'Wherever you get a strike, you get bitterness creep in - and once you become enemies over a strike it's very difficult, when the strike is over, to resolve the position, because people will always remember the hardships they've had to suffer.'

So said the local union secretary in Clipstone, a Nottinghamshire mining village, the day the National Coal Strike began. By then The Money Programme's cameras had been in Clipstone for a month: they stayed for ten weeks more and recorded this unique portrait of both sides of an industrial community under pressure - men, managers, and their wives before, during, and after the strike.

"A brilliant scoop... a real television programme" (Financial Times)
"As an anatomy of a strike at its grass roots, I cannot praise this programme too highly" (Daily Mirror)
"An Ancient Mariner of a Money Programme that positively would not let you pass" (the Guardian)