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Michael Sheen as Nye Bevan and Tony Jaywardena as Doctor Rain (photo: Johan Persson)

REVIEW: Nye, Olivier (2024)

This Attlee is horrified at Nye’s conflict with the doctors, implores him to stop, calculates the political benefit if Nye were to fail, and withdraws support at a crucial moment.  If there was any truth at all in any of this, we would not have the NHS. Nye succeeded because Attlee took the risk of appointing him, to the horror of his senior colleagues, and then backed him to the hilt.

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Cable Street the Musical, Southwark Playhouse (2024)
Company. (Photo: Jane Hobson)

REVIEW: Cable Street the Musical, Southwark Playhouse (2024)

Celebrating 88 years since Cable Street "They Shall Not Pass!  "The message of socialists, trade unionists, immigrants and dock workers who were ready to meet the fascists Company. (Photo: Jane…

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