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Call the Midwife - Season 14 Episode 101 -
(special) Christmas Special 2025 (2)
(special) Christmas Special 2025 (2)
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00:00How on earth can an entire building just collapse?
00:23Esther Tang gave us the greatest gift we've ever had.
00:26And we can't abandon her.
00:28So I've come home to die.
00:30My last was a stillborn.
00:33No, it's a baby left to be found.
00:37It's not safe.
00:39Give me the key.
00:51We don't get snow in the Caribbean, but nothing's ever perfect.
00:56I don't think it could be more perfect.
01:02Keys.
01:03Money.
01:05I'm afraid it really is that simple.
01:09Who let it simple?
01:10We have paid a deposit on that rental.
01:14You mistake our intention, sir.
01:17We are a religious order, and we've come here to do good, not harm.
01:22We're doing women's work.
01:26I'm surprised it doesn't have any interest at all to men, with guns or without.
01:31The other sister said they were doing Jesus' work.
01:35Jesus' work belongs to the devil!
01:38Give him the keys.
01:40Please, wait, wait.
02:00Please, no!
02:01Get off, get off, get off.
02:02I took your money, all of it.
02:25Do not be kind to me.
02:29You were at least as frightened as we were of that man.
02:32And I suspect you have been so for a great deal longer.
02:36Has he been here before, Mrs. Ma?
02:40Many times.
02:41I pay him to keep my business safe.
02:44I think you need to pay someone to keep you safe from him.
02:47Mrs. Ma, what has happened here tonight is not acceptable.
02:52If we have brought trouble to your door, that is not acceptable either.
02:57And we will move on as soon as we are able.
03:03You keep holding her clothes while I check her temperature.
03:09Do you think she's opioid addicted, sister?
03:12You have more experience of that than me.
03:16It's a different type of crime.
03:19I think she's cold and hungry.
03:25Feels the want of her mother's arms around her.
03:30Babies are not ignorant creatures.
03:37Ladies, Nurse Clifford and I were wondering,
03:41since everything's now running smoothly,
03:44whether we might be permitted to have a little seasonal gathering
03:47here at Nanata's house?
03:49I love the idea of a seasonal gathering,
03:50but it's certainly not up to me to give permission.
03:54It would really just be ourselves.
04:01Plus a few of our friends from nursing and hospital circles.
04:05Will there be popular music playing and will there be dancing?
04:09And the presence of young men?
04:12Well, Cyril will be coming.
04:14And we thought we'd invite Harry Chopra and Timothy.
04:18I consider myself persuaded.
04:23Life is short.
04:25And Christmas, as we are so frequently reminded,
04:29comes but once a year.
04:34Morning.
04:35I'm looking for Queenie.
04:36Queenie, I know it's hard to talk about
04:42what went wrong with the baby that you lost.
04:46But not talking might make it harder.
04:50In a different way.
04:55I think this window lean is dried.
04:58If you pass me a rag, I can get ahead with it.
05:00They said I wasn't to see it.
05:13Even though I heard it cry.
05:16Queenie, if you heard your baby cry,
05:19it wasn't stillborn.
05:21It was a girl.
05:24They told me that.
05:26I said I wanted her baptized.
05:29But they said that the priest came too late.
05:38If you don't feel like eating,
05:39then you must try and keep up for liquids.
05:42Soup would be particularly good.
05:43Soup?
05:45I never cared much for soup.
05:47When I was a child, soup was a sign
05:49that ends were not meeting.
05:51But now, soup is a sign
05:54that I am meeting my end.
05:56You don't have to joke about this, Mr. Fisher.
06:01Not unless you want to.
06:03Nothing really matters now but your comfort.
06:05And there are things we can do with regard to that.
06:08Even though there are things that we can't change.
06:12Isn't that right, nurse?
06:14That's absolutely right.
06:17What would you most like to happen
06:19over the next few weeks, Mr. Fisher?
06:21I came here because I wanted to come home.
06:25But I failed to allow for the fact
06:26that home is where your family are.
06:29Or were.
06:31Mine are all gone, so...
06:33Ghosts are good companions for the heart.
06:40But they're not company.
06:42Are you saying you don't want to be alone?
06:45Yes.
06:45I asked the midwife what happened to the baby.
06:57All she would say was she had the biggest eyes.
07:01And she said biggest like it was a compliment.
07:05She was kindly.
07:09Two other nurses came in and watched me.
07:11I heard one of them say
07:17that my baby had no head.
07:25But I knew they were lying
07:27because the kindly midwife
07:29said that she had the biggest eyes.
07:34I wish I could tell you what happened to your daughter.
07:38But I can tell you the truth.
07:41That she was loved.
07:45Loving's not the same as being baptized, though, is it?
07:49I believe it's very similar.
07:51More hot water.
08:05Now you have to give her name.
08:08Chinese and English.
08:10What's your name?
08:11I'm afraid it's not very with it.
08:14It's Phyllis.
08:15It is too hot to say.
08:17We sisters all have two names, too.
