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The Miners' Strike: 40 years on Leicestershire Episodes Available now
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7. Black to Green
Jo Bostock explores ways of healing for her hometown Coalville.
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6. Battle Wounds
Meeting the women behind "The Dirty Thirty".
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5. Infamy
At one point, John Gamble was thought to be the only man on strike in Leicestershire.
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4. The Dirty Thirty
Out of thousands of miners in Leicestershire only around thirty men joined in the strike.
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3. The Hornet's Nest
Former miners recall how it felt to cross a picket line.
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2. The Choice
Jo Bostock dives deeper into the story of the strikes in Coalville.
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1. The Missing history - Coalville
Jo Bostock goes back to her hometown in Coalville to explore stories from the strikes.