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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.
01:45What are you saying?
01:48Have a nice day.
01:50Have a nice day.
01:54Kevin, 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 float and getting run over.
02:23Do you think they're going to need bigger rolls 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.
02:38Hello, Diane.
02:42Oh, 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.
03:10I'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.
03:23I mean, the whole Christmas carnival is in a good course.
03:27Um, elastic, black felt squares, um, sleigh bells, and WD-40.
03:36What's that for?
03:37To oil the sled runners?
03:39Fred needs to do the paper shop bell before we leave.
03:42Mrs Buckle, go.
03:45Go to Hong Kong.
03:47And do not give the Christmas carnival a second thought.
03:59Mrs Buckle!
04:02I'm sorry.
04:04I'm sorry, Mrs Turner.
04:06I'm not quite sure which way is up this evening.
04:08I wondered if you could take a tiny parcel to Hong Kong for me.
04:13It's a letter and some...
04:15Of 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.
04:37Mrs Turner, it 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.
04:50Yes, yes, yes.
04:52Whoever 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.
05:11Yes!
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 Jonti'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.
05:43Nevertheless, 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 them names.
05:52Professional discretion is my watchword.
05:55Have 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 END
06:22THE END
06:24BAND
06:25Please, let me not know.
06:55Please, let me take my hanky and put it on my head, Vi.
06:57No, we'll get you a nice, smart Panama hat as 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.
07:25There it is.
07:30The burning has collapsed. Stay back, please.
07:46The burning has collapsed. Please stay back.
07:48There must be fatalities.
08:11I'm sorry to intercept you, sister, but Mrs. Buckle has just telephoned from Hong Kong.
08:25It's about the branch house.
08:26How can an entire building just collapse? I've never heard of anything so colonial.
08:34There were rumours that the ground in that area was unstable.
08:38But whatever the cause, it'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.
08:47Some 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 are scattered across Kowloon.
09:00Once they have overcome this, they 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.
09:13I keep thinking we should be making Christmas trees for the carnival, not palm trees.
09:22The theme of the float is a Caribbean Christmas.
09:26There's going to be a steel band playing carols and a gospel choir.
09:30Are these the palm trees?
09:37Mm-hmm.
09:38I'm starting to think we should be making jacarandas.
09:41So, what's this letter you want to talk to me about?
09:48If ten days on the ground in Hong Kong means 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 of 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, as will Nurse Crane, Sister Veronica, and myself.
10:16So, this man, this Mr. Fisher, who writes with an educated hand from an address in Belgravia,
10:23wants to rent this flat with immediate effect?
10:26For a period of time that he is unable to specify, for an amount that we are free to name.
10:33You'll call me ruthless if you want to.
10:36But, Pastor Robinson, what I make of it is money for the church.
10:41Running a church is always going to cost somebody something.
10:44I'll find somewhere else to lay my head for a week or two.
10:46The truth is, I'm more worried about me missing you over there than I am about me being missed over here.
10:53You were vital to everything when we were in South Africa.
10:57And I came home with Teddy on the way.
11:00Look, Timothy is quite old enough to hold the fort if you came to Hong Kong.
11:06He's home on study leave for a month.
11:09Patrick, I'm needed here.
11:14That's the last box, Miss Higgins.
11:16Dr. Elise Watkiss is our first choice for locum cover.
11:24She's young, but has excellent GP experience.
11:26I will attend to the necessary paperwork.
11:29Timothy, you might call the pharmacy regarding the export forms whilst I see to this.
11:34Yes, Miss Higgins.
11:41And you'll never guess what.
11:43You can see it clear as day now it's blown up life-size.
11:46Can I have a person?
11:48Mum, look.
11:49Oh, it's me as a baby.
11:53Before we even knew her.
11:55I would recognize her any for you.
11:59Come on, ladies.
12:00Dig as deep as you can.
12:02Merry Christmas.
12:03Thank you very much.
12:04Every penny counts.
12:06Don't be shy.
