Narrator: Jessika Downes-Gössl 🇬🇧

Writer: Jo Steer ✍️

Sound design: crickets 🌾

Includes mentions of: History, Religious Traditions, Military History, Science & Nature, Death, Literature & Literary History, Helping, Medicine.

Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we’ll head to nineteenth century England, where we’ll meet Florence Nightingale, a woman who would stop at nothing to answer the calling she had been given. She revolutionised healthcare in Britain and beyond, and laid the groundwork for professional nursing. 😴

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