Channel 5 (UK) Documentaries

1978: Winter of Discontent (2022x86)

Air date: Oct 02, 2022

The story of the period of industrial action between November 1978 and February 1979 that changed the face of Britain, with contributions by Esther Rantzen, David Hamilton, Carole Malone and Alastair Stewart. With the worst weather for a decade, 13 million days were lost to strikes, with thousands of schools closed, hospitals only admitting emergency patients and the dead not being buried.