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Telling the truth about Orgreave
ANGUS REID speaks to Daniel Gordon about his new film Strike - an uncivil war

 

TO make a film about the events of June 18 1984 at Orgreave coking works has occupied film-maker Daniel Gordon for a decade. 

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