Kate Chisholm

Police and miners clash again over Orgreave on Radio 4’s The Reunion

Plus: Alan Dein and Fi Glover uncover extraordinary stories from several ordinary-seeming lives

Pickets in Thoresby (Photo: STAFF/AFP/Getty) 
issue 12 April 2014

Four could have been dubbed the Frank Radio network this week as the sharp skills of Sue MacGregor, Alan Dein and Fi Glover teased out some stark opinions and revelations. MacGregor was back on Sunday morning with a new series of The Reunion, daring to bring together round the same table in an enclosed studio five people who were closely involved in the miners’ strike of 1984–5.

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