Star-studded cast sign up for Sheers NHS drama
THE story of a single day in the NHS from dusk to dawn will be brought to life on BBC Wales in a new drama starring Michael Sheen, Martin Freeman and Eve Myles.
Written by highly-acclaimed poet Owen Sheers, To Provide All People will chart the emotional and philosophical map of what defines the NHS and the personal experiences that lie at the heart of the service; from patients to surgeons, porters to midwives.
It has been made by the team behind the award-winning drama Aberfan: The Green Hollow.
The cast includes Michael Sheen, Eve Myles, Sian Phillips, Jonathan Pryce, Aimee Ffion Edwards, George Mackay, Martin Freeman, Meera Syal, Celia Imrie, Tamsin Grieg, Rashan Stone Michelle Fairley, Suzanne Packer, and Michelle Collins.
The programme will be broadcast in Wales and across the UK.
BBC Wales Head of Commissioning Nick Andrews said: “Alongside the extraordinary cast which Vox Pictures has secured, I’m just so thrilled to have Owen Sheers and Pip Broughton together again and working their unique magic.”
Writer Owen Sheers said: “It’s been a privilege to be able to engage via interviews and poetry with the idea and the people of the NHS for this project, and to be part of a film hoping to give voice to the ethos, philosophy and experience of the service.
“Researching the founding of the NHS has been particularly fascinating and only strengthened my belief that it is still, 70 years on, the most radically beautiful and practically successful idea that politics has ever made manifest.”