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00:00Once upon a time, the season that is new today, was old, and closed, and packed away.
00:11Advent had erupted into Christmas, darkness retreated in the face of light,
00:18and the wheel of the year kept turning.
00:22But once again we gather, as the sky grows cold.
00:27The leaves have tumbled, the fresh snow falls.
00:32Pages turn as new doors open, time and time and time again.
00:45Medical supplies packed and labelled and ready for hand delivery to the brunch house.
00:50A biscuits clinic? You think you should write on it in Chinese?
00:54Hong Kong is a British colony. I'm quite sure everyone is competent in our mother tongue.
01:00I detect a want of enthusiasm in your visit.
01:04When adventure beckons, you should embrace the cook.
01:08This trip is a wonderful opportunity for Violet to see her son.
01:12And the sisters at the clinic will be so grateful for these supplies.
01:17I'll just be glad of a chance to run an errand, if I'm honest with you, Sister Julian.
01:21There's talk of cocktail parties.
01:24We're all a pair of nose reindeer, had a pair of shiny nose.
01:32And if you ever saw it, you will even say it blows.
01:38All of the other reindeer, used to love and call him names.
01:45Kevin, I've told you before, stay inside the lines.
01:51The lines represent the edges of the lorry.
01:57You two, Teddy, we don't want you falling off the flute and getting run over.
02:02Do you think they're going to need bigger rolls for their mouths, Mrs Turner?
02:06I'm worried that they're going to be deprived of oxygen.
02:11Oh, please, please, don't anyone stop singing on my account.
02:16Hello, Diane.
02:17You'll go down in history.
02:25Oh, now, pack.
02:27What do we say when a very important lady, like Mrs Buckle, our mayor,
02:31is kind enough to come and visit us?
02:33Good evening, Mrs Buckle.
02:37Thank you, pack.
02:38Now, off you pop and work on your knots.
02:41It's all set out on the tables.
02:43One piece of cord between two.
02:47I've bought a dozen pairs of brown tights for the reindeer.
02:51I managed to get them on a special order.
02:54But you'll not get lads of this age to wear tights, Mrs Buckle.
02:57Well, you'll have to tell them that it's in a good course.
03:00I mean, the whole Christmas carnival is in a good course.
03:04Erm, elastic, black felt squares, erm, sleigh bells and WD-40.
03:13What's that for? To oil the sled runners?
03:16Fred needs to do the paper shop bell before we leave.
03:19Mrs Buckle, go.
03:21Go.
03:22Go to Hong Kong.
03:24And do not give the Christmas carnival a second thought.
03:27Oh, Mrs Buckle!
03:39I'm sorry.
03:40Oh!
03:41I'm sorry, Mrs Turner.
03:42I'm not quite sure which way is up this evening.
03:45I wondered if you could take a tiny parcel to Hong Kong for me.
03:49It's a letter and some photographs for May's mother.
03:53We haven't heard from her for over a year.
03:56But the sisters say they still see her from time to time with her little boy.
04:00Of course, I'll take it.
04:02It must all be, well, such a worry.
04:04I used to fret about my Derek when he was in the Navy.
04:08But now he's in the Hong Kong police.
04:11They have to wear guns, is his turn.
04:14It makes me nervous.
04:16You'll be back by Christmas with wonderful memories.
04:20And we've got Reggie coming home.
04:22I'm already hoping that it will be snowing for him.
04:25Whoever guesses the mystery ingredient in this year's chutney
04:32gets to eat the first mince pie and make a wish.
04:35I'm getting definite top notes of tamarind.
04:39Have you been on another cooking course?
04:41No.
04:42Matthew took her to Antigua for their wedding anniversary.
04:44Oh!
04:45It's mango!
04:46Ah!
04:47Yes!
04:48It's good to hear you're moving back to London, lass.
04:53Matthew has to stay in New York until autumn.
04:55And John T's starting pre-prep at Easter.
04:58I needed to get him home and settled.
05:01Sister Julianne, I will be free for midwifery duty
05:04should you be short-staffed.
05:05We very seldom are at present.
05:08Things have been remarkably quiet.
05:10I have offered her a receptionist role
05:12at my new osteopathy practice on Harley Street,
05:14but no dice, apparently.
05:16You're only there four hours a week.
05:17Nevertheless, his couch sees a constant parade of celebrities,
05:21by all accounts.
05:22Celebrities!
05:23Coming to you with their crooked necks.
05:25I hope you're going to name names.
05:27Professional discretion is my watchword.
05:30Have a mince pie.
05:39Fred!
05:40Have you seen the time?
05:41We're going to miss the plane!
