Vicki Barker
speaker
765 appearances
133 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 14 Sep
Vicki Barker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 107 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 20.
Appearances
For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.
voice-verified
Once again on Saturday, London police officers carry demonstrators from their silent sit-in supporting the banned group Palestine Action.
to sympathetic applause.
It takes five officers to carry away each protester, each protester trying to make the process of arrest as slow and laborious as possible.
Now, forces in multiple cities say their officers are exhausted and spread thin with security beefed up outside synagogues and Jewish schools following last week's synagogue attack.
So the British government says it's going to give police more powers to put conditions on repeat protests, possibly moving them to more containable locations.
For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.
Once again on Saturday, London police officers carry demonstrators from their silent sit-in supporting the banned group Palestine Action.
voice-verified
to sympathetic applause.
voice-verified
It takes five officers to carry away each protester, each protester trying to make the process of arrest as slow and laborious as possible.
voice-verified
Now, forces in multiple cities say their officers are exhausted.
voice-verified
and spread thin with security beefed up outside synagogues and Jewish schools following last week's synagogue attack.
voice-verified
So the British government says it's going to give police more powers to put conditions on repeat protests, possibly moving them to more containable locations.
voice-verified
For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.
voice-verified
As some protesters for Palestine action sing, others applaud as four police officers bodily lift one elderly demonstrator and carry her out of London's Trafalgar Square.
voice-verified
Organizers had rejected pleas from the prime minister on down to suspend this weekend's pro-Palestinian protests out of respect for the victims of Thursday's synagogue attack and for British Jews in general.
voice-verified
But several of those arrested Saturday were themselves Jewish, and one Jewish supporter said cancelling would have advanced what she called the dangerous narrative that all Jews support the war in Gaza and therefore share responsibility for acts committed there.
voice-verified
Fifteen years ago, the Women's Rugby World Cup final was played in a small stadium in front of just 13,000 spectators.
voice-verified
On Saturday, a capacity crowd of close to 82,000 packed Twickenham Stadium, considered the home of English rugby, breaking all records for the women's sport.
voice-verified
Mo Hunt, who plays scrum half, among the players, telling the BBC neither she nor her teammates could ever have imagined interest in their sport would hit this level.
voice-verified
Showing 601–620 of 765 · page 31 of 39
← Previous
Next →