Strikers in Saris

The History Hour

BBC

Personal Journals, History, Society & Culture

4.4 • 912 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

How South Asian women led thousands of UK workers in an industrial dispute in the late 1970s, plus Dr Crippen's alleged gruesome crime, Judy Garland's emotional last performances, the 'miracle waters' in Mexico and excitement over a whale in London's River Thames.

(PHOTO: Jayaben Desai, leader of the Grunwick strike committee holding placard 1977 Credit: Getty images)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson,
0:05.2	the past brought to life by those who were there. This week, nearly a hundred years on,
0:09.9	how the Dr. Crippen murder case still fascinates.
0:14.0	It was the most famous murder trial for probably 40 or 50 years,
0:20.0	certainly to do with the strangeness of the case, the fact that it is truly mysterious.
0:25.0	Plus, from the 1990s, Mexico's apparently miraculous water.
0:30.0	When I started investigating, I realized that this miracle water was causing a big
0:36.5	migration from all over Central Mexico and Judy Garland's last performances.
0:43.0	She was probably one of the tiniest people that you'd ever met.
0:47.0	She wasn't remote, but she wasn't chatting.
0:50.0	She kind of was quiet. Love Lorne, love wreck, love porn, boohoo
0:55.6	humanity.
0:56.6	That's all coming up later in the podcast.
0:59.2	But we begin with an example of hard-won workers' rights in Britain. And if that phrase conjures up an image of
1:05.4	beefy miners or dockers confronting their bosses, you might be in for a bit of a surprise.
1:10.9	Because we're going back to 1976 when a group of South Asian women led a strike over poor working
1:16.5	conditions. These were strikers in Sari's. They took the lead but eventually more than 20,000 people joined the protest
1:24.4	which lasted for two years.
1:26.2	Fahanahyda has been speaking to Lakshmi Patel
1:29.0	who was an employee at the Grunwick Film Processing Factory and took part in the strike.
1:34.0	The Grunwick Film Processing Factory in North London employed mainly women of South Asian origin,
1:42.0	most of whom were migrants from East Africa.
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