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A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the local Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party.
The Luddites
In 1812 there were violent disturbances in Yorkshire when new machines were introduced into the wool industry. This film is an interpretation of those events made in the style of a documentary.
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Steven Alvey Henry Smith
Ray Armstrong Militia Sargent
Dicken Ashworth William Thorpe
David Becalick George Meller
Jim Bywater William Cartwright
Charles Collingwood David Ricardo
Jeannie Crowther Mrs Armitage
David Fleeshman Enoch Taylor
Stephen Frost William Hinchcliffe
Peter Geeves Poor Law Officer
John Graham Edward Baines
Alexander John Narrator
Norman Mann Surgeon
Anthony Milner William Horsfall
Henry Moxon Home Secretary
Victoria O'Keefe Anne Bamforth
Stephen Petcher Ben Walker
Neil Phillips John Bamforth
Joanna Phillips-Lane Mary Bamforth
John Ringham Joseph Radcliffe
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