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A bland, reverential portrait of a socialist martyr: Nye at the Olivier Theatre reviewed
From the magazineThe memory of Nye Bevan is being honoured at the National Theatre. Having made his name as a Marxist firebrand, Nye was quick to take advantage of the privileges enjoyed by the governing classes whom he affected to despise. He entered parliament in 1929 and began to hang around the Commons bar plying female MPs
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