In the show, Whittaker said: “There’s a way of looking at this that is just filled with pride because a man bettered himself and then his entire family, and that family took on that work ethic of grafting and took it to another level.
Speaking to Radio Times, she said: “As I understand it, it’s their colliery and they’re working through the strike…
On your doorstep, there must have been enough families that you saw sacrificing so much just to try and have their basic rights.”
[They] built up this successful business that then looked after generations of the family.