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The programme is presented from Central Television in Birmingham by Jonathan Dimbleby.
There are links to other ITV regions where local reporters give an update on the strike situation. We hear from Stuart McNeil (Tyne Tees); David Glencorse (STV) and Paul Starling (HTV). There are also outside broadcast links to at Cortonwood miners’ welfare in Yorkshire (YTV) where Geoff Druett interviews miners and to Cotgrave mines welfare in Nottinghamshire (Central) where Mike Morley also speaks to working miners. Cortonwood is where the strike began but support is now declining, and it is thought that an NUM conference in a few days' time could signal the return to work. At Cotgrave there is talk about how the local miners were unhappy with how the strike was called without a ballot. That split with the NUM provokes some heckling during Mike Morley's interviews. In the studio Dimbleby talks to Arthur Scargill of the National Union of Mineworkers and Michael Eaton of the Coal Board about the issues raised.
There is also a film insert (provided by HTV) about the former mining town of Nantymoel in South Wales. Wyndham and Western collieries closed just before the strike signalling the end of mining in the Ogmore Valley. There are interviews with former miner John Griffiths Jones and his father (who was also a miner, beginning work in 1921, and local councillor Arthur Lock. There are views of the closed collieries and the dereliction.
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Production number 6312/85. No end credits on the programme.
This programme was made two days before the strike was called off.
The programme was followed by another one hour special called The Strike and the Nation which was presented by Brian Walden.