This is the premise for a play coming to London in April that the NUJ and Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom are organising a trip to see.

Maggie’s End looks back to the great miners’ strike 25 years ago – and ahead to the death of Margaret Thatcher.

Written by Newcastle-based NUJ member Ed Waugh it is showing at the Shaw Theatre near Kings Cross.

The performance on Wednesday April 8 will also see the launch of the CPBF book on the miners’ strike, ‘Shafted; the media, the miners’ strike and the aftermath’.

The performance is at the Shaw Theatre in Euston Road and starts at 7.30pm. The book launch will take place during the interval.

Tickets are £16.50 from the CPBF national office - email freepress@cpbf.org.uk or call 020 8521 5932. Cheques payable to CPBF, 23 Orford Road, London E17 9NL.

Posted by Rich Simcox

Tags: Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, miners, National Union of Journalists, NUJ, play, Thatcher