Shotton Colliery is one of the few remaining pit villages in South West Durham. After 150 years of production the seams are running out. A Month of Sundays was filmed in Shotton during the miners' strike in February, and shows a community under the twin stresses of the strike and the imminent closure of the pit. Each day is a Sunday - a time for rest and relaxation; but now particularly a time for the miners and their families to reflect on the way of life carved out by a century and a half of mining and on their hopes and fears for the future. A mining village-a community whose hearthrob is the colliery. People who live and think and have their being because of the colliery. HEADMISTRESS George Bernard Shaw said to the miners' Come out into God's daylight you fools and we are enjoying the daylight and sunlight now, because we've never enjoyed it for a long, long time. COAL-MINER Commentary written by SID CHAPLIN and spoken by JOHN WOODVINE Producer ERIC DAVIDSON