08:20The one we were born with
08:21and the one we took when we gave our lives to Jesus.
08:24What yours?
08:26Pamela.
08:27Semi-classical with rather a nice ring to it.
08:30Hmm.
08:32Sister Julienne was baptized Louise.
08:36I know two bar girls called Louise.
08:40You a bon name?
08:41Uh, Beryl.
08:43Beryl Burroughs.
08:44Although the surname isn't relevant.
08:46Beryl's a precious stone, isn't it?
08:49And we can't say this one isn't a little gem.
08:53Beryl, it is.
08:54Beryl's a precious stone, isn't it?
08:57Tag it.
09:01Dr. Turner's surgery?
09:03Oh, Miss Higgins.
09:04I've been offered half a dozen shifts on male surgical.
09:07At St. Cuthbert's?
09:08Uh, yes.
09:08I'll be supernumerary, but it's under Mr. Beryl.
09:11Oh, Mr. Beryl is held in the very highest regard.
09:17Oh, I assume, however, that if you take up this chance,
09:19it may threaten the stability and security of the children's routine.
09:22It could be devastating.
09:27Queenie's had no complications at all in this pregnancy,
09:31apart from mild anemia,
09:33despite her age,
09:34and despite the fact that it's her ninth.
09:37But she is desperately anxious.
09:40Well, does she think the same disaster might be visited again?
09:44How can I tell her it won't,
09:46if I don't know what happened either?
09:47Oh, that's clever.
09:54It is a better use for this contraption
09:56than the plucking up and putting on of shoes,
09:59which is supposedly its purpose.
10:03Sister Annika Jo,
10:04I wondered if I might ask for your help.
10:07It's good.
10:14It's certainly stable.
10:17You're doing well, lass.
10:18What is lass?
10:20Oh, it means girl.
10:23It's what we call a term of endearment.
10:27A way of being kind.
10:28My mother used to say leu-leu.
10:32Where is your mother, Yu-chan?
10:35In our village in Guangdong.
10:39If she's still alive.
10:42Could you write to her a letter?
10:48She does not know how to read.
10:53I do not know what to say.
10:55I do not know what to say.
10:58Oh, I come here.
11:01I have a baby.
11:05We need you to stay well and happy
11:09until this baby comes.
11:15I'll be your mother until then.
11:17Hibiscus Street isn't part of my division,
11:30but it's notorious, even within Kowloon.
11:33There are four branches of Triad active in Hong Kong
11:36and they run everything.
11:38Gambling, prostitution, drugs, the whole nine yards.
11:41Which is why our work there is so essential.
11:44The old clinic came under a branch run by a crook
11:47who calls himself the Cormorant.
11:49The Cormorant?
11:50He's a Liverpool Chinese.
11:52Born there and deported here during the war.
11:55Never went back.
11:56And why should he?
11:57He's made a decent living over here.
11:59Runs a nightclub called the Crimson Lantern
12:01and other rackets.
12:03How come you know all this,
12:04but crime's still running rampant?
12:06Knowing what Triad are doing
12:08doesn't mean we can stop them.
12:09We don't want to put you in a difficult position, Derek,
12:12but the sisters need advice.
12:16My advice is they should look for premises
12:18outside the Cormorant's area.
12:21They've done something to offend him
12:22and he won't let it go.
12:24Oh, Esther.
12:47Oh, where did you appear from?
13:02I've seen entrances on stage like that.
13:05Generally, they involve a trap door.
13:08The landlord provided the key
13:10and the district nurse hung it on a string
13:13inside the letterbox.
13:14What year were you born?
13:191897.
13:21Then you cannot be the child
13:23I delivered in this chamber.
13:25I did not arrive in Poplar until 1903.
13:29My brother Sammy,
13:31he was born in 1903
13:33and the others came after him.
13:37Then
13:37you must be the child
13:40with the large round eyes
13:42that sat on the bed
13:44and watched as I bathed
13:46this infant sibling.
13:48You had a remarkable gaze
13:51even then.
13:53Yes, I remember that.
13:56And I hope I remember you.
13:58I am most grateful for your assistance.
14:02Good day.
14:05Harry.
14:06Yes, Auntie.
14:07Miss Higgins.
14:10Just while we're in the surgery.
14:11Now, take Dr. Watkins her coffee.
14:14Then I need you
14:15to go to the records office for me.
14:18All right.
14:25And that
14:26was our kindly supporter
14:27at the British Army base
14:28informing us
14:30that Sister Prudence
14:31also tested positive
14:32for tuberculosis.
14:34And so have
14:35two of the children.
14:36This is a really
14:38vicious strain.
14:39Thank goodness
14:40we've all been vaccinated.
14:41We will have to get them
14:42transferred to the sanatorium
14:44and fumigate their room
14:46as well as Sister Ediths.
14:47Patrick,
14:48there's something
14:49you need to see.
14:52Hello, Teddy, dear.
15:02Teddy, whatever happened
15:03to the Christmas tree?
15:05Petula knocked it down.
15:07Where are the girls?
