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Newsnight on Czech dissidents - 1989

This 1989 Newsnight report by Julian O'Halloran in what was then Czechoslovakia looked at a strike by theatre staff before a production of a play by Vaclav Havel, who was to become president.

He also spoke to Jan Urban who was a leading figure in the 1989 Velvet Revolution.

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