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Whupsy

I watched that three part documentary last Saturday night, I did not have to have watched those episodes one after another, but the thing gripped me and took me back to 1984, so me head at the moment is full of facts and figures from the strike, but Channel 4 are showing it on normal TV over three weeks, so the second episode is tonight at 9.00pm and the final and third episode is in weeks time, and not everyone on here has the ability to watch TV online, so I don't want to comment on the documentary, until I know that everyone has had an opportunity to see it, that is why I have not spoken about it.

Tonight's episode is about Orgreave, and it's 'nasty' , 'very nasty' at the time the NUM had their own video unit filming everything, because they were sick of the way the main stream media like the BBC were manipulating the news, and showing events from the governments perspective, instead of reporting in it in an 'impartial and unbiased way, which is what the BBC and other news organisations should do, so the NUM internal video unit was filming Orgreave on the miners side, the BBC and other organisations were kept well back from where everything was happening, and I get the impression that the NUM video has not been shown before, but I maybe wrong, and the way they have made it, is that in all three episodes, apart from interviews with the people involved as they are today, and one or two shots of places as they are today, it is all the video from 1984, you are back there, well I was, because 1984 was a warm summer, everyone was dressed the same, whether you were in Yorkshire or Wigan, you were wearing jeans and a t-shirt, and we were all young fellas then.