With everyone so set against it, how did Nye manage to get the NHS through? What was the first day of the NHS like? And why didn’t the Tories overturn the NHS’s creation?

To celebrate 75 years of the NHS, all is explained in this bonus documentary series of how a ‘no-good boyo’ from the Welsh Valleys came to create one of Britain’s greatest institutions. 

Narrated by Sian Harries

An Idea Hat Production. Written by Ian Haig, Kenton Hall, Mark Hayhurst and Dr Carole Reeves

Based on the research that was carried out for the audio drama 'Getting Better', an Audible Original

Featuring excerpts from the original Aneurin Bevan 1959 election speech

With readings and interviews from Rhod Gilbert, Kathryn Drysdale, Terry Molloy and Mary Robertson

Drama Clips included in the documentary from ‘Getting Better, The Fight for the NHS’, an Audible Original 

Starring: 

• Colin Baker as Dr Charles Hill
• Steve Banks as Jim
• Barnaby Eaton-Jones as George Godber
• Nigel Fairs as Herbert Morrison
• Raj Ghatak as Lord Moran
• Rhod Gilbert as Nye Bevan
• Clive Mantle as Sir Wilson Jameson
• Neve McIntosh as Jennie Lee
• Terry Molloy as Lord Horder
• Tanya Rich as Nurse Vi
• Wink Taylor as Winston Churchill and Alfred Webb-Johnson
• Mike Wozniak as Clement Attlee

View full credits for Getting Better at https://www.ideahat.co.uk/getting-better/

Production Credits

• Produced by Ian Haig
• Edited by Antoine Kaiserman
• Mixed by Martyn Harries
• Original Music by Alexander White
• Original songs by Andrew Farrington and Andy Rushton
• Additional Music by Audio Network
• Production Co-ordinator – Bex Reichwald Pizzata 
• Cover Design by Adam Peters
• Illustration by Kathryn Chorley

Thank you to Robert Norris, Barry O’Donovan, Emma Torrens, Barnaby Eaton-Jones, Lydia Shamah, Katie Arlett, Mariele Runacre-Temple, The British Library, The Aneurin Bevan Society, Jaselle Williams, Adam Freudenheim.

And finally, a limitless thank you to everyone who does or has worked and volunteered for the NHS. You are all incredible.

Remember, “The NHS will last as long as there are folk with faith left to fight for it.”

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