Miners' Strike 1984: The Battle for Britain Season 1

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Season 1

Air date: 2024-01-25

Episodes: 3

Episodes

E1: Community

The year-long strike was bitterly divisive, nowhere more so than in one Derbyshire pit village - Shirebrook.

Air date: 2024-01-25

E2: Law and Order

The story of the Battle of Orgreave: the bloodiest episode in the year-long strike. Including footage that reveals the startling nature of some of the policing that day.

Air date: 2024-02-01

E3: Power

The story of how businessman David Hart helped Thatcher's government finally defeat the strike - waging a propaganda war and exploiting splits among Nottinghamshire miners

Air date: 2024-02-08