鲍鱼tv Radio 4 - Strike Boy

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'Some of the mindset from the past is gone. It's smaller - my family comes first.'

'It was one of the most awful decisions I had to make. But there was no other choice.'

"I were put in the lowest rated job, in the isolated part of the pit. We were victimised."

"He fetched truncheon down on the lad's top of his head. He went, whack! It haunts you."

"I weren't right happy. I mean, they threw bottles and stuff and bricks at us."

'Oh, are you a feminist now?' 'No, I'm an ordinary housewife with a brain.'

'I'm not saying I'm proud of what I did, but I reverted to guerrilla warfare.'

'We'd been beaten by militancy before. We were not going to be beaten again.'

'You had to run the gauntlet and I were covered in spit and all sorts.'

'We were the vanguard of the trade union movement, and we'd got to be eliminated.'