5. The Last Days

The final days of First World War hostilities approach, but it is "darkest before dawn."

Wendy Moore's account of the brilliant and courageous trailblazing women who set up three military hospitals during the First World War.

Louisa Garrett Anderson and Flora Murray were the two doctors who put their campaigning for women's suffrage to one side, so that they could turn their attention to the war wounded.

They made their mark by setting up and running a hospital on Endell Street in the heart of London, where over the course of the war they treated 26,000 wounded soldiers.

However, when the war ended, their achievements were once again side-lined, and the story of Endell Street was forgotten.

Abridged by Katrin Williams

Concluded by Jessica Raine

Producer: Elizabeth Allard

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2020.