Gail Bradbrook

This clip is from a series of 100 life history interviews with environmental campaigners in the UK, 1970-2020. It will feature in a book published by UCL Press in 2026. The full interview, along with the rest of the collection will be searchable on the British Library’s Sound and Moving Image catalogue and the interviews will be accessible onsite at the British Library in St Pancras from February 2026. For more information visit www.royalholloway.ac.uk/ohemQuotation:Barbara Brayshay: Could you, so could you tell me, could you tell me some more about your inspiration for, yes, for XR? And how that started?Gail Bradbrook: So I said already I’d started this thing called Compassionate Revolution. And the idea was that you would have lots of different groups that were interested in their part of change, you know. Some people are focused on ecocide or some people on fracking, some people on changes to democracy, or whatever. And you could all be in this space together using this sort of tool to organise collective actions. And then the idea was that they would come together and form moments of push for making bigger amounts of change. So like this sort of mass civil disobedience moment.British Library catalogue number: C2037/15 Project clip number: 209