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It's 1914 and trailblazing doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson, get to work on the front line in war ravaged France.

Later, the success of the first military hospital they set up in Paris is to repeated close to France's border with Belgium, and in London, the War Office prepares to make an extraordinary invitation.

Endell Street is a tribute to Louisa and Flora's brilliant and courageous work. Putting aside their campaign for the suffragette movement, they made their mark by setting up and running two military hospitals in France and one in the heart of London, on Endell Street.

Over the four years that Endell Street was in operation, Murray and Anderson treated thousands of wounded soldiers, and along with their staff of women surgeons, nurses and orderlies, they demonstrated their influence in different medical disciplines. Yet, when the war ended, their achievements were side-lined, and the part they played was forgotten.

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

Abridged by Katrin Williams.

Read by Jessica Raine.

Producer: Elizabeth Allard

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in June 2020.