A series of four interviews with Sir Arnold Nordmeyer.
1) An End to Insecurity 1901-1941: The search for economic certainty through depression-ridden times for a small town clergyman who became a major architect of the welfare state in the Labour Government of Savage, Nash and Lee.
2) The Use Of Power 1941-1949: The war years, the iron grip of Labour PM Fraser and Nordy's battle with doctors to establish a free health service, a system still in use today.
3) The Working Man's Beer 1949-60: The wharfies' strike and Syd Holland: Nordy's "black budget" and Labour's lost appeal.
4) Parliament and Beyond; 1960 and Thereafter: Leadership grasped and lost. the Holyoake years, and a generation of rising parliamentary stars.
Interviewer: Kevin Hume
Producer: Peter Morritt
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