The Crimson Field

Sarah Phelps’ epic new drama The Crimson Field follows the lives of a team of doctors, nurses and women volunteers who work together in a tented field hospital healing the bodies and souls of men wounded in the WWI trenches.

The volunteer nurses settle into hospital life, but Kitty keeps herself at a distance and it’s clear to Grace that something is deeply troubling her.

Thomas wrestles with a growing attraction to Kitty, and Joan reveals a dark secret to one of her patients.

As the hospital staff gather at a funeral for some of the patients, Joan is in agony not knowing whether her fiance is alive or dead. Rosalie has previously seen the ring and she now watches Joan intently. Is the truth about to come out?

Grace finds herself threatened by Colonel Ballard, an aggressively rude and war-scarred commander of a Sikh regiment, while Joan still waits anxiously for news from her fiance.

Joan is hauled up on a charge of aiding the enemy and faces a possible lifetime in prison, and her actions send ripples through the hospital.