LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

End of miners strike with retrospective on dispute

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop; Speech

TX Date

4 Mar 1985

Year of production

1985

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Duration

00:09:46

Description

Report on the end of the miners’ strike including opposition from miners in Kent, Yorkshire and Scotland to the NUM decision to return to work and on the cost to the economy. Includes interviews with Kent NUM Secretary Malcolm Pitt; NUM President Arthur Scargill; NCB spokesman Michael Eaton; economist Gavin Davies. Also Neil Mainland retrospective on the year long dispute with archive speeches by Scargill, NCB Chairman Ian MacGregor and NUM Vice-President Mick McGahey; interview with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; report on clashes between police and pickets at Orgreave Colliery.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Arthur Scargill; Mick McGahey; Gavin Davis; Neil Mainland; Michael Eaton; Malcolm Pitt

Keywords

Trade unions; Strikes; Labour disputes; TUC; Police; Scotland; Violence; Kent; Yorkshire; NUM; Coal industry; Coal miners; Ballots; NCB; Coal mines; Coal Strike (1984-1985); Mine closures; Ian MacGregor; Strikes (events); Orgreave Colliery

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