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"He fetched truncheon down on the lad's top of his head. He went, whack! I witnessed that and it haunts you." The son of a striking Nottinghamshire miner, Mark is meeting people from all sides of the 1984-5 strike, trying to make sense of Britain’s longest and bitterest industrial dispute. On 18 June 1984, clashes between police and striking miners at the Orgreave coking plant near Sheffield became the most violent flashpoint of the strike. Mark hears from a picket who was there that day about how much was planned, what they did to try to scupper the police and the coal lorries - and the violence on both sides. Archive: Â鶹Éç. Presenter: Mark Watson Series Producer: Simon Maybin Editor: Clare Fordham Sound mix: James Beard Production Co-ordinator: Ellie Dover Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke