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Miners strike - Thatcher's lie...
podcasts |A revelatory new book, SETTLING SCORES explores the lies told by the goverment and media during the 1984/5 year long industrial action that broke the mining industry. In this latest podcast Tim Gopsill talks to the two authors of the book and campaigners for justice.
When the 1984 Cabinet papers concerning the miners strike of 30 years ago, were released this January, a gripping account was laid bare of the secret steps taken by Margaret Thatcher to break the strike, and the lies told to the nation. As the then Prime Minister micromanaged the government's authoritarian response to the strikers, including the brutal police responses, and hiding the truth surrounding the planned number of pit closure, a new book reveals there's still no justice.
SETTLING SCORES: The Media, the Police and the Miners’ Strike documents the work of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign and the Justice for the Coalfields campaign. It explores the bias of the media during the strike, but also how the media have been the stimulus for new initiatives to obtain truth and justice for miners.
In this podcast, CPBF's Tim Gopsill talks to the book's editor Granville Williams, veteran former BBC reporter and book contributor, Nick Jones, Barbara Jackson, Secretary of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign, and former striker Ray Riley about the elaborate state led campaign to turn the nation against the miners.
MINERS' STRIKE REMEMBERED ON FACEBOOK
DATELINE: 10 July, 2014
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