12:15Some of these clothes are ours, Mum.
12:17Yes.
12:18I went up into the loft and there were bags full of woolies that went back years.
12:22This was mine.
12:23This was mine.
12:25I remember this.
12:26You had it when you first arrived from China.
12:32Would you rather we didn't send it off?
12:34Yeah.
12:34The radio reporter says, ready when you are.
12:37Ten-year-old May Turner has a special reason for helping with the appeal today.
12:44Can you tell the listeners what it is, May?
12:46I was born there.
12:50A photograph of May, aged 12 months and held safely in the arms of a Nonnatus nun,
12:55features on posters for the rescue mission.
12:58As the Nonnatus sisters are popular, headies to help.
13:00Do you have a message for people listening, May?
13:08Please give all you can.
13:14Because...
13:15Some of the children there have nothing.
13:24Sister Hilda will be joining the Nonnatus party at Heathrow.
13:28At least that's only one plane we have to meet, Fred.
13:32Derek, you're eating the lime marmalade.
13:36I'm not going to lie to you.
13:37I've laid awake at night dreaming of this stuff.
13:40Thanks for bringing it.
13:41And the mustard.
13:42Proper taste of home.
13:43It's even got English written on the tin.
13:46Fred and I were wondering about popping over to Kowloon
13:49to see if there's anything we can take the poor sisters.
13:52Mum, Kowloon isn't the East End.
13:55Nobody pops over there.
13:56Not to that bit of it, anyway.
13:59Hibiscus Street's about as dodgy as it gets.
14:01Drugs, prostitution, smuggling.
14:03Makes you wonder why the sisters are so keen to stay there.
14:07Well, it's the same as popular, innit?
14:09Bad things happen.
14:10Good people saw you out.
14:11Best people in the world couldn't sort Triad out.
14:13What is Triad, Derek?
14:16Organised crime.
14:17It's invisible and it's everywhere.
14:20I got used to Tim not being here because he's at medical school.
14:26What I can't get used to is him not being here because he's in the pub.
14:32Mum and Dad.
14:33You should be in bed, Tillie Mint.
14:38We've been talking.
14:39It's very late.
14:41We've all been talking.
14:42And we all want you to go to Hong Kong, Mum.
14:46Do you?
14:47Yes.
14:48And I want you to take this.
14:50And that was confirmation that you can refer any health visitor business over to Miss Haynes at the Stepney Clinic.
15:07If I say so myself, the plan is impregnable.
15:10You, meanwhile, are the only one I trust with my Rolodex.
15:13I will guard it with my life.
15:15And Nurse Aylwood considers herself on call at any time should you require her support with any administration.
15:22I'm also available for midwifery duty.
15:24You only have to pick up the phone.
15:26It's most unlikely that it will come to that.
15:33This is a mercy mission.
15:35It's also a mercy dash and we'll be home soon.
15:38By the time we all gather here again,
15:41we will have left our friends in Hong Kong in a place of hope and of comfort and of joy.
15:51Thank you, all of you, for helping us to help them.
15:58I am reminded of spit fires streaming overhead.
16:21Disguise and fights.
16:23Half known, but undetermined.
16:29They'll all be home by Christmas.
16:31That was our motto.
16:34In a different womb.
16:35I still don't like the idea of you living in a bed seat.
16:48Like you'd just come off the boat.
16:51It's a better bed seat than I had in those days.
16:53It's got fitted carpets and hot water.
16:55Oh, you, I take it, Apostle C.A. Robinson?
17:24Of the shining tabernacle Church of God.
17:28And you must be Mr. Fisher.
17:30Please, come in.
17:36We got rid of the electric meter to stop the lights going out when people were testifying.
17:41And this is the bedroom.
17:43We put up thick curtains so the trains won't bother you in the night.
18:00Well, the trains won't bother me at any time of day.
18:02All right.
18:26I thought you'd be saying lords in your room, Sister Monica-Joan.
18:47In Hong Kong, they will be saying the afternoon office.
