A Case History
' Coal can' be charmed out of the ground - you've got to have the men to go down and dig it.'
' From the time he's had the dust, it's been the end of our marriage ...'
' I've always been proud of my health but now I've got to stop all the time and pretend to look at the prices in the window ...' Patrick Hannan reports on the disease which had no name 30 years ago but which nearly destroyed the mining industry in South Wales. It remains the most widespread of industrial diseases and continues to temper the attitude of miners both to their work and to society as a whole.
Cameraman RUSSELL WALKER Film editor CHRIS LAWRENCE Producer SELWYN RODERICK