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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?
20:21I want to find her.
20:34I just want to find
20:36her here.
20:53Esther?
20:56Esther?
20:57Esther?
21:00Esther?
21:00Can we talk to you?
21:04I have Mrs. Turner
21:05with me.
21:24Hello, you.
21:25You must be Christopher.
21:26I'll be waiting to meet you.
21:35Do you keep forgetting
21:36that it's Advent?
21:37Yes.
21:38And it's not even the
21:39absence of cold that I marvel at.
21:40It's the absence,
21:42the absolute erasure of weariness.
21:44Do you feel it too?
21:45I've never felt such energy
21:47in years.
21:48You have to let us
21:50get you out of here.
21:52To somewhere where
21:52you can be nursed
21:53and given food and shelter.
21:56I don't go out.
21:57I 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 are 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 and your associates
22:28have been targeted
22:29by local undesirables.
22:32Triad.
22:33Let's call a spade a spade,
22:34shall we?
22:34We have been targeted
22:35by triad.
22:37The Order of St. Raymond
22:38and Artists have 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 enslaved to drugs
22:56is at the mercy of his masters.
22:58He will do whatever he is asked
23:00to do in exchange
23:01for the one thing
23:02that will give his body peace.
23:05But if he is freed
23:06from addiction,
23:07if he finds there is
23:08a better way to live,
23:10he will turn his back
23:11on crime itself.
23:13They become free men
23:14and, sometimes,
23:17police informants.
23:19I'm not going to deny that.
23:21Then you cannot deny the fact
23:22that we are doing you a service
23:24and in so doing,
23:26warrant your protection.
23:28And how do you propose
23:29that we provide that?
23:32Properties 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,
23:43and crucially,
23:44still in police possession.
23:50I can't believe
23:51we're leaving them.
23:53We are coming back tomorrow
23:54with food.
23:56They're both sick, Sheila.
23:57But I need to run some test
23:59on the little boy.
24:01There's something
24:01very, very wrong with him.
24:12Mind your fingers!
24:13Everything's under control.
24:16What?
24:17I need tasters.
24:18Joyce,
24:19you can pronounce judgment
24:21on the whiskey cream punch.
24:23Sis,
24:24I want your opinion
24:25on the coconut frappe.
24:28That's going to give
24:29my snowballs a run for the money.
24:30I know.
24:31It slips down
24:31like a tart stocking,
24:32doesn't it?
24:33Sis?
24:33It's divine.
24:35Call me a miracle worker.
24:37It's mainly condensed milk.
24:39Oh, Geoffrey,
24:39that's going to make it
24:40very calorific.
24:41It's Christmas.
24:42I have personally declared
24:43an amnesty on slenderizing.
24:50Ninata's house,
24:51midwife speaking.
24:52Hi, Trixie.
24:52I've just been observing
24:53a bowel and anastomosis.
24:55That's nice.
24:56I asked you around the canteen.
24:57I've drummed up a few more
24:58for the party,
24:59and Miss Higgins
24:59is staying the night
25:00with the children.
25:00Everyone'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
25:31a new clinic.
25:32I'm trying
25:33to 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.
25:53You with your head
25:53in a column of figures.
25:55It'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?
26:09All right.
26:20Very good.
26:21Esther, I 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, Esther?
26:49We can talk about Christopher
26:51after that.
26:56Esther.
26:57You have breast milk
26:59soaking through your clothing.
27:01You don't still feed Christopher,
27:04do you?
27:05No.
27:05There is no baby.
27:10Not here.
27:11Have you given birth
27:12to another child, Esther?
27:15If there is another baby,
27:18will you tell us
27:19where it is?
27:20I 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.
27:34Two copies
27:41of the Pickwick Papers.
27:43One
27:44from the
27:45Poplar Public 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 of the frivolities
27:59of youth.
28:01The appreciation
28:03of such pleasures
28:04has passed me by.
28:06Any regrets?
28:08That is
28:09between myself
28:10and the Almighty.
28:18We can take you
28:19back with 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
28:30over the other?
28:31My son's father
28:32only won him.
28:33he will kill
28:34for him.
28:35Is this man
28:36the cormorant
28:37your little girl's
28:38father, too?
28:39I made you alive.
28:41I thought he was
28:42a better one.
28:43A better man.
28:44I was wrong.
