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- Bevan John Lee OAM (born 7 November 1950) is an Australian writer and executive best known for creating the TV dramas All Saints, Packed to the Rafters, Winners & Losers and A Place to Call Home.
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Jul 24, 2020 · After creating five of Australia’s most popular dramas – Always Greener, All Saints, Packed to the Rafters, Winners & Losers and A Place to Call Home – in a stellar 37-year career, Bevan Lee felt he had reached a crossroad. If he followed one path, he would simply rest on his laurels and be content with his legacy.
- Don Groves
Jul 18, 2020 · These are the polar opposite worlds that Bevan Lee, Australian most prolific drama series creator, has built to collide in what the 69-year-old writer considers may be his swansong.
Jul 5, 2023 · Post-war reformist. In 1945, the Labour party led by Clement Atlee won a landslide general election on a manifesto that pledged to invest in housing, education and free healthcare. Atlee...
- Katherine Hignett
Mar 8, 2023 · In July 1954 Aneurin Bevan and Jennie Lee sold their house in Chelsea. They wanted a place near London but in the country. He was told about Asheridge Farm, in the village of Asheridge near Chesham, which came up for sale.
- He Was A Lonely, Introverted Child
- He Became A Well-Known Speaker and Campaigner
- He First Became An Mp in 1929
- He Oversaw A Programme of Mass House-Building
- He Was Responsible For Developing The NHS
- He Resigned in 1951
- He Is Consistently Voted One of The Greatest Britons of All Time
Bevan was born in Tredeger, Monmouthshire, a working-class mining town where some 90% of the workforce relied upon the local mines for employment. One of ten children (though four died in infancy and one at eight years old), Bevan’s father was a coal miner and Baptist, while his mother a seamstress and follower of Methodism. Bevan, however, became ...
Bevan was a supporter of the Liberal Party as a child, but later converted to socialism and joined the Independent Labour Party. He became a well-known local orator, and was regarded with suspicion by his employers, the Tredegar Iron and Coal Company. The manager of the colliery found an excuse to have him dismissed; however, with the support of th...
In 1928, Bevan won a seat on Monmouthshire County Council in the Tredegar Central Division. As a result of this success, he was picked as the Labour Party candidate for Ebbw Vale, then easily held the seat in the 1929 General Election, receiving more than twice the number of votes as the Liberal candidate. He criticised figures such as Winston Chur...
After a Labour landslide victory in 1945, Clement Attlee appointed Bevan Minister of Health, with a remit that also covered housing, given the severe post-war shortage. Though described as an outstanding back-bench critic and an excellent debater, Bevan had long clashed with Attlee, even before being in his cabinet, because he thought he hadn’t hel...
Bevan’s role as Minister for Health was hugely important given Labour’s pledge to create a welfare state that included sick pay, unemployment benefits, pensions and free healthcare for all, irrespective of wealth or background. The National Health Service was launched in 1948, and Bevan is quoted as saying, ‘No society can legitimately call itself ...
In January 1951, Bevan became Minister for Labour but resigned in protest just three months later after Hugh Gaitskell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, proposed an introduction of prescription charges for dental care and spectacles in order to save a potential £25 million to meet the financial demands of the Korean War. The same year, Labour were ...
Bevan died from stomach cancer in 1960 at the age of 62. There was an ‘outpouring of national mourning’ that followed his death, while the Daily Herald reported that some MPs were seen to be crying in Parliament. Former Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillanended his Prime Minister’s Questions two days after Bevan’s death with a tribute to hi...
Bevan John Lee OAM (born 7 November 1950) is an Australian writer and executive best known for creating the TV dramas All Saints, Packed to the Rafters, Winners & Losers and A Place to Call Home.
Bevan Lee, creator of All Saints, Packed to the Rafters, Winners and Losers, A Place to Call Home and the new series Between Two Worlds chats to TV Blackbox about his extensive 40-year career.
