"Some of the mindset from the past is gone. It's smaller - my family comes first. With that, political attitudes change."

Forty years on from the miners’ strike, Mark’s back in the village where his dad was a miner who stopped work for an entire year. The miners’ welfare institute and majestic pitheads have gone - and that’s not all that has changed.

Trying to understand the political legacy of the strike, Mark goes to meet the area’s MP, an ex-miner who’s been on a political journey that mirrors how voting there has shifted in recent years. Are that change and the strong support for Brexit in the area connected to the demise of coal mining? And Mark tries to find a piece of his dad’s mining heritage that’s gone missing.

Presenter: Mark Watson
Series Producer: Simon Maybin
Editor: Clare Fordham
Sound mix: James Beard
Production Co-ordinator: Ellie Dover
Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams
Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke Show less