8. The Reckoning
Jonny Owen reaches the end of his highly personal exploration of the strike and asks was the NUM doomed to lose from the very beginning.
Jonny Owen reaches the end of his highly personal exploration of the strike and finds out what happened afterwards.
Saddled with debt after a year with no wages, mining families now face the closure of their pits and the end of a whole way of life. Jonny asks whether the
NUM was doomed to lose from the very beginning.
He sifts through the arguments about the lack of a national ballot being the union鈥檚 Achilles heel, and about the role Arthur Scargill played in it all. And he hears more about how Margaret Thatcher鈥檚 confrontation with the miners shaped life in Britain today.
Presenter: Jonny Owen
Series Producer: Clare Hudson
Executive Producer: Steve Austins
Assistant Producer: Ffion Clarke
Development Producer: Branwen Davies
Sound Designer: Meic Parry
Sound Editor: Adam Whalley
Composer: Richard Llewellyn
Series Consultant: Dr Ben Curtis
Strike is a Bengo Media Production for 91热爆 Sounds
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Strike
Jonny Owen tracks the impact of the miners' strike on Britain, on South Wales, and on him