15:08In their bedroom.
15:10Playing with nail varnish.
15:12Nail varnish?
15:14Angela and May Turner.
15:16Hello, Miss Higgins.
15:22I have brought
15:23savoury mince
15:24and a peach blancmange.
15:26You will come and eat it.
15:28After which,
15:29we will re-elect
15:30the Christmas tree,
15:32erase all evidence
15:33of these manicures,
15:36and discuss a plan
15:37for the remainder
15:38of your parents' absence.
15:40There are photographs
15:44and letters in this bag
15:46that we sent to Esther
15:47from England.
15:48There are also
15:49what look to be
15:50her personal belongings.
15:52There's a comb
15:53and lipstick
15:54and underclothes
15:55and a child's shoe.
15:56Mrs. Ma,
15:58Esther is a very,
16:00very important person
16:01to our family.
16:04This is her daughter, May,
16:07who is our daughter now.
16:09You make good life
16:11for this girl.
16:12But Esther has another child now.
16:15A little boy.
16:17A little boy
16:21who was missing his shoe.
16:22And possibly missing
16:23his mother.
16:25Mrs. Ma,
16:26we don't even know
16:27if they're together anymore.
16:30Sister Edith, no.
16:32You are Sister Edith.
16:43No.
16:45Mrs. Forsyth.
16:47The midwife
16:49who attended
16:49your little girl's birth
16:51took great care
16:52to record her birth
16:53and her death
16:54in the proper way.
16:56I said she was kindly.
16:58And it seems
16:59that your daughter
17:00was born with a condition
17:02called anencephaly.
17:05The top of her head
17:06hadn't developed
17:08in the womb
17:08as it should have done.
17:10And her brain
17:10would have been
17:11very badly affected.
17:13Could it have hurt her?
17:14No.
17:15But I heard her cry
17:17and all babies cry,
17:18Queenie.
17:20It's a sign of life.
17:23And it's beautiful.
17:25Even if that life
17:27doesn't last very long.
17:32Was it something I did?
17:34No, Queenie.
17:36It wasn't.
17:37I can promise you that.
17:39All I want
17:40is to hold a life child
17:42in my arms
17:43and to tell it
17:45that it's mine.
17:46that the child's name
17:55is Christopher.
17:56She will protect him
17:57with her life.
18:00His father wants
18:01to take him from her.
18:03And his father
18:04is a criminal.
18:05A gangster?
18:06Of the worst kind.
18:08He has offspring
18:12by numerous women.
18:14But Christopher
18:15is his only son.
18:18What has Esther done
18:19to make him
18:20turn on her like this?
18:22Every time she conceived,
18:23she came to us.
18:25Aghast that this
18:26had happened again.
18:28But all she ever wanted
18:31was love.
18:34It happens the world over.
18:35I've seen it
18:36time and time again.
18:38No.
18:39You have not
18:40seen a man like this.
18:43They call him
18:44the Coormorant.
18:47He has ordered her
18:48and her child
18:49to be hunted
18:50down like dogs.
18:53At one point,
18:54we persuaded
18:55Mrs. Ma to hide her.
18:57But Sister Edith,
18:58it's as though
18:59they are both vanished.
19:02There is one place
19:05she thought
19:06that no one
19:07could ever find her.
19:09Will you tell me
19:10where it is?
19:11I must.
19:13Or when I die,
19:14the waters
19:15will close over her.
19:20What does that say?
19:21I think those
19:22two pictograms
19:23together mean
19:24for auction.
19:25We won't be
19:26going down that route.
19:27We won't be
19:28going down the rental route
19:29or the purchase route
19:30either, sister.
19:32I'm going to have
19:32taken every penny
19:33you possess.
19:34We're quite
19:34accustomed to poverty.
19:36Yes, we gave up
19:37money when we
19:38gave up men.
19:40What about
19:40this one?
19:41It says,
19:42Dancing Girls.
19:43You've dropped off
19:44property and drifted
19:45into nightclubs.
19:46Oh, please.
19:48I can read this one.
19:49It says,
19:50Police.
19:52Huh.
19:52We've got no apartment
20:12number,
20:12no floor number.
20:14We just have to keep
20:16on going.
20:17Keep on looking.
20:18Can she even survive
20:20like this?
20:33I want to find her.
20:34I just want to find
20:36her here.
20:36I just want to find her here.
20:36I just want to find her here.
20:38I want to find her here.
20:40Esther?
20:54Esther?
20:56Esther?
21:00Esther?
21:01Can we talk to you?
21:04I have Mrs. Turner with me.
21:06Hello, Hugh.
21:25You must be Christopher.
21:28I'll be waiting
21:28to meet you.
21:29Do you keep forgetting
21:36that it's advert?
21:37Yes.
21:38And it's not even
21:38the absence of cold
21:39that I marvel at.
21:40It's the absence,
21:42the absolute erasure
21:43of weariness.
21:44Do you feel it too?
21:45I've never felt
21:46such energy in years.
21:48You have to let us
21:50get you out of here.
