A series of programmes made specially for audiences in the BBC regions and now seen for the first time throughout the United Kingdom.
Tonight from BBC North East Farewell, Jobling by ARTHUR APPLETON
On Whit Monday, 1832, during one of the early struggles to establish a miners' union on Tyneside, Nicholas Fairies , a reactionary local magistrate, was clubbed to death. A Jarrow miner, William Jobling , was found guilty of the murder and hanged at Durham.
Guilty, yes -but how justified was the tarring and caging which preceded the gibbeting of Jobling's body high above the waters of the Tyne?
The story of Will Jobling's reluctant crime and subsequent humiliation is told by Thomas Hepburn the first leader of pit-men in the North East.
Film cameraman DAVID cox
Studio lighting GARTH JEFFERT Designer TONY BANNISTER Producer ROGER BURGESS
Series co-ordinator FRANK GILLAM