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00:00Once upon a time, the season that is new today was old and closed and packed away.
00:30Advent had erupted into Christmas, darkness retreated in the face of light, and the wheel of the year kept turning.
00:41But once again we gather, as the sky grows cold, the leaves have tumbled, the fresh snow falls.
00:52Pages turn as new doors open, time and time and time again.
01:00Merry Christmas bread.
01:01Merry Christmas.
01:04Medical supplies packed and labelled and ready for hand delivery to the brunch house.
01:10A biscuit's clinic? You think you should write on it in Chinese?
01:14Hong Kong is a British colony. I'm quite sure everyone is competent in our mother tongue.
01:19I detect a want of enthusiasm in your visit. When adventure beckons, you should embrace the call.
01:29This trip is a wonderful opportunity for Violet to see her son. And the sisters at the clinic will be so grateful for these supplies.
01:37I'll just be glad of a chance to run an errand, if I'm honest with your sister Julian. There's talk of cocktail parties.
01:45Oh yes!
01:46There's a hole in a pair of nose wandoes, had a pair of shiny nose. And if you ever saw it, you will even say it blows.
02:00All of the other reindeers, used to lock and pull her knees.
02:07Kevin, I've told you before, stay inside the lines.
02:13The lines represent the edges of the lorry.
02:19You too, Teddy.
02:21We don't want you falling off the floor and getting run over.
02:24Do you think they're going to need bigger roles for their mouths, Mrs Turner?
02:28I'm worried that they're going to be deprived of oxygen.
02:32Oh, please, please, don't anyone stop singing on my account.
02:37Hello, Diane.
02:39You're the daddy history.
02:46Oh, now, pack.
02:48What do we say when a very important lady, like Mrs Buckle, our mayor, is kind enough to come and visit us?
02:56Good evening, Mrs Buckle.
02:59One piece of cord between two.
03:08Oh, I've bought a dozen pairs of brown tights for the reindeer.
03:14I managed to get them on a special order.
03:16You'll not get lads of this age to wear tights, Mrs Buckle.
03:20Well, you'll have to tell them that it's in a good course.
03:22I mean, the whole Christmas carnival is in a good course.
03:27Elastic, black felt squares, sleigh bells, and WD-40.
03:36What's that for, to oil the sled runners?
03:39Fred needs to do the paper shop bell before we leave.
03:43Mrs Buckle, go.
03:45Go to Hong Kong.
03:47And do not give the Christmas carnival a second thought.
03:50Oh, Mrs Buckle, I'm sorry.
04:04Oh, I'm sorry, Mrs Turner.
04:06I'm not quite sure which way is up this evening.
04:09I wondered if you could take a tiny parcel to Hong Kong for me.
04:13It's a letter and some...
04:20Of course, I'll take it.
04:26It must all be, well, such a worry.
04:28I used to fret about my Derek when he was in the Navy,
04:32but now he's in the Hong Kong police.
04:35They have to wear guns, Mrs Turner.
04:39It makes me nervous.
04:41You'll be back by Christmas with wonderful memories.
04:45And we've got Reggie coming home.
04:47I'm already hoping that it will be snowing for him.
04:50Whoever guesses the mystery ingredient in this year's chutney
04:56gets to eat the first mince pie and make a wish.
04:59I'm getting definite top notes of tamarind.
05:03Have you been on another cooking course?
05:05No, Matthew took her to Antigua for their wedding anniversary.
05:09It's mango.
05:10Ah!
05:11Yes!
05:14It's good to hear you're moving back to London, lass.
05:17Matthew has to stay in New York until autumn.
05:20And John T's starting pre-prep at Easter.
05:23I needed to get him home and settled.
05:26Sister Julianne, I will be free for midwifery duty,
05:29should you be short-staffed.
05:30We very seldom are at present.
05:33Things have been remarkably quiet.
05:35I have offered her a receptionist role
05:37at my new osteopathy practice on Harley Street,
05:40but no dice, apparently.
05:41You're only there four hours a week.
05:42Nevertheless, his couch sees a constant parade of celebrities,
05:47by all accounts.
05:48Celebrities!
05:49Coming to you with their crooked necks.
05:51I hope you're going to name names.
05:52Professional discretion is my watchword.
05:56Have a mince pie.
05:56Fred, have you seen the time?
06:07We're going to miss the plane.
06:08The party was running late,
06:10and I didn't want to disappoint the kiddies.
06:12Get in the cap.
06:13You can change out who's got costume on the way.
06:15The party was running late,
06:45Please, let me knock my hanky and put it on my head, Vi.