21:52To somewhere
21:52where you can be nursed
21:53and given food and shelter.
21:56I don't go out.
21:56I stay here.
21:59I always stay here.
22:02The altar in the corner
22:03is beautiful, Esther.
22:05I pray always for you
22:06and for the souls
22:08of my parents.
22:10They have no sons.
22:12Christopher's father
22:13wants him very much,
22:14doesn't he?
22:15He will give him
22:16a wicked life.
22:17Make his child a criminal.
22:22Sisters,
22:23I don't tell your sincerity
22:25and I do accept
22:26that you
22:27and your associates
22:28have been targeted
22:29by local undesirables.
22:32Triad.
22:33Let's call a spade
22:34a spade, shall we?
22:34We have been targeted
22:35by triad.
22:37The Order
22:37of St Raymond and Artis
22:39have given shelter
22:40to abandoned babies,
22:41provided medicine
22:42and alternative employment
22:43to street girls
22:44and persuaded addicts
22:47to turn their backs
22:48on heroin.
22:50That, according to Mrs. Ma,
22:52is our crime.
22:54A young man
22:55enslaved to drugs
22:56is at the mercy
22:57of his masters.
22:58He will do
22:59whatever he is asked
23:00to do
23:01in exchange
23:01for the one thing
23:02that will give
23:03his body peace.
23:05But if he is
23:06freed from addiction,
23:07if he finds
23:08there is a better way
23:08to live,
23:10he will turn his back
23:11on crime itself.
23:12They become free men
23:14and, sometimes,
23:17police informants.
23:19I'm not going
23:20to deny that.
23:21Then you cannot
23:21deny the fact
23:22that we are
23:23doing you a service
23:24and in so doing
23:25warrant your protection.
23:28And how do you
23:29propose that we
23:29provide that?
23:32Property is vacant.
23:33Third column across,
23:34fourth paragraph down.
23:36This was an annex
23:38of the old training school.
23:40No longer in use,
23:41standing empty,
23:42and, crucially,
23:45still in police possession.
23:50I can't believe
23:51we're leaving them.
23:53We are coming back
23:54tomorrow with food.
23:56They're both sick,
23:57Sheila.
23:57But I need to run
23:59some tests
23:59on the little boy.
24:01There's something
24:01very, very wrong with him.
24:03mind your fingers.
24:14Everything's under control.
24:16I need tasters.
24:18Joyce,
24:19you can pronounce judgment
24:21on the whiskey cream punch.
24:23Sears,
24:24I want your opinion
24:25on the coconut frappe.
24:27That's going to give my
24:29snowballs a run for the money.
24:30I know.
24:31It slips down like a tart
24:32stocking, doesn't it?
24:33Sis?
24:34It's divine.
24:35Call me a miracle worker.
24:37It's mainly condensed milk.
24:39Oh, Jeffrey,
24:39that's going to make it
24:40very calorific.
24:41It's Christmas.
24:41I have personally
24:42declared an amnesty
24:44on Slender Rising.
24:50Ninata's house,
24:51midwife speaking.
24:52Hi, Trixie.
24:52I've just been observing
24:53a bowel anastomosis.
24:55That's nice.
24:56I asked you around the canteen.
24:57I've drummed up
24:57a few more for the party.
24:59Miss Higgins
24:59is staying the night
25:00with the children.
25:03Everyone's bringing a bottle.
25:09Ninata's house,
25:10midwife speaking.
25:10Nurse Hilward,
25:11are you able to come
25:12to the maternity home?
25:13Queenie Forsyth
25:14has just arrived.
25:18Hello, Mum.
25:22Busy again?
25:24I've managed
25:25to persuade
25:26Hong Kong Rotary Club
25:28to offer a modest grant
25:29to the sisters
25:30to set up a new clinic.
25:32I'm trying to work out
25:34if it will stretch.
25:36Chin up.
25:37Sun's over the yard on.
25:39Derek,
25:40gin and tonic.
25:41Madam?
25:41Thank you, Grace.
25:42I'm not sure.
25:43I wouldn't normally imbibe
25:45when I've got
25:45the ready reckoner app.
25:46Mum, please,
25:47take a break.
25:49Please stop doing stuff.
25:50Stop doing sums.
25:51It's all I can ever remember.
25:52You with your head
25:53in a column of figures.
25:54It's who I am,
25:56it's who I am, Derek.
25:57I know.
25:58I'd love it not to be
26:00just for half an hour,
26:02just while we have
26:03a drink together
26:03in the sun.
26:05Shall we do something
26:06together tomorrow?
26:07All right.
26:17Very good.
26:21Esther,
26:34I think Christopher
26:36may have a problem
26:37with his kidneys.
26:39I need to take him
26:40to a hospital.
26:42No.
26:44We'll stay here.
26:44Will you let doctor
26:47examine you now,
26:48Esther?
26:49We can talk about
26:50Christopher after that.
26:55Esther,
26:57you have breast milk
26:59soaking through
27:00your clothing.
27:02You don't still feed
27:03Christopher, do you?
