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World in Action

Season 21 · Episode 12

Softly, Softly, Strike Force

0.0December 10, 1984

The very different tactics of police in the West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire regions in dealing with the ongoing miners' strike.

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Episode 1Clap Trap
Episode 2An Appointment with Mr. Mitchell
Episode 3Football's Mr. Fix-It
Episode 4The Coal War
Episode 5Apartheid's Back Yard
Episode 6Plans for Coal
Episode 7Ronald Reagan - The Second Coming
Episode 8The Politics of Starvation
Episode 10Kidnapped
Episode 11Belgrano - A View from the Conqueror
Episode 12Softly, Softly, Strike Force
Episode 13Tried, Untested
Episode 14Special: World in Action - The First 21 Years
Episode 15Taken on Trust
Episode 16The Miners and the Microchip
Episode 17Civil Unrest
Episode 18Father and Son
Episode 19Going Dutch
Episode 20The Knock on the Door
Episode 21Taking the Medicine
Episode 22A Conflict in Customs
Episode 23Death of an English Rose
Episode 24Our Health Service - Doing Better, Feeling Worse
Episode 25Our Health Service - The Pensioners' Ration
Episode 26Our Health Service - A Prescription for the Poor
Episode 27The Swan and the Plough
Episode 28Not for Love or Money
Episode 29The Baby Makers
Episode 30Children of the Loom
Episode 31Ken Livingstone - Destination Unknown
Episode 32First Strike
Episode 33The Betrayal of Bhopal
Episode 34Raising the Belgrano
Episode 35Britain's Cocaine Colony
Episode 36The Dream of John Delorean
Episode 37Hit and Run
Episode 38A Song for Africa
Episode 39Disunited Nations
Episode 40Bad Blood