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Ann Trevenen Jenkin

Ann Trevenen Jenkin

Mmm – yes, I’m founding member of – em – Mebyon Kernow, but I’m also – I was the first woman Grand Bard of Cornwall [tut] so that – that was quite a – er – flag for freedom [laughs]

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Melissa Hardie

Melissa Hardie

Transcript by Jayde Stevenson I’ve never slowed down from earliest days and I’m now 79. People are forever remarking that they don’t know how I do everything I do. I’ve never looked upon it as being particularly social activism. In

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Avril Silk

Avril Silk Just Women Magazine

Transcript by Jayde Stevenson I happened to be singing with a friend of mine- a guitarist called Ivor- at the youth and community centre in Taunton at some… special party- I can’t remember the ins and outs of the party,

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Hilary Coleman and Sally Burley

Hilary Coleman and Sally Burley

Transcript by Jayde Stevenson Since I was about 19, I guess, I was playing Cornish music, um, on my clarinet and also singing. Umm… and then I met Sal- how many years ago? Oh, twenty something… yeah 20 years ago

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ANAIRDA

ANAIRDA

Transcript by Jayde Stevenson I am Latin American, I come from a political family that are also quite artistic as well, but umm… so when I was 13… between 13 and 14, we started with our newspaper in the secondary

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Dr. Amy Frost

High Street Bath

Transcript by Jayde Stevenson So… Bath went through a really dark period, the darkest period of Bath’s architectural history, um… was between about 1963 and 1975, umm… and it became known as ‘the Sack of Bath’ and during this period

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