27:05No.
27:05There is no baby.
27:10Not here.
27:11Have you given birth
27:12to another child,
27:14Esther?
27:15If there is
27:16another baby,
27:18will you tell us
27:19where it is?
27:23I leave my daughter
27:24where she will be safe.
27:28I leave her with sisters
27:30at the step of the restaurant
27:32in a box.
27:35Two copies
27:41of the Pickwick Papers.
27:43One
27:44from the Poplar
27:45Public Library.
27:48The other
27:49from mine own shelves.
27:51Oh.
27:52I am driven
27:53from my heart
27:54by the frivolities
27:56of youth.
27:57Oh,
27:57they have formed
27:58memories
27:58of the frivolities
27:59of youth.
28:01The appreciation
28:03of such pleasures
28:04pass me by.
28:06Any regrets?
28:08That is between
28:09myself and the Almighty.
28:11We can take you back
28:19with us, Esther.
28:20We can reunite you
28:21with your baby.
28:23I cannot go back
28:23to Hibiscus Street.
28:25My daughter is saved
28:25and my son's not.
28:26Esther,
28:28have you had to choose
28:29one child over the other?
28:31My son's father
28:32only want him.
28:33He will kill for him.
28:35Is this man
28:36the cormorant?
28:37Your little girl's father,
28:39too.
28:39I made you life.
28:41I thought he was
28:42a better one.
28:43A better man.
28:47I was wrong.
28:48when do you think it's a good time
29:16to start party games.
29:17I don't think it's ever
29:18a good time
29:18to start party games.
29:19Oh, Cyril,
29:20this house is full
29:21of nooks and crannies.
29:22It's just crying out
29:23for a game of sardines.
29:24I've tucked Marie and baby Luke
29:38up for the night
29:38on the sideboard.
29:40They're both fast asleep already.
29:46Nurse Aylward,
29:47could you listen
29:48to baby's heartbeat for me?
29:50What's wrong with his heartbeat?
29:51Nothing's wrong, Queenie.
29:52We just like to keep
29:53an eye on things.
29:54I want to go home.
29:55I'm not good here.
29:56I can't do it here.
29:57Holy Mary, Mother of God,
29:58I can't do it.
29:59Sweetheart,
30:00this is where you need
30:01to stay as calm as you can
30:02and save as much strength
30:03as you can.
30:04You're going to be able
30:05to start pushing
30:05this baby out soon.
30:08The heartbeat's dropping
30:09and she's exhausted.
30:10We need to get her to hospital.
30:14Barbie!
30:15Barbie!
30:16Barbie!
30:17Barbie!
30:17Barbie!
30:18Barbie!
30:19Barbie!
30:20Barbie!
30:21Barbie!
30:21By now to disperse
30:22as soon as you get
30:23to the landing,
30:24all of the lights
30:25will be turned off.
30:2720 minutes doesn't count
30:28as rapid transfer
30:29in my book, I'm afraid.
30:31The practice doctor
30:32is not answering her telephone
30:33and the flying squad
30:34are not available.
30:35We need an ambulance
30:36as soon as possible.
30:38I hope I find you.
30:45Hey.
30:45Now this
30:47is a good part of the game.
30:48It's bedlam out there.
30:52There are three medical students
30:53in the airing cupboard.
30:56Why don't we just go
30:57to your bedsitter for a bit?
30:59This is all getting
31:00so raucous.
31:02As long as we don't do anything
31:04improper.
31:06We never do anything improper.
31:08The rules of the studio couch
31:09are very firmly established.
31:12Mm-hmm.
31:15If you haven't got the strength
31:16to push,
31:17just pant, Queenie.
31:21The ambulance is on its way.
31:25Queenie, would you like us
31:26to wake Marie
31:27and she could come
31:28and hold your hand?
31:28No, I'd be half
31:30to worrying about her.
31:31I have seven children
31:32alive and living underwater.
31:34But the only one
31:35I can think about now
31:36is the one inside of me.
31:38I need to hold it
31:40in my arms.
31:44We've had half an hour
31:45of second stage contractions
31:47and there's been
31:47no descent of the head.
31:50I'm going to deliver
31:51this baby now.
31:52My forceps.
31:54The only doctors
31:55deliver my forceps.
31:56Sister,
31:56we don't have the luxury
31:57of making that distinction.
31:59This baby's heartbeat
32:00isn't picking up
32:01and if we delay,
32:01we're going to lose it.
32:07I'm not sure I know
32:09what the rules of this game are.
32:10I mean,
32:11we are sat in a cupboard
32:12with no drinks
32:13and there's no room
32:15for dancing.
32:16So we have to wait
32:17to be discovered
32:18and then the next person
32:20who discovers us
32:21has to squeeze in
32:22and the next one
32:23and the next one.
32:24Right.
32:25I found you.
32:32What do we do now?
32:34We wait,
32:35apparently.
32:39Well,
32:40to misquote Captain Oates,
32:42I'm coming in.
32:47And that may be some time.
