The John Godber Company

Shafted! traces what happened to miner Harry and his wife Dot in the thirty years after the infamous miners’ strike of 1984, as the pair struggle to settle into new jobs and to rebuild their community.

Suddenly the two are thrown together with new battles to fight, and new jobs to hold down; from window cleaning in Wakefield to running a boarding house in Bridlington; but life would never be the same again.
Fuelled with eye-watering honesty and true Yorkshire grit, this is an hilarious account of those whose jobs had been taken, and whose communities had been destroyed. It’s the story of how they fought back after being ‘shafted’!