It champions women looking after women, women working, the importance of community and sticking together when times are tough. But if you peer a little deeper, it's a wonderfully feminist show that deals with the tough stuff – death, sexual abuse, domestic violence, mental health – all covered in a neat hour (or in tonight's case, 78 minutes). There's snow! Shiny-cheeked children! Nuns! A pantomime! Sure, it'd be easy to dismiss Call the Midwife as a glossy period piece that has about as much substance as the cake they are continually eating. Meanwhile, the circus is in town as ex Time Lord Peter Davison plays Mr Percival the Ringmaster.Judy Parfitt as Sister Monica Joan and Helen George as Trixie Franklin in Call the Midwife. Everyone is hoping for a nice uneventful Christmas, but of course that doesn’t happen! Sister Monica Joan is rushed to hospital, while Trixie is less than impressed to receive a subscription to a Marriage Bureau as a Christmas present. Having dealt with some extremely naughty sheep last year in the Outer Hebrides, this year the gang are in Poplar. Season 9, Episode 00 – “Christmas Special 2020” She broaches the subject with the rest of the team, and a forthright Nurse Crane goes with Sister Julienne to try to tackle the issue with Violet at one of her open sessions as a local councillor. Sister Julienne receives a letter from the council saying that they will cut funding to Nonnatus House and no longer pay for their accommodation. Sister Frances arrives just in time to see that Kevin’s decision has put mother and baby in danger.
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Soon after, full of confidence, Kevin ambitiously tries to deliver a baby on his own. Valerie’s cousin’s baby has a devastating illness, and Kevin returns to work with Dr Turner.ĭr Kevin McNulty performs his final supervision under Dr Turner but begins to show signs of strain as his shoulder injury flares up, and he secretly takes pethidine for the pain when he’s alone in his office.
May’s adoption by the Turners comes under threat when someone from her past appears.
Sister Frances struggles to persuade the wife of a cancer patient to accept help, and as the nation obsesses over The Sound of Music, Sister Julienne considers the privileges of being a nun. The team tries to unite an estranged mother and daughter who are both pregnant Trixie’s friend is devastated to discover she is pregnant. Lucille is trapped in a lift with a woman in labour while working at St Cuthbert’s, and Nurse Crane helps a Sylheti woman with fistula. Sister Julienne cares for a pregnant prostitute, while Dr Turner puzzles over a mysterious string of symptoms. Fred finds an abandoned baby in a dustbin, and the team must help locate its mother. Even after Jenny leaves Nonnatus, she continues to chronicle the lives of the midwives who have become her family.ĭr Turner and Nurse Crane must deal with an alarming outbreak of diphtheria. Working alongside fellow nurses and the medically-trained nuns, Jenny has her eyes opened to the harsh living conditions of the slums, but she also discovers the warm hearts and the bravery of the mothers. She is surprised to find that she will be living in a convent: Nonnatus House. Based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth the story follows twenty-two year old Jenny, who in 1957 leaves her comfortable home to become a midwife in London’s East End.
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