06:57No, we'll get you a nice, smart Panama hat
07:01as soon as we've left these parcels with the sisters.
07:05We're looking for a sign that says Hibiscus Street.
07:10Derek says it should be written in Chinese as well as English.
07:15There it is.
07:27There it is.
07:27The burning has collapsed.
07:44Stay back, please.
07:46The burning has collapsed.
07:47Please stay back.
07:48There must be fatalities.
08:11I'm sorry to intercept you, sister,
08:20but Mrs. Buckle has just telephoned from Hong Kong.
08:24It's about the branch house.
08:29How on earth can an entire building just collapse?
08:32I've never heard of anything so colonial.
08:34There were rumors that the ground in that area was unstable.
08:38But whatever the cause,
08:40it's the consequences that are truly shocking.
08:43Sister Alice and Sister David were both killed.
08:45Oh, no.
08:46Along with the doctor who worked with them.
08:48Some of the children in the nursery did not survive.
08:51Meanwhile, the maternity ward has been destroyed.
08:55The sisters are homeless.
08:57And the people who depend upon them
08:58are scattered across Kowloon.
09:00Once they have overcome this,
09:02they will need somewhere to live and carry on their work.
09:05Now, they need a doctor.
09:07They need nurses, and they need midwives.
09:10In short, sister, they need us.
09:17I keep thinking we should be making Christmas trees for the carnival,
09:20not palm trees.
09:22The theme of the float is a Caribbean Christmas.
09:26There's going to be a steel band playing carols
09:28and a gospel choir.
09:30Lord...
09:31Are these the palm trees?
09:37Mm-hmm.
09:37I'm starting to think we should be making jacarandas.
09:41So...
09:42What's this letter you want to talk to me about?
09:48If ten days on the ground in Hong Kong
09:50means that we can get them through this crisis,
09:53I am more than happy to put a locum in the surgery.
09:56And, Sister Veronica, you must go.
09:58You were three years at that branch house.
10:00You're the only one with even a glancing knowledge
10:02of the way things work out there.
10:04I will go wherever I'm told.
10:06I will do whatever I'm told.
10:08Very well.
10:09Dr. Turner will go,
10:10as will Nurse Crane,
10:12Sister Veronica,
10:13and myself.
10:16So this man,
10:17this Mr. Fisher,
10:19who writes with an educated hand
10:21from an address in Belgravia,
10:23wants to rent this flat
10:25with immediate effect?
10:27For a period of time that he is unable to specify.
10:30For an amount
10:31that we are free to name.
10:33You'll call me ruthless if you want to.
10:35But, Pastor Robinson,
10:37what I make of it
10:39is money for the church.
10:41Running a church
10:42is always going to cost somebody something.
10:44I'll find somewhere else to lay my head
10:46for a week or two.
10:47The truth is,
10:48I'm more worried about me missing you over there
10:50than I am about me being missed over here.
10:53You were vital to everything
10:55when we were in South Africa.
10:57And I came home with Teddy on the way.
11:00Look,
11:00Timothy is quite old enough
11:02to hold the fort
11:03if you came to Hong Kong.
11:06He's home on study leave for a month.
11:09Patrick,
11:09I'm needed here.
11:14That's the last box, Miss Higgins.
11:16Dr. Elise Watkiss
11:21is our first choice
11:22for locum cover.
11:24She's young
11:24but has excellent GP experience.
11:26I will attend
11:27to the necessary paperwork.
11:29Timothy,
11:30you might call the pharmacy
11:31regarding the export forms
11:32whilst I see to this.
11:34Yes, Miss Higgins.
11:41And you'll never guess what.
11:42You can see it clear as day
11:44now it's blown up life-size.
11:46What's that look for?
11:48Mom, look.
11:49Oh, it's me
11:50as a baby.
11:53Before we even knew her,
11:55I would recognize her
11:57anywhere.
11:59Come on, ladies.
12:00Dig as deep as you can.
12:02Merry Christmas.
12:03Thank you very much.
12:05Every penny counts.
12:06Don't be shy.
12:07Some of these clothes
12:16are ours, Mom.
12:17Yes.
12:18I went up into the loft
12:19and there were bags
12:20full of woolies
12:20that went back years.
12:23This was mine.
12:25I remember this.
12:26You had it
12:27when you first arrived
12:28from China.
12:28Would you rather
12:32we didn't send it all?
12:34The radio reporter
12:35says,
12:36ready when you are.
12:40Ten-year-old May Turner
12:41has a special reason
12:42for helping
12:42with the appeal today.
12:44Can you tell the listeners
12:44what it is, May?
