Medicine In World War One
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2017
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In BBC archive recordings, veterans tell the story of how medical care dealt with the horrors of WW1. Photo: Australian wounded on the Menin Road on the Western Front, 1917 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:04.7 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:08.5 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices. |
| 0:18.0 | What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
| 0:24.6 | poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples. |
| 0:29.7 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC |
| 0:35.4 | Sounds. |
| 0:36.4 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:40.9 | My name's Linda Davies and I commissioned |
| 0:43.0 | podcast for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:45.0 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality, |
| 0:49.0 | featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices. |
| 0:54.4 | What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
| 1:00.9 | poltergeist, cricket and conspiracy theories, and that's just a few examples. |
| 1:06.4 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC |
| 1:11.6 | Sounds. Hello and thank you for downloading the Witness Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Alex Last. |
| 1:19.0 | History is told by the people who were there. |
| 1:22.0 | And today using first accounts from the BBC Archives, |
| 1:26.6 | we go back 100 years to hear how medicine was changed by the First World War. |
| 1:34.0 | I hadn't had any sleep, it seemed for weeks and no rest. |
| 1:42.0 | I was tired of all the kinds, all the sacrifice, I think I'd |
| 1:47.4 | reached my lowest end. In the First World War, medical services were under huge strain. |
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