Miners strike - Ambulance crews don riot gear on picket lines
- Title
- Miners strike - Ambulance crews don riot gear on picket lines
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- Jul 1984
- Year of production
- 1984
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- Duration
- 00:02:33
- Description
- Interview with ambulanceman Don Page on the violence on the miners’ strike picket lines, and the need for ambulance crews to wear riot equipment to avoid being injured whilst on foot patrol on the pickets. Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Don Page
- Keywords
- Strikes; Labour disputes; Violence; Ambulance services; Coal miners; Coal Strike (1984-1985); Paramedical personnel; Protective clothing; Strikes (events)
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LBC/IRN, "Miners strike - Ambulance crews don riot gear on picket lines". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0005300280001 (Accessed 03 Nov 2025)