About this programme

11/20. Melvyn Bragg's mobile cinema parks alongside the College of Medical and Dental Sciences in Birmingham to highlight the formation of the NHS in 1948. June Rosen shares a childhood memory of delivering breakfast to then-Health Secretary Nye Bevan on the day he introduced the service. A leading nurse discusses arriving from Barbados to begin her training, and the show hears from the woman who was the first baby to be born on the NHS.