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S 14 2025 Christmas Special Part1

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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.
05:49Yesterday, in the middle of the day,
05:50takes its legs.
05:51After all, one was to cry.
05:52What was that,
05:53what was that,
05:54the duck was our chance.
05:55Mr.oko Pjotje was furious at night.
05:59Mr. Spa at night 1901.
06:00Mr. Moody River- COMEarter.
06:01Frau-ack- hesitated.
06:02Please, let me knock my hanky and put it on my head, Vi.
06:30No, we'll get you a nice, smart Panama hat as 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.
06:59There it is.
07:00The burning has collapsed. Stay back, please.
07:18The burning has collapsed. Please stay back.
07:22Kido!
07:22All must be fatalities.
07:43I'm sorry to intercept you, sister, but Mrs. Buckle has just telephoned from Hong Kong.
07:56It's about the branch house.
08:00How would an entire building just collapse? I'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.
08:14Sister 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. The 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.
08:38They need nurses and they need midwives.
08:41In short, Sister, they need us.
08:48I keep thinking we should be making Christmas trees for the carnival, not palm trees.
08:52The theme of the float is a Caribbean Christmas.
08:56There's going to be a steel band playing carols and a gospel choir.
09:00I keep thinking we should be making Jacarandas.
09:10So, what's this letter you want to talk to me about?
09:15If ten days on the ground in Hong Kong means that we can get them through this crisis, I am more than happy to put a locum in the surgery.
09:25And, Sister Veronica, you must go. You were three years at that ranch house. You'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, wants to rent this flat with immediate effect?
09:55For a period of time that he is unable to specify. For an amount that we are free to name.
10:01You'll call me ruthless if you want to. But, Pastor Robinson, what I make of it is money for the church.
10:09Running a church is always going to cost somebody something. I'll find somewhere else to lay my head for a week or two.
10:15The truth is I'm more worried about me missing you over there than I am about me being missed over here.
10:21You were vital to everything when we were in South Africa.
10:25And I came home with Teddy on the way.
10:28Look, Timothy is quite old enough to hold the fort if you came to Hong Kong. He's home on study leave for a month.
10:36Patrick, I'm needed here.
10:42That's the last box, Miss Higgins.
10:44Dr. Elise Watkiss is our first choice for locum cover. She's young but has excellent GP experience.
10:54I will attend to the necessary paper work. Timothy, you might call the pharmacy regarding the export forms whilst I see to this.
11:01Yes, Miss Higgins.
11:02The posters have turned out an absolute treat. I 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.
11:15Mom, look.
11:16Oh, it's me as a baby. Before we even knew her. I would recognise her anywhere.
11:25Come on, ladies. Dig as deep as you can. Merry Christmas.
11:30Merry Christmas.
11:31Thank you very much.
11:32Every penny counts. Don't be shy.
11:42Some of these clothes are ours, Mom.
11:44Yes. I went up into the loft and there were bags full of woolies that went back years.
11:50This was mine. I remember this.
11:53You 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.
12:10Can you tell the listeners what it is, May?
12:13I was born there.
12:15A photograph of May, aged 12 months and held safely in the arms of a Nonnatas nun, features on posters for the rescue mission.
12:23As the Nonnatas sisters are popular headies to help.
12:27Do you have a message for people listening, May?
12:29Please 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 Nonnatas party at Heathrow.
12:54At least that's only one plane we have to meet, Fred.
12:57Derek, you're eating the lime marmalade.
13:00I'm not going to lie to you.
13:03I've laid awake at night dreaming of this stuff.
13:06Thanks for bringing it.
13:07And the mustard. Proper taste of home.
13:09It's even got English written on the tin.
13:12Fred and I were wondering about popping over to Kowloon
13:15to 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.
13:27Makes you wonder why the sisters are so keen to stay there.
13:31Well, it's the same as popular, innit?
13:33Bad things happen.
13:34Good people sort you out.
13:36Best people in the world couldn't sort Triad out.
13:38What is Triad, Derek?
13:40Organised crime.
13:42It's invisible and it's everywhere.