12:45I was born there.
12:50A photograph of May
12:51aged 12 months
12:52and held safely
12:53in the arms
12:54of a Ninottas nun
12:55features on posters
12:56for the rescue mission.
12:58As the Ninottas sisters
12:59are popular
12:59headies to help.
13:01Do you have a message
13:02for people listening, May?
13:08Please give all you can.
13:14Because...
13:15Some of the children
13:18there have nothing.
13:24Sister Hilda
13:25will be joining
13:26the Ninottas party
13:27at Heathrow.
13:28At least that's only
13:29one plane
13:30we have to meet, Fred.
13:32Derek,
13:33you're eating
13:34the lime marmalade.
13:36I'm not going to lie to you.
13:37I've laid awake at night
13:38dreaming of this stuff.
13:40Thanks for bringing it.
13:41And the mustard.
13:42Proper taste of home.
13:43Receive and crop.
13:45English written on the tin.
13:47Fred and I were wondering
13:48about popping over
13:49to Kowloon
13:49to see if there's anything
13:51we can take
13:51the poor sisters.
13:52Mum,
13:53Kowloon isn't the East End.
13:54Nobody pops over there.
13:56And not to that bit of it anyway.
13:59Hibiscus Street's
14:00about as dodgy
14:00as it gets.
14:01Drugs,
14:02prostitution,
14:03smuggling.
14:03Makes you wonder
14:04why the sisters
14:05are so keen
14:06to stay there.
14:07Well, it's the same
14:07as popular,
14:08isn't it?
14:09Bad things happen.
14:10Good people
14:11saw you out.
14:11Best people in the world
14:12couldn't sort
14:13Triad out.
14:13What is Triad, Derek?
14:16Organised crime.
14:17It's invisible
14:18and it's everywhere.
14:20Oh.
14:22I got used to Tim
14:23not being here
14:24because he's
14:24at medical school.
14:26What I can't get used to
14:28is him not being here
14:28because he's in the pub.
14:29Mum and Dad.
14:35You should be in bed
14:37till he meant.
14:38We've been talking.
14:39It's very late.
14:41We've all been talking.
14:42And we all want you
14:43to go to Hong Kong, Mum.
14:46Do you?
14:47Yes.
14:48And I want you
14:49to take this.
14:50Oh.
14:54Oh.
14:59And that was confirmation
15:02that you can refer
15:03any health visitor business
15:04over to Miss Haynes
15:05at the Stepney Clinic.
15:07If I say so myself,
15:08the plan is impregnable.
15:10You, meanwhile,
15:11are the only one
15:11I trust with my Rolodex.
15:13I will guard it
15:14with my life.
15:15And Nurse Aylwood
15:16considers herself
15:17on call at any time
15:19should you require
15:20her support
15:20with any administration.
15:22I'm also available
15:23for midwifery duty.
15:24You only have to pick up
15:24the phone.
15:26It's most unlikely
15:27that it will come to that.
15:29This is a mercy mission.
15:35It's also a mercy dash
15:37and we'll be home soon.
15:38By the time we all
15:39gather here again,
15:42we will have left
15:43our friends in Hong Kong
15:44in a place of hope
15:47and of comfort
15:49and of joy.
15:51Thank you, all of you,
15:54for helping us
15:55to help them.
15:59I am reminded of
16:17spit fires streaming overhead,
16:20disguise and fights
16:23half known
16:24but undetermined.
16:26They'll all be home
16:29by Christmas.
16:31That was our motto
16:33in a different room.
16:45I still don't like
16:46the idea of you
16:47living in a bedsit
16:48like you'd just
16:49come off the boat.
16:51It's a better bedsit
16:52than I had in those days.
16:53It's got fitted carpets
16:54and hot water.
16:55Oh, it's a better day.
16:56It's a better day.
16:56It's a better day.
16:57It's a better day.
16:58You, I take it,
16:59a pastor C.A. Robinson,
17:24of the Shining Tabernacle Church of God.
17:28Then you must be Mr. Fisher.
17:30Please, come in.
17:36We got rid of the electric meter
17:37to stop the lights going out when people were testifying.
17:41And this is the bedroom.
17:43We put up thick curtains
17:56so the trains won't bother you in the night.
17:59Well, the trains won't bother me at any time of day.
18:13I thought you'd be seeing lords in your room,
18:42Sister Monica Joan.
18:47In Hong Kong, they will be seeing the afternoon office.
18:52And the sun does not vary
18:54no matter from which corner of the globe
18:57we offer up our praise.
19:00I shall raise my voice with yours
19:03and theirs.