05:42The party was running late,
05:44and I didn't want to disappoint the kiddies.
05:46Get in the cab.
05:47You can change out who you've got costume on the way.
05:49Michael Hangos!
05:51There he is.
05:52There he is.
05:53there he is.
05:54We are going to play.
05:56Thank you,роде.
05:57There he is.
05:58Yes.
06:00If you Jessie and ho тощie son,
06:02if you are ill,
06:03the glue,
06:04the glue is lying on the ground.
06:07Japanese word ises liveage.
06:09home.
06:10was
06:17Please, let me knock my hanky and put it on my head, Vi.
06:30No, we'll get you a nice, smart Panama hat
06:34as soon as we've left these parcels with the sisters.
06:38We're looking for a sign that says Hibiscus Street.
06:43Derek says it should be written in Chinese as well as English.
06:47Shh.
06:59There it is.
07:03Stand up.
07:04Come here.
07:05Stand up.
07:06Come here.
07:07Come here.
07:12Don't be careful.
07:13Come here.
07:14Don't come here.
07:15The burning has collapsed. Stay back, please.
07:18The burning has collapsed. Please stay back.
07:22Kido!
07:42There must be fatalities.
07:45Fire!
07:49I'm sorry to intercept you, Sister,
07:51but Mrs. Buckle has just telephoned from Hong Kong.
07:56It's about the branch house.
08:00How on earth can an entire building just collapse?
08:03I've never heard of anything so colonial.
08:05There were rumours that the ground in that area was unstable.
08:09But whatever the cause, it's the consequences that are truly shocking.
08:13Sister Alice and Sister David were both killed.
08:16Oh, no.
08:17Along with the doctor who worked with them.
08:19Some of the children in the nursery did not survive.
08:22Meanwhile, the maternity ward has been destroyed.
08:26The sisters are homeless.
08:27And the people who depend upon them are scattered across Kowloon.
08:31Once they have overcome this, they will need somewhere to live and carry on their work.
08:35Now, they need a doctor.
08:37They need nurses and they need midwives.
08:41In short, Sister, they need us.
08:47I keep thinking we should be making Christmas trees for the carnival, not palm trees.
08:52The theme of the float is a Caribbean Christmas.
08:55There's going to be a steel band playing carols and a gospel choir.
09:01Are these the palm trees?
09:07Mm-hmm.
09:08I'm starting to think we should be making Jacarandas.
09:11So, what's this letter you want to talk to me about?
09:18If ten days on the ground in Hong Kong means that we can get them through this crisis,
09:22I am more than happy to put a locum in the surgery.
09:25And, Sister Veronica, you must go.
09:27You were three years at that ranch house.
09:29You're the only one with even a glancing knowledge of the way things work out there.
09:33I will go wherever I'm told. I will do whatever I'm told.
09:37Very well.
09:38Dr. Turner will go, as will Nurse Crane, Sister Veronica, and myself.
09:45So, this man, this Mr. Fisher, who writes with an educated hand from an address in Belgravia,
09:52wants to rent this flat with immediate effect?
09:56For a period of time that he is unable to specify.
09:58For an amount that we are free to name.
10:01You'll call me ruthless if you want to.
10:04But, Pastor Robinson, what I make of it is money for the church.
10:09Running a church is always going to cost somebody something.
10:12I'll find somewhere else to lay my head for a week or two.
10:16The truth is I'm more worried about me missing you over there
10:19than I am about me being missed over here.
10:22You were vital to everything when we were in South Africa.
10:25And I came home with Teddy on the way.
10:27Look, Timothy is quite old enough to hold the fort if you came to Hong Kong.
10:34He's home on study leave for a month.
10:37Patrick, I'm needed here.
10:38That's the last box, Ms. Higgins.
10:48Dr. Elise Watkiss is our first choice for locum cover.
10:51She's young but has excellent GP experience.
10:54I will attend to the necessary paperwork.
10:57Timothy, you might call the pharmacy regarding the export forms whilst I see to this.
11:01Yes.
11:02Yes, Ms. Higgins.
11:03The posters have turned out an absolute treat.
11:06I found a photo that must have been taken years ago and you'll never guess what.
11:10You can see it clear as day now it's blown up life-size.
11:14Dad!
11:16Mom, look.
11:17Oh, it's me.
11:18As a baby.
11:20Before we even knew her.
11:23I would recognize her anywhere.
11:25Come on, ladies.
11:26Dig as deep as you can.
11:27Merry Christmas.
11:29Merry Christmas.
11:30Thank you very much.
11:32Every penny counts.
11:33Don't be shy.
