Vera Brittain: Anti-Bombing Campaigner
WW2 anti-bombing protestor, 20 years since Omagh and the birth of the instant noodle.
The History Hour · BBC World Service
August 18, 201850m 10s
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Show Notes
Baroness Shirley Williams recalls her mother, WW2 anti-bombing protestor; 20 years since a mass killing in Omagh, the African-American photographer whose coverage of Martin Luther King's funeral won him a Pullitzer Prize, plus when TV finally came to South Africa and the birth of the instant noodle.
Photo: Vera Brittain at Euston Station, London, in 1956. Credit: Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images