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Woman's Hour Drama: Writing the Century 18: The Camel Hospital

15 Minute Drama: Writing the Century 18: The Camel Hospital: Episode 2

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Writing the Century 18: The Camel Hospital

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BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, Writing the Century 18: The Camel Hospital, Episode 2

Sara meets Ray for the first time and hopes he wishes for nothing more than friendship.

Writing The Century -
The Camel Hospital,
Inspired by the diaries of Sara Wilsdon
dramatised by Karen Brown

The series which explores the 20th century through the diaries and correspondence of real people:
in January 1918.
After travelling thousands of miles from Aldershot to Abbasea the military hospital has only one
patient so Sara and her friend Mary have time to sightsee. Soon, however, the is hospital is full and
Sara has a sense of purpose until she receives tragic news regarding her brother. She meets 
Ray for the first time and hopes he wishes for nothing more than friendship.

Sara ...... Rebecca Callard
Mary ...... Jessica Blake
Ray ..... Jake Norton
Captain Theobald ...... James Nickerson
Matron ...... Melissa Jane Sinden
Amelia ...... Verity-May Henry
Patient ...... Peter Singh
Research Consultant - Professor Alison Fell
Directed by Pauline Harris

Professor Alison Fell has published several articles and chapters on women and the First World War. She is the co-editor with Christine Hallett of Visions and Revisions: Studies on First World War Nursing (London: Routledge, 2012) and is currently writing a book entitled Back to the Front: Women as Veterans in Interwar France and Britain. She is also leading the Legacies of War 2014-2018 project at the University of Leeds, coordinating activities around the First World War Centenary - http://arts.leeds.ac.uk/legaciesofwar/.

15 Minute Drama: Writing the Century 18: The Camel Hospital

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Drama inspired by the diaries of Sara Wilsdon, a VAD nurse posted to Egypt during WWI

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