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