18:50And the psalm does not vary, no matter from which corner of the globe we offer up our praise.
19:00I shall raise my voice with yours and theirs.
19:20I shall raise my voice and keep the fear of God's sleep.
19:26Praise the Lord.
19:32Praise the Lord.
19:36Praise the Lord.
19:41Praise the Lord.
19:45Praise the Lord.
19:50Praise the Lord.
19:59Defeat this, Dr. Turner.
20:04You just have to keep your nerve.
20:07I 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.
20:23We 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.
20:33That's one of our sisters.
20:52Sister Eve!
20:54I greet you in the Lord Jesus Christ's name.
21:01We greet you likewise.
21:10There is much to be considered.
21:16Seven day, I have them upstairs.
21:20Sick nun, sick children.
21:22And we could not be more grateful.
21:25See that term, Cantonese.
21:28I know.
21:30Not important.
21:31Trouble.
21:32I know also.
21:33You have trouble.
21:34Come.
21:35Help.
21:36Help.
21:48We can't all be living here.
21:54Onward.
21:55I can hear the child crying.
21:56I believe Sister Simon will need to go to hospital and have her wrist reset under anaesthetic.
22:17And I suspect Sister Prudence has a broken collar bone.
22:24We're going to have to stand them all down and send them for hospital treatment.
22:29When did the diarrhea start?
22:30Before the cough or after?
22:31Doctor, I know what ails me.
22:32I have tuberculosis.
22:33Are you sure?
22:34Or do you simply fear it?
22:35Miliary tuberculosis.
22:36The worst kind.
22:37Tuberculosis is so very contagious.
22:38It has spread from my lungs throughout my body.
22:39I have little time left to live.
22:40When were you diagnosed?
22:41The day the clinic collapsed.
22:42I was told by our doctor, Dr. Li.
22:43I took myself out for a walk whilst she arranged for me to go to a sanatorium.
22:44I was told by our doctor, Dr. Li.
22:45I was told by our doctor, Dr. Li.
22:46I took myself out for a walk whilst she arranged for me to go to a sanatorium.
22:48And when I returned, there was no clinic.
22:49I was told by our doctor, Dr. Li.
22:50I took myself out for a walk whilst she arranged for me to go to a sanatorium.
22:55And when I returned, there was no clinic.
23:00I was told by our doctor, Dr. Li.
23:05I took myself out for a walk whilst she arranged for me to go to a sanatorium.
23:13And when I returned, there was no clinic.
23:18And no doctor.
23:21And no bed in a sanatorium.
23:25And no choice but to carry on handling the children.
23:35Oh, oh.
23:38Your kind, nurse.
23:44Just doing my job, love.
23:47The least main treatment for preeclampsia is bed rest.
23:52Both these ladies have had that rudimentary though the beds may be.
23:57Once we've unpacked, I'll ask them to oblige me with some samples and get the dipsticks out.
24:03What?
24:06This is infected.
24:07I don't think it's been properly cleaned.
24:09Is it any wonder with them all huddled up here without even the barest essentials?
24:14Not to mention ignoring their own injuries.
24:18If you ask me, the sisters work miracles enough just keeping everyone alive.
24:25And now it's our turn.
24:27This bag reminds me of a cash and carry.
24:30There must be a gross of tin bamboo shoots in this box.
24:35And enough soy sauce to float about with it.
24:38Do you reckon Mrs. Ma would mind if we move stuff about?
24:42We'll have to ask her, Fred.
24:44I know she's a Christian convert and she has been very accommodating.
24:48But these are her premises.
24:51I need the labelled crates and medical supplies, Fred.
24:54We have to run urgent TB tests on everyone.
24:57Over here, Doc.
24:58Excellent.
24:59Excellent.
25:02No.
25:04No, no, no, no.
25:07These have been forced open.
25:13It's all gone.
25:14Is that the new Vista Sanatorium?
25:27You have been charity itself, Mrs. Ma.
25:30At our home.
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.
25:40We will find a new clinic.