32:49Oh,
32:51can I smell old clothes?
32:54Yes.
32:56My whole childhood's
32:56flashing before my eyes
32:58in here.
32:58I can see the jumper
32:59I wore in grammar school.
33:02Oh,
33:03I see
33:03nurse's uniforms
33:04and a nun's habit.
33:08Ow.
33:10Sweetie,
33:10I know you're tired,
33:11but three women
33:12are stronger than one
33:13on her own.
33:14We're going to work together
33:16to get this baby out
33:17and in your arms.
33:21Together.
33:22Queenie,
33:22do you hear that?
33:23We're all going to join forces.
33:25Will you tell me
33:32when you can see
33:33its head?
33:36Jeffrey Franklin,
33:38Timothy Turner,
33:39Harry Chopra.
33:39What are you doing
33:41in my bedroom?
33:42Good things come
33:43to those who've waited.
33:44Jeffrey!
33:44Try to bear down,
33:46Queenie.
33:47As soon as you feel
33:47the next contraction,
33:49clear down.
33:54Now.
34:00Here.
34:15I can hear the ambulance.
34:17And it's out.
34:28No ambulance required.
34:39Shh.
34:43Do you hear that,
34:44Queenie?
34:45Isn't that a beautiful sound?
34:46Glory be.
34:47But I love it.
34:49You are mine.
34:52And you are complete.
34:55And you are mine.
34:58And you're crying.
34:59They didn't even tell me
35:00if you're a boy or a girl.
35:02Oh, sorry.
35:03I forgot.
35:05It's a boy.
35:05Baby boy.
35:08Baby,
35:09my baby,
35:13I need you.
35:18I need you.
35:19Oh,
35:20I need you.
35:22But all you do
35:23is treat me better.
35:26Don't break my heart
35:27and leave me safe.
35:29Tell me what,
35:30I'll be wrong
35:32To make you stay away so long
35:36How many old recollections
35:44And how many dormant sympathies does Christmas time awaken
35:49Year after year, we met on that day
35:53A merry and joyous circle
35:55Many of the hearts that throbbed so gaily then have ceased
36:02Have ceased to beat
36:06Many of the looks that shone so brightly then have ceased to glow
36:18The hands we grasped have grown cold
36:25The eyes we sought have hid their lustre in the grave
36:29And yet the old house, the room, the merry voices and smiling faces
36:33The jest, the laugh, crowed upon our mind at each recurrence of the season
36:38As if the last assemblage had been but yesterday
36:42Happy, happy Christmas
36:45That can win us back to the delusions of our childish days
36:49That said, I'm Jewish, Sister Monica Joan
36:55Well, that does not prevent us from being companions in nostalgia
36:59Christmas is but one instance of a glimmer into the darkness
37:04Yes
37:05Yes
37:06Yes
37:07We have our feast of lights too
37:10It falls almost on the same date as Christmas this year
37:18Joyce
37:20Hmm?
37:33I'm dressed as a nurse
37:40Joyce
37:42I'm dressed as a nurse
37:44If it's any consolation
37:46You weren't the only one
37:48Is there anything else I need to know?
37:57It's all right Tanya
37:59I think we're safe
38:10If that unholy racket you're making is supposed to be my punishment
38:35I accept it
38:36As long as it's followed by strong black coffee
38:39Go, you'll get coffee
38:41And it will be accompanied by a dustpan, a brush
38:43And a pair of rubbered loves
38:45I suppose we ought to roll up our sleeves
38:47We?
38:49We?
38:49Geoffrey, I have been up all night delivering a baby
38:53And I've been wielding a bucket for this poor lamb
38:56Florence Nightingale's got nothing on me
38:59Good morning, Rosalind
39:04Or should I say, Nurse Clifford?
39:06I'm sorry
39:07I stayed the night at Cyril's
39:09Morning orders will take place in three minutes
39:11Nenata's house, charlady speaking
39:18Has no one observed that I did not sleep in my accustomed bed last night?
39:22Sister Monica June, this morning that is scarcely cause for comment
39:25Our charge, Mr Fisher, fell into a decline before midnight
39:30I assisted him to his bed
39:33Then deemed it inexpedient to leave him
39:37Oh, good morning, Harry
39:42The cloud of cologne on which you enter does nothing to reassure me
39:46Would you like a cup of coffee, Harry?
39:47Merry Christmas
39:58And thank you very much to all concerned
40:00Chase your rainbow anywhere you find it
40:14And maybe you'll find it tomorrow
40:17Love is a rainbow to light up your life
40:24It's a strong wind that blows away sorrow
40:28When you walk along lonely road
40:33When you're down and all the world can see
40:38When you want to run away and all the world can see
40:49I was afraid both Christopher and his mother would test positive for TB
40:52But I was wrong
40:54They're clean
40:55You weren't wrong about this, though
40:57Unilateral renal mass
40:58Right-hand side
41:00There isn't a scrap of fat on him
41:03I could feel it on palpation
41:05Soft tissue x-ray can be quite equivocal
41:09Nothing equivocal about this, though
41:12Wilms tumor
41:13Haven't seen a Wilms in general practice for nearly a decade
41:17But, yes, cancer of the kidney
41:20And he's two years old
41:23There was nothing here for him
41:24I know that
41:26But
41:27Nine months ago, we did have a Remy sergeant whose daughter had it
41:32We got the family sent back to the UK on compassionate grounds
41:35Did they lose her?
