Beyond the Silence - two women tell their stories of loss in the Troubles #BBCNolan

They feel they were two of the the forgotten voices of the troubles, two women - a protestant and catholic - who suffered in silence after loosing a brother and husband to loyalist and republican gunmen. That changed when Sharon Austin and Marie Newton agreed to tell their stories for the first time in the book Beyond the Silence along with 26 other women - many of them also forgotten victims. Sharon's 18 year old brother Winston Cross was abducted tortured and murdered by the IRA in 1974. Two years later Marie Newton was left a widow when her husband John Toland was shot dead by the UDA in the Happy Landing bar in Eglinton. She was left to bring up their seven children. But their stories don't end in the book because the two women have now become firm friends after sharing their stories. Sharon and Marie joined Enda this morning