28:47Y'all made you
28:58get him over the night
29:00before then!
29:01When do you think it's a good time to start party games?
29:17I don't think it's ever a good time to start party games.
29:19Oh, so well.
29:20This house is full of nooks and crannies.
29:22It's just crying out for a game of sardines.
29:31I've tucked Marie and baby Luke up for the night on the sideboard.
29:39They're both fast asleep already.
29:46Nurse Aylward, could you listen to baby's heartbeat for me?
29:50What's wrong with his heartbeat?
29:51Nothing's wrong, Queenie.
29:52We just like to keep an eye on things.
29:54I want to go home.
29:55I'm not good here.
29:56I can't do it here.
29:57Only Mary, Mother of God.
29:59I can't do it.
29:59Sweetheart, this is where you need to stay as calm as you can and save as much strength
30:03as you can.
30:04You're going to be able to start pushing this baby out soon.
30:08The heartbeat's dropping and she's exhausted.
30:10We need to get her to hospital.
30:19By now, to disperse as soon as you get to the landing, all of the lights will be turned
30:26off.
30:2620 minutes doesn't count as rapid transfer in my book, I'm afraid.
30:31The practice doctor is not answering her telephone and the flying squad are not available.
30:35We need an ambulance as soon as possible.
30:37I hope I'll find you.
30:46Now this is a good part of the game.
30:50It's bedlam out there.
30:52There are three medical students in the airing cupboard.
30:54Why don't we just go to your bedsitter for a bit?
30:59This is all getting so raucous.
31:02As long as we don't do anything improper.
31:06We never do anything improper.
31:08The rules of the studio couch are very firmly established.
31:11If you haven't got the strength to push, just pant, Queenie.
31:22The ambulance is on its way.
31:25Queenie, would you like us to wake Marie?
31:27And she could come and hold your hand.
31:28No, I'd be after worrying about her.
31:31I have seven children alive and living underwater.
31:33But the only one I can think about now is what's inside of me.
31:38I need to hold it in my arms.
31:44We've had half an hour of second stage contractions and there's been no descent of the head.
31:50I'm going to deliver this baby now.
31:52My forceps.
31:54The only doctors deliver my forceps.
31:56Sister, we don't have the luxury of making that distinction.
31:59This baby's heartbeat isn't picking up and if we delay we're going to lose it.
32:03I'm not sure I know where the rules of this game are.
32:10I mean, we are sat in a cupboard with no drinks and there's no room for dancing.
32:16So we have to wait to be discovered and then the next person who discovers us has to squeeze in.
32:22And the next one and the next one.
32:24Right.
32:27Found you.
32:28What do we do now?
32:34We wait.
32:35Apparently.
32:39Well, to misquote Captain Oates, I'm coming in.
32:47And that may be some time.
32:49Oh, can I smell old clothes?
32:54Yes.
32:56My whole childhood's flashing before my eyes in here.
32:58I can see the jumper I wore in grammar school.
33:02Oh, I see nurse's uniforms.
33:05And a nun's habit.
33:08Ow.
33:08Sweetie, I know you're tired, but three women are stronger than one on her own.
33:14We're going to work together to get this baby out and in your arms.
33:21Together, Queenie, do you hear that?
33:23We're all going to join forces.
33:25Will you tell me when you can see its head?
33:36Geoffrey Franklin, Timothy Turner, Harry Chopra.
33:39What are you doing in my bedroom?
33:42Good things come to those who've waited.
33:44Geoffrey!
33:44Try to bear down, Queenie.
33:47As soon as you feel the next contraction, bear down.
33:49Now, Queenie.
34:00Here.
34:12Queenie.
34:15I can hear the ombuds.
34:19And it's out.
34:28No ambulance required.
34:43Do you hear that, Queenie?
34:45Isn't that a beautiful sound?
34:47Glory be, but I love you.
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 if you're a boy or a girl.
35:02Oh, sorry.
35:03I forgot.
35:04It's a boy.
35:05It's a boy.
35:05Baby, baby.
35:06Baby, baby, baby.
35:19I need you.
35:19Oh, no, I need you.
35:22But all you do is treat me better.
35:26Don't break my heart and leave me set.