11:42Some of these clothes are ours, Mom.
11:44Yes.
11:45I went up into the loft and there were bags full of woolies that went back years.
11:50This was mine.
11:51I remember this.
11:52You had it when you first arrived from China.
11:58Would you rather we didn't send it off?
12:01The radio reporter says, ready when you are.
12:06Ten-year-old May Turner has a special reason for helping with the appeal today.
12:09Can you tell the listeners what it is, May?
12:12I was born there.
12:14A photograph of May, aged 12 months and held safely in the arms of a Nunatus nun, features on posters for the rescue mission.
12:23As the Nunatus sisters are popular headies to help, do you have a message for people listening, May?
12:28Please give all you can.
12:34Please give all you can.
12:38Because...
12:43Some of the children there have nothing.
12:45Sister Hilda will be joining the Nunatus party at Heathrow.
12:53At least that's only one plane we have to meet, Fred.
12:57Derek, you're eating the lime marmalade.
13:01I'm not going to lie to you.
13:02I've laid awake at night dreaming of this stuff.
13:05Thanks for bringing it.
13:06And the mustard.
13:07Proper taste of home.
13:09It's even got English written on the tin.
13:12Fred and I were wondering about popping over to Kowloon to see if there's anything we can take the poor sisters.
13:18Mum, Kowloon isn't the East End.
13:20Nobody pops over there.
13:22Not to that bit of it, anyway.
13:24Hibiscus Street's about as dodgy as it gets.
13:26Drugs, prostitution, smuggling.
13:28Makes you wonder why the sisters are so keen to stay there.
13:32Well, it's the same as popular, innit?
13:34Bad things happen. Good people sort you out.
13:36Best people in the world couldn't sort Triad out.
13:39What is Triad, Derek?
13:41Organised crime.
13:43It's invisible and it's everywhere.
13:47I got used to Tim not being here because he's at medical school.
13:50What I can't get used to is him not being here because he's in the pub.
13:56Mum and Dad.
13:59You should be in bed, Tillie Mint.
14:02We've been talking.
14:03It's very late.
14:05We've all been talking.
14:06And we all want you to go to Hong Kong, Mum.
14:09Do you?
14:11Yes.
14:12And I want you to take this.
14:14And that was confirmation that you can refer any health visitor business over to Miss Haynes at the Stepney Clinic.
14:30If I say so myself, the plan is impregnable.
14:33You, meanwhile, are the only one I trust with my Rolodex.
14:37I will guard it with my life.
14:39And Nurse Aylwood considers herself on call at any time should you require her support with any administration.
14:45I'm also available for midwifery duty. You only have to pick up the phone.
14:49Thank you. It's most unlikely that it will come to that.
14:51This is a mercy mission. It's also a mercy dash and we'll be home soon.
15:01By the time we all gather here again, we will have left our friends in Hong Kong in a place of hope and of comfort and of joy.
15:14Thank you, all of you, for helping us to help them.
15:35I am reminded of spit fires streaming overhead.
15:41Streaming overhead, disguise and fights, half known, but undetermined.
15:50They'll all be home by Christmas.
15:53That was our motto.
15:56In a different war.
16:06I still don't like the idea of you living in a bed seat.
16:09Like it'd just come off the boat.
16:12It's a better bed seat than I had in those days.
16:14It's got fitted carpets and hot water.
16:39Oh, you, I take it, are Pastor C.A. Robinson of the Shining Tabernacle Church of God?
16:48And you must be Mr. Fisher.
16:51Please, come in.
16:52We got rid of the electric meter to stop the lights going out when people were testifying.
17:01And this is the bedroom.
17:03We put up thick curtains so the trains won't bother you in the night.
17:20Well, the trains won't bother me at any time of day.
17:43I thought you'd be saying lords in your room, Sister Monica-Joan.
18:06In Hong Kong, they will be saying the afternoon office.
18:09And the psalm does not vary, no matter from which corner of the globe we offer up our praise.
18:19I shall raise my voice with yours and theirs.
18:39Keep the feeling of us here.
18:43Praise the Lord.
18:49Praise the Lord.
18:54Praise the Lord.
19:19To be honest, Dr. Turner, you just have to keep your nerve.
19:24I haven't lost my nerve, Fred. I have lost sight of the van containing all of the medical supplies and the donations.
19:31I told the driver at the airport I said they were to follow immediately behind us.
19:36I wonder what you were saying. You sounded commendably forceful.
19:40We just have to hope you said what you thought you said.
19:43If we have any problems whatsoever, my Derek has told me which police station to go to and to use his name.
19:50Babe!
19:52Ah, hi Hannah!
