Mary Manning
speaker
199 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 26 Jun
Mary Manning’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was exiled from South Africa and had been living in Ireland for a couple of years.
He walked up in the ambulance every day.
He was an ex-teacher as well.
So he was actually a typical, he was a teacher in that he taught you what was happening without kind of, you know, making you learn it, if that makes sense.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, he was someone you wanted to talk to.
And the more we heard about what it was like for a black South African to live there, the more we were determined that, like, what we were doing was the right thing.
Plus, black people in South Africa had asked for this boycott.
Nimrod explained it to us one day.
I think it was about 33 million black people living in South Africa and about 2 million white people.
And he said, it's like a pint of Guinness, but the black is on the bottom and the white's sitting on top.
I know, I know.
It's breathtaking.
It made you feel like this is so wrong.
It's so wrong that people who are just because of the colour of their skin are being separated and being treated so badly.
And literally that was what it was.
If you weren't the right colour, sorry, you had no rights.
So it just made you feel really angry about what was going on as well and wanting to try and help out and wanting to try and do something.
Like, we were like, what do you say to a bishop?
You know, like, how do you kind of address them?
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