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...world. But real recording success only came when the pace was slowed to allow her to drape those yearning, keening vocals over two ballads. Her cover version of the classic Anyone Who Had A Heart (an infamously challenging melody, full of unexpected time signatures and octave leaps) is customarily dismissed by purists, who cleave umbilically to the Dionne Warwick...

...World War that the British Welfare state took its mature form. In a climate of relief after the war, a climate diffused with an idealism for a new, more just society, welfare legislation had bipartisan support. There was a clear sense of rebuilding a better Britain...[Nye Bevan, who brought Beveridge's vision of a National Health Service to fruition] Bryson's words, from...