This episode continues the story of poet Emma Must and her part in the extensive and influential environmental activist campaign that worked tirelessly and imaginatively to prevent the carving of a motorway through the beautiful, mythical Twyford Down. We pick up the story in the summer of 1993, when a civil injunction is served against her and 76 others by the Ministry of Transport. We talk about what happened next and the consequences of breaking the civil injunction. Emma also reads from her recent poetry collection, The Ballad of Yellow Wednesday, including the statement she wrote for her court appearance in July 1993, before she was imprisoned.

Links and references
Must, Emma, 2022. The Ballad of Yellow Wednesday, Valley Press. https://www.valleypressuk.com/shop/p/yellow-wednesday
“Memories of the lost Down”, Hampshire Chronicle, 26 January 2023 https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/23270146.m3-destruction-twyford-inspires-book-poetry/
Must, Emma. 2022. “What Northern Ireland means to me”, Shared Future News. https://sharedfuture.news/category/podcast/wnimtm/
Must, Emma. 2014. “Twyford Rising”, in Here We Stand: Women Changing the World, compiled and edited by Helena Earnshaw and Angharad Penrhyn Jones, Honno: Dina Powys, pp 193-206.
Must, Emma. 2022. “The Colour of its Voice” Resurgence and Ecologist Magazine https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article6078-the-colour-of-its-voice.html
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