Classic Desert Island Discs: Dame Cicely Saunders - a podcast by BBC Radio 4

Another chance to listen to the founder of the Hospice Movement speaking to Sue Lawley in 1995. Dame Cicely Saunders talks about her schooldays at Roedean, how she trained as a nurse and much later, as a doctor. When she was 29 she fell in love with a young patient dying of cancer, who bequeathed her a legacy of £500. Starting with that bequest, she raised enough money for a new kind of hospice dedicated to care for the dying.Favourite track: Symphony No 7 in A Major by Ludwig van BeethovenBook: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

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