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Aldermaston

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Search complete. 13 mentions across 10 episodes found for "Aldermaston".

Nov 4, 2026

Leuren MoretSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
44:42
And he is also on European Parliament and British government committees official committees on low-level radiation.
Leuren MoretSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
44:50
And what he did was a Freedom of Information Act request from the atomic weapons establishment facility at Aldermaston in Berkshire, England.
Leuren MoretSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
45:05
And even though they are required by law to release their air monitoring data to Dr. Busby, they refused to.
Leuren MoretSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
45:17
And when the British Freedom of Information Act law went into effect, he immediately filed a FOIA to get this data from Elder Mastin.
Leuren MoretSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
47:31
And he came up with the astounding number of 27 million particles inhaled in a two-week period.
Leuren MoretSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
47:41
Now obviously this depleted uranium nuclear war has been going on since 1991 and that means that people around the world have been exposed to very very high levels for prolonged periods of this depleted uranium dust and of course the British government said oh no no no that uranium came out of our nuclear power plants or It came from natural uranium in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Leuren MoretSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
48:18
Well, that's all baloney because the sand and the dust from the region where the depleted uranium originated was also in the air filters at Aldermaston.
Leuren MoretSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
48:30
And there's just no doubt whatsoever where this depleted uranium dust came from.
Michael CorbettNARRATOR
3:18
To me, the one that I accepted first was the peace testimony.
Michael CorbettNARRATOR
3:28
Way back in the late 1950s, I was led to join a band the Bomb March from Aldermaston to London over the Easter weekend.
Michael CorbettNARRATOR
3:43
It was during the first night when we were being billeted in a school that I met four young friends.
Michael CorbettNARRATOR
3:54
They were convinced that all wars all weapons like atomic bombs should cease.
Dave MoorHOST
15:58
Gosh.
Dave MoorHOST
15:59
So to counter all that, in April, there's a big CND protest when 70,000 protesters arrive in London, having marched 50 miles from Aldermaston, where the nuclear weapons were being developed, to demonstrate against nuclear weapons.
Dave MoorHOST
16:13
70,000 people.
Dave MoorHOST
16:14
Wow.
Camilla TomineySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
40:04
Yeah,
Tim StanleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
40:04
but they marched at Aldermaston.
Tim StanleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
40:06
You know, they had free love.
Tim StanleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
40:08
They did really interesting things.
Mark ThomasGUEST
45:02
And I was like, fucking hell, and it is quite freaky to find a red dot on your head.
Mark ThomasGUEST
45:06
And anyway, years and years later, I was doing a gig and afterwards a bloke came along and said, you were there at Aldermaston, weren't you, on the cherry picker? I said, yeah, somebody fucking pointed the gun at me.
Mark ThomasGUEST
45:17
He said, that was me.
Mark ThomasGUEST
45:20
I said, what did you do? He said, well, word went round on the radio that it was Mark Thomas.
Camilla TomineyHOST
2:13
Your mum's one.
Tim StanleyHOST
2:13
But they marched at Aldermaston.
Tim StanleyHOST
2:15
You know, they had free love.
Tim StanleyHOST
2:17
They did really interesting things.
Kevin ParrGUEST
61:11
Um, and the average was, you know, three or four pounds, but there were lots of them.
Kevin ParrGUEST
61:17
Um, I think I mentioned it, Peter Arlott, who used to, um, look after the old mill at Aldermaston, he f- he was telling me how he fished it one night, and he thought he'd just see how many barbel he could catch in a whole night.
Kevin ParrGUEST
61:29
And he started fishing at 9:00, free-lining bread, and he stopped at 1:00, I think it was, having caught, having notched up 100 barbel.
Geoff FelthamHOST
61:37
[laughs]
Michael WeyersHOST
40:27
They carry 157 men, vehicles, howitzers and supplies.
Michael WeyersHOST
40:34
They take off from Aldermaston at 18.30 and land at Landing Zone E at 21.00.
Michael WeyersHOST
40:42
They deliver their cargo to the paratroopers before the first night in enemy territory.
Michael WeyersHOST
40:48
Mission Elmira is the largest glider mission of Normandy.
Montgomery Watson-PricePANELIST
61:00
Um-
Jack StaveleyGUEST
61:00
Um-At, um, Aldermaston.
Jack StaveleyGUEST
61:03
Aldermaston, is it?
Montgomery Watson-PricePANELIST
61:05
Alderm-- yeah, Aldermaston.
Jack StaveleyGUEST
61:07
Yeah.
Montgomery Watson-PricePANELIST
61:07
Guess.
Benjamin FittonNARRATOR
70:53
This meant that the passengers in the car were also identified.
Benjamin FittonNARRATOR
70:59
Jesse Cole of Windmill Corner in Mortimer Common and Albert Bowers of Pace's Hill Traveler Site in Aldermaston denied both manslaughter and murder.
Benjamin FittonNARRATOR
71:10
However, like Henry Long, they pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal.
Benjamin FittonNARRATOR
71:16
The gang lived in social housing, however, had connections to the Four Houses Corner Traveler site.

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