19:54That's one of our sisters.
20:08Sister Eve!
20:14I greet you in the Lord Jesus Christ's name.
20:18We greet you likewise.
20:19There is much to be considered.
20:29Seven days.
20:34I have them upstairs.
20:36Sick nun.
20:37Sick children.
20:39And we could not be more grateful.
20:42See that term in Cantonese?
20:45I know.
20:47Not important.
20:48Trouble.
20:48I know also.
20:50You have trouble.
20:51Come.
20:52Come.
20:52Help.
21:03We can't all be living here.
21:10Oh, what?
21:11I can hear the child crying.
21:12I believe Sister Simon will need to go to hospital and have her wrist reset under anaesthetic.
21:37And I suspect Sister Prudence has a broken collarbone.
21:42We're going to have to stand them all down and send them for hospital treatment.
21:45When did the diarrhea start?
21:50Before the cough or after?
21:52Doctor, I know what ails me.
21:55I have tuberculosis.
21:57Are you sure?
21:59Would you simply fear it?
22:01Miliary tuberculosis.
22:02The worst kind.
22:04Tuberculosis is so very contagious.
22:06It has spread from my lungs throughout my body.
22:10I have little time left to live.
22:13When were you diagnosed?
22:14The day the clinic collapsed, I was told by our doctor, Dr. Lee.
22:21I took myself out for a walk whilst she arranged for me to go to a sanatorium.
22:28And when I returned, there was no clinic.
22:33And no doctor.
22:37No bed in a sanatorium.
22:40And no choice but to carry on handling the children.
22:43You're a kind, nurse.
22:59Just doing my job, Raph.
23:00At least the main treatment for pre-eclampsia is bed rest.
23:06Both these ladies have had that rudimentary though the beds may be.
23:11Once we've unpacked, I'll ask them to oblige me with some samples and get the dipsticks out.
23:16This is infected.
23:20I don't think it's been properly cleaned.
23:23Is it any wonder with them all huddled up here without even the barest essentials?
23:28Not to mention ignoring their own injuries.
23:30If you ask me, the sisters work miracles enough, just keeping everyone alive.
23:38And now it's our turn.
23:41This friend reminds me of a cash and carry.
23:44There must be a gross of tin bamboo shoots in this box and enough soy sauce to float about with it.
23:51Do you reckon Mrs Marr would mind if we move stuff about?
23:55We'll have to ask her, Fred.
23:57I know she's a Christian convert and she has been very accommodating, but these are her premises.
24:04I need the labelled crates and medical supplies, Fred.
24:07We have to run urgent TB tests on everyone.
24:09Over here, Doc.
24:10Excellent.
24:12Excellent.
24:12Excellent.
24:13Excellent.
24:14Excellent.
24:15Excellent.
24:16Excellent.
24:17No.
24:18No, no, no, no.
24:20These have been forced open.
24:21It's all gone.
24:25Is that the new Vista Sanatorium?
24:30Ngoy, I have a very sick lady who requires urgent admission.
24:37Ngoy Sai.
24:38You have been charity itself, Mrs Marr.
24:41At our home.
24:42You took the sisters in and gave them food and shelter.
24:45Only to rescue.
24:47You are rescue.
24:48Now you're all gone.
24:50But we have nowhere else to go.
24:52We will find a new clinic.
24:54We will find a new convent.
24:56But we cannot do that today.
24:59It's not safe.
25:00Why is it not safe?
25:07You stay.
25:08Stay now.
25:09But go, sir.
25:10And use back door.
25:11Not front.
25:12Linnata's house.
25:13Midwife speaking.
25:14Can I bring my wife to the maternity home, please?
25:17Of course, sir.
25:18What name is it?
25:19She says what name?
25:20Diane Mary Edgar.
25:21Diane Mary Edgar.
25:22Diane Mary Edgar.
25:26I made myself a cup of coffee, Miss Higgins.
25:27Do you want?
25:28Uh, thank you.
25:29I generally keep myself in check until elevens is.
25:32Um, your white coat should be hanging on the back of the door of the consulting room.
25:34Would you like me to fetch it?
25:35It's fine.
25:36I don't need it yet.
25:37We've got bad coughs coming in at half past nine, in ten past ten, and at eleven, all in the over fifty age group.
25:42Have these patients been referred to the East London Chest Clinic?
25:44I'm sure they have.
25:45I'm sure they have.
25:46I've got a lot of coughs coming in at half past nine, in ten past ten, and at eleven, all in the over fifty age group.
25:49Have these patients been referred to the East London Chest Clinic?