35:28How 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
35:58Have ceased
35:59Have ceased to beat
36:04Many of the looks that shone so brightly then
36:09Have ceased to glow
36:12The hands we grasped
36:20Have grown cold
36:23The eyes we sought have hid their lustre in the grave
36:28And yet the old house, the room, the merry voices and smiling faces
36:33The jest, the laugh
36:34Crowded upon our mind at each recurrence of the season
36:37As if the last assemblage had been but yesterday
36:41Happy, happy Christmas
36:44That 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
37:07Yes
37:08Yes
37:09Yes
37:10Yes
37:11Yes
37:12Yes
37:13Yes
37:14Yes
37:15We have our feast of lights too
37:16It falls almost on the same date as Christmas this year
37:19Yes
37:20Yes
37:21Yes
37:22Yes
37:23Yes
37:24Yes
37:25Yes
37:27Yes
37:28Yes
37:29Yes
37:30Yes
37:31Yes
37:32Yes
37:33Yes
37:39Joyce
37:40Hm
37:41Hm
37:42Just as a nurse
37:43If it's any consolation
37:45You aren't the only one
37:47Is there anything else I need to know?
37:49It's all right,小ia
37:54It's alright, Tonya. I think we're safe.
38:24If that unholy racket you're making is supposed to be my punishment, I accept it.
38:36As long as it's followed by strong black coffee.
38:39Go, you'll get coffee. And it will be accompanied by a dustpan, a brush, and a pair of rubber gloves.
38:45I suppose we ought to roll up our sleeves.
38:47We? We?
38:49Geoffrey, I have been up all night delivering a baby.
38:53And I've been wielding a bucket for this poor lamb. Florence Nightingale's got nothing on me.
39:03Good morning, Rosalyn. Or should I say, Nurse Clifford?
39:06I'm sorry. I stayed the night at Cyril's.
39:09Morning orders will take place in three minutes.
39:16Nonata'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.
39:26Our charge, Mr Fisher, fell into a decline before midnight.
39:31I assisted him to his bed, then deemed it inexpedient to leave him.
39:40Oh, 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?
39:57Merry Christmas.
39:59And thank you very much to all concerned.
40:00Chasing the wind.
40:13Maybe you'll find it tomorrow.
40:17Love is a rainbow to light up your life.
40:23your life. It's a strong wind that blows away sorrow. When you walk along lonely road.
40:34When you're down and all the world can see. When you want to run away and hide.
40:48I was afraid both Christopher and his mother would test positive for TB but I was wrong. They're clean.
40:55You weren't wrong about this though. Unilateral renal mass.
40:58Right hand side. There isn't a scrap of fat on him. I could feel it on palpation.
41:05Soft tissue x-ray can be quite equivocal. Nothing equivocal about this though. Wilms tumor.
41:13Haven't seen a Wilms in general practice for nearly a decade but yes cancer of the kidney.
41:21And he's two years old. There was nothing here for him. I know that.
41:26But nine months ago we did have a Remi Sergeant whose daughter had it.
41:32We got the family sent back to the UK on compassionate grounds.
41:35Did they lose her? Far from it. There's a new chemotherapy being trialled at one of the London hospitals.
41:41Brutal but spectacular. Is it working? Yes.
41:48I had a penny. A bright new penny. I took my penny to the market square.
41:58I wanted a rabbit. A little brown rabbit. And I looked for a rabbit most everywhere.
42:07For I went to the store where they sold sweet lavender. Only a penny for a bunch of lavender.
42:15Have you got a rabbit? Because I don't want lavender.
42:19They didn't. They didn't have a rabbit. Not anywhere there.
42:28You must be baby Beryl's mummy. Esther would like to feed Beryl.
42:34Sister do you think she's hungry? Well most certainly. She is a peckish little thing.
42:58I can remember lying in bed and seeing exactly this view of the snow falling.
43:07There were four of us under the eider down. David, Sammy, Isaac and me.
43:16I have often pondered what it must be like to share a bed with others.
43:23It's warm.
43:26Knock, knock.
43:31Oh, it's not a com plan of yours again, is it?
43:35No matter how often you gussy it up on this paper umbrellas of yours.
43:39I'm still bored of it.
43:41It's actually a whiskey cream punch. A recipe that proves so efficacious at our Christmas party.
43:46I'm thinking of applying for a patent.
43:48Oh, is it? Is it?
43:53Is it the 22nd today?
43:56It's the 21st, Mr. Fisher.
43:58Oh, then it's tomorrow.
44:02What's tomorrow, old chap?
