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Dispatches•Season 5•Episode 20

The Arthur Legend

May 22, 199145 min

Director Ken Loach and reporter-producer Lorraine Heggessey defend miners' leader Arthur Scargill against allegations made by the Daily Mirror and ITV's The Cook Report (1987-98), including financial misconduct during the 1984-85 miners' strike.

Directed byKen Loach

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Giant of the Gulf

What Happened at Christmas Island

Mr Bush's Road to War

Hanson Trust

Saddam's Secret Army

Crackdown

Skeletons Have Names

The Provoked Wife

Thinking of the Soldier

Voices From Tibet

A Very British Recession

Keep On Running

Strange Case of Democracy

Sir John's Shuttle

A Dream Betrayed

Tapping into Toxnet

Mr Major's Number 10

The Promised Land

The Ballot Fixers

The Arthur Legend

Saddam's Iraq

Castro's Secret Fix

The Movement

The Committee

Strange Customs

In the Cleaning Machine

Every Child in Britain

Georgian Nightmare

Missing in Action

The Swiss Connection

The Last Taboo

The Truth that Sets Us Free

Don King, Unauthorised

Holding the Baby

Christmas in Kurdistan

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Episode Summary

"The Arthur Legend" is episode 20 of Dispatches season 5. Directed by Ken Loach, it aired on May 22, 1991.

Next: E21 · Saddam's Iraq Best of Season 5