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Mark Easton provides background information on the miners’ dispute. He explains that when Ian MacGregor was made head of the National Coal Board, he brought with him plans that would change the mining...
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...
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...
Arthur Scargill, President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), on the strikes. Scargill says the police presence in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire is unwarranted and unprecedented. He condemns Ian...
Interview with the President of the Association of Chief Police Officers on the Police National Reporting Centre and its role in helping with the policing of the miners strike pickets. Female interviewer not...
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...
Interview with Malcolm Pitt, the President of Kent miners’ union on their court case against the police and not going on to a further appeal. Interviewer not heard.
Interview with NCB Chairman Ian MacGregor on the miners’ strike including the intimidation used by the NUM and lack of a ballot of miners and supply of coal being disrupted. Male interviewer not identified.
Report on Nottinghamshire’s Chief Constable Charles McLachlan speaking about the police operation and its cost at the county’s coal pits as the miners’ strike continues. Includes interviews with...
Interview with NCB Chairman Ian MacGregor on the coal stocks and what effect the miners’ strike will have on industry. Male interviewer not identified.
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