The life and legend of Florence Nightingale
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🗓️ 11 May 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 1:42.9 | Tomorrow, the 12th of May, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the most significant figures in the history of medicine, Florence Nightingale. |
| 1:54.0 | To mark the bicentenary, I spoke to Mark Bostrich, a biographer of Nightingale, about the life, legacy and wide-ranging achievements of The Lady with the Lamp. Could you start as off by giving a very quick rundown of some of the key events in Florence Nightingale's life. How did she become |
| 2:02.5 | the lady with the lamp? Right. Well, she was born 200 years ago on May the 12th, 1820, |
| 2:11.7 | in an area outside Florence known as Bella's Guardo, because her parents were on a sort of European tour. |
| 2:19.9 | She came back to her father's estates in Derbyshire the following year. |
| 2:26.1 | The Nightingales were a wealthy family. |
| 2:29.5 | Florence Nightingale was a second child. |
| 2:33.8 | Her older sister had arrived in 1819 a year before her. But from a very |
| 2:40.0 | early age, it was clear that it was Florence Nightingale who was remarkable for her intellect. Her |
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