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"I weren't right happy. I mean, they threw bottles and stuff and bricks at us." There was a lot of mistrust of the police among striking miners and their families in 1984, but what was it like for the police, bused across the country to protect the working miners who crossed picket lines? When Mark was 11, he remembers a Â鶹Éç crew coming to his Nottinghamshire pit village to report on the miners' strike that had taken over his life. With a striking miner for a dad, Mark felt like he was part of it. But the police were there too, and he’s never forgotten what happened when he got too close to the action. Mark travels to West Yorkshire to meet a retired PC who spent the whole year policing the strike and was at the Orgreave coking plant near Sheffield, where the most violent clashes took place. He hears tales of shared pork pies, trousers-down sunbathing, and potatoes with six-inch nails in. 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