Twenty years on, The Miners' Strike talks to these five flyingpickets about their year of living dangerously and finds out what the future was to hold for each of them.
My last interview with him was in February 2012 at a rally in Birmingham to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Saltley Gates, when as an up-and-coming NUM activist he organised the flyingpickets which succeeded in closing the Saltley coke depot, forcing the then Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath to concede a 27% pay increase.