- a memory of Edith Cavell
EDITH CAVELL was shot at dawn in Brussels by the Germans on 12 October 1915. As leader of an underground organisation she helped several hundred Allied soldiers to escape from under the very eyes of the Germans and faced her inevitable capture, imprisonment, trial and execution with stoicism.
ROWLAND RYDER. author of a recent biography of Cavell, and RUTH HELLYER , MILLICENT BATTRUM and ELIZABETH WILKINS , three of the nurses who worked with her, tell her story and of the execution which shocked even the Kaiser.
Edith Cavell 's journals and letters read by JILL BALCON. Producer JOHN KNIGHT