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Grapefruits vs Apartheid

· 26 min

Episode Grapefruits vs Apartheid

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In a Dublin supermarket in 1984, a young woman makes a split-second decision.

She refuses to sell two grapefruits. Her job is on the line, and there’s a recession raging across the country. But she’s doing it for the human rights of people thousands of kilometres away, that she’s never even met.

Marc Fennell (Stuff The British Stole) is joined by Mary Manning to hear the story of how a union strike took her on a wild and unforgettable adventure, where she ended up meeting world icons and changing the law.

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