Revisiting the dark days of Thatcherism
THE road to hell is indeed paved with good intentions – regardless of how often I promise myself to keep this blog going, something else always comes up.
Sometimes it’s a furry friend with four paws and a tail, and an ever-endearing facial expression that’s urging me to take her for a walk.
At other times it can be the ‘day job’ demanding my attention, but I’m here now with another radio documentary from my days with our ‘national’ broadcaster, and ignoring the world that president Musk and his puppet Trump are seeking to destroy.
The documentary dates back to the 1980s at the height of Thatcherism, when nurses, ambulance crews and other health workers stood up to the wicked witch.
It was the first documentary I did on that nationwide health dispute. A second – some months later – involved me spending a Saturday night shadowing an ambulance crew in Glasgow, and that was a real eye-opener.
Unfortunately, I don’t have the second programme, but here’s the first, which looks at the dispute in Scotland in a UK context.
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