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...Hushed sections for the two soloists, Mary Bevan and Roderick Williams, and chorale incantations offer intermittent balm, but Fiat Lux leaves a lingering feeling that it is overweighted towards showing off...
...Michael Sheen stars as Bevan. February 24 to May 11; Find information and tickets here....
...Edwards points out this was the only time that the Treasury was circumvented; in January, 2000 Tony Blair used an appearance on a Sunday morning political programme to announce that he was raising spending...
...Among the soloists, countertenor Iestyn Davies and tenor Guy Cutting were notable, Matthew Brook an effective bass, Rachel Redmond and Mary Bevan contrasting sopranos. ★★★★☆ Two days later the crowds poured...
...Sloggett believes there is no public appetite to change the NHS model but keeping faith with Aneurin Bevan’s concept means that big, testing questions can no longer be ducked....
...Trevor Jones, a member of the Bevan commission, which advises the Welsh government and NHS on how to improve performance, said the structure of the health service in Wales complicated the delivery of healthcare...
...France Crossword 16,383: Andrew Liardet, Wiltshire, England; Emlyn Lumley, Pinner, Greater London; Stephen Harvey, Hampshire, England Polymath 1,058: D Marsh, East Sussex, England Crossword 16,377: John Bevan...
...Vernon adds: “[NHS founding father] Nye Bevan’s conception was very much around providing a core, localised health offer to people that dealt with things like basic access to a doctor, dental care, eyecare...
...The orchestra, under Sian Edwards, supplies at least some of the sparkle missing from this otherwise rather charmless show. ★★☆☆☆ To November 28, eno.org...
...With “Big Bang” deregulation imminent, the group merged its merchant bank with stockbroker Zoete & Bevan and market maker Wedd Durlacher in 1985 to create BZW....
...Sian Edwards gets sparkling playing from the Britten Sinfonia and Aletta Collins, the director, has delivered on all the story’s creepy special effects....
...Jonathan Edwards, a Plaid Cymru MP, has called him fork-tongued for backing the Trident nuclear deterrent....
...Owain Glyndwr, David Lloyd George, Aneurin Bevan . . . These could be the great figures adorning bank notes in Wales if Plaid Cymru gets its way....
...Tim Bevan, co-founder of Britain’s Working Title, produced Green Zone and United 93. “What big directors get turned on by,” he says, “is brinkmanship. The money, the star, the studio....
...The revelations from Edward Snowden about the access governments can have to our data has prompted some to rethink how they live their digital lives....
...John Campbell, already biographer of Thatcher, Edward Heath and Aneurin Bevan, has produced a volume that looks forbidding but reads magnificently – a riveting and vital contribution to an understanding...
...Another programme, Edward Jenner, is delivered entirely online....
...Sophie Bevan’s sexy, predatory Elvira sings her heart out....
...Gareth Edwards, John Dawes, Willie John McBride, David Duckham and Andy Irvine might have deserved it in another era but it was Wilkinson’s quiet demeanour which won the public vote....
...Edward Luce is the FT’s Washington bureau chief....
...Hugh Gaitskell trounced Aneurin Bevan in their lifetimes but Bevan’s name lives on as the founder of the National Health Service. Harold Macmillan ran rings around R. A....
...And with John Edwards rumbling and ruminating on bass, the textural detail and sense of pulse was hypnotic....
...With new-generation trumpeter Tom Arthurs a replacement and a terrific rhythm section of John Edwards on bass and drummer Steve Noble, also a stand-in, the gig still delivered top-drawer, high-energy free...
...But for Edward Behr, founder of The Art of Eating, a tiny quarterly published out of rural Vermont, Gourmet’s demise validates his own contrarian business model....
...Aneurin Bevan, Labour politician, born in Tredegar. Founder of the National Health Service – love it or loathe it. 3....
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