41:36Far from it
41:37There's a new chemotherapy being trialled at one of the London hospitals
41:41Brutal
41:42But spectacular
41:44Is it working?
41:46Yes
41:47I had a penny
41:51A bright new penny
41:53I took my penny
41:55To the market square
41:57I wanted a rabbit
42:00A little brown rabbit
42:02And I looked for a rabbit most everywhere
42:06For I went to the store
42:08For I went to the store
42:08Where they sold sweet lavender
42:11Only a penny for a bunch of lavender
42:15Have you got a rabbit?
42:17Because I don't want lavender
42:19They didn't have a rabbit
42:21They didn't have a rabbit
42:25Not anywhere there
42:27You must be baby Beryl's mummy
42:31Esther would like to feed Beryl
42:34Sister, do you think she's hungry?
42:36Well, most certainly
42:37She is a peckish little thing
42:40I can remember lying in bed
43:00And seeing exactly this view
43:03Of the snow
43:05Pulling
43:07There were four of us under the Eiderdale
43:10David
43:11Sammy
43:13Isaac
43:15And me
43:16I have often pondered
43:18What it must be like
43:19To
43:19Share a bed with others
43:22It's warm
43:25Knock knock
43:31Oh, it's not that
43:33Com plan of yours again
43:35Is it?
43:35No matter how often
43:36You gussy it up
43:37And there's paper umbrellas of yours
43:39I'm still bored of it
43:41It's actually a whisky cream punch
43:43A recipe that proves so efficacious
43:45At our Christmas party
43:46I'm thinking of applying for a patent
43:48Oh, it
43:49Is it?
43:53Is it the 22nd today?
43:56It's the 21st, Mr. Fisher
43:58Oh
43:59Then it's tomorrow
44:03What's tomorrow, old chap?
44:05The first night of Hanukkah
44:07Feast of lights
44:10Would you like me to find a rabbi for you, Mr. Fisher?
44:18It wouldn't hurt
44:20Can you just take a kitty halfway round the world, Doc?
44:28If he needs life-saving medical treatment
44:30And his mother gives permission
44:32Yes
44:33But you don't have to adopt him
44:36No, thank God
44:37It took us years to adopt me
44:40Christopher won't have years
44:41He may not even have months
44:43If we don't act fast
44:44It's good of the army to donate stuff
44:47I just hadn't reckoned on there being so much of it
44:49We need a taxi
44:51We're in luck
44:55Hibiscus house 79 Elgin Gardens, please
45:03Blimey
45:06You know, Mum
45:12You've done great things
45:14Here?
45:15In Hong Kong?
45:15Well, here and at home
45:17I've only heard about you being mayor in Tower Hamlets
45:20But now I've seen you
45:22Being someone
45:23Doing something in a city I can barely get to grips with
45:26All I've done is raise a bit of money
45:28And got people who can help talking to people who need help
45:32It's what I do
45:34Perhaps because it's all I can do
45:36Well, that's not nothing
45:37I'm sorry
45:39I needed evidence before I could respect you for it
45:43There's no need to be sorry
45:44For anything, ever
45:46You're my son
45:48Hello, Grace, dear
45:54Do you need something?
45:56Mr. Fred and the doctor are in trouble
45:58What sort of trouble?
46:00Worse than trouble
46:01They're in danger
46:01Please, don't ask me how I know this
46:04If you don't tell me
46:05I can't act on the information
46:07My husband works for the comrade
46:09I hear talking on the phone
46:31You're not taking my son to England
46:40If we don't, he will die
46:42You don't know that
46:43You've given me no proof of that
46:46Or any proof
46:48That you're even a doctor
46:50I can assure you
46:51His credentials are totally bona fide
46:54I'm even a scouser
46:55What school did you go to?
46:58Liverpool Institute
46:59My father had an ironmunker's shop
47:03In Cornwallis Street
47:04I probably walked right past it
47:07When war broke out
47:11They took me to a ship to be deported
47:13I had an English wife
47:16I never saw again
47:17Sometimes you lose people
47:20Sometimes they're stolen
47:22Or you are
47:24Are you a gambling man, Dr. Turner?
47:28No
47:29I am
47:31If you want my son
47:33You have to play me for them
47:34How about Margell?
47:39What cards?
47:41Poker?
47:42Jameer de Fer?
47:43Blackjack?
47:45You choose
47:46Baruch Atah Adonai
48:00Eloheinu melech haolam
48:03Asher kitshanu
48:07B'mitzvotav
48:09V'etsivanu
48:11L'hadlik neshe l'chanukah
48:17Amen
48:19Amen
48:20Thank you
48:29Thank you
48:32Is he allowed to choose a deputy?