25:43We will find a new convent.
25:45But we cannot do that today.
25:48It's not safe.
25:49Why is it not safe?
25:56You stay.
25:57Stay now.
25:58But go soon.
26:00And use back door, not front.
26:01Linnata's house.
26:02Red Wife speaking.
26:03Can I bring my wife to the maternity home, please?
26:04Of course, sir.
26:05What name is it?
26:07She says what name?
26:08Diane Mary Edgar!
26:10Diane Mary Edgar.
26:11Diane Mary Edgar.
26:12I made myself a cup of coffee, Miss Higgins.
26:14Do you want?
26:16I generally keep myself in check until elevens is.
26:20Your white coat should be hanging on the back of the door of the consulting room, would you?
26:24Yes.
26:25I'm sorry.
26:26I'm sorry.
26:27I'm sorry.
26:28I'm sorry.
26:29I'm sorry.
26:30I'm sorry.
26:31I'm sorry.
26:32I'm sorry.
26:33I'm sorry.
26:34I'm sorry.
26:35I'm sorry.
26:36I'm sorry.
26:37I'm sorry.
26:38I'm sorry.
26:39You're 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.
26:44We've got bad coughs coming in at half past nine, in ten past ten, and at eleven.
26:48All-
26:56Is that appropriate?
26:57Excellent.
26:58I'll have a quick rummage through their notes just to make sure.
27:01The files are through here, aren't they?
27:02They are indeed.
27:03Um, no fluids in the filing room, if you'd be so kind.
27:07Oh!
27:08Perfect work.
27:09You certainly know what you're doing.
27:10Oh, I feel terrible about bringing those reindeer heads.
27:25I'd have never got them finished otherwise.
27:28Good morning.
27:29May I help you?
27:30My name's Queenie Forsythe.
27:32My daughter's in child bed.
27:33We arrived last night.
27:34There are six massive pushes I've done now.
27:40It's not budging, nurse.
27:42Let's get you back on the bed, and then I can examine you.
27:47We'll soon have a better idea of your progress.
27:49I'm telling you now there hasn't been any.
27:52This one's not playing the same game as my others.
27:55No!
27:56No!
27:57Oh, my!
27:58Midwife's calling.
27:59Good gracious!
28:00It's like the first day of the sale's in here.
28:01Can we open one of those windows and let in a bit of air?
28:05How long have you been feeling that you need to push, child?
28:06I don't know.
28:07Every time they yell at me to push, I try.
28:08Five hours.
28:09Five hours.
28:10Five hours she's been at it.
28:11Okay, honey.
28:12Until we know what's what you must not push, do you hear me?
28:27You must not push.
28:29Five hours. Five hours she's been at it.
28:34Okay, honey. Until we know what's what, you must not push. Do you hear me?
28:39You must not push. I am not a bossy woman, but I am being bossy now.
28:47How much did your other babies weigh, Diane?
28:50Seven pounds, six and eight pounds, nine. Darren was like giving birth to a sofa.
28:54This one feels like a ruddy three-piece suite and a coffee table.
28:57I 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?
29:18I'm quite a big baby, but my dad, Dr. Turner,
29:22always 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.
29:44We need ice.
29:45Ice?
29:47I think I saw a refrigerator.
29:48If we don't make this work, she'll need a caesarean 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.
30:18Oh, no.
30:24Timothy, this won't do.
30:30In the loudest house, if you pursue midwives, they are all abroad.
30:36Or otherwise at large.
30:37Is there nobody there at all?
30:40Nurse Clifford has a multi-parous woman in obstructed labour.
30:44And the locum doesn't know how to use forceps.
30:46Supply the details.
30:48And 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 ever had slip underneath your covers.
30:59Are 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.
31:19Diane, 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.
31:33The best authority you can possibly imagine.
31:38Let her have a little nap.
31:39Is 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.
32:08As all bits worked.
32:12I just want to lie down.
32:14Baby has shifted position, Diane.
32:16All we need to do now is make things with gravity.
