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      • This film is an account of the life of Aneurin Bevan who was the architect of the NHS in post war Britain. He was a Labour MP in the 1945 Labour Government that brought in the welfare state, state education and the NHS. At the start of the film we find him at his country house home with his wife, and he is dying of cancer and in his early 60s.
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  2. Nov 16, 1997 · Food for Ravens. Drama profile of the Welshman responsible for establishing the principle of publicly funded health care 'from the cradle to the grave' - Aneurin Bevan.

  3. Jul 20, 2023 · They tend to assume it is true, but Food for Ravens is at best a partial truth and sometimes plain agitprop. Judged purely as drama, not as history, Food for Ravens is by no means without merit. It shows Bevan dying but being kept in ignorance of his condition by those around him - which actually happened.

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  4. Jun 7, 2020 · Period drama Food For Ravens saw Aneurin Bevan, one of the key founders of the national health service, looking back over his life. Aneurin Bevan, usually known as Nye, was the son of Welsh coal miner who came to prominence during the 1926 general strike, it was at the end of World War II when he became Minister of Health in the new Labour ...

  5. Food for Ravens: Directed by Trevor Griffiths. With Brian Cox, Sinéad Cusack, Dean Davies, Brana Bajic. The dying Aneurin "Nye" Bevan, the man pivotal in the creation of Britain's National Health Service, reflects on his life and career.

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    • Drama
    • Trevor Griffiths
    • 1997-11-11
  6. This film is an account of the life of Aneurin Bevan who was the architect of the NHS in post war Britain. He was a Labour MP in the 1945 Labour Government that brought in the welfare state, state education and the NHS.

  7. Food For Ravens, at once both a biopic of the final days in the life of Nye Bevan and a haunting elegy for the great man himself, was submitted to the BBC Drama Department by Griffiths in the summer of 1996 with a view to marking the centenary of Bevan's birth the following year.

  8. Nov 16, 1997 · The untold love story of two cabaret performers and disability rights activists.