Strike Boy Episodes Episode guide
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10. Legacy
'Some of the mindset from the past is gone. It's smaller - my family comes first.'
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9. An Era Ends
'It was one of the most awful decisions I had to make. But there was no other choice.'
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8. Defeat
"I were put in the lowest rated job, in the isolated part of the pit. We were victimised."
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7. Battle-Weary
"He fetched truncheon down on the lad's top of his head. He went, whack! It haunts you."
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6. Policing Pickets
"I weren't right happy. I mean, they threw bottles and stuff and bricks at us."
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5. Women against Pit Closures
'Oh, are you a feminist now?' 'No, I'm an ordinary housewife with a brain.'
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4. Flying Pickets
'I'm not saying I'm proud of what I did, but I reverted to guerrilla warfare.'
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3. Arthur and Maggie
'We'd been beaten by militancy before. We were not going to be beaten again.'
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2. 'Scabs'
'You had to run the gauntlet and I were covered in spit and all sorts.'
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1. Coal Dust in Our Veins
'We were the vanguard of the trade union movement, and we'd got to be eliminated.'
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Omnibus 2
Mark was ten when the miners’ strike took over his life. Forty years on, he goes back.
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Omnibus 1
Mark was ten when the miners’ strike took over his life. Forty years on, he goes back.