Dominic Sandbrook
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And they have a family friend called Dr. Antoine Depage.
How familiar are you, Tom, with the history of Belgian nursing?
Pretty familiar.
Dr. Depage says to her, come and set up this nursing school.
She says, brilliant.
Can't wait.
She goes over to Belgium.
She goes to Brussels.
She sets up Belgium's first ever professional nursing journal.
So that's sad.
The father's dead.
She goes back to Norfolk.
Alan Partridge's heartland.
And the story goes that she is weeding her mother's garden in College Road, Norwich, when she hears the news of the German invasion of Belgium.
So if there was a film, this is the point at which a small child kicking a ball says, Have you heard?
Germany's invaded Belgium.
She's like, what?
And her mum says to her, don't go back, Edith.
And Edith, because she's a saint, says, my duty is with my nurses.
At a time like this, I am more needed than ever.