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00:00We'll be again.
00:01I can't tell you what a joy it is to have a pancake with sugar and lemon again.
00:06What do they eat them with in America?
00:08Maple syrup.
00:09And sometimes, bacon.
00:12That continent is a cauldron of all perversities.
00:16I think it sounds quite delicious.
00:19We could experiment with spam and treacle.
00:21We have both in the cupboard.
00:23If that is how you would like to celebrate passing your exams, you have only to say.
00:28It's wonderful news, lass.
00:31Welcome to our profession.
00:39Wonderful work.
00:40That's wonderful work, Maxine.
00:42You forget how much it already has.
00:45Oh, Steve.
00:46Steve.
00:48Stevenson!
00:50I need you.
00:51When you do the solicitor's office, they don't like the pine disinfectant in the toilet.
00:56You have to use the lemon!
00:58I'm supposed to be doing her cleaning shit for her.
01:01Do you have to leave now, Mr Drummond?
01:03This baby's about to be born.
01:11Oh, Reggie, love.
01:13You've even sliced the lemons.
01:15Aren't you good?
01:16I thought it would speed things up.
01:18Well, no-one ought to be kept waiting on pancake day.
01:22Oh, good on you.
01:23You've been practising your new money.
01:27It's easier than olden money.
01:29Now, that is what the government told us when they said that we were going decimal.
01:33Although, two weeks in, I don't think they've convinced a single shopkeeper.
01:39You have a little girl, Maxie.
01:57Another girl.
01:59We've got another girl.
02:01I thought you wanted a boy.
02:02What?
02:04Never.
02:05Never, ever.
02:19Can I kiss her?
02:23Go on.
02:24I'll kiss you first.
02:43Razzling!
02:44Oh, I didn't knock.
02:46I thought it was too late.
02:47The pancake batter's been standing all evening.
02:50I was listening for the sound of your bike wheel.
02:51Cyril, I'm in my uniform.
02:56And you were in your slippers.
03:00Good delivery.
03:01Actually, it was inspiring.
03:06Oh, good girls.
03:09Bang on time.
03:11Oh, that's nice, isn't it, Christopher?
03:14Lovely kisses to start the day.
03:17He's getting better from having his kidney removed, isn't he?
03:22Yes.
03:23And we'll find out when he starts his chemotherapy soon.
03:27Girls, don't forget the rota for wiping round the sink in the downstairs bathroom.
03:32We need to be extra careful of germs.
03:36All Teddy ever does is feed the rabbit.
03:38That's because chores need to be assigned to people I can trust.
03:43Patrick, are you up yet?
03:46The coffee's on.
03:48I'm on district duty for the rest of the week.
03:51We need a thorough review of all our diabetic patients.
03:54Sister Catherine, in honour of your first day as a fully qualified midwife,
04:00I have assigned you the antenatal round.
04:03Entirely solo, unsupervised and independent.
04:08I hope you've eaten a hearty breakfast, honey.
04:11You'll be riding that bike for miles.
04:12I've just added Thelma Cutler, 8 Lowman Street, to your list.
04:16That poor lady who was sick on the floor in clinic.
04:19Six months are long and her nausea is intractable.
04:23It's rare, but I think the poor lass might be stuck with it for the duration.
04:27District nurse, Mr Kingsley, I found this little scamp halfway down the street.
04:57It's rare, it's to the street.
04:59Come here.
05:00Oh, Terence.
05:03If you keep doing this, I'm going to get you a collar and lead, huh?
05:06Mr Kingsley, it's February.
05:09It's cold.
05:10He needs more on than one sock and a vest.
05:14What is that child doing up at the window?
05:19She likes looking down, seeing what's going on.
05:23Edna!
05:23I actually came from Dr Turner's practice to make sure that everything was up to date with
05:31your diabetes medication.
05:32We haven't seen you for a while.
05:34No, I'm under the hospital.
05:36I'm a serious case.
05:37Edna!
05:42Hello, nice.
05:43Mrs Kingsley, I didn't know you were expecting again.
05:46Do you have any clothes for these children?
05:51Loads.
05:53Just need to sort the washing out.
05:54Hello, big wife calling.
06:09It's on the latch.
06:10Poor love.
06:17There's nothing to bring up.
06:19It's just bile.
06:20I'm not crying.
06:21It's just...
06:23My eyes are watering.
06:27I'm not crying.
06:29You don't have to be brave all the time, Thelma.
06:32Sometimes it's all right to say this is hard.
06:35And it is hard.
06:37I remember flushing my contraceptive pills down the toilet when we decided to start trying
06:41for a baby.
06:44I feel like I've done nothing but stare down that toilet ever since.
06:49Bed and a washing up bowl are probably better.
06:52I've got another three parts of this.
07:07Lass, you need to attend clinic.
07:10And you need to get your home ready for the new arrival.
07:13Got it ready for the last arrival.
07:15We've still got the cotton bottles and everything.
07:19Hey.
07:21Hey, brah.
07:22Lippy on.
07:24That better?
07:27Sometimes getting dressed and ready to face the day is half the battle.
07:31Felt like a battle since we lost our oldest.
07:35You've had a lot to come back from, Edna.
07:38What I would advise is...
07:39I don't need advice from someone at the ark.
07:47The father's not doing his daily urine tests.
07:50And that flat reeks to high heaven.
07:52An army of lice on all four kiddies.
07:55And the eldest should have been in school.
07:58Faye Marie.
07:59Faye Marie.
07:59Born November 1965.
08:01And there was that little boy who died when they were at a different practice.
08:05I'm afraid we've missed St Cuthbert's Diabetic Clinic for this week, Doctor.
08:09Would you like