The Tyndale case exemplifies the crisis of perspective for 'progressive teachers. Abandoned by the State, threatened with disciplinary action by a union that fully supports the right of State inspectors to pass judgement on teachers, and cut off from the labour movement, the only way forward for them is to begin to organise a fight backinitially around the call for a trade union inquiry into the witch-hunt, to open up the issues for the whole absent was any portrayal of the extreme poverty and starvation within the mining commumues. walen arove tnem to stay out for another six months - a point made in the discussion after the programme by Dai Davis, a Welsh minBen played by Paul Copley er who played Cook in the film.
Looking back on the series, it might be useful to consider to what extent the dramatist's and producer's technique worked in getting these crucial ideas across. Allen chose to use three or four characters to convey the conflicts of What he described as the 'two strand. in the situation, parliamentary socialism and revolutionary socialism; and this was particularly effective in scenes like that between Hargreaves and Sarah, where he tried to persuade her to give up her work with the local Council of Action in case it damaged his parliam-