32:22I'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.
32:34I fear verbal instructions alone would not suffice.
32:39Verbal instruction has done more than you could possibly imagine.
32:42Baby's head is beginning to crown.
32:44The 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.
33:00Slow.
33:02Slow, quiet, steady.
33:12We've got the head.
33:14Come on.
33:16You can do it.
33:17Keep it coming.
33:19Keep it coming.
33:19Keep it coming.
33:26Is he a boy or a girl?
33:28I'm afraid I can't tell.
33:29I've got something in my eye.
33:31Can you see, Sister Monica Joan?
33:37I can see every aspect of the miracle.
33:41You have a daughter.
33:50This stinging will end soon, Marie.
33:52Just breathe.
33:53Just breathe.
33:54Just 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.
34:08Oh, boy.
34:30Oh boy.
34:36You've a little boy, Marie
34:41All will be well, Marie
34:45I 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
35:04And he is not leaving his mother's arms until he is baptised
35:07Well
35:12Dr Watkus' curriculum vitae stated very clearly
35:17She is fully trained in obstetrics
35:19She has now revealed that in almost five years of GP practice
35:23She has only delivered two babies
35:25Neither with any complications
35:27That's the way it is these days
35:28We're all trained in obs and gynae
35:31But the expectation is that almost every baby will be born in hospital
35:34Dr Watkus wanted to continue trial of labour
35:37But 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
35:47In the days when there might have been no doctor to send for
35:50We were wise out of necessity
35:53And you are skilled in your own right
35:57Nevertheless
35:59I will not permit this to happen again
36:02I am sending for Nurse Elwood
36:04Lord Jesus Christ
36:10Who took little children in your arms and blessed them
36:13Hold this infant, Luke Michael
36:16In your matchless love
36:18Today and always
36:19Fill his mother and father with your peace
36:23And cherish him according to thy will
36:26Amen
36:29Is it worth asking if the army have any record of her?
36:49She would have just been cheap casual labour
36:52After she lost a 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
37:06Esther Tan gave us the greatest gift we've ever had
37:10And we can't abandon her
37:13No, we can't
37:16Sister Hilda
37:24Are you lying awake for the same reason that I'm lying awake?
37:29I don't know
37:30Well
37:32I'm lying awake
37:34Because we've flown halfway around the world on a rescue mission
37:37And if we get thrown out of this place by Mrs. Marr
37:40We're going to be in as much need of rescue as anyone else
37:42The injured
37:45And the six sisters are leaving in the morning
37:48Sister Edith to the sanatorium
37:51And the other sisters to the Roman Catholic Hospital
37:54We have orphans to care for
37:56And expectant mothers
37:58Any one of whom could have caught TB
37:59And out in the street
38:02There are prostitutes and addicts who will look to ask for help
38:05I know there are
38:07But we will pray
38:08And we will wait to see what love can do
38:12We will pray
38:23We will pray
38:24We will pray
38:30¶¶
38:59¶¶
39:16¶¶
39:21Oh, Mr Parry himself expressed satisfaction with our care.
39:25Good afternoon, ladies.
39:27Dr. Watkiss, I presume.
39:30Nurse Elwood?
39:31Sister Elwood, as it happens, I've accepted a promotion during the absence of Dr. Turner,
39:36under whom I've worked for 16 years ever since I qualified.
39:41So we have three mothers over 40, two gestational diabetes, and Maureen Santaro, I know already.
39:48She 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.
39:55And Dr. 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.
40:17He's after taking the antibiotics.
40:20She's doing grand.
40:21And it's me that needs to see you.
40:27Are you expecting, Queenie, under this coat and having me ninth?
40:33You don't shout about it when you get to my age.
40:35But I heard what you and the other nurse was saying.
40:41I need skill to help.
40:43If you want it, we'll make sure you get it.
40:46I do want it.
40:48My last was a stillborn.
40:50Even though I had it in hospital.
40:53I'm so sorry that happened to you, Queenie.
