Days Of Hot Metal: Life On Fleet Street — londonist.com

Last year we told you about Going Underground, a fascinating oral history documentary about the tube, made by primary schoolchildren and educational charity digital: works. They’ve done it again with Banging Out, an engrossing tale of Fleet Street, talking to the old printers and journalists, intercutting talking heads with archive footage and personal photos. The second half moves on to the Wapping dispute, when 6,000 workers at Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers were sacked without redundancy while on strike. Several interviewees were on the picket lines and have some hair-raising and shocking tales to tell.

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