44:04The first night of Chanukah.
44:09Feast of lights.
44:13Would you like me to find a rabbi for you, Mr. Fisher?
44:18It wouldn't hurt.
44:19Can you just take a kitty halfway round the world, Doc?
44:28If he needs life-saving medical treatment, and his mother gives permission, yes.
44:33But you don't have to adopt him?
44:36No, thank God.
44:38It took us years to adopt me.
44:40Christopher won't have years.
44:42He may not even have months if we don't act fast.
44:45It'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.
45:00Hibiscus House, 79 Elgin Gardens, please.
45:05Blimey.
45:11You know, Mum, you've done great things.
45:14Here? In 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 being someone,
45:22doing 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.
45:38I'm sorry.
45:40I needed evidence before I could respect you for it.
45:42There's no need to be sorry.
45:44For anything, ever.
45:46You're my son.
45:52Hello, Grace, dear.
45:54Do you need something?
45:56Mr. Fred and the doctor are in trouble.
45:58What sort of trouble?
45:59Worse than trouble. They're in danger.
46:01Please, don't ask me how I know this.
46:03If you don't tell me, I can't act on the information.
46:07My husband works for the comrade.
46:09I hear talking on the phone.
46:14You're not taking my son to England?
46:16If we don't, he will die.
46:18You don't know that?
46:19You've given me no proof of that?
46:20Or any proof that you're even a doctor?
46:22You're not taking my son to England?
46:24If we don't, he will die.
46:26You don't know that?
46:27You've given me no proof of that?
46:28Or any proof that you're even a doctor?
46:29I can assure you his credentials are totally bona fide.
46:30I'm even a scouser.
46:31What school did you go to?
46:32Liverpool Institute.
46:33I can assure you his credentials are totally bona fide.
46:37I'm even a scouser.
46:38What school did you go to?
46:39Liverpool Institute.
46:40Liverpool Institute.
46:41You're not taking my son to England?
46:42You're not taking my son to England?
46:43If we don't, he will die.
46:44You don't know that?
46:45You've given me no proof of that?
46:47Or any proof that you're even a doctor?
46:50I can assure you his credentials are totally bona fide.
46:53I'm even a scouser.
46:56What school did you go to?
46:58Liverpool Institute.
46:59My father had an iron monk's shop in Cornwall Street.
47:04I probably walked right past it.
47:08When war broke out, they took me to a ship to be deported.
47:13I had an English rifle I never saw again.
47:17Sometimes you lose people.
47:20Sometimes they're stolen.
47:22Or you are.
47:25Are you a gambling man, Dr. Tanner?
47:28No.
47:29I am.
47:31If you want my son, you have to play me for him.
47:35How about Margeant?
47:38Four cards?
47:40Poker?
47:41Chemaire de Faire?
47:42Blackjack?
47:43You choose.
47:45You choose.
47:46You choose.
47:47Boaz.
47:48Fire.
47:49Good morning.
47:50Lord Jesus Christ.
47:53Let's worship us.
47:54I am a meeting of the Lord's聖
47:56destroyer, cross-mar certified, cross-mar켓
47:57demon.
47:58If we are the one who takes care,
48:00be to the Lord's Son.
48:01And Matthew Yoman Eve.
48:02May we remain in peac tighten,
48:04we are painted.
48:05And we are proud,
48:07and we are written,
48:08wherever we are.
48:09Ve'l tzivano l'had l'knev she'el l'chanukah.
48:18Amen.
48:19Amen.
48:34Is he allowed to choose a deputy? I could play on his behalf.
48:37I don't think that would help, Fred.
48:40You can play as many games as you want.
48:44With cards, with words.
48:47With me.
48:48But if Christopher's life is lost,
48:51who will pray for him at your altar?
48:55Who will pray for you?
48:57Who will carry on your family line?
49:03You could have all of those things.
49:04I can find a Chinese doctor for him.
49:09I 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,
49:22I guarantee I will send him back to you.
49:32Let's continue this conversation elsewhere, shall we?
49:36Go.
49:37Doctor.
49:39Take the kid.
49:40Yes.
49:45Tell him to give him a chance.
49:47Let him breathe as nature intended him to breathe.
50:04There is no consolation for him now, in artificial air.
50:09Doctor.
50:15That's her old chap.
50:17Mmm.
50:18Mmm.
