The British Miners' strike
Dec 20, 2011•9 min
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Episode description
Christmas 1984 was a difficult time for British miners who had been on strike for nine months.
They had taken industrial action to try to save their coal mines from government closure.
Listen to one miner's wife tell how her family made it through the anger and deprivation of that time.
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