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NUM conference and strikes (1985)
- Genre
- News report
Report on various strikes during the coal miners dispute and current NUM conference. Reporter not identified
NUM conference (1985)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Two reports on the NUM conference. Look at Arthur Scargillâs speech (excerpts heard) on the success of the strikes as he blames others for the violence. He also speaks on how members were jailed over...
NUM conference and breakaway group (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Several reports on Arthur Scargill’s first NUM conference since the end of the strikes. His presidential speech in which he claims strikes have changed the face of Britain and his demands of the next...
Mick McGahey’s fight for the sacked miners (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on Mick McGahey’s decision to stay on as President of the Scottish NUM. He talks about the dismissed miners and how he will take their cases to the European court. Also reaction to decision from...
Scargill speech on imprisoned miners and Labour (1985)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on NUM leader Arthur Scargillâs speech at a special meeting as the case collapses to free jailed miners. He calls for Labour to condemn the police and says he was not to blame for Labour’s...
When the lights go on again (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Special; Speech
When the Lights Go on Again: VE-Day 1945 Remembered, presented by Dickie Arbiter. Contemporary news reports from the Second World War; interviews/speeches/broadcasts by Neville Chamberlain; Prime Minister...
Decision makers (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech
Decision Makers, presented by Des Fahy. Part 1 of issue on pension reform. Report on the background of the existing State Earnings Related Pension Scheme (SERPS). Labour spokesman for Health and Social...
Decision makers (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech
Decision Makers, presented by Des Fahy. Part 2 of issue on pension reform. Labour spokesman on Health and Social Security, Michael Meacher talks about how the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme (SERPS)...
Miners strike - Fred Sanderson on return to work (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Mark Mardell reports from the picket line at Frickley Colliery, where miners are returning to work in large numbers. Yorkshire spokesman for the National Coal Board, Fred Sanderson, talks about why this...
Miners strike - Arthur Scargill on new hopes for negotiations (1985)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Report on the meeting between Peter Heathfield, General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, and National Coal Board industrial relations director Ned Smith. NUM president Arthur Scargill and...