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'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 6 Episode 4

Carmen Croghan

23 Apr 2017 — 6 min read

Despite the backdrop of a close-knit community celebrating the opening of a new park with maypole dances and chariot races, tough decisions and despair dominate in this week’s Call the Midwife. Mothers who can’t bear children are juxtaposed against those who can but can’t afford to keep them.

You may want to review our recap from the last episode here just to understand how Nonnatus House was able to wake from the nightmare of Sister Ursula. Indeed this week it seems as though she was never in Poplar at all! Sister Julienne is back in her rightful place and looking for an elusive new midwife who is ready to care and hard to scare. The majority of the focus this time around however was on women fighting for their children in one way or another.

Marnie Wallace and Dot Spenlow

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