Close the Coalhouse Door. from stories by Sid Chaplin: a stage play in three acts with music by Alex Glasgow, Paperback/Alan Plater

Adapted from Sid Chaplin' stories with Alex Glasgow's songs, this gritty musical about the coal industry in North-East England is regularly staged by all kinds of theatre companies and frequently revived. It has been described as a hymn of unqualified praise to the miners who created a revolutionary weapon without having a revolutionary intent.