13:46I 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.
13:53Mum and Dad.
13:58You should be in bed, Tillie Mint.
14:02We've been talking.
14:03It's very late.
14:05We've all been talking.
14:07And we all want you to go to Hong Kong, Mum.
14:09Do you?
14:11Yes.
14:13And 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.
14:36I will guard it with my life.
14:38And Nurse Aylward 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.
14:49It'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.
15:12Thank you, all of you, for helping us to help them.
15:18I am reminded of spit fires streaming overhead.
15:42Disguise and fights, half known but undetermined.
15:51They'll all be home by Christmas.
15:53That was our motto.
15:56In a different war.
15:57Oh.
16:07I still don't like the idea of you living in a bed-sit. Like you've just come off the boat.
16:12It's a better bed-sit than I had in those days. It's got fitted carpets and hot water.
16:17Hold your studs. Get your studs over here.
16:19Hold your studs. Get your studs over here.
16:21Hold the studs over here.
16:24Hold your studs over here.
16:47Church of God and you must be Mr. Fisher. Please, come in.
16:57We got rid of the electric meter to stop the lights going out when people were testifying.
17:01And this is the bedroom.
17:04We put up thick curtains so the trains won't bother you in the night.
17:19Well, the trains won't bother me at any time of day.
17:34I thought you'd be saying lords in your room, Sister Monica Joan.
18:02In Hong Kong, they will be saying the afternoon office.
18:09And the sun does not vary, no matter from which corner of the globe we offer up our praise.
18:17I shall raise my voice with yours and theirs.
18:24Come.
18:26Come.
18:27Come.
18:29Come.
18:30Come.
18:31Come.
18:32Come.
18:33Come.
18:34Come.
18:35Come.
18:36Come.
18:37Come.
18:38Can you.
18:40Come.
18:42Come.
18:44Come.
18:45Come.
18:47Come.
18:48Come.
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19:03.
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19:09.
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19:20The thing is, Dr. Turner, you just have to keep your nerve.
19:24I haven't lost my nerve, Fred.
19:26I have lost sight of the van containing all of the medical supplies and the donations.
19:31I told the driver at the airport.
19:33I said they were to follow immediately behind us.
19:36I wonder what you were saying.
19:38You 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
19:49and to use his name.
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20:32Seven days, I have them upstairs.
20:36Sick nuns, sick children.
20:39And we could not be more grateful.
20:42See that term in Cantonese?
20:45I know.
20:46Thank you, not important.
20:48Trouble.
20:49I know also.
20:50You have trouble.
20:52Come, help.
21:02We can't all be living here.
21:10Onward, I can hear the child crying.
21:13I believe Sister Simon will need to go to hospital
21:34and have her wrist reset under anaesthetic.
21:37And I suspect Sister Prudence has a broken collarbone.
21:41We're going to have to stand them all down
21:43and send them for hospital treatment.
21:48When 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?
21:58Or do you simply fear it?
22:00Miliary tuberculosis, the worst kind.
22:04Tuberculosis is so very contagious.
22:06It has spread from my lungs throughout my body.
22:09I have little time left to live.
22:12When were you diagnosed?
22:14The day the clinic collapsed.
22:17I was told by our doctor, Dr. Lee.
22:20I took myself out for a walk whilst she arranged for me
22:25to go to a sanatorium.
22:27And when I returned, there was no clinic.
22:32And no doctor.
22:34And no bed in a sanatorium.
22:39And no choice but to carry on handling the children.
22:43You're a kind, nurse.
22:58Just doing my job, Raph.
23:00The least main treatment for preeclampsia is bed rest.
23:06Both these ladies have had that.
23:08Rudimentary though the beds may be.
23:10Once we've unpacked, I'll ask them to oblige me with some samples
23:15and get the dipsticks out.
23:17This is infected.
23:20I don't think it's been properly cleaned.
23:22Is it any wonder we're them all huddled up here
23:25without even the barest essentials?
23:27Not to mention ignoring their own injuries.
