02 January 1980

Wednesday

1980-01-02

Events

 * Steel workers stage their first national strike for more than fifty years. The Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, the biggest steel union, has 90,000 members among the 150,000 staff employed by British Steel.

TV

 * BBC Two
 * 9.25 pm The Black Stuff (play) by Alan Bleasdale. Liverpool v Middlesbrough - a Merseyside tarmac gang are away on a contract on Teesside - without the boss there's a chance for some local diversion with the natives while keeping up the spirit of free enterprise, preferably on the firm's time. (see also The Boys from the Black Stuff) (full play here)

Radio

 * BBC Radio 1
 * 11.30 am Paul Burnett including this week's new Top 40 Discs and at 12.30 pm Newsbeat with Peter Mayne.
 * first Top 40 of the 1980s.
 * see also Sunday 06 January.
 * 10.00 pm John Peel.
 * UB40 (#1, first broadcast) & Public Image Ltd. in session. The first four tracks from the new Simple Minds LP Real To Real Cacophony are played.