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The Miners' Strike: 40 years on Leicestershire Episodes

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  1. 7. Black to Green

    Jo Bostock explores ways of healing for her hometown Coalville.

  2. 6. Battle Wounds

    Meeting the women behind "The Dirty Thirty".

  3. 5. Infamy

    At one point, John Gamble was thought to be the only man on strike in Leicestershire.

  4. 4. The Dirty Thirty

    Out of thousands of miners in Leicestershire only around thirty men joined in the strike.

  5. 3. The Hornet's Nest

    Former miners recall how it felt to cross a picket line.

  6. 2. The Choice

    Jo Bostock dives deeper into the story of the strikes in Coalville.

  7. 1. The Missing history - Coalville

    Jo Bostock goes back to her hometown in Coalville to explore stories from the strikes.