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The Colliers' Crusade

on BBC Two England

The second of five films in which a group of Welshmen recall their part in the Spanish Civil War. ' Be Back by Monday Morning ' said a detective to a miner as he set off from London. Some left without telling their wives. The Communist Party gave them 34 shillings and pretended they were going to Paris for the weekend. But they went south to be smuggled over the Pyrenees. They had little idea of what lay ahead. Narrated by RENÉ CUTFORTH
Film editor BILL MAINMAN
Written and produced by JOHN ORMOND

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