Nye is one of those theatre productions that sticks with you long after the curtain drops. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a play on at the National Theatre about Aneurin (Nye) Bevan, the legendary politician credited with ushering in the NHS in post-war Britain.

Bevan’s extraordinary journey from a miner’s son in Wales, to becoming Labour MP for Ebbw Vale and then Atlee’s Minister for Housing and Health (could there be mileage in linking those two briefs once again?) is portrayed in dream-like flashbacks as he approaches the end of his life in a hospital bed. 

Stay with me here – I’m not about to launch into full theatre critic mode; there is a link to construction, which I will come to. In fact, it was a construction contact of sorts who offered me the tickets when she at the last minute could not travel to London, much to her chagrin being not only a proud Welsh woman but having worked on hospital designs for decades – but that is by the by.

My point is that the subject matter of this production - which is at once about the death of a great, if flawed, man (played by the brilliant Michael Sheen) as well as the birth of a unique, if imperfect, health service - is extremely relevant right now for the people of this country.