.2	Lovely.
0:49.0	Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:51.2	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:54.7	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Welcome to the
1:00.2	Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.
1:03.7	I'm Vincent Dowd.
1:05.1	I'm taking you back to the Second World War and the summer of 1943.
1:10.1	The Allied saturation bombing of German cities was at its height and civilian loss of life
1:16.0	was far higher than in the first half of the war. Few voices were raised openly against the
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