An interview with Ethel Lote, Anne Watts and Flight Lieutenant Kerry Poole at the Royal College of Nursing Congress, Liverpool, 14 April 2011. Media interviewer is Roger Phillips of BBC Radio Merseyside. Ethel Lote talks about her experience as a hospital nurse in Birmingham during World War Two; Anne Watts talks about her experience of nursing overseas with Save the Children and about her autobiography, ‘Always the Children: A Nurses’s Story of Home and War’; and Kerry Poole about her experience of nursing in the armed forces.