40:57But we're going to walk beside you now.
41:00I'll start by filling in your co-op card.
41:13Oh!
41:16A tin of carnation milk, if you please.
41:18Ah, and, um, a quarter of humbugs, if you'll be so kind.
41:26Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
41:28Perhaps just two ounces.
41:29I do not consume them in any conspicuous place.
41:32You don't want them, ah, turning sticky at the bottom of the bag?
41:36No.
41:36Oh, 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.
41:59But then I...
42:00I thought I'd imagined it.
42:03It 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 for a 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 a spoon costume and ripped it.
42:53You 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.
43:15This 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.
43:59I took medicine to her mother, Esther.
44:05Three 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, and there will be ongoing support from a number of...
45:04Oh, thank you.
45:07I'm going.
45:08Well, let'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.
45:21Well, it'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.
46:18Mrs Buckle.
46:18Have you told untruths?
46:21No.
46:23I may have slightly preempted one or two realities, although 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.
46:42And I'm sure there will be others.
46:44It'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.
47:08Oh, it's all well and good, the 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.
47:24I mean, just like the Kray Twins and then some.
47:28I've stitched wounds inflicted by the Kray Twins.
47:32But they never bothered us.
47:34More than an artist's house.
47:36In fact, the sisters were revered.
47:38I 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 in every street that people have to answer to or pay.
47:55And Mrs. Ma is living in fear of someone.
47:58Oh, I'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.
48:18I wonder if you or your wife might know where she moved to?
48:30She has gone.
48:31She will not return.
48:38Miss, Miss.
48:40Esther left one week ago.
48:42Did she say where she was going?
48:44She was sick and she was afraid.
48:47Grace, don't look for her, please.
48:50Can I ask your name?
48:53Grace, don'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, merry, merry Christmas.
49:26Have 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 wobbles.
49:42Once again, as in olden days, happy golden days of yore.
49:51Faithful friends who are dear to us, gather near to us once more.
49:58Joyce, Trixie's supposed to be doing our make-up, but there's no sign of her.
50:09She's not the only one who knows what to do with a bit of eye shadow.
50:13And if she doesn't turn up on time, our floater's leaving without her.
50:17Isn't it going to look a bit feeble with just the three of us?
50:19We are midwives, not 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.
51:24This belongs to one of my Harley Street patients, Maurice Templemore.
51:28He was an enormous film star when the Torkist first came out.
51:31What's it doing here in Poplar?
51:33Also, if there's one thing I do know, if 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?
51:51Sir?
51:52I'm terribly sorry.
51:59I seem to have rather overstretched myself.
52:04Mr. Templemore.
52:06Please don't call me that.
52:08Not here.
52:22Mr. Templemore.
52:33Thank you, sir.
52:34Merry Christmas.
53:04Merry 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 Moise Templemore.
54:00New York, Hollywood, and then home.
54:04Well, London's West End.
54:07Instead of the East End, and a life of comfortable obscurity.
54:12But everyone had gone.
54:20Your family had gone.
54:21Here, here.
54:34All 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.
54:45And 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.
55:03A baby left to be found.
55:23This happened all the time at the obiscus clinic.
55:28A girl.
55:30I've not put her at more than two days old.
55:34And the cord looks to have been chewed through.
55:37Oh, my mum, my baby.
55:40Oh, it's okay.
55:42Oh, dear.
55:43You're not going to get me.
55:45I'll tell you, give me your money, give me your money.
55:48Give me your money.
56:13what do you mean we can't have a house on half lotus street we have the keys and we have paid
56:27the deposit it is not suitable it's extremely suitable and we can move there immediately with
56:33the children and our adult patients the man who owns the building say no give me the keys
56:40keep me the keys
56:56keys
57:01esther is a very very important person to our family
57:10it's as though they have both vanished throw it a third piece only doctors deliver my forceps
57:15everyone's bringing a bottle run by a crook who calls himself the cormorant a gangster of the worst
57:23kind miss a fret in the doctor i'm trouble
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