Strike Boy
3. Arthur and Maggie
15 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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'We'd been beaten by militancy before. We were not going to be beaten again.' Show more
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Strike Boy
4. Flying Pickets
15 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
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'I'm not saying I'm proud of what I did, but I reverted to guerrilla warfare.' Show more
Strike Boy
5. Women against Pit Closures
15 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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'Oh, are you a feminist now?' 'No, I'm an ordinary housewife with a brain.' Show more
Strike Boy
6. Policing Pickets
15 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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"I weren't right happy. I mean, they threw bottles and stuff and bricks at us." Show more
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8. Defeat
15 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
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"I were put in the lowest rated job, in the isolated part of the pit. We were victimised." Show more
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10. Legacy
15 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
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'Some of the mindset from the past is gone. It's smaller - my family comes first. With that, political attitudes change.' Show more
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9. An Era Ends
15 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
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'It was one of the most awful decisions I had to make in my political life. But there was no other choice.' Show more
Mark Watson was ten when the 1984 miners’ strike took over his life. Forty years on, he wants to know what really happened and how it changed his community - and this country. Show more
Mark Watson was ten when the 1984 miners’ strike took over his life. Forty years on, he wants to know what really happened and how it changed his community - and this country. Show more
Strike Boy
7. Battle-Weary
15 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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"He fetched truncheon down ont the lad's top of his head. He went, whack! I witnessed that and it haunts you." Show more
Strike Boy
1. Coal Dust in Our Veins
15 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
'We were the vanguard of the trade union movement, and we'd got to be eliminated.' Show more
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2. 'Scabs'
15 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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'You had to run the gauntlet and I were covered in spit and all sorts.' Show more