48:36I could play on his behalf
48:37I don't think that would help, Fred
48:39You can play as many games as you want
48:43With cards, with words
48:46With me
48:48But if Christopher's life is lost
48:50Who will pray for him at your altar?
48:55Who will pray for you?
48:57Who will carry on your family line?
48:59You could have all of those things
49:04I can find a Chinese doctor for him
49:08I could be the one that saves his life
49:11Or you could just have your pride
49:14It doesn't matter who saves his life
49:17As long as it's saved
49:19And if it is saved
49:21I guarantee I will send him back to you
49:26Let's continue this conversation elsewhere, shall we?
49:35Go
49:36Doctor
49:37Take the kiss
49:40Tell him they give him a chance
49:56Let him breathe as nature intended him to breathe
50:00There is no consolation for him now
50:07In artificial air
50:09Better, old chap
50:16It will take time to rebuild
50:46But the foundations have been laid
50:49Are you happy to be staying on?
50:55Yes
50:55Because I don't doubt our purpose here
50:58Are you happy to be going home?
51:03Yes
51:03Because I'm more convinced than ever
51:06That our work is vital
51:07Wherever we are called
51:09Where do you imagine we'll be called next?
51:12I don't imagine
51:14But I will go and do whatever I am asked
51:18Things are ticking along like clockwork, Doctor
51:24Well done, Yuchan
51:25Pre-eclampsia isn't easy
51:27But you did everything you were told
51:29Do you lie down?
51:30There's no hard work
51:31Good lass
51:33Good lass
51:35I'm glad this baby's arriving before we leave
51:42But if it's the first baby born in a new brunch house
51:45It seems to me it should be brought into the world
51:48By one of the sisters
51:50Yes
51:52It should
51:53I'm keeping people waiting
52:08They're all just as they were
52:12When I was here
52:16When we were all at home
52:22I hate me
52:40A little girl, you child
52:48Congratulations
52:49Look at her
52:54Just look at her
52:58And laugh
52:59She's gorgeous
53:00You have been my mother
53:07Now I'm house
53:09I give a name
53:11That always bring your face to me
53:14We all agreed that Phyllis was too hard to say
53:18No Phyllis
53:19Nice
53:20Nice is easy to say
53:23I'm happy to remember
53:25I have seen death before
53:32It is terrible
53:33And it can be beautiful
53:36I think today it was that
53:39I have seen lovers come to fetch the dying
53:43I have seen mothers come
53:45But I have known no lover
53:50I have born no child
53:52And my parents
53:54Spurned me
53:55I have asked myself
53:58More often of late
54:01Than in years gone by
54:02Who will come for me
54:05When my time on earth concludes
54:08Your sisters
54:10Will come for you
54:11Those you knew in life
54:13Those who coached you through the novitiate
54:17Those who knelt beside you in prayer
54:21And by the beds of everyone you served
54:25So many sisters will come
54:28God can't have you yet, sister
54:30We can't spare you
54:33We should perhaps
54:39Turn our attention
54:42For the return of those we love
54:45The Hong Kong party
54:48Let us light
54:50Light for the living
54:51And marvel at them while we may
54:54Christopher
55:07You're going to give your mummy a kiss
55:09Please
55:14Keep him on
55:16I have a coat to put on him
55:20As well as this cardigan
55:22He used to belong to his sister
55:24I like that
55:27Bring in wops
55:34Make sure you're smiling
55:42Smile
55:43The little boy will get better
55:59We're in here
56:00There's every chance he'll get better
56:03Till then we just have to take care of him
56:05And be his family
56:07Oh, they're here
56:10Oh, Miss Higgins
56:14Haven't they managed well
56:16And this is Christopher
56:20You look so sweet
56:21Baby Christopher
56:23You look he smoke
56:25His hair feels like mine
56:29Christopher
56:32Couldn't be something dying to see your face
56:38Christmas can start now
56:42Can't it?
56:42Yes it can
56:43Because I'm a tea
56:45And you're home
56:46Oh
56:46Yes
56:49Does Christmas come at the end of the year?
57:13Or does it provide its turning point?
57:16Is it the moment
57:18Where we close the door
57:20On all that has passed
57:22In the months that have preceded it?
57:25Or is it the time
57:26Where we open our arms
57:28And say
57:29Come
57:29We are ready
57:31We will embrace it all
57:33Christmas begins with a baby
57:35Therefore Christmas
57:37Is all that is unknown
57:39All we must cherish
57:42And all we must shield
57:44From the winds of fortune
57:46Like a candle flame
57:48You'll be pleased to hear
58:06There's a new series of
58:07Call the Midwife
58:08Coming soon
58:09With the slew of holiday crimes
58:11And a heartwarming reunion
58:12On the line
58:13In the new
58:13Beyond Paradise Christmas special
58:15Press red
58:16To watch now
58:16On iPlayer
58:17On screen
58:26On the line
58:30So
58:32On the line
58:33With the slew of BOND
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