Florence Nightingale (2008 film)

Florence Nightingale was a 60-minute 2008 BBC One television drama on the early years of Florence Nightingale, from 1837 to the Royal Commission into the Crimean War. Nightingale was played by Laura Fraser, and her father by Michael Pennington. It was first broadcast on Sunday 1 June 2008.

Other cast and crew

Cast

• Surviving Soldier - Derek Hicks
• Queen Victoria - Zoe Street Howe
• Lord Palmerston - Andrew Harrison
• Watson, Nightingale maid - Lorraine Cheshire
• Music Hall
  • Barker - Roy Hudd
  • Florence - Daryl Fishwick
  • Performers - Ben Stott, Sam Maurice, Paul Moorcroft, Richard Kelly, Harriet Web, Kate Joseph
• Doctor - Robert Aram
• Fanny, Florence's mother - Barbara Marten
• Parthenope, Florence's elder sister - Catherine Tyldesley
• Sidney Herbert - Ian Bartholomew
• The Colonel - Keith Clifford
• Richard Monckton Milnes - Paul Opacic
• Nurse interviewees - Chris Kerry, Cheryl Willday, Violet Foode, Wendy Patterson, Debbie Rush
• Mother Mary Clare - Olwen May
• Orderly - John Axon
• Sir John Hall - Jon Croft
• Fitzgerald - Tim Beasley
• Dr Farr - Sam McKenzie

Crew

• Writer and director - Norman Stone
• Producer - Roger Childs
• Consulting Producer - Kenneth Cavander
• Director of Photography - Michael Fox
• Editor - Colin Goudie
• Music - Jeremy Soule

Filming locations

• Lea hurst, Derbyshire
• Butterley Station, Ripley
• St John the Baptist Church, Tideswell
• Manchester Town Hall
• Croxteth Hall, St George's Hall, High Park Reservoir - Liverpool

External links

• Florence Nightingale at the Internet Movie Database