19:12He will not suffer thy fault to me,
19:17and he that he will fear not sleep.
19:24I shall win y'all at all.
19:54The thing is, Dr. Turner, you just have to keep your nerve.
20:06I haven't lost my nerve, Fred.
20:09I have lost sight of the van containing all of the medical supplies and the donations.
20:14I told the driver at the airport I said they were to follow immediately behind us.
20:19I wonder what you were saying.
20:21You sounded commendably forceful.
20:22We just have to hope you said what you thought you said.
20:26If we have any problems whatsoever, my Derek has told me which police station to go to and to use his name.
20:44That's one of our sisters.
20:46Sister, I greet you in the Lord Jesus Christ's name.
21:02We greet you likewise.
21:03Sister, there is much to be considered.
21:16Seven day.
21:17I have them upstairs.
21:20Sick nun.
21:21Sick children.
21:22And we could not be more grateful.
21:26See that term, Cantonese?
21:29I know.
21:31Not important.
21:32Trouble.
21:33I know also.
21:34You have trouble.
21:36Come.
21:36Help.
21:39We can't all be living here.
21:50Onward, I can hear the child crying.
21:57I believe Sister Simon will need to go to hospital and have her wrist reset under anaesthetic.
22:22And I suspect Sister Prudence has a broken collarbone.
22:27We're going to have to stand them all down and send them for hospital treatment.
22:33When did the diarrhoea start?
22:35Before the cough or after?
22:37Doctor, I know what ails me.
22:40I have tuberculosis.
22:43Are you sure?
22:44Or do you simply fear it?
22:46Miliary tuberculosis.
22:48The worst kind.
22:49Tuberculosis is so very contagious.
22:52It has spread from my lungs throughout my body.
22:56I have little time left to live.
22:59When were you diagnosed?
23:00The day the clinic collapsed.
23:03I was told by our doctor, Dr. Lee.
23:07I took myself out for a walk whilst she arranged for me to go to a sanatorium.
23:14And when I returned, there was no clinic.
23:19And no doctor.
23:23And no bed in a sanatorium.
23:27And no choice but to carry on handling the children.
23:30You're kind, nurse.
23:45Just doing my job, love.
23:47The least main treatment for pre-eclampsia is bed rest.
23:53Both these ladies have had that rudimentary though the beds may be.
23:58Once we've unpacked, I'll ask them to oblige me with some samples and get the dipsticks out.
24:03This is infected.
24:08I don't think it's been properly cleaned.
24:10Is it any wonder we're them all huddled up here without even the barest essentials?
24:15Not to mention ignoring their own injuries.
24:18If you ask me, the sisters work miracles enough just keeping everyone alive.
24:24And now it's our turn.
24:29This place reminds me of a cash and carry.
24:31There must be a gross of tin bamboo shoots in this box.
24:36And enough soy sauce to float about with it.
24:39Do you reckon Mrs. Marr would mind if we move stuff about?
24:42We'll have to ask her, Fred.
24:45I know she's a Christian convert and she has been very accommodating.
24:49But these are her premises.
24:52I need the labelled crates and medical supplies, Fred.
24:55We have to run urgent TB tests on everyone.
24:58Over here, Doc.
24:59Excellent. Excellent.
25:03No.
25:05No, no, no, no.
25:08These have been forced open.
25:12It's all gone.
25:17Is that the new Vista Sanatorium?
25:27You have been charity itself, Mrs. Marr.
25:30I'll hold.
25:31You took the sisters in and gave them food and shelter.
25:34Only to your rescue.
25:36You are rescue.
25:37Now you're all gone.
25:39But we have nowhere else to go.
25:41We will find a new clinic.
25:44We will find a new convent.
25:46But we cannot do that today.
25:48It's not safe.
25:50Why is it not safe?
25:56You stay.
25:58Stay now.
25:59But go soon.
26:01And use back door.
26:02Not front.
26:02Linnata's house.
26:11Ridworth speaking.
26:13Can I bring my wife to the maternity home, please?
26:15Of course, sir.
26:16What name is it?
26:19She says what name?
26:21Diane Mary Edgar!
26:23Diane Mary Edgar.
26:25I made myself a cup of coffee, Miss Higgins.
26:31Do you want?
26:32Uh, thank you.
26:33I generally keep myself in check until 11's is.
26:38Your white coat should be hanging on the back of the door of the consulting room.
26:41Would you like me to fetch it?
26:42It's fine.
26:43I don't need it yet.
26:45We've got bad coughs coming in at half past nine and ten past ten and at 11.
26:49All...
26:49Is that appropriate?
