Radio Plays - Miners
1970? Richard Hughes - Danger ( a coal mining disaster)
1972 Alan Plater - Close the Coalhouse Door
1994 Tom Holland - Underground
1996 Joe Turner - The Great Subterranean Adventure
1997 Greg Cullen - Tower
2003 M. Gallie - The small mine
2004 Michael Samuels - The duel (the story of the miners' strike)
NOTES
CLOSE THE COALHOUSE DOOR....1972
You won't believe this - a musical about coal mining. It was popular, too.
UNDERGROUND....1994
Shady goings-on below ground level in the city of London ...
THE GREAT SUBTERRANEAN ADVENTURE....1996
A theme park built inside a disused coal mine. They should have known better...
TOWER....1997
A South Wales colliery dispute ... amd very imaginatively done ...
The small mine....2003
M.Gallie-Welsh mining story in the 60s
*THE DUEL, by Michael Samuels....2004
R4, 1430-1600, 3 Apr 04. This play is based on the conflict between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the miners' leader, Arthur Scargill, 1983-1985. Miners went on strike in protest at pit closures, stayed out without a ballot, and supported Scargill right until the end. Ultimately he was defeated by the better tactics of his opponent. This was a wonderful piece of drama; David Threlfall played Scargill and Patricia Hodge was Margaret Thatcher; Jeremy Howe and Isobel Eaton directed. More on Writers page - click Radio Plays - Writers - Others, 2004.
Michael Toft also wrote a number of plays about the plight of the coal miners in the 70s and 80s. See Michael's page.
Nigel Deacon / Diversity website
Most of the above known to exist in VRPCC collections
