'I could have written three plays about her': Jennie Lee, MP and wife of Nye Bevan, is celebrated on stage by Vanessa Thorpe, Arts, Media Correspondent

The coal miner's daughter who set up the Open University and the Arts Council and was Britain's youngest MP is the subject of two new shows 'Behind every great man stands a great woman," the dated old saying goes. In the case of the celebrated Labour politician Aneurin Bevan, honoured in a new play at the National Theatre in London, the woman is his largely forgotten wife, Jennie Lee, who earned her own independent "…

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