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'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 8, Episode 1

Carmen Croghan

31 Mar 2019 — 6 min read

Welcome back to another season of Call the Midwife. Once again I'll be recapping the events and emotions stirred by the next eight episodes of Season 8. If you need to refresh your memory about what happened during the Call the Midwife special that aired at Christmas, you can take a glance at it right here.

To begin, let's set the scene. We return to Poplar in 1964. It's spring, a time for renewal and fresh starts.

You may recall during the Christmas special that a staffing shake up was in the works. The powers that be traded Sister Winifred for former WAF and seasoned midwife Sister Hilda (Fenella Woolgar) and the newly qualified and rather clumsy Sister Frances (Ella Bruccoleri). So, a two for one trade? Perhaps there’s a draft pick involved in this transaction that we don’t know about yet.

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