Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson, the past brought to life by those who were there.

This week, 20 years on, the Omar bombing.

You know, you didn't really want to believe you know someone like

this can happen to Ann. I knew the possibilities of something dreadful but

it didn't you don't want to believe it.

Also, we'll hear about the Life and Times of the first African American winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism.

Plus, when TV first came to South Africa in 1976.

You couldn't have a mixed race romance in any of the shows.

It was either black or white.

And I see no sex. no sex and 60 years of instant noodles when you develop

instant noodles you mustn't make them taste too delicious just produce a flavor which makes you want to eat them again and again.

That's all coming up later in the podcast, but we begin with another look at the phenomenon of

pacifism during wartime. A couple of weeks ago we spent time on this

podcast looking at conscientious objectives during the first world war. Today we're

looking at how tactics employed during the second world war led some to feel a sense of outrage less than 30 years later.

In the European summer of 1943 Allied saturation bombing of German cities was at its height

and civilian loss of life was far higher than in the first

half of World War II.

But few voices were raised openly against the campaign of mass bombing on the Allied

side.

Someone who did speak out was the writer Vera Britain.

Vincent Dowd has been talking to her daughter, the politician Shirley Williams.

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