When the dust settled

Forty years on from the end of the miners’ strike, we look at how low-paid insecure work filled the vacuum left by the closure of heavy industries, and how a new album of miners’ ballads reveals a rich seam of poetry and folklore.

Also inside

• We launch our new Kids Cover Competition, with guest judge Chris Packham, encouraging young artists to Go Wild!
• A childhood crush on his music teacher inspired André Rieu’s life of making people happy with his music he says in a Letter To My Younger Self
• The plans for a basic income pilot in Manchester
• A Thousand Blows jabs at the underbelly of working-class life in the east End of Victorian London. We speak to writer Steven Knight and stars Malachi Kirby and Stephen Graham
• How Fats Timbo is changing the world one TikTok at a time
• And Cardiff vendor Maria tells us how the flexibility of selling Big Issue means she recommends it to others

Plus much more!

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