{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/63e63e00fe8ea40010f110c5/6678085b3911fa0012f49392?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Tree sitting, Cradlewell Bypass and a brush with the law","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/63e63e00fe8ea40010f110c5/1719142437758-886b1ac26055905bc8e121440316dd45.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>In this episode we talk to June, a teenage anti road demonstrator in the 1990s who also happens to be John's niece. The £12m Cradlewell bypass routed traffic through a tunnel to bypass a narrow&nbsp;pinch point at the end of the Coast Road into Newcastle. The&nbsp;protest invented the idea of tree sitting and delayed the project for a few months. June's arrest and it's subsequent impacts on her career are explored. John wonders whether June has changed her views, well have a listen!</p>","author_name":"Gordon Hudson & John Holmes"}