- Writer/Based on his book "Miss Nightingale's Letters":
- Charles Terrot
- Writer/Producer:
- Michael Barry
- Settings:
- Barry Learoyd
- Dr. William Howard Russell:
- Eric Berry
- An elderly Colonel:
- Antony Shaw
- Lord Clarendon:
- Robert Sansom
- Sidney Herbert, Minister at War:
- John Richmond
- Florence Nightingale:
- Betty Cooper
- Sellon Sister - Elizabeth Wheeler:
- Maureen Pryor
- Sellon Sister - Sarah Anne Terrot:
- Jill Balcon
- Sellon Sister - Sister Bertha:
- Edna Fryer
- Sellon Sister - Sister Harriet:
- Julia Braddock
- Miss Langston:
- Marguerite Young
- Mrs. Bracebridge:
- Una Venning
- Mr Bracebridge:
- Michael Shepley
- Dr. Menzies, Chief Medical Officer, Scutari:
- Gordon McLeod
- Dr. MacGrigor, in charge of the Barrack Hospital, Scutari:
- John Harvey
- Reverend Mother Mary Clare:
- Iris Ballard
- Dr. D'Arcey:
- John Wyndham
- Mr. Barton, a surgeon:
- Robert Sansom
- Dr. Fossgate:
- Martin Starkie
- Dr. MacLean:
- Andrew Osborn
- A Turkish merchant:
- Marne Maitland
- Lady Stratford de Redcliffe:
- Oriel Ross
- Aunt Eugenie:
- Katie Johnson
- Canon Heaton:
- Eric Berry
- A Member of Parliament:
- Waldo Sturrey
- Polite gentleman:
- John Wyndham
- Gruff gentleman:
- Victor Lucas
- Benson Maxwell, Q.C.:
- Anthony Nicholls
- Martin, a shorthand writer:
- Stuart Burge
- Dr. Laing:
- Antony Shaw
- Dr. Cumming:
- Marne Maitland
- Hospital orderly:
- Victor Platt
- Hospital orderly:
- Victor Lucas
- Hospital orderly:
- Norman Latimer
- Hospital orderly:
- Robert Desmond
- Wounded soldier - Tim Carter:
- Waldo Sturrey
- Wounded soldier - Dragoon:
- John Richmond
- Wounded soldier - Wounded boy:
- Stuart Burge
- Wounded soldier - Tom Dawly:
- Richard Pearson
- Wounded soldier - Murphy:
- Kenneth Connor
- Wounded soldier - Cholera patient:
- Martin Starkie
- Wounded soldier - Second cholera patient:
- Victor Platt
- Other parts played by:
- Nigel Beard
- Other parts played by:
- Dudley Duttron
- Other parts played by:
- Gerard Dynevor
- Other parts played by:
- James Grout
- Other parts played by:
- John Hemming
- Other parts played by:
- Dulcie Herbert
- Other parts played by:
- Eric Hills
- Other parts played by:
- Ronald Hines
- Other parts played by:
- Derek Holmes
- Other parts played by:
- Geoffrey Taylor