Call the Midwife
Call The Midwife may be a bastion of view joy, but parallel to our time and place, 1968 Poplar has a mostly unseen workforce of school-age children working in factories, markets, and other small businesses. The system is ripe for abuse, and Sister Veronica has been watching, suspecting these
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This week’s episode of Call The Midwife introduces Annette Barkley (Olivia Brady) and Peter Barkley (Rob Witcomb), a cheery, chaotic couple who love children, but have been advised not to add to their extensive brood. Annette has heart disease, but missed a St. Cuthbert’s Hospital cardiology appointment, because
Call the Midwife Season 12
Call The Midwife continues the dark trajectory of Season 12 with a medical crisis at the maternity home. It won’t be the first time in this series that the fictional events of 1968 Poplar mirror those of our lives –– families separated, overwhelmed medical staff, and a serious life-threatening
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It’s a bright summer day in Poplar, and Nurse Nancy Corrigan is spending the day with her daughter Colette (Francesca Fullilove), dressed up to the nines. Nancy seems to have taken on the title of Nonnatus Fashionista, as the former holder of that title, Nurse Trixie, now sports refined
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As Call The Midwife rounds into its second episode, it's May 1968 and Whitsuntide (Pentecost) is here. Nurse Shelagh is pulling together Nonnatus’s celebration, with maypole dancing, refreshments, and a raffle. Sister Monica Joan gives her the entire cache of marmalade Sister Veronica brought as a gift
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Nonnatus House reaches 1968 in a spring cleaning frenzy, eagerly anticipating the arrival of a new face, Sister Veronica (Rebecca Gethings). With the headcount reduced to two nuns, Sister Monica Joan (Judy Parfitt) and Sister Julienne (Jenny Agutter), spiritual and medical reinforcement is vital to Nonnatus. Worries about overwhelming her
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Season 11 of Call The Midwife packed a lot into its eight episodes. Set in 1967, the year Nonnatus House celebrated its centenary, profound cultural changes took place in the neighborhood of Poplar and all over the world. Nonnatus House’s world is close to ours, despite advances in medicine
Call the Midwife
Call The Midwife Season 11 has only just finished airing here in the states, but across the pond, Neal Street Productions already has the team back, hard at work for Season 12. There's a lot to celebrate with that news, including a first look at the first upcoming
Call the Midwife
It may be Easter Sunday for us, but our Poplar friends are already into late summer/early autumn on Call the Midwife. Just seven short days ago, our midwives were doing what they do- helping a struggling new mother with her distressing nursing woes and finding a way for a
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Believe it or not, we’ve already reached the halfway point of Call the Midwife Season 11. A heatwave has settled over Poplar when, just last week, spring showers were softly falling on attendees of the Nonnatus House centenary celebration. Nurse Corrigan befriended a homeless man with a serious alcohol
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Another Sunday, another visit to Poplar with Call the Midwife! You’ll recall last time our intrepid midwives mobilized against a scabies outbreak and took in a badly shaken Miss Higgins after her home was burgled. An overwhelmed single mother and a heartbroken young couple were also recipients of the
Call the Midwife
Season 11 of Call the Midwife has started off, as usual, with the promise of spring and some heartbreaking moments as well. Last week, Dr. Turner and the midwives rallied around a couple in need of a fresh start. Meanwhile, Nurse Crane offered her empathy and support to a woman