To Provide All People - A Poem in the Voice of the NHS (Paperback, Main)

'Should be made compulsory reading . . . If it were up to me this clear-sighted yet emotionally charged hymn to the NHS would be added to the curriculum in every high school from Land's End to John O'Groats with immediate effect.' i newspaper July 2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service Act. To Provide All People is the intimate story of the NHS in British society today, written by novelist, poet and dramatist Owen Sheers. Depicting 24 hours, with a regional hospital at the centre of the action, the poem charts an emotional and philosophical map of the NHS against the personal experiences that lie at its heart; from patients to surgeons, porters to midwives. This is a world of transformative pains, triumphs, losses and celebrations and joins us all in our universal experiences of health and sickness, birth and death, regardless of race, gender or wealth. Informed by over seventy hours of interviews, the work is punctuated with the historical narrative of the birth of the NHS Act. To Provide All People was filmed by Vox Pictures/BBC Wales.

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2019
Authors:	Owen Sheers
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	128
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-34808-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > From 1900 > Film & television screenplays
LSN:	0-571-34808-4
Barcode:	9780571348084

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