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The Miners Strike, 1984-5

Click on the links below to listen and watch.

You can also see all of the audio, video, features, stories and pictures relating to the Miners Strike on our special map of South Yorkshire - below.

Audio

Click on the links below to listen to some fascinating clips and interviews with all sorts of people involved in the 1984-5 Miners Strike.

You can hear women from the support group Women Against Pit Closures, speeches by Margaret Thatcher and Arthur Scargill, memories and stories from miners who lived through the strikes, Grimethorpe Colliery Band playing Abide With Me, an ex-NUM official from the Dearne Valley and the policeman who arrested Arthur Scargill.

Video

Watch Look North interviews with major players in the Miners Strike, as well as those in the mining communities affected by the Strike.

Ex-miner Paul Toon has not spoken to his brother or sisters since 1984, Sir Bernard Ingham tells us about being Margaret Thatcher's press secretary at the time of the Miners Strike, and we take a look at how the Strike changed women's lives.

We'll also be adding archive video footage from the Look North library throughout the year of the 25th anniversary (2009).