Polish strikes and Church response

Title

Polish strikes and Church response

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Aug 1980

Year of production

1980

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:07:35

Description

Brian Hayes interviews an unidentified (North American) male speaker (poss. John Darnton - Warsaw correspondent for the New York Times) about the strikes organised by the free trade union Solidarity, in Poland, and about the reaction of the Catholic Church in the country.

Contributors

Brian Hayes; John Darnton?

Keywords

Human rights; Trade unions; Strikes; Labour disputes; Religion; Communism; Poland; Church and State; Catholicism; Solidarity (trade union)

The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.