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World in Action

Season 21 · Episode 4

The Coal War

0.0October 15, 1984

With the recent coal troubles still fresh in people's minds, a comparison of strike action in British and American collieries.

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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 10

Kidnapped

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