Miners strike - Margaret Thatcher interview
- Title
- Miners strike - Margaret Thatcher interview
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 2 Aug 1984
- Year of production
- 1984
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- Duration
- 00:03:38
- Description
- Peter Murphy interviews Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on the miners’ strike and her hope that it will end soon. She says that no previous government has ever given the miners a better deal.
- Further information
- http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=105733
- Contributors
- Margaret Thatcher; Peter Murphy
- Keywords
- Government; Labour Party; Strikes; Labour disputes; Wages; Labour relations; Conservative Party; Miners; NUM; Redundancy terms; Coal miners; NCB; Coal Strike (1984-1985); Nigel Lawson; Ian MacGregor; Strikes (events)
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LBC/IRN, "Miners strike - Margaret Thatcher interview". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0007000237014 (Accessed 24 Jan 2026)