40 Minutes - Miners
Four Barnsley miners escape from the harsh, subterranean world of the pit to enjoy a weekend of dancing, drinking, dog racing and caravanning. Set against the backdrop of the 1982 Falklands War and two years before the catastrophic 1984-5 miners' strike, this poignant documentary evokes the vanished world of life in a Yorkshire mining community. Originally broadcast 25 November 1982.
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Miners Strike | Pit Closures | Strikes | Trade unions | Showdown at Cortonwood | TV Eye | 1984
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End of the Miners' Strike | Dramatic News Footage Captures End of Historic Confrontation (1985)
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1969: Keeping the LIGHTHOUSES Shining | For the Safety of All | Classic Documentary | BBC Archive
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1969: Craghead Colliery | A Year in the Life | BBC Archive
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The Last Miners
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1986: Life on a Coaster Ship | Forty Minutes | BBC Archive
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The Surprising Reason this Bassett Hound was CRYING out for HELP… | PUPDATE
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The 1972 Miners Strike | Yorkshire Miners | industrial Action | This Week | 1972
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1980: Life on a North Sea Oil Rig | The Black and the Gold | World of Work | BBC Archive
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How to Make a Royal Marines Officer: Part 1
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Miners' strike - 30 years since the pit crisis of 1984
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Verdun 1916: The 300-Day Hell of World War I
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1979: Fred Dibnah - Steeplejack: Full Documentary | BBC Archive
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Lord Kinnock - The 1984 Miners' Strike and the Death of Industrial Britain
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Britain’s Steam Factories Took Over the World | Historical Documentary | Steam, Mills & Factories
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Fall asleep while I build a town (from nothing) - Town To City
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Coal Special. South Wales Colliers Go Down The Mine
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Fred Dibnah - Steeplejack (1979)
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Fred Dibnah - The Ups and Downs of Chimneys (1994)
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