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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And Karen, I remember Karen and myself kind of, what do you say?
Like, what do you call them?
This footage of it, and you can see how awkward Karen and myself are.
And it was just like, we literally didn't like, what do you do?
Like, do you, you know, do you have to shake his hand or what do you do?
Like, we literally didn't know what to do.
So, but he was the most, the warmest man.
He really was a lovely, lovely man.
And so he made it very easy for us in the end.
And he walked into the room and he just came over and just hugged the two of us.
And he was interviewed at the time and he told Ben Dunne, you should be proud of the action that we're taking.
Here was a black man, a black man of the church, saying that what we were doing was the right thing to do.
So the people who were arguing was that, you know, we're going to hurt the black people of South Africa and this is not what they want.
They couldn't say that anymore.
Or they tried, they tried.
At least we had an argument back now for that.
So that was one of the biggest turning points.
People started to support us more.
And we started to get more people on the picket line.
British Airways initially came over and said that we weren't going to be allowed to board the flight.
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