Barry Hines's After the Strike, about the violence at Orgreave, lay untouched for 35 years A lost play about the miners' strike by the acclaimed author behind Kes is to be performed in public for the first time, more than 30 years after it was deemed too controversial for television. After the Strike was written by the novelist Barry Hines in 1985 and depicted graphic scenes of police violence against striking miners…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PM on June 4, 2019