Call the Midwife

201214 seriesEntertainment / Drama
Available on
BBC One

Adapted by Heidi Thomas from the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth, this drama series is a moving look at midwifery and family life in the late 1950s and early 1960s in East End London. Initially the series follows newly qualified midwife Jenny Lee, who is surprised to find herself at a convent alongside nuns who are working as midwives and nurses in the local community. As the series progresses, the nurses navigate revolutionary changes in healthcare as well as social changes in post-war Britain.

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The Nonnatus team go to South Africa to try to save a clinic which is in danger of closure.

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Episode 1. The team reunite but all is not well when a change of management shakes up Nonnatus House.

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Episode 2. An explosion at the docks brings heartache to the people of Poplar.

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Episode 3. The maternity home faces closure and Barbara cares for a Chinese first-time mother.

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Episode 4. An expectant mother with money worries enters into a painful arrangement with her cousin.

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Episode 5. Nonnatus House welcomes a new recruit, and a young man captures Fred and Violet's hearts.

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Episode 6. Valerie Dyer cares for a pregnant Somali woman whose culture has some unfamiliar aspects.

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Episode 7. The legacy of thalidomide becomes apparent and Nurse Crane faces an unexpected crisis.

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Episode 8. A wedding is hastily arranged following an unexpected turn of events.

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