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Strike | BBC Sounds & BBC Cymru Wales | Full Podcast Production
This was a BBC Cymru Wales commission for BBC Sounds. Sounds is the online home of BBC Radio. It brings together live radio streams, on demand programmes, podcasts, audiobooks, music mixes and lots more!
March 2024
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What We Did
BBC Cymru Wales commissioned a special 8 part series for BBC Sounds, and a half hour radio programme, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strike.
The miners’ strike had, and still, has a massive impact on Welsh life. Although well covered as a national and international news story over the years, we went about uncovering the stories and experiences of those that lived through it in Wales and discovering how the after effects of an event that took place over 40 years still looms large over communities.
This was a podcast series that we designed, researched, wrote, recorded and edited in its entirety, and as company with a founder that grew up in a Welsh mining town during the strike, one that we couldn’t be more proud of.
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“I enjoyed... Strike, BBC Cymru Wales’ series about the miners in the mid-1980s, a subject already well excavated elsewhere this year, if you’ll pardon the pun. It’s expanded here by Welsh film director Jonny Owen (pop fact: he’s also Mr Vicky McClure), who goes back to his Merthyr Tydfil living room to chat with his mates and mam; his father quit mining after helping to dig out the dead from Aberfan. Interviewing friends and people from his parents’ generation, Owen makes this history feel powerfully recent and explores the terrifying camaraderie of the pit brilliantly, every clank and echo of the coalface ringing in our ears.”
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Jude Rogers
The Guardian
Cover art by Bengo Media
Strike | BBC Sounds & BBC Cymru Wales | Full Podcast Production
Podcast Series - with a Radio special
This was a BBC Cymru Wales commission for BBC Sounds. Sounds is the online home of BBC Radio. It brings together live radio streams, on demand programmes, podcasts, audiobooks, music mixes and lots more!
March 2024
What We Did
BBC Cymru Wales commissioned a special 8 part series for BBC Sounds, and a half hour radio programme, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strike.
The miners’ strike had, and still, has a massive impact on Welsh life. Although well covered as a national and international news story over the years, we went about uncovering the stories and experiences of those that lived through it in Wales and discovering how the after effects of an event that took place over 40 years still looms large over communities.
This was a podcast series that we designed, researched, wrote, recorded and edited in its entirety, and as company with a founder that grew up in a Welsh mining town during the strike, one that we couldn’t be more proud of.
"
“I enjoyed... Strike, BBC Cymru Wales’ series about the miners in the mid-1980s, a subject already well excavated elsewhere this year, if you’ll pardon the pun. It’s expanded here by Welsh film director Jonny Owen (pop fact: he’s also Mr Vicky McClure), who goes back to his Merthyr Tydfil living room to chat with his mates and mam; his father quit mining after helping to dig out the dead from Aberfan. Interviewing friends and people from his parents’ generation, Owen makes this history feel powerfully recent and explores the terrifying camaraderie of the pit brilliantly, every clank and echo of the coalface ringing in our ears.”
"
Jude Rogers
The Guardian
Cover art by Bengo Media
Have a listen...