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Jeremy Paxman on Black Gold
The legendary presenter has written a compelling history of coal mining in Britain.
Jeremy, why did you write Black Gold, because coal doesn’t appear, at first glance, to be an obvious subject for you? There were two reasons really. I happened to be in one of those little villages in South Wales, where I thought, looking at it, there is no reason why...