General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

The Battle for Britain tonight 9pm, Channel 4

Tom Barrow directs this gripping three-part series exploring the lasting psychological and sociopolitical impact of the horrifically divisive miners’ strike. The opener centres on Shirebrook, a Derbyshire pit village that was so bitterly divided that it was dubbed “the Belfast of England”. There are first-hand testimonials from former striking miners and those who chose to work, eliciting previously untold accounts from that tumultuous year