BBC Sounds - Strike Boy - Available Episodes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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