50:19Mmm.
50:20Mmm.
50:24Mmm.
50:26Ah.
50:26Hey!
50:30Ah!
50:30It will take time to rebuild, but the foundations have been laid.
50:51Are you happy to be staying on?
50:55Yes, because I don't doubt our purpose here.
50:58Are you happy to be going home?
51:03Yes, because I'm more convinced than ever that our work is vital wherever we are called.
51:10Why do you imagine we'll be called next?
51:12I don't imagine, but I will go and do whatever I am asked.
51:21Things are ticking along like clockwork, Doctor.
51:24Well done, Yuchin.
51:25Pre-eclampsia isn't easy, but you did everything you were told.
51:30Do you lie down? There's no hard work.
51:32Good lass.
51:33Good lass.
51:38I'm glad this baby's arriving before we leave.
51:42But if it's the first baby born in a new brunch house,
51:46it seems to me it should be brought into the world by one of the sisters.
51:50Yes.
51:50Yes.
51:51Yes.
51:52It should.
52:04Oh.
52:06I'm keeping people waiting.
52:10They're all just as they were.
52:12When I was here.
52:20When we were all at home.
52:22When we were all at home.
52:22A little girl, you child.
52:48Congratulations.
52:49Congratulations.
52:53Look at her.
52:56Just look at her.
52:58And laugh.
52:59She's gorgeous.
53:05You have been my mother.
53:07Now I'm her.
53:08I give a name that always bring your thanks to me.
53:15We all agreed that Phyllis was too hard to say.
53:18No, Phyllis.
53:20Nice.
53:21Nice is easy to say.
53:23I'm happy to remember.
53:25I have seen death before.
53:32It is terrible.
53:34And it can be beautiful.
53:37I think today it was that.
53:40I have seen lovers come to fetch the dying.
53:44I have seen mothers come.
53:45But I have known no lover.
53:50I have born no child.
53:53And my parents have spurned me.
53:57I have asked myself.
53:59More often of late than in years gone by.
54:03Who will come for me.
54:06When my time on earth concludes.
54:09Your sisters will come for you.
54:12Those you knew in life.
54:13Those who coached you through the novitiate.
54:18Those who knelt beside you in prayer.
54:22And by the beds of everyone you served.
54:26So many sisters will come.
54:29God can't have you yet, sister.
54:31We can't spare you.
54:37We should perhaps turn our attention.
54:43For the return of those we love.
54:46The Hong Kong party.
54:49Let us light a light for the living.
54:52And marvel at them while we may.
54:54Christopher, you're going to give your mummy a kiss.
55:13Please.
55:15Keep him on.
55:16I have a coat to put on him.
55:20As well as this card again.
55:23It used to belong to his sister.
55:26I like that.
55:33Bring in Waps.
55:34Make sure you're smiling.
55:42Look.
55:43Smile.
55:43Smile.
55:45The little boy will get better.
56:00We're in here.
56:00There's every chance he'll get better.
56:04Till then we just have to take care of him.
56:06And be his family.
56:09Oh, they're here.
56:11Oh, Miss Higgins.
56:14Haven't they managed well?
56:16And this is Christopher.
56:20You look so sweet.
56:21Baby Christopher.
56:24You look at smoke.
56:27His hair feels like wine.
56:32Christopher.
56:35Couldn't be something dying to see your face.
56:39Christmas can start now, can't it?
56:42Yes, it can.
56:43Because I'm a tea and you're home.
56:46Oh, Miss Higgins.
56:48Does Christmas come at the end of the year?
57:13Or does it provide its turning point?
57:17Is it the moment where we close the door on all that has passed in the months that have preceded it?
57:25Or is it the time where we open our arms and say, come.
57:29We are ready.
57:30We will embrace it all.
57:34Christmas begins with a baby.
57:36Therefore, Christmas is all that is unknown.
57:40All we must cherish.
57:42And all we must shield from the winds of fortune like a candle flame.
57:48You'll be pleased to hear there's a new series of Call the Midwife coming soon.
58:09With the slew of holiday crimes and a heartwarming reunion on the line in the new Beyond Paradise Christmas special,
58:15press red to watch now on iPlayer.
58:18Oh, missus.
58:18Yes, we would like to see.
58:19Music is the name.
58:20From the pretraTS, we must out there toマstice of God's duty.
58:40Sand.
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