Campaign to commemorate life of executed British WW1 nurse Edith Cavell with a Royal Mint coin

Shot by a German firing squad for helping hundreds of allied soldiers flee Belgium.

24 February 2014

8 minutes

This clip is from

Woman's Hour—Edith Cavell; Part-time working men; Women and blindness; Children's Emergency Rescue

WW1: Women and the War—Woman's Hour
Across WW1’s centenary year, Woman's Hour looks at the war’s impact on women’s lives.

Misconceptions surrounding blindness
Duration: 01:39

'My sense of reality completely broke down'
Duration: 01:03
Would you like to grow older in a community of other women?
Duration: 05:14
Natalie Cassidy: 'My heart is in elderly care'
Duration: 01:16
'We can all do so much more than we believe'
Duration: 01:01