# GETTING BETTER

- Link: https://andrewjamesspooner.com/portfolio/getting-better/
- Published: 2021-09-06T10:11:34+01:00
- Author: Andrew Spooner

It was an honour to play a handful of characters in this Audible Original drama 
charting the creation of the NHS. Thank you to Barnaby Eaton Jones and Ian Haig 
for the opportunity.

 

An entertaining drama based on Nye Bevan’s race to create the new NHS by 5 July 
1948. _Getting Better_ is a roller coaster period drama based on real political 
events alongside the fictional story of front-line tears, trauma and triumph at 
The Park Hospital in Manchester. As Bevan faces up to the establishment in Parliament,
Dr Eva Callaway faces the same challenges – facing poverty, sexism and homophobia
in a system stuck in the past.  

“Rhod Gilbert brings comic timing to a fine new drama about the creation of the 
NHS…. _Getting Better _could be beefed up into a perfect Sunday evening TV drama.”(
_The Guardian_)

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