26:57Excellent.
26:59I'll have a quick rummage through their notes just to make sure.
27:02The files are through here, aren't they?
27:03They are indeed.
27:04No fluids in the filing room, if you'd be so kind.
27:13Ah!
27:14Ah!
27:16Ah!
27:17Ah!
27:18Ah!
27:19Perfect work.
27:21You certainly know what you're doing.
27:23Oh, I feel terrible about bringing those reindeer heads.
27:26I'd have never got them finished otherwise.
27:29Good morning.
27:30May I help you?
27:31My name's Queenie Forsythe.
27:32My daughter's in childbed.
27:34We arrived last night.
27:38That's six massive pushes I've done now.
27:41It's not budget, nurse.
27:44Let's get you back on the bed, and then I can examine you.
27:47We'll soon have a better idea of your progress.
27:50I'm telling you now, there hasn't been any.
27:53This one's not playing the same game as my others.
27:55Oh, my!
27:56Oh, my!
28:11Midwife's calling.
28:15Good gracious.
28:17This is like the first date of the sale's in here.
28:19Can we open one of those windows and let in a bit of air?
28:22How long have you been feeling that you need to push, child?
28:25I don't know.
28:27Every time they yell at me to push, I try.
28:30Five hours.
28:31Five hours she's been at it.
28:34Okay, honey.
28:35Until we know what's what, you must not push.
28:38Do you hear me?
28:39You must not push.
28:41I am not a bossy woman, but I am being bossy now.
28:47How much did your other babies weigh, Diane?
28:49Seven pan, six and eight pan, nine.
28:52Darren was like giving birth to a sofa.
28:54This one feels like a ruddy three-piece suite and a coffee table.
28:58I think Baby might be on the bonny side,
29:01but I don't think he's read the book that tells him how to line up nicely for delivery.
29:06Doctor, could you pop across and speak to Dr. Wapkiss?
29:10It's R-O-T.
29:16A right occipitotransverse.
29:18And quite a big baby.
29:20But my dad, Dr. Turner, always attends in the event of any transverse position.
29:25Well, I'd better come through then.
29:29That poor girl started pushing long, long before she was ready.
29:32Has she damaged her cervix?
29:34It's not torn, but it's so swollen.
29:36I can actually see it at the entrance to her vagina.
29:39No, baby's going to get through that unless we bring that swelling down.
29:42We need ice.
29:45Ice?
29:47I think I saw a refrigerator.
29:49If we don't make this work, she'll need a cesarean section.
29:53Diane, don't cry.
29:56There are all sorts of things we can do to get things moving.
29:59Would Dr. Turner try the von Toos, do you think?
30:03No.
30:04He always uses forceps in a transverse position.
30:06In which case, we'll continue with trial of labour.
30:15We'll transfer you to St. Cuthbert's if we get no joy.
30:18Timothy, this won't do.
30:31Nenata's house.
30:32If you pursue midwives, they are all abroad.
30:36Or otherwise at large.
30:37Is there nobody there at all?
30:40Nose Clifford has a multi-parous woman in obstructed labour.
30:44And the locum doesn't know how to use forceps.
30:46Supply the details.
30:47And I will provide the advice.
30:51You're going to be grateful to me in the long run,
30:53but I'm not going to lie to you and say this ice pack
30:56is the nicest thing you've ever had slip underneath your covers.
31:02Are you allowed to have things like that?
31:05I don't get the chance very often.
31:12It's freezing.
31:13Serves you right for being disrespectful.
31:15Oh!
31:17Diane, we need you head down and with your bottom in the air.
31:25This position will stretch your pelvic ligaments
31:27and give the baby enough room to adjust its head position.
31:31I hope you have that on going to foray.
31:33Queen, the best authority you can possibly imagine.
31:38Let her have a little nap.
31:41Is there anything else wrong with her?
31:43I don't think so.
31:44But Queenie, women need skilled help when they're given birth.
31:48Especially when it's their first.
31:49I took her to the doctor when she first knew that she'd fallen.
31:52We were up in the far north then.
31:55You forget where you've been.
31:57I haven't decided where you're going.
31:59And besides, I went to the hospital with me last one.
32:04I wouldn't venture that again.
32:06I'll examine her.
32:08Let's hope it's worked.
32:09I just want to lie down.
32:14Baby has shifted position, Diane.
32:16All we need to do now is make things with gravity.
32:23I'm going to have to push.
32:24That's all right, Diane.
32:26You give it everything you've got.
32:29This is the bit where I'm glad I did the animal.
32:30I fear verbal instructions alone would not suffice.
