2024 marks the 40th anniversary of the Miners’ Strike. In commemoration, Tom Overton and Matthew Harle have gathered up John Berger’s previously hard-to-find writings on the strike, including interviews, long essays, and transcripts (plus images) from Berger’s rarely-seen BBC programme Germinal. In Berger’s words, ‘A new world is germinating underneath the ground. And when it arrives, it will crack open the earth.’
Tom Overton is John Berger’s official biographer, and catalogued Berger’s archive for the British Library (from where the pieces in The Underground Sea are taken). Matthew Harle is a writer and curator, whose new book exploring the contribution of Arsenal football club to Black British cultural history (co-edited with Clive Chijioke Nwonka) is forthcoming from Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
Join us for Apéro Hour before the event. The Cake Shop will be open from 5.30 p.m. for pre-booked drinks and snacks. Select your Apéro add-on from the ticket drop down.
