Vidal Sassoon: Anti-fascist warrior-hairdresser
Vidal Sassoon, the hairdresser, has recounted his early days as a foot-soldier for an underground anti-fascist group dedicated to wiping out Sir Oswald Mosley's far-Right movement after the Second World War.
Sassoon was a teenage member of the 43 Group, an organisation formed in 1946 by Jewish ex-servicemen who returned from the frontline only to discover that Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists and an admirer of Adolf Hitler, was spreading his message of hatred on the streets of London.
The story is told in a BBC Radio 4 documentary, Archive Hour: A Rage In Dalston, to be broadcast on Saturday, April 19, at 8pm.
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Sassoon was a teenage member of the 43 Group, an organisation formed in 1946 by Jewish ex-servicemen who returned from the frontline only to discover that Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists and an admirer of Adolf Hitler, was spreading his message of hatred on the streets of London.
The story is told in a BBC Radio 4 documentary, Archive Hour: A Rage In Dalston, to be broadcast on Saturday, April 19, at 8pm.