Days of Hope 3 1975
Episode Three: 1924 begins with Ben s imminent release from prison. He has now become radicalised and joins the Communist Party along with Joel. Ben stays at the London home of Philip who is now a Labour M. P. During this episode the Durham miners meet a Soviet delegation at the House of Commons and express reservations over the change from war communism to the New Economic Policy. The episode concludes with Philip s interview with Labour Minister Josiah Wedgewood (John Philips) concerning charges that Lloyd George s strikebreaking plans were secretly passed on to the Labour Party now in power. Although Wedgewood dismisses the charge, a concluding caption shows that this information was indeed true. The plans were used by Stanley Baldwin s Conservative Government to break the 1926 General Strike.
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