Call the Midwife

2012•14 series•Entertainment / Drama
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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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As Poplar prepares for Christmas, the nuns help care for a group of Chinese orphans.

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Episode 1. Two new nuns join Nonnatus House as the midwives deal with a shocking emergency.

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Episode 2. Lucille helps elderly hoarder Clarice who is struggling to keep her independence.

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Episode 3. Valerie helps a struggling mother accept her son's birth defect.

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Episode 4. Trixie's friend is devastated to discover she is pregnant.

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Episode 5. A new cervical screening clinic sees a young woman diagnosed with an intersex condition.

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Episode 6. Mother Mildred returns and helps a docker family tackle end-stage pneumoconiosis.

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Episode 7. Sister Frances attends her first solo birth and Trixie consoles a patient with an STD.

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Episode 8. Sister Hilda helps a young cancer patient and the Turners prepare to say goodbye to May.

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