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Cuts the earth like a tree root
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National Theatre Live: Nye

Cuts the earth like a tree root

Cuts the earth like a tree root

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Cuts the earth like a tree root.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
18
Timestamp in Movie
01:24:16
Uploaded
Apr 03, 2025
Genres
biography, comedy, drama
Production
National Theatre,Neal Street Productions,Wales Millennium Centre

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Movie Summary

Confronted with death, Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan's deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground, Parliament and fights with Churchill.
How can you mine it if you don't feel it? - National Theatre Live: Nye 00:06
How can you mine it if you don't feel it?
See how it twists... and turns? - National Theatre Live: Nye 00:07
See how it twists... and turns?
Other jobs, you can look out the window, - National Theatre Live: Nye 00:10
Other jobs, you can look out the window,
All we've got is the seam. - National Theatre Live: Nye 00:06
All we've got is the seam.
Show it... respect. - National Theatre Live: Nye 00:07
Show it... respect.
Tell the truth, and the seam will give you everything. - National Theatre Live: Nye 00:07
Tell the truth, and the seam will give you everything.
But... if you get it wrong, - National Theatre Live: Nye 00:12
But... if you get it wrong,
Now... the bad miner just hacks away at this all day, - National Theatre Live: Nye 00:12
Now... the bad miner just hacks away at this all day,
But the true miner, - National Theatre Live: Nye 00:11
But the true miner,
...and finds the point where one true blow will bring it tumbling. - National Theatre Live: Nye 00:12
...and finds the point where one true blow will bring it tum...
Because one true blow... - National Theatre Live: Nye 00:07
Because one true blow...
And here he is, the noisy member for Ebbw Vale. - National Theatre Live: Nye 00:08
And here he is, the noisy member for Ebbw Vale.
- You never come in the tearooms. - I visit the tearooms. - National Theatre Live: Nye 00:05
- You never come in the tearooms. - I visit the tearooms.
I visit the tearooms. I like tea. - National Theatre Live: Nye 00:06
I visit the tearooms. I like tea.
Also, I like to give them something to gossip about seeing us together. - National Theatre Live: Nye 00:07
Also, I like to give them something to gossip about seeing u...
So, Aneurin, you've been my chief critic throughout the war. - National Theatre Live: Nye 00:06
So, Aneurin, you've been my chief critic throughout the...
Ostracised by your parliamentary party, your constituency party is furious. - National Theatre Live: Nye 00:08
Ostracised by your parliamentary party, your constituency pa...
My criticism has been entirely justified. I'm perfectly sure of that. - National Theatre Live: Nye 00:06
My criticism has been entirely justified. I'm perfectly...
You are a merchant of discourtesy. - National Theatre Live: Nye 00:06
You are a merchant of discourtesy.
And you are wholesaler of disaster. - National Theatre Live: Nye 00:06
And you are wholesaler of disaster.