The New Jerusalem
December 9th, 2013
A related BBC radio programme may be heard at the link below:-
Analysis: Labours New New Jerusalem
Things we forgot to remember – Michael Portillo – BBC Radio 4
The 1945 Labour Government
Monday 11 December 2006 20:00-20:30 (Radio 4 FM)
Clement Attlee’s government is now remembered as the founder of the welfare state. At every General Election, we are invited to recall the creation of the NHS and the building of a new Jerusalem. Just how radical was this agenda and how much of this memory is myth-making by subsequent Labour governments? Michael Portillo remembers the pragmatism, the compromises and the in-fighting of that post-war government. He meets Denis Healey, Peter Carrington and Tony Benn to uncover the forgotten choices made in a Britain exhausted by one war and on the brink of another.