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CHILDREN OF THE REDD is a tribute to the Scottish coalminer. It is a collection of songs, poetry and theatre about the Scottish coalminer and the demise of the Industry in the Scottish heartland. A traditional industry, its closure left an enormous vacuum in Scottish society. It was as if we had been discarded much like the slag on the massive slagheaps. The local name for such coal slag was redd because of the red colours it took on after burning. In the 1980’s in Scotland the coalminer was finally crushed by the Thatcher government and the days of the politically red Union and its hold on the industrial light switch were over. However, with the increasing oil and gas prices within Europe coupled with global instability … who is to say that the Scottish coalminer is extinct ?