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Programme presented by Jon Lander. The first film report looks at the on-going strike by miners. In Nottinghamshire where most men have worked through the strike it is expected that miners will be expelled from the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and are considering setting up their own union. Rob Whitehouse interviews Roy Lynk, action general secretary of the NUM in Nottinghamshire about the chances of expulsion. Whitehouse also talks to mining historian Dr Alan Griffiths who describes it as a sad day, vox pops in Mansfield about the break-away and interviews the Labour MP for Mansfield, Don Concannon. We see two men on picket duty outside Clipstone Colliery and see archive shots of mining with reference to the 1926 General Strike and the break-away union formed by George Spencer. In the studio Jon Lander gives the results of a poll into the popularity of buying shares in privatised industry and then on film Reg Harcourt talks to the Chancellor Nigel Lawson about government sell-offs. The House of Commons Home Affairs Committee will shortly be publishing a report into the British Chinese community. On film Mark Astaire meets members of the Birmingham Chinese community. We see a Chinese dragon display. Interview with Roger Li, a Hong Kong born accountant who runs his own business in West Bromwich. Interviews with the Conservative MP for Birmingham Northfield, Roger King; the Labour MP for Erdington, Robin Corbett; and community leader Billy Ko about the political allegiance of the Chinese. We then see Chinese take-away owner Mr Chung at work in his kitchen and in a dubbed interview he talks about his hard life and business struggles. We then see views of the Chinese Community Centre at Sparkbrook including older Chinese people reading newspapers and there is an interview with Anna Beattie from the centre about language problems. The final item looks at broadcasts from parliament just as television coverage of the House of Lords is starting. We hear an audio recording of rowdy House of Commons coverage featuring Thurrock Labour MP Oonagh McDonald and the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher showing the limitations of the medium. On film Reg Harcourt talks to MPs who are mainly against broadcasts: Enoch Powell MP; South Down (Ulster Unionist); Joe Ashton, Bassetlaw (Labour); Anthony Beaumont-Dark, Selly Oak (Conservative); and Andrew Faulds, Warley East (Labour).
Political Editor: Reg Harcourt
Production Editor: Bruce Grocott
Film Editors: Paul Brown; David Furmage
Graphic Designer: Hazel Alemany
Production Team: Rob Whitehouse; Sally Jones; Mark Astaire; Chris Fewlass
Directors: David Berman; Richie Stewart; John Pullen
Editor: Mike Warman
Production number 5200/85.