23:30If you ask me, the sisters work miracles enough
23:35just 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
23:48and enough soy sauce to float about with it.
23:51Do you reckon Mrs. Ma 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,
24:01but 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.
24:11Excellent. Excellent.
24:15No.
24:17No, no, no, no.
24:20These have been forced open.
24:22It's all gone.
24:29Is that the new Vista Sanatorium?
24:31M'goy, I have a very sick lady who requires urgent admission.
24:36Koi Huben. M'goy sai?
24:39You have been charity itself, Mrs. Ma.
24:41At our home.
24:42You took the sisters in and gave them food and shelter.
24:45Only to your 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.
24:58It's not safe.
25:00Why is it not safe?
25:02Why is it not safe?
25:07You stay.
25:08Stay now.
25:09But go soon.
25:11And use back door, not front.
25:21Linnata's house.
25:22Midwife speaking.
25:23Can I bring my wife to the maternity home, please?
25:25Of course, sir.
25:26What name is it?
25:28She says what name?
25:31Diane Mary Edgar!
25:33Diane Mary Edgar.
25:39I made myself a cup of coffee, Miss Higgins.
25:41Do you want?
25:43I generally keep myself in check until elevens is.
25:48Your white coat should be hanging on the back of the door of the consulting room.
25:51Would you like me to fetch it?
25:52It's fine.
25:53I don't need it yet.
25:54We've got bad coughs coming in at half past nine, in ten past ten, and at eleven, all in the over fifty age group.
26:01Have these patients been referred to the East London Chest Clinic?
26:03I'm sure they have, if Dr. Turner considers that appropriate.
26:07Excellent.
26:09I'll have a quick rummage through their notes just to make sure.
26:11The files are through here, aren't they?
26:12They are indeed.
26:13Um, no fluids in the filing room, if you'd be so kind.
26:23Ahhhh!
26:24Ahhhh!
26:25Ahhhh!
26:29Perfect work.
26:30You certainly know what you're doing.
26:32Oh, I feel terrible about bringing those reindeer heads.
26:35I'd have never got them finished otherwise.
26:38Good morning.
26:39May I help you?
26:40My name's Queenie Forsythe.
26:41My daughter's in child bed.
26:43We arrived last night.
26:44That's six massive pushes I've done now.
26:50It's not budget, nurse.
26:53Let's get you back on the bed, and then I can examine you.
26:56We'll soon have a better idea of your progress.
26:59I'm telling you now, there hasn't been any.
27:02This one's not playing the same game as my others.
27:05Oh my...
27:20Midwife's calling.
27:23Good gracious.
27:24It's like the first day of the sales in here.
27:27Can we open one of those windows and let in a bit of air?
27:30How long have you been feeling that you need a push check?
27:32to push, child. I don't know. Every time they yell at me to push, I try. Five hours. Five
27:39hours, she's been at it. 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.
27:55How much did your other babies weigh, Diane? Seven pounds, six and eight pounds, nine.
27:59Darren was like giving birth to a sofa. This one feels like a ruddy three-piece suite and
28:04a coffee table. I think baby might be on the bonny side, but I don't think he's read the
28:10book that tells him how to line up nicely for delivery. Doctor, could you pop across and
28:15speak to Dr. Watkins? It's ROT. A right occipitotransverse. I'm quite a big baby, but my dad, Dr. Turner,
28:28always attends in the event of any transverse position. Well, I'd better come through then.
28:35That poor girl started pushing long, long before she was ready. Has she damaged her cervix?
28:40It's not torn, but it's so swollen. I can actually see it at the entrance to her vagina.
28:45No baby's going to get through that unless we bring that swelling down.
28:48We need ice. Ice. I think I saw a refrigerator. If we don't make this work, she'll need a cesarean
28:58section. Diane, don't cry. There are all sorts of things we can do to get things moving.
29:05Would Dr. Turner try the Von Tooth's, do you think?
29:07No. He always uses forceps in a transverse position. In which case, we'll continue with
29:17trial of labour. We'll transfer you to St. Cuthbert's if we get no joy.
29:23Timothy, this won't do.
