Bevin Boys - in Popular Culture

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Jez Lowe's song "The Sea and the Deep Blue Devil" is written from the point of view of a Bevin Boy who loses his girlfriend to a more glamorous Royal Navy recruit.

Roll of Honour was never to be,
For black Bevin Boys such as we,
Oh, the seams were no match for the sea,
And the deep blue devil.

Huw Pudner and Chris Hastings have written a folk song called "The Bevin Boys":

And it's down down down we go
Into the darkness down below
I got called up but I got sent down
The Bevin Boys are going underground

Douglas Livingstone's radio play, Road to Durham, is a fictional account of two former Bevin Boys, now in their eighties, as they visit the Durham Miners' Gala.

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