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Left Field
- The Memoir of a Lifelong Activist
- Narrated by: Tim Dalgleish
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Politics & Activism
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Summary
David Wilson has been a gaucho, a teacher, an artist's agent, a documentary filmmaker, and playwright, but above all, he has been a lifelong political activist. In the 60s he marched to Aldermaston. In the 70s he protested against the Vietnam War and apartheid. In the 80s, with the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Front, he delivered food to striking miners. More recently, he has been active in the anti-war movement.
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