It seems that 2011 has become theyearoflivingdangerously (for the government) and discontentedly (for the public), as rising inflation adds to the pain of Mr Osborne's austerity programme.
More recently, the attempted 1965 coup that backfired and eventually brought President Suharto to power came to the attention of Hollywood via Christopher Koch's TheYearofLivingDangerously.
Twenty years on, The Miners' Strike talks to these five flying pickets about their yearoflivingdangerously and finds out what the future was to hold for each of them.