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Standard Issue Podcast

Lorraine Stansbie and Kate Flannery are Iron Ladies

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Iron Ladies is a new documentary about the women of the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike, a time in which working-class women who found themselves at the forefront of a battle against the British state. They fast became the backbone of the fight: organising pickets; keeping families fed, and raising cash to continue the strike. As Lorraine Stansbie and Kate Flannery – two of those redoubtable women – tell our Mick, it changed them. And not only them; it’s fair to say their actions reshaped the landscape of political activism for working-class women forever.  Iron Ladies is currently showing in cinemas across the UK and Ireland.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Well, hello there, excellent listener, and welcome to the Tuesday interview, where I'm chatting

0:38.7

with not just one, but two redoubtable women.

0:42.6

Lorraine Stansby and Kate Plannery are two of the women that feature in Iron Ladies,

0:47.4

a new documentary about the women of the 1984-85 minor strike, working-class women who found

0:53.4

themselves at the forefront of a battle against

0:55.5

the British state, and very much the backbone of the miners' fight. And it changed them. Not only

1:01.5

them, it's fair to say their actions reshate the landscape of political activism for working-class

1:06.8

women forever. It might be 40 years ago, but the ramifications of the minor strike still

1:12.5

loom large in politics today, and it remains vital that we remember and keep talking about the

1:18.3

truth of it. As Kate points out, we still talk about wars, and this was a class war. Iron Ladies

1:25.0

is a cracking film, currently showing in cinemas across the UK and Ireland,

1:29.5

and it's a welcome corrective to the usual narrative that the minor strike was all about the men.

1:34.8

I absolutely loved chatting with Lorraine and Kate.

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