FACTUAL
The Wapping Revolution
Saturday 7 October 2006 20:00-21:00 (Radio 4 FM)
Twenty years ago Andrew Neil was editor of the Sunday Times. He goes back to explore what happened when his boss Rupert Murdoch decided to take on the mighty British print unions.
In great secrecy, a state of the art printing plant was installed at new headquarters in Wapping and members of other unions employed to staff it. This triggered violent confrontation as the printers went on strike. The strike lasted for 13 months and changed both the newspaper industry and the unions forever.