29:36Nenauta's house. If you pursue midwives, they are all abroad. Or otherwise at large.
29:42Is there nobody there at all?
29:45Nurse Clifford has a multi-parous woman in obstructed labour.
29:49Nenauta doesn't know how to use forceps.
29:51Supply the details and I will provide the advice.
29:56You're going to be grateful to me in the long run, but I'm not going to lie to you and
30:00say this ice pack is the nicest thing you've ever had, slip underneath your covers.
30:07Are you allowed to have things like that?
30:10I don't get the chance very often.
30:16It's freezing.
30:18So is your right for being disrespectful.
30:19Diane, we need you head down and with your bottom in the air.
30:29This position will stretch your pelvic ligaments and give the baby enough room to adjust its head position.
30:35I hope you have that on good a foray.
30:37The best authority you can possibly imagine.
30:42Let her have a little nap.
30:45Is there anything else wrong with her?
30:46I don't think so.
30:48But Queenie, women need skilled help when they're given birth.
30:52Especially 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.
31:01I haven't decided where you're going.
31:04And besides, I went to the hospital with me last one.
31:07I wouldn't venture that again.
31:10I'll examine her.
31:12There's hope it's worked.
31:15I just want to lie down.
31:17Baby has shifted position, Diane.
31:20All we need to do now is make things with gravity.
31:26I'm going to have to push.
31:27That's all right, Diane.
31:28Diane, you give it everything you've got.
31:32This is the bit where I'm glad I did the enema.
31:37I feared verbal instructions alone would 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.
31:55Listen to Nurse Hyland.
31:56On the next one, I want your chin on your chest.
31:59And a slow, quiet, steady push.
32:03Slow.
32:04Slow.
32:06Quiet.
32:07Steady.
32:14We've got the head.
32:17Come on, you can do it.
32:19Keep 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?
32:39I can see every aspect of the miracle.
32:42You have a daughter.
32:47This stinging will end soon, Marie.
32:54Just breathe.
32:55Just breathe.
32:57And we have a head.
33:00Stand down, honey.
33:03We also have my cornea.
33:08The midwife says we need an ambulance.
33:09Go on.
33:11Go it.
33:12Ah.
33:21Oh.
33:23Oh.
33:25Oh.
33:27Oh.
33:28Oh.
33:35Oh.
33:36Oh.
33:37Oh.
33:37Oh.
33:38You've a little boy, Marie.
33:43I'm going to hold him.
33:45All will be well, Marie.
33:46I promise you, all will be well.
33:59He must be baptised.
34:01Now.
34:01There'll be a chaplain at the hospital, Queenie.
34:03This is his home, and he is not leaving his mother's arms until he is baptised.
34:08Oh, my God.
34:11Well, Dr. 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, neither with any complications.
34:26That's the way it is these days.
34:28We're all trained in obs and gynae, but 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's more senior.
34:40And 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, and you are skilled in your own right.
34:57Nevertheless, I will not permit this to happen again.
35:01I am sending for Nurse Elwood.
35:03Lord Jesus Christ, who took little children in your arms and blessed them, hold this infant, Luke Michael, in your matchless love, today and always.
35:19Fill his mother and father with your peace, and cherish him according to thy will.
35:24Amen.
35:26Amen.
35:27Amen.
35:27Amen.
35:27Amen.
35:27Amen.
35:27Amen.
35:28Amen.
35:29Amen.
35:29Amen.
35:29Amen.
35:30Amen.
35:30Amen.
35:31Amen.
35:33Amen.
35:34Amen.
35:35Amen.
35:37I keep thinking, May'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.
35:50After she lost her job, she must have been desperate.
35:57And where would desperation take you in a city of this size?
36:02We have to find out.
36:05Esther Tan gave us the greatest gift we've ever had.
36:08And we can't abandon her.
36:11No, we can't.
36:20Sister Hilda.
36:23Are you lying awake for the same reason that I'm lying awake?
36:26I don't know.
36:28Well, I'm lying awake because we've flown halfway around the world on a rescue mission.
