GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
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Telling the truth about Orgreave
ANGUS REID speaks to Daniel Gordon about his new film Strike - an uncivil war
WORKING CLASS POINT OF VIEW: (L) Filmmaker Daniel Gordon; (R) A still from the VHS camera of a miner as the mounted police charge through Orgreave village, June 18 1984
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MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
HENRY BELL is fascinated by the underlying curiosities and contradictions of one of the great poets of the Mediterranean
DAVID RENTON recommends a books that explores the ways in which disabled people are made to feel both of and not part of this world
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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