From the end of the 19th-century till the late 1930s, Midlothian mining villages such as Newtongrange and Rosewell were dominated by the Lothian Coal Company and its manager, Mungo Mackay. Veteran miners and their famines recall stories that reveal a community in which the company owned houses, shops, the pub... exerting influence on every facet of the people's lives.

(First broadcast on Radio Scotland)