Miriam Stockley

Berlin welcomes the new millennium with the largest lighting event in the world and a captivating live concert by superstar Mike Oldfield. At the Siegessaule Square on December 31, 1999, Mike Oldfield plays Moonlight Shadow and the complete Millennium Bell.

Over the course of four decades, the personal lives of a quartet of Newcastle friends—Nicky, Geordie, Mary, and Tosker—intertwine with various political machinations, often for the worse: slum housing projects, police corruption, the rise of Thatcherism, political sleaze, and specific events like the 1984 Miners' Strike.