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A short history of the unofficial strike at Courtauld's Red Scar Mill in Preston, 1965, the first of what would become a long list of significant 'migrant strikes' (such as Mansfield Hosiery in 1972, Standard Telephones and Cables in 1973, Imperial Typewriters in 1974 and, of course, Grunwick in 1976).
Curtis, whose previous offerings include The Power of Nightmares and The Century of the Self, squirrelled himself away in the deepest bowels of the BBC to gather nuts for Can’t Get You Out of My Head — morsels of raw, unedited footage shot in every corner of the globe and then left to languish. The BBC main archive is said to contain more than 60 miles of shelving, which is a lot of trees to be shaken. Dip your toe in its first few chapters and you get the Kennedy assassination, Chinese Revolutionary operas, the Gang of Four and Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov shrieking with rage as...