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  1. Coal industry safety changes opposed (1993)

    Genre
    Interview

    Paul Rowley interviews Peter McNestry, General Secretary of the pit union NACODS, about the Government’s plans to change responsibility for safety regulations in Britain’s mines without a parliamentary...

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  2. Arthur Scargill on agreement with NCB (1981)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with leader of the Yorkshire branch of the NUM, Arthur Scargill, about the executive’s decision not to support a strike over pit closure plans and answering accusations that he has sold out. And...

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  3. Golborne mine explosion (1979)

    Genre
    News report; Press conference

    Radio City’s Kieran Devaney reports on the tragedy that has struck Golborne mine, where an explosion killed 3 men, and left 8 badly burned. Speaking are mining boss Julian Griffiths, rescue worker Geoff...

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  4. Pit explosion investigation (1975)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with three speakers (including Arthur Owen, safety officer; poss. Joe Gormley, miners leader; poss. Derek Ezra, NCB) on an investigation into the cause of an explosion at Houghton Colliery in south...

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  5. Scargill at last minutes of miners strike (1985)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview just before midnight on the last day of the miners’ strike with NUM President Arthur Scargill at Cortonwood Pit’s Alamo picket hut where the strike began. On the achievements of the dispute,...

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  6. NACODS vote for strike action (1984)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Speech

    Report on the vote for strike action by members of the National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers (NACODS). Includes actuality of the ballot result read out by NACODS General Secretary...

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  7. Pit explosion discussed (1975)

    Genre
    Parliamentary debate

    Speech in the Commons by Dennis Skinner MP, on the explosion at Houghton Main Colliery in south Yorkshire that has resulted in five deaths and one man with serious injuries. Asks that investigation takes...

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  8. Miners strike - Eyewitness account of picket line violence (1984)

    Genre
    Interview

    Unidentified male eyewitness on the coal miners’ picket line action in Ollerton, Nottinghamshire, where miner David Jones died. Speaker describes how bottles, sticks, bricks and stones were thrown. He saw...

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  9. Interview with Michael Foot on pit closures (1988)

    Genre
    Interview

    Paul Rowley interviews former Labour Party leader, Michael Foot, about the announcement of a further fourteen hundred redundancies in the South Wales coalfields. British Coal management say the Marine pit in...

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  10. Rufford miners face redundancy (1993)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Vox pop

    Report on a vote by miners on whether to close Rufford Colliery, Nottinghamshire. The options are limited, and most feel that redundancy is being forced upon them. Speaking here are unidentified pit workers;...

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