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Scargill colliery visit after comments on Solidarity (1983)

Genre
News report; Press conference; Interview

Report on NUM leader Arthur Scargill’s visit to Ollerton Colliery in Nottinghamshire prior to wages talks with the NCB, after his comments opposing Polish trade union Solidarity. Scargill talks to a...
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
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...
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
Miners strike - Len Murray on picket line violence (1984)

Genre
Interview

Kevin Heathorn interviews Len Murray, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), about picket line violence, following the death of a miner last night (presumably 23 year-old flying picket David...
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
Robin Cook on pit closures (1994)

Genre
Interview

Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary, Robin Cook condemns the closure of a further three coal mines. He says the pits closed this week are profitable but the Government have created a market that does not...
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
Miners strike - Funeral of David Jones, first miner to die on picket lines (1984)

Genre
Interview; News report

Report on the funeral of 23 year-old David Jones, the first miner to die on the picket lines in 1984. With comment from Arthur Scargill, leader of the National Union of Mineworkers; Jack Taylor, leader of...
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
Three more pits to close (1994)

Genre
Interview; News report

Mychaela(?) Stevenson(?) reports on the news that three more coal pits are to be closed. National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) branch treasurer Jim Sawyer says the average age of workers at Ellington in...
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
Miners strike - Ken Livingstone visits pickets (1984)

Genre
Interview

Labour Party leader of the GLC Ken Livingstone, visits a miners’ picket line at the Ollerton pit in Nottinghamshire to look at violent pickets tactics and police handling of the pickets, and comments on...
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio