21st Century Folk: GP who nearly died from Covid becomes folk song hero

A Middlesbrough doctor is among five people to become the stars of a set of modern folk songs.

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"I do not know what the cost of that treatment was. You go in, get treatment, you come out, and you don't worry about the cost. And I think that's a great thing. So therefore the song says, 'Free NHS for all.'" Only one thing in the song didn't really happen, he points out. When he met the Queen to get an MBE in 2006, her handbag didn't actually bear the letters UTB - short for the football slogan Up The Boro."He's quite a character and he's got a dry sense of humour, and half the time you're not quite sure if he's joking or not," he says.

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