LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Decision makers

Genre

Interview; Documentary; Music

TX Date

15 Apr 1984

Year of production

1984

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Duration

00:20:20

Description

Programme on the Miners’ Strike, presented by Peter Spencer. Considers police action in response to flying pickets. The police are now better equipped and taking a much harder stance against secondary pickets. Some unionist activists feel the police are being heavy-handed. The programme examines the state response to the situation, and implications for the public at large and asks, are the police becoming political? Contributions from Home Secretary Leon Brittan; James Anderton, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester (interviewed on local radio); Peter Hennessy, Whitehall correspondent and Times journalist; Tony Benn, former Labour cabinet minister; Eldon Griffiths MP; John Alderson, former Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall. Music used: Bob Dylan’s The Times They Are A-Changin’; Dixon of Dock Green TV theme tune- An Ordinary Copper. Engineer: Colin Clements.

Contributors

Peter Spencer; Tony Benn; James Anderton; John Alderson; Colin Clements; Eldon Griffiths; Leon Brittan; Peter Hennessy

Keywords

Politics; Trade unions; Strikes; Labour disputes; Police; Policing practice; Civil and political rights; Access to information; Coal Strike (1984-1985)

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