It's a very cold, bleak environment, ... I was late, but she turned up at the restaurant alone, installed herself at the bar. By the time I got there, there were shrieking all with laughter, as if they knew each other for a long time.
We talked to the women about what it was like, the first time they went into the mine, because all of them have grown up with those buildings on the landscape and those smokestacks and the men in their families going off to the mine, and it was always a mythical place,
The real case, as you probably know, went for over 20 years. We had to collapse the time frame just for dramatic purposes.