25:50I'm sure they have, if Dr Turner considers that appropriate.
25:52Excellent.
25:53I'll have a quick rummage through their notes just to make sure.
25:56The files are through here, aren't they?
25:57They are indeed.
25:58Um, no fluids in the filing room, if you'd be so kind.
26:02And I can't.
26:03I can't.
26:04It's not.
26:05I'm sorry.
26:06I've got a little bit of coughs coming in at half past nine, in ten past ten, and at eleven, all in the over fifty age group.
26:10Have these patients been referred to the East London Chest Clinic?
26:12I'm sure they have.
26:13If Dr Turner considers that appropriate.
26:14Excellent.
26:15I'll have a quick rummage through their notes just to make sure.
26:16The files are through here, aren't they?
26:17They are indeed.
26:18perfect work you certainly know what you're doing oh I feel terrible about bringing those reindeer
26:34it's I'd never gotten finished otherwise good morning may I help you my name's Queenie Forsythe
26:41my daughter's in child bed we arrived last night there's six massive pushes I've done now
26:49it's not budging nurse let's get you back on the bed and then I can examine you we'll soon have a
26:57better idea of your progress I'm telling you now there hasn't been any this one's not playing the
27:02same game as my others
27:04midwife's calling
27:21good gracious it's like the first day of the sales in here
27:26can we open one of those windows and let in a bit of air
27:29how long have you been feeling that you need to push check
27:32five hours five hours she's bananas okay honey until we know what's what you must not push do
27:45you hear me you must not push I am not a bossy woman but I am being bossy now
27:51how much did your other babies weigh Diane seven pounds six and eight and nine
27:59Darren was like giving birth to a sofa this one feels like a ruddy free piece sweet and a coffee
28:04table I think baby might be on the bonnie side but I don't think he's read the book that tells him
28:10how to line up nicely for delivery doctor could you pop across and speak to dr. Watkins it's ROT
28:18a right occipital transverse I'm quite a big baby but my dad dr. Turner always attends in the event of any transverse
28:31position well I'd better come through then that poor girl started pushing long long before she was ready as she damaged her cervix
28:38it's not torn but it's so swollen I can actually see it at the entrance to her vagina
28:44no baby's going to get through that unless we bring that swelling down we need ice ice
28:51I think I saw a refrigerator if we don't make this work she'll need a cesarean section
28:58Diane don't cry there are all sorts of things we can do to get things moving
29:04would Dr. Turner try the Von Tooth's do you think no he always uses forceps in a transverse position
29:11in which case we'll continue with trial of labour
29:17we'll transfer you to St. Cuthbert's if we get no joy
29:23Timothy this won't do
29:35Nenata's house if you pursue midwives they are all abroad
29:40or otherwise at large
29:42is there nobody there at all
29:44nurse Clifford has a multi-parous woman in obstructed labour
29:47and the locum doesn't know how to use forceps
29:50supply the details and I will provide the advice
29:55you're going to be grateful to me in the long run
29:58but I'm not going to lie to you and say this ice pack
30:01is the nicest thing you ever had slip underneath your covers
30:04are you allowed to have things like that?
30:09I don't get the chance very often
30:11it's freezing
30:17so it's your right for being disrespectful
30:20Diane we need you head down and with your bottom in the air
30:28this position will stretch your pelvic ligaments
30:32and give the baby enough room to adjust its head position
30:35I hope you have that on good foray
30:37the best authority you can possibly imagine
30:39let her have a little nap
30:44is there anything else wrong with her?
30:47I don't think so
30:48but Queenie
30:49women need skilled help when they give them birth
30:51especially when it's their first
30:53I took her to the doctor when she first knew that she'd fallen
30:56we were up in the far north then
30:58you forget where you've been
31:00I haven't decided where you're going
31:03and besides I went to the hospital with me last one
31:07I wouldn't venture that again
31:09I'll examine her
31:11let's hope it's worked
31:14I just want to lie down
31:17baby has shifted position Diane
31:19all we need to do now is make things with gravity
31:22I'm gonna have to push
31:27that's alright Diane
31:28you give it everything you've got
31:30this is the bit where I'm glad I did the enema
31:33I fear verbal instructions alone
31:40would not suffice
31:42verbal instruction has done more than you could possibly imagine
31:45baby's head is beginning to crown
31:47the swelling has gone down Marie
31:52but I need you to do exactly as I say
31:54listen to nurse Hyland
31:56on the next one I want your chin on your chest
31:58and a slow quiet steady push
32:01slow
32:03slow
32:04slow
32:05quiet
32:06steady
32:07we've got the head
32:15come on you can do it
32:18you can do it
32:19keep it coming
32:20keep it coming
32:21keep it coming
32:28is it a boy or a girl?
