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Strike Boy Episodes

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    10. Legacy

    'Some of the mindset from the past is gone. It's smaller - my family comes first.'

  2. 9. An Era Ends

    'It was one of the most awful decisions I had to make. But there was no other choice.'

  3. 8. Defeat

    "I were put in the lowest rated job, in the isolated part of the pit. We were victimised."

  4. 7. Battle-Weary

    "He fetched truncheon down on the lad's top of his head. He went, whack! It haunts you."

  5. 6. Policing Pickets

    "I weren't right happy. I mean, they threw bottles and stuff and bricks at us."

  6. 5. Women against Pit Closures

    'Oh, are you a feminist now?' 'No, I'm an ordinary housewife with a brain.'

  7. 4. Flying Pickets

    'I'm not saying I'm proud of what I did, but I reverted to guerrilla warfare.'

  8. 3. Arthur and Maggie

    'We'd been beaten by militancy before. We were not going to be beaten again.'

  9. 2. 'Scabs'

    'You had to run the gauntlet and I were covered in spit and all sorts.'

  10. 1. Coal Dust in Our Veins

    'We were the vanguard of the trade union movement, and we'd got to be eliminated.'

  11. Omnibus 2

    Mark was ten when the miners’ strike took over his life. Forty years on, he goes back.

  12. Omnibus 1

    Mark was ten when the miners’ strike took over his life. Forty years on, he goes back.