Fascinating documentary on the formation of the NHS, and where it all went wrong, on at the moment. Unfortunately I can't follow it all too clearly because the sound's turned right down, because my daughters are just dropping off to sleep.

However, my over-riding memory of the name "Nye Bevan" comes from that classic Not The Nine O'Clock News sketch (Gangster Octopus to thread) where a spoof "Question Time" Panel are asked the question, "Given that the Soviet Union has just launched 200 nuclear warheads that will destroy the United Kingdom and everyone in it in four minutes' time, what would the panel recommend doing next?"

And Rowan Atkinson (I think it was he) playing the part of a Welsh Trade Union leader, mused, "Well, at times likes these, I like to think what Nye Bevan would have done. And you know, I'm pretty sure he'd have shat himself".