36:34And if we get thrown out of this place by Mrs. Marr, we're going to be in as much need of rescue as anyone else.
36:39The injured and the six sisters are leaving in the morning.
36:46Sister Edith to the sanatorium and the other sisters to the Roman Catholic Hospital.
36:50We have orphans to care for and expectant mothers, any one of whom could have caught TB.
36:57And out in the street, there are prostitutes and addicts who will look to ask for help.
37:02I know there are.
37:03But we will pray.
37:05And we will wait to see what love can do.
37:08And we will pray.
37:38And we will pray.
38:08I'm sorry, Miss Higgins.
38:12I've been through all of these cases
38:14and there are at least half a dozen
38:15who should be at St Cuthbert's and not here.
38:17Well, Mr Parry himself expressed satisfaction with our care.
38:21Good afternoon, ladies.
38:22Dr Watkiss, I presume.
38:25Nurse Elwood.
38:26Sister Elwood, as it happens,
38:27I've accepted a promotion during the absence of Dr Turner,
38:30under whom I've worked for 16 years ever since I qualified.
38:33So we have three mothers over 40,
38:39two gestational diabetes,
38:40and Maureen Santaro, I know already,
38:43she had her first set of twins with us.
38:45Second set isn't unheard of.
38:46I've never handled a multiple pregnancy, Sister.
38:49Well, there's always a first time.
38:51Dr Watkiss and I will call ourselves cubicle one,
38:53send 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.
39:13She's doing grand.
39:17It's me that needs to see you.
39:21Are you expecting, Queenie?
39:23Under this coat and having me ninth.
39:26You don't shout about it when you get to my age.
39:29But 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.
39:56I'll start by filling in your co-op card.
39:59Oh, a tin of carnation milk, if you please.
40:13Ah, and a quarter of humbugs, if you'll be so kind.
40:19Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
40:20Perhaps just two ounces.
40:22I 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.
40:39It catches.
40:42Doesn't it?
40:42It catches.
40:43It catches.
40:44It's all very well and good complaining that all the people who can deliver babies have gone to Hong Kong.
41:07I'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 and 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 as angels complete with ostrich feather wings.
41:33I thought we could do it with just a bit of cotton and sticking, like rosaline in our Christmas trees.
41:37They're palm trees.
41:39I heard rumors the sewing machine was out.
41:41Angela just tried on a spoon costume and ripped it.
41:46You look like you could do it 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 player scalp once.
42:02Needle, thread.
42:03If you want a cocktail, you're going to have to earn it.
42:05This 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.
42:36I remember your daughter well.
42:39May?
42:40Oh, she's ten years old now.
42:44And so many children pass through the orphanage.
42:47Hmm.
42:48I 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?
43:06She was there once, and not too long ago.
43:11Beyond that, I cannot say.
43:31The sooner we are able to move into the premises,
43:35the better it will be for the people in our care.
43:37I can even overlook the pigeon infestation
43:40for a small reduction in the rent.
43:43Down payment will be 2,000 Hong Kong dollars.
43:47The sisters have the funds for that,
43:49and there will be ongoing support
43:51from a number of private philanthropists
43:54plus the Rotary Club of Hong Kong.
43:59Very well.
44:00We shall prepare the documentation.
44:05I'm going.
44:07Let'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
44:15now 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.
44:36At least we can improve on the human side of things.
44:40Morning, Major.
44:41Morning, Corporal.
44:42I'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.
45:20I may have slightly pre-empted one or two realities,
45:23although I'm sure the Rotary Club will be only too pleased to opt this court.
45:28Hans Saeed, make contact and explain the situation.
45:33I don't even ask about the private philanthropists.
45:36One of them is me.
45:38And I'm sure there will be others.
45:40It's not just the TB kits and penicillin I'm grateful to the Major for.
46:01It's use of the Army labs for processing the tests.
46:05Oh.
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,
46:17especially 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.
46:30In 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 lyric says there's somebody triad
46:45in every street that people have to answer to or pay.
46:50And Mrs. Ma is living in fear of someone.
