We’re fans of Fogland Lighthouse, a non-fiction series that manages to explore events in British history in a creative and distinctive way.
This new mini-series looks at the 1926 General Strike, which caused Britain to grind to a halt. Dean retells the story, looking at it through its political, economic and social dimensions.
“Trains and buses stopped running. Unions competed with the army for control of the food supply. Riots took place across the country,” says the storyteller Jack Dean. “And the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, published a statement that ended with the words, the General's strike is a challenge to Parliament and is the road to anarchy and ruin.”