32:30I'm afraid I can't tell
32:31I've got something in my eye
32:36can you see sister Monica Joan?
32:38I can see every aspect of the miracle
32:41you have a daughter
32:43this stinging will end soon Marie
32:53just breathe
32:54just breathe
32:55just breathe
32:56and we have a head
32:58stand down honey
33:00we also have my cornea
33:04the midwife says we need an ambulance
33:09go on
33:10go on
33:40you have a little boy
33:41Marie
33:43and a horn
33:44all will be well
33:45Marie
33:46I promise you
33:47all will be well
33:59he must be baptised
34:00now
34:01there will be a chaplain at the hospital Queenie
34:03this is his home
34:04and he is not leaving his mother's arms until he is baptised
34:07well
34:12Dr Watkiss's curriculum vitae stated very clearly she is fully trained in obstetrics
34:19she has now revealed that in almost five years of GP practice she has only delivered two babies
34:24neither with any complications
34:26that's the way it is these days
34:28we're all trained in obs and gynae
34:30but the expectation is that almost every baby will be born in hospital
34:34Dr Watkiss wanted to continue trial of labour but we couldn't countermand her because she is more senior
34:39and next time we may not have Sister Monica Joan to call on
34:43any wisdom I have was hard won in the days when there might have been no doctor to send for
34:49we were wise out of necessity
34:51and you are skilled in your own right
34:55in your own right
34:57nevertheless
34:58I will not
34:59permit this to happen again
35:01I am sending for Nurse Elwood
35:07Lord Jesus Christ
35:09who took little children in your arms and blessed them
35:12hold this infant Luke Michael in your matchless love
35:16today and always
35:18fill his mother and father with your peace
35:21and cherish him according to thy will
35:24Amen
35:26Amen
35:27Amen
35:28Amen
35:29Amen
35:38I keep thinking
35:39May's mother was a nanny for a British service family
35:42Is it worth asking if the army have any record of her?
35:46She would have just been cheap casual labour
35:51After she lost her job she must have been desperate
35:56And where would desperation take you in a city of this size?
36:01We have to find out
36:04Esther Tan gave us the greatest gift we've ever had
36:08And we can't abandon her
36:11No, we can't
36:13Sister Hilda
36:21Are you lying awake for the same reason that I'm lying awake?
36:26I don't know
36:28Well
36:29I'm lying awake
36:30Because we've flown halfway around the world on a rescue mission
36:33And if we get thrown out of this place by Mrs. Ma
36:36We're going to be in as much need of rescue as anyone else
36:41Injured
36:42And the six sisters are leaving in the morning
36:45Sister Edith to the sanatorium
36:48And the other sisters to the Roman Catholic hospital
36:50We have orphans to care for
36:52And expectant mothers
36:54Any one of whom could have caught TB
36:56And out in the street
36:58There are prostitutes and addicts who will look to us for help
37:01I know there are
37:03But we will pray
37:04And we will wait to see what love can do
37:08But we will cure one of our bodies
37:09We will pray
37:10Let them enter into the house
37:11And we will pray
37:12Thank you
37:14I'm not a miss
38:46I've never handled a multiple pregnancy system.
38:49Well, there's always a first time.
38:51Dr. Watkiss and I will call ourselves cubicle one, send them all to us and we'll see how we do.
39:03Hello?
39:05Queenie!
39:07Have you brought Marie?
39:09She's still above in the hospital with the baby.
39:11He's after taking the antibiotics.
39:14She's doing grand.
39:17It's me that needs to see you.
39:19Are you expecting, Queenie?
39:23Under this coat and having me ninth.
39:26You don't shout about it when you get to my age.
39:30But I heard what you and the other nurse was saying.
39:35I need skilled help.
39:37If you want it, we'll make sure you get it.
39:39I do want it.
39:41My last was a stillborn.
39:43Even though I had it in hospital.
39:46I'm so sorry that happened to you, Queenie.
39:50We're going to walk beside you now.
39:53I'll start by filling in your co-op card.
40:06Oh!
40:09A tin of carnation milk, if you please.
40:13Ah, and a quarter of humbugs, if you'll be so kind.
40:19No, no, no, no, no, no.
40:20Perhaps just two ounces.
40:21I do not consume them in any conspicuous place.
40:24You don't want them all turning sticky at the bottom of the bag?
40:28No.
40:36Oh!
40:37I thought I heard that.
40:40It catches.
40:42Isn't it?
40:45I think Mr. Buckle was supposed to oil it before he went away.
