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In Wendy Moore's account of the World War 1 hospital run by two pioneering women doctors, Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson, it is early days. Following their success in setting up two military hospitals in France, they are now in London, where they have opened a third hospital, Endell Street. The casualties are beginning to arrive in large numbers. The work is exacting but Murray and Anderson's all women staff are determined to make a success of treating their patients. The reader is Jessica Raine.

In her new book, the bestselling author, Wendy Moore, tells the forgotten story of the military hospital set up in London during World War 1 by two trailblazing women doctors. Louisa Garrett Anderson and Flora Murray put their campaigning for Votes for Women to one side, so that they could turn their attention to the casualties of war. After setting up two hospitals in war torn France they made their mark by running a hospital in a former workhouse on Endell Street in the heart of London,, where over the course of the war they treated 26,000 wounded soldiers. Anderson and Murray demonstrated, along with their staff of women surgeons, nurses and orderlies, that they were supremely capable in so many fields of medicine, but when the war ended, their achievements were once again side-lined.

Read by Jessica Raine
Abridged by Katrin Williams
Produced by Elizabeth Allard