In Wendy Moore's new book it's 1914 and the trailblazing doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson get to work on the front line in war torn 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. Read by Jessica Raine.

Endell Street is the new book by the bestselling author Wendy Moore and is a a tribute to Louisa Garrett Anderson and Flora Murray and their brilliant and courageous work. Setting 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 that they were supremely capable in so many fields of medicine. Yet when the war ended, their achievements were once again side-lined, and the part they played was forgotten.

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