40:49He must have forgotten.
40:49But then I...
40:52I thought I'd imagined it.
40:55Ha, ha, ha.
40:56But now...
40:58It catches.
41:03It's all very well and good complaining that all the people who can deliver babies have gone
41:07to Hong Kong.
41:08I'm more concerned that all the people who can sew have gone to Hong Kong.
41:11You're always waving your magic wand and producing costumes, Geoffrey.
41:15And no one's going to see the details.
41:17It's for a carnival.
41:18Everything's going to be moving past at speed.
41:20Well, moving past.
41:22I'm an ideas man.
41:24And a contacts man.
41:25I'm not a needle and thread man.
41:27And it was not my idea to dress up the midwives of Nonata's house
41:30as angels complete with ostrich feather wings.
41:33I thought we could do it with just a bit of cotton and sticking.
41:35Like Rosalind in our Christmas trees.
41:37They're palm trees.
41:39I heard rumours the sewing machine was out.
41:41Angela just tried on a spoon costume and ripped it.
41:46You look like you could do it with a snowball, honey.
41:48Do you want some maraschino cherry in it?
41:50I'll have to.
41:51What sort of wounds have they taught you to suture at medical school?
41:55Oh, my highlights include closure of incision after two appendectomies.
41:59And I did a rugby play scalp once.
42:02Needle, thread.
42:03If you want a cocktail, you're going to have to earn it.
42:09This is not the way I intended my service to end.
42:22It's a patient in a sanatorium.
42:25You have given all you can, Sister Edith.
42:30That is enough and more.
42:32It was the children I lived for and loved the best.
42:37I remember your daughter well.
42:40May?
42:41Oh, she's ten years old now.
42:44And so many children pass through the orphanage.
42:47I took medicine to her mother, Esther.
42:55Three months ago, she was living out on Tau Street, number 122.
43:01The numbers daubed on on the door.
43:04Sister Edith, do you think she might still be there?
43:07She was there once, and not too long ago.
43:12Beyond that, I cannot say.
43:13The sooner we are able to move into the premises, the better it will be for the people in our care.
43:37I can even overlook the pigeon infestation for a small reduction in the rent.
43:43Down payment will be 2,000 Hong Kong dollars.
43:47The sisters have the funds for that, and there will be ongoing support from a number of private philanthropists,
43:54plus the Rotary Club of Hong Kong.
43:59Very well.
44:00We shall prepare the documentation.
44:04I'm going.
44:06Let's hope the army can help with our medical supplies.
44:11The collapse of that clinic barely made the news here.
44:13And of course, we're delighted to assist now that we know there's a res commission on.
44:17The sisters need all the help they can get, sir.
44:19It's not disinterest because buildings fall down all the time.
44:22It's avoidance.
44:23Because it's going to happen more and more.
44:26Everybody knows that, and there's nothing we can do.
44:28Because of the overcrowding?
44:29Because they just keep building upwards on insecure foundations.
44:33One misplaced mudslide could obliterate Kowloon.
44:35At least we can improve on the human side of things.
44:40Morning, Major.
44:41Morning, Corporal.
44:43I'm coming with my best party manners and a begging bowl.
44:46Really, it's extraordinarily kind of you to accompany us, Mrs. Buckle.
45:02I thought it may be necessary to tell untruths, sister.
45:11And I thought if that was the case, then better me than you.
45:14Mrs. Buckle, have you told untruths?
45:17No.
45:18I may have slightly preempted one or two realities, although I'm sure the Rotary Club will be only too pleased to opt this court.
45:28Once I make contact and explain the situation.
45:33I don't even ask about the private philanthropists.
45:36One of them is me.
45:37And I'm sure there will be others.
45:40And I'm sure there will be others.
45:40It's not just the TB kits and penicillin I'm grateful to the Major for.
46:00It's use of the Army labs for processing the tests.
46:05It's all well and good, the sisters having faith in God.
46:09But I reckon the military beat him every time.
46:12The military is certainly better organised.
46:15Well, I suppose they have to be the same as the police, especially with all this triad malarkey.
46:21Just like the Kray Twins, and then some.
46:24I've stitched wounds inflicted by the Kray Twins.
46:27They never bothered us.
46:29More than an artist's house.
46:31In fact, the sisters were revered.
46:34I don't reckon the triad revered the sisters here.
46:37If they did, they would help them.
46:39I think you're right.
46:41You know, violence, Derek says, there's somebody triad in every street that people have to answer to or pay.
46:50And Mrs. Ma is living in fear of someone.
46:59Oh, I'm searching for a young lady called Esther Tang.