46:52Oh, I'm searching for a young lady called Esther Tang.
47:07She used to live at this address
47:09and 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.
47:31Miss? Miss?
47:33Esther left one week ago.
47:36Did she say where she was going?
47:38She was sick and she was afraid.
47:40Grace, don't look for her, please.
47:43Can I ask your name?
47:46Grace, don't look.
48:10She was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she was sick and she
49:10We're a bit feeble with just the three of us.
49:13We are midwives.
49:15Not the four horsemen, not 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, is now going to hand out cough candy to help us all with our singing.
49:36Come on!
49:38Help me!
49:39Oh, my God!
49:41Come 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.
49:48We're going to be late, Geoffrey.
49:51If you were content with boarding a carnival float, wearing improperly attached angel wings, I can assure you I wasn't.
49:58Oh, for pity's sake.
50:00Pitching this pram through snow is like dicing with insanity.
50:04What's that?
50:06It's a walking stick.
50:08It's actually rather elegant.
50:11I think it's got a solid silver top.
50:13Oh, 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 Torkist first came out.
50:23What's it doing here in Poplar?
50:25Also, if there's one thing I do know, if you find a walking stick lying on the ground, you're likely to find its owner nearby and lying in a similar position.
50:33Sir?
50:34No, Maurice Templemore cannot be in Poplar.
50:38I doubt he even knows where Poplar is.
50:39He must have been burgled.
50:41Sir?
50:43Sir?
50:43Are we here?
50:49I'm terribly sorry.
50:50I seem to have rather overstretched myself.
50:56Mr. Templemore?
50:57Please don't call me that.
50:59Not here.
51:34What are you doing in this insalubrious part of town?
52:02You're in the same insalubrious part of town.
52:05You're not well, I know that, because you said so when I was sorting out your fibrositis.
52:11A blood disorder, you told me.
52:14What kind of blood disorder?
52:15A malignant one, but I didn't tell him that.
52:26I was born in this flat when the paper shop was a greengrocer.
52:32My 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.
52:42And you made a life out of different things entirely?
52:44Yes.
52:45Little Manny Fisher became Maurice Templemore, New York, Hollywood, and then home.
52:54Well, London's West End instead of the East End, and a life of comfortable obscurity.
53:03But everyone had gone.
53:04Your family had gone.
53:10Here, here.
53:24All 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.
53:33And I'm no longer Mr. Templemore.
53:34There I truly was.
53:35He needs medical care, sis.
53:36And I'll arrange that in the morning.
53:49But at this precise moment in time, we have a carnival to catch.
53:51Come along.
53:52I used to have met with you.
53:53I used to have met with you.
53:54I used to have met with you.
53:55Oh, no.
53:56No.
53:57A baby.
53:58Left to be found.
53:59Oh, no.
54:00No.
54:01A baby.
54:02Left to be found.
54:03This happened all the time at the Hibiscus Clinic.
54:04A girl.
54:05A dog was up more than two days old.
54:06And the cord looks to have been chewed through.
54:09Oh, no.
54:10Oh, no.
54:11Oh, no.
54:12Oh, no, baby.
54:13Oh.
54:14It's OK.
54:15Oh.
54:16Oh, oh, no.
54:17Oh, it's OK.
54:18Oh!
54:19Oh, oh.
54:20Oh, my God.
54:21Oh, my God.
54:22Oh, my baby.
54:23Oh, my God.
54:24Oh, my baby.
54:25Oh, my baby.
54:26Oh, my baby.
54:27Oh.
54:28Oh, my God.
54:29Oh, my baby.
54:30Oh.
54:31My baby.
54:32Oh, my baby.
54:33You owe me money, you owe me money, owe me money, owe me money
55:03What do you mean we can't have the house on half Lotus Street?
55:12We have the keys and we have paid the deposit
55:15It is not suitable
55:16It's extremely suitable
55:18And we can move there immediately with the children and our adult patients
55:23The men who owns the building say no, give me the keys
55:26If we are to return them
55:33It can only be in exchange for the money we have paid
55:37Give me the keys
55:43Keys
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