The Human Body review – Keeley Hawes and the NHS in a silver-screen romance
Hawes and Jack Davenport radiate as post-war lovers in Lucy Kirkwood’s post-war romantic drama set against the birth of the NHS
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Hawes and Jack Davenport radiate as post-war lovers in Lucy Kirkwood’s post-war romantic drama set against the birth of the NHS
With a plump cherry lip, the actress flashed a gracious smile as she stepped onto the red carpet with elegance.
“The window for change – real change I mean – will close. It’s already closing. Very soon it will be shut, and we shan’t be able to get it open again.” 1948, Shropshire: the winter is freezing, austerity is biting and Iris Elcock, GP, Socialist and Labour party councillor, is working tirelessly to implement Nye Bevan’s National Health Service Act and its revolutionary promise of free health care for all. At home she is a mother, and wife to a fellow GP, an ex-Navy man scarred by the war. But a chance meeting with George Blythe, a local boy who has made it to Hollywood, turns her ...
The Bodyguard star will appear in a new play as part of Michael Longhurst's last season at the Donmar.