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The Strike of 1984-85 shook the foundations of British society, tearing apart traditional mining communities and leaving them in tatters. Twenty-five years on and after thirteen years of a Labour government, there are many communities, not only former industrial ones, that languish outside the mainstream. And as David Cameron, castigating against 'broken Britain', takes power, No Redemption looks back at one particular broken community, Easington Colliery.

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Keith Pattison's exhibitions include The Borrowers; Home & Away; Easington 1984. Photographs from this collection were included in Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now at TATE Liverpool in 2006. He works chiefly as a production photographer, working regularly for The Young Vic, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Almeida, Theatre by the Lake, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Bill Kenwright. David Peace is the author of the Red Riding Quartet, GB84, which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2004, and The Damned Utd. The first book of his Tokyo Trilogy, Tokyo Year Zero was published in 2007, followed by Occupied City in 2009. He was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003 and GQ Writer of the Year in 2007.

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