' Nye Bevan applied to the nation the lessons he had learned in Tredegar.'
(LEO ABSE, MP)
The legend in this South Wales mining town. Bevan's birth-place, is that the National Health Service began here.
Exactly 30 years after the formation of the NHS, Paul Ferris goes back to Tredegar to discover what health conditions and medical services were like between the wars and how they influenced the design of the National Health Service.
Researcher MIRIAM BARTRAM
Producer HUGH PURCELL