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Book of the Week - Florence Nightingale - The Woman and Her Legend - Episode 1

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Lia Williams reads from Mark Bostridge's biography of the renowned 19th-century nurse and reformer, which sheds new light on her personal life and contribution to the medical profession. Family illness was a source of endless fascination to the young Florence's relatives, and she enjoys documenting each individual's afflictions.