by EMILE ZOLA , translated by LEONARD TANCOCK dramatised in five parts by DAVID HOPKINS
4: Etienne has persuaded the miners to strike. Now. with their anger aroused. the miners want to go further and march on all the other pits to force them to close. The miners' anger, like an unleashed animal, seems to Etienne to be uncontrollable.
Narrator PAT CONNELL
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tues 3.2 pm)