LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Ned Smith on Ian MacGregor coal strike book

Genre

Interview

TX Date

2 Oct 1986

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:08:45

Description

The National Coal Board’s former Director-General of Industrial Relations, Ned Smith, reacts to a book on the coal strike by former NCB boss Sir Ian MacGregor. He claims the book is rewriting history; on their troubled relationship; his own book; how the strike negotiations actually proceeded and whether MacGregor could have resolved the strike much earlier. Interviewers are Peter Deeley and Douglas Cameron.

Contributors

Douglas Cameron; Peter Deeley; Ned Smith

Keywords

Books; Authors; Strikes; Labour disputes; Wages; Arthur Scargill; Coal industry; Coal miners; NCB; History; Coal Strike (1984-1985); Ian MacGregor

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