47:07She used to live at this address and has a young boy about the same age as this little one.
47:12I wonder if you or your wife might know where she moved to?
47:24She has gone.
47:25She will not return.
47:26Miss, Miss, Esther left when we could go.
47:36Did she say where she was going?
47:38She was sick and she was afraid.
47:41Don't look for her, please.
47:43Can I ask your name?
47:46Grace.
47:48Don't look.
47:49Don't look.
48:19Don't look.
48:49Joyce, Trixie's supposed to be doing our make-up, but there's no sign of her.
49:03She's not the only one who knows what to do with a bit of eye shadow.
49:06And if she doesn't turn up on time, our float is leaving without her.
49:10Isn't it going to look a bit feeble with just the three of us?
49:13We are midwives.
49:15Not the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
49:17Pack, pack, pack.
49:18You are all to visit the toilets now and come straight back here as soon as you have washed your hands.
49:27Now, Harry, who has arrived from university just in time to help us tonight,
49:32is now going to hand out cough candy to help us all with our singing.
49:37Come on!
49:38Come on!
49:40Come on, I'm going, Sarah.
49:42Me?
49:43I'm going, I'm going.
49:44Promise me you'll always have me home for Christmas.
49:46We're going to be late, Geoffrey.
49:51If you were content with boarding a carnival float, wearing improperly attached angel wings,
49:56well, I can assure you I wasn't.
49:58Oh, for pity's sake.
50:00Pitching this pram through snow is like dicing with insanity.
50:05What's that?
50:06It's a walking stick.
50:07Oh, it's actually rather elegant.
50:11I think it's got a solid silver top.
50:14Oh, no, no, sis, I know this.
50:17This belongs to one of my Harley Street patients, Maurice Templemore.
50:20He was an enormous film star when the talkies first came out.
50:23What's it doing here in Poplar?
50:24Also, if there's one thing I do know, if you find a walking stick lying on the ground,
50:29you're likely to find its owner nearby and lying in a similar position.
50:33Sir?
50:34No.
50:35Maurice Templemore cannot be in Poplar.
50:38I doubt he even knows where Poplar is.
50:39He must have been burgled.
50:41Sir?
50:43Sir?
50:43Over here.
50:45I'm terribly sorry.
50:50I seem to have rather overstretched myself.
50:56Mr. Templemore.
50:57Please don't call me that.
50:59Not you.
51:45What are you doing in this insalubrious part of town?
52:02You're in the same insalubrious part of town.
52:06You're not well. I know that because you said so when I was sorting out your fibrositis.
52:11A blood disorder, you told me.
52:13What kind of blood disorder?
52:16The malignant one.
52:19But I didn't tell him that.
52:24I was born in this flat when the paper shop was a greengrocer.
52:31My father came all the way from Russia straight off the boats.
52:36All he knew was beets and turnips, and so he made a life from that.
52:41And you made a life out of different things entirely.
52:44Yes.
52:45Little Manny Fisher became Maurice Templemore.
52:50New York, Hollywood, and then home.
52:54Well, London's West End.
52:57Instead of the East End, and a life of comfortable obscurity.
53:02But everyone had gone.
53:09Your family had gone.
53:17Here, here.
53:18All manner of humanity that I once loved had gone.
53:28So I'd come home to die.
53:30Mr. Templemore, you live in Belgravia.
53:32Not anymore.
53:34And I'm no longer Mr. Templemore.
53:38There I truly was.
53:40He needs medical care, sis.
53:47And I'll arrange that in the morning.
53:49But at this precise moment in time, we have a carnival to catch.
53:52Come along.
53:53I'll be in your place.
53:55I used to admit we...
53:56I used to admit we...
53:58Oh, no.
54:02No.
54:04A baby.
54:05Left to be found.
54:06This happened all the time at the hibiscus clinic.
54:17A girl.
54:19A dog push at more than two days old.
54:22And the cord looks to have been chewed through.
54:24Oh, my baby.
54:26Oh, my baby.
54:28Oh, it's okay.
54:30Oh, dear.
54:31Oh, dear.
54:32That was what you like.
54:32I told you, give me your money, give me your money.
54:35Give me your money.
54:36Give me your money.
54:37Oh, my baby.
55:01What do you mean we can't have a house on half Lotus Street?
55:12We have the keys and we have paid the deposit.
55:16It is not suitable.
55:17It's extremely suitable.
55:19And we can move there immediately with the children and our adult patients.
55:23The man who owns the building say no.
55:25Give me the keys.
55:31If we are to return them, it can only be in exchange for the money we have paid.
55:42Give me the keys.
55:46Keys.
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