Interview with Michael Foot on pit closures

Title

Interview with Michael Foot on pit closures

Genre

Interview

TX Date

29 Nov 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:02:23

Description

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 his Blaenau Gwent constituency, and the Cynheidre colliery near Llanelli, must shut because of geological faults and heavy losses. Michael Foot says the continuing round of job losses must be resisted.

Contributors

Michael Foot; Paul Rowley

Keywords

UK; Great Britain; Coal mining; Coal industry; Wales; Coal miners; NCB; Coal mines; Mine closures; Redundancies

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