32:39Verbal instruction has done more than you could possibly imagine.
32:43Baby's head is beginning to cram.
32:48The swelling has gone down, Marie.
32:49But I need you to do exactly as I say.
32:52Listen to Nurse Hyland.
32:54On the next one, I want your chin on your chest.
32:56And a slow, quiet, steady push.
32:59Slow, slow, quiet, steady.
33:12We've got the head.
33:15Come on.
33:16You can do it.
33:17Keep it coming.
33:19Keep it coming.
33:26This hair boy or a girl.
33:28I'm afraid I can't tell.
33:29I've got something in my eye.
33:34Can you see Sister Monica Joan?
33:37I can see every aspect of the miracle.
33:40You have a daughter.
33:50This stinging will end soon, Marie.
33:52Just breathe.
33:53Just breathe.
33:56And we have a head.
33:58Well done, honey.
34:02We also have my cornea.
34:06The midwife says we need an ambulance.
34:08Go on.
34:09You have a baby.
34:22You have a baby.
34:37You've a little boy, Marie.
34:42I don't want him.
34:44All will be well, Marie.
34:46I promise you, all will be well.
34:59He must be baptised.
35:00Now.
35:01There'll be a chaplain at the hospital, Queenie.
35:03This is his home, and he is not leaving his mother's arms until he is baptised.
35:07Yes.
35:11Well, Dr. Watkiss's curriculum vitae stated very clearly she is fully trained in obstetrics.
35:20She has now revealed that in almost five years of GP practice, she has only delivered two babies, neither with any complications.
35:27That's the way it is these days.
35:29We're all trained in obs and gynae, but the expectation is that almost every baby will be born in hospital.
35:34Dr. Watkiss wanted to continue trial of labour, but we couldn't countermand her because she's more senior.
35:40And next time we may not have Sister Monica Joan to call on.
35:44Any wisdom I have was hard won in the days when there might have been no doctor to send for.
35:50Lord Jesus Christ, who took little children in your arms and blessed them, hold this infant, Luke Michael, in your matchless love, today and always.
36:19Fill his mother and father with your peace.
36:24And cherish him according to thy will.
36:28Amen.
36:30Amen.
36:30Is it worth asking if the army have any record of her?
36:49She would have just been cheap, casual labour.
36:54After she lost her job, she must have been desperate.
36:57And where would desperation take you in a city of this size?
37:04We have to find out.
37:07Lester Tan gave us the greatest gift we've ever had.
37:11And we can't abandon her.
37:14No, we can't.
37:23Sister Hilda?
37:24Are you lying awake for the same reason that I'm lying awake?
37:29I don't know.
37:31Well, I'm lying awake because we've flown halfway around the world on a rescue mission.
37:37And 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.
37:42The injured and the six sisters are leaving in the morning.
37:49Sister Edith to the sanatorium and the other sisters to the Roman Catholic Hospital.
37:54We have orphans to care for and expectant mothers, any one of whom could have caught TB.
38:01And out in the street, there are prostitutes and addicts who will look to ask for help.
38:05I know there are, but we will pray and we will wait to see what love can do.
38:12We will pray and we will pray.
39:41So we have three mothers over 40, two gestational diabetes, and Maureen Santaro, I know already, she had her first set of twins with us. Second set isn't unheard of.
39:52I've never handled a multiple pregnancy, sister.
39:54Well, there's always a first time.
39:56Dr. Watkiss and I will call ourselves Cubicle 1, send them all to us and we'll see how we do.
40:09Hello?
40:12Queenie!
40:13Have you brought Marie?
40:15She's still above in the hospital with the baby. He's after taking the antibiotics. She's doing grand. It's me that needs to see you.
40:25Are you expecting, Queenie, under this coat and having me ninth? You don't shout about it when you get to my age.
40:35But I heard what you and the other nurse was saying. I need skilled help.
40:43If you want it, we'll make sure you get it.
40:46I do want it.
40:47My last was a stillborn, even though I had it in the hospital.
40:53I'm so sorry that happened to you, Queenie.
40:57But we're going to walk beside you now.
41:03I'll start by filling in your co-op card.
41:05A tin of carnation milk, if you please.
41:20Ah, and a quarter of humbugs, if you'll be so kind.
41:26No, no, no, no, no, no. Perhaps just two ounces.
41:29I do not consume them in any conspicuous pace.
41:32You don't want them all turning sticky at the bottom of the bag.
41:36No.
41:44Oh! I thought I heard that.
41:47It catches.
41:50Isn't it?
41:53I think Mr. Buckle was supposed to oil it before he went away.
41:57He must have forgotten.
41:58But then I...
42:00I thought I'd imagined it.
42:04But now...
42:06It catches.
42:12It's all very well and good complaining that all the people who can deliver babies have gone to Hong Kong.
42:16I'm more concerned that all the people who can sew have gone to Hong Kong.
42:19You're always waving your magic wand and producing costumes, Geoffrey.
42:23And no one's going to see the details.
42:25It's pro-carnival.
42:27Everything's going to be moving past at speed.
42:29Well, moving past.
42:31I'm an ideas man.
42:33And a contacts man.
42:34I'm not a needle and thread man.
42:35And it was not my idea to dress up the midwives of Nunata's house as angels complete with ostrich feather wings.
42:42I thought we could do it with just a bit of cotton and sticking.
42:44Like grizzling in our Christmas trees.
42:46They're palm trees.
42:48I heard rumors the sewing machine was out.
42:51Angela just tried on her spoon costume and ripped it.
42:55You look like you could do it with a snowball, honey.
42:58Do you want some maraschino cherry in it?
42:59I'll have two.
43:01What sort of wounds have they taught you to suture at medical school?
43:04Oh, my highlights include closure of incision after two appendectomies.
43:08And I did a rugby play scalp once.
43:11Needle, thread.
43:13If you want a cocktail, you're going to have to earn it.
43:27This is not the way I intended my service to end.
43:32It's a patient in a sanatorium.
43:35You have given all you can, Sister Edith.
43:40That is enough and more.
43:42It was the children I lived for and loved the best.
43:47I remember your daughter well.
43:50May?
43:51Oh, she's ten years old now.
43:54And so many children passed through the orphanage.
43:58I took medicine to her mother, Esther.
44:06Three months ago, she was living out on Tau Street, number 122.
44:11The numbers daubed on on the door.
44:15Sister Edith, do you think she might still be there?
44:18She was there once and not too long ago.
44:22Beyond that, I cannot say.
44:24The sooner we are able to move into the premises, the better it will be for the people in our care.
44:49I can even overlook the pigeon infestation for a small reduction in the rent.
44:55The outpayment will be 2,000 Hong Kong dollars.
44:59The sisters have the funds for that.
45:01And there will be ongoing support from a number of...
45:07I'm going.
45:08Let's hope the army can help with our medical supplies.
45:13The collapse of that clinic barely made the news here.
45:15And of course, we're delighted to assist now that we know there's a res commission on.
45:19The sisters need all the help they can get, sir.
45:21It's not disinterest because buildings fall down all the time.
45:24It's avoidance.
45:26Because it's going to happen more and more.
45:28Everybody knows that and there's nothing we can do.
45:30Because of the overcrowding?
45:32Because they just keep building upwards on insecure foundations.
45:35One misplaced mudslide could obliterate Kowloon.
45:39At least we can improve on the human side of things.
45:43Morning, Major.
45:44Morning, Corporal.
45:45I'm coming with my best party manners and a begging bowl.
45:49Really, it's extraordinarily kind of you to accompany us, Mrs Buckle.
46:09I thought it may be necessary to tell untrue, sister.
46:14And I thought if that was the case, then better me than you.
46:17Mrs Buckle, have you told untruths?
46:21No.
46:23I may have slightly preempted one or two realities,
46:27although I'm sure the Rotary Club will be only too pleased to offer their support.
46:32Once I make contact and explain the situation.
46:36I don't even ask about the private philanthropists.
46:40One of them is me.
46:41And I'm sure there will be others.
47:01It's not just the TB kits and penicillin I'm grateful to the Major for.
47:05It's use of the Army labs for processing the tests.
47:09Oh, it's all well and good to sisters having faith in God.
47:14But I reckon the military beat him every time.
47:17The military is certainly better organised.
47:20Well, I suppose they have to be the same as the police, especially with all this triad malarkey.
47:25Just like the Kray Twins and then some.
47:28I've stitched wounds inflicted by the Kray Twins.
47:32They never bothered us.
47:34More than Arta's house.
47:36In fact, the sisters were revered.
47:39I don't reckon the triad revered the sisters here.
47:42If they did, they would help them.
47:44I think you're right.
47:46You know, violence, Derek, says there's somebody, triad,
47:51in every street that people have to answer to or pay.
47:54And Mrs. Maher is living in fear of someone.
48:08I'm searching for a young lady called Esther Tang.
48:12She used to live at this address and has a young boy about the same age as this little one.
48:24I wonder if you or your wife might know where she moved to?
48:30She has gone.
48:31She will not return.
48:38Miss?
48:39Miss?
48:40Esther left one week ago.
48:42Did she say where she was going?
48:44She was sick and she was afraid.
48:48Don't look for her, please.
48:50Can I ask your name?
48:52Grace.
48:53Grace.
48:54Don't look.
48:55Don't look.
48:55Don't look.
49:08Have yourself a merry little Christmas.
49:14Let your heart be light.
49:17From now on, our troubles will be out of sight.
49:22Merry Christmas.
49:23Merry, merry, merry Christmas.
49:25Have yourself a merry little Christmas.
49:31Make the yuletide gay.
49:34From now on, our troubles will be miles away.
49:39All your troubles could turn into others.
49:42Once again, as in olden days, happy golden days of yore.
49:52Faithful friends who are dear to us, gather near to us once more.
49:58Joyce, Trixie's supposed to be doing our makeup, but there's no sign of her.
50:09She's not the only one who knows what to do with a bit of eyeshadow.
50:13And if she doesn't turn up on time, our floaters leave them without her.
50:16Isn't it going to look a bit feeble with just the three of us?
50:20We are midwives.
50:21Not the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
50:24Pack, pack, pack.
50:25You are all to visit the toilets now and come straight back here as soon as you have washed your hands.
50:33Now, Harry, who has arrived from university just in time to help us tonight.
50:51Promise me you'll always have me home for Christmas.
50:56We're going to be late, Geoffrey.
50:58If you were content with boarding a carnival float, wearing improperly attached angel wings,
51:04well, I can assure you I wasn't.
51:06Oh, for pity's sake.
51:08Pitching this pram through snow is like dicing with insanity.
51:13What's that?
51:14It's a walking stick.
51:16Oh, it's actually rather elegant.
51:19I think it's got a solid silver top.
51:22Oh, no, no, sis, I know this.
51:25This belongs to one of my Harley Street patients,
51:27Maurice Templemore.
51:28He was an enormous film star when the Torkis first came out.
51:31What's it doing here in Poplar?
51:33Also, if there's one thing I do know,
51:35if you find a walking stick lying on the ground,
51:38you're likely to find its owner nearby and lying in a similar position.
51:42Sir?
51:42No.
51:44Maurice Templemore cannot be in Poplar.
51:47I doubt he even knows where Poplar is.
51:48He must have been burgled.
51:50Sir?
51:52Sir?
51:52Oh, my.
51:53Here.
51:53Here.
51:57I'm terribly sorry.
51:59I seem to have rather overstretched myself.
52:04Mr. Templemore.
52:06Please don't call me that.
52:08Not here.
52:09Here.
52:09Here.
52:15Here.
52:16Here.
52:21Here.
52:34Here.
52:34Here.
52:35Merry Christmas.
53:05Merry Christmas.
53:35I was born in this flat when the paper shop was a greengrocer.
53:41My father came all the way from Russia straight off the boats.
53:46All he knew was beets and turnips, and so he made a life from that.
53:52And you made a life out of different things entirely?
53:54A little Manny Fisher became Maurice Templemore.
54:00New York, Hollywood, and then home.
54:04Well, London's West End instead of the East End, and a life of comfortable obscurity.
54:12But everyone had gone.
54:20Your family had gone.
54:28Here, here.
54:29All manner of humanity that I once loved had gone.
54:39So I'd come home to die.
54:41Mr. Templemore, you live in Belgravia.
54:43Not anymore.
54:44And I'm no longer Mr. Templemore.
54:49There I truly was.
54:55He needs medical care, sis.
54:58And I'll arrange that in the morning.
55:00But at this precise moment in time, we have a carnival to catch.
55:04Come along.
55:04A baby, left to be found.
55:23This happened all the time at the Hibiscus Clinic.
55:28A girl.
55:31I've not put her at more than two days old.
55:33And the cord looks to have been chewed through.
55:36Oh, it's OK.
55:46Oh, it's OK.
55:55What do you mean we can't have a house on Half Lotus Street?
56:25We have the keys and we have paid the deposit it is not suitable
56:30Extremely suitable and we can move there immediately with the children and our adult patients the man who owns the building say no
56:38Give me the keys
56:50It
56:55Give me the keys
56:56Cuse
57:01Esther is a very very important person to our family
57:09It's as though they have both vanished
57:11Throw it a third piece
57:13Only doctors deliver my forceps
57:15Everyone's bringing a bottle
57:16Run by a crook who calls himself the Cormorant
57:21A gangster of the worst kind
57:23Mr. Fred and the doctor are in trouble
57:29Call the Midwife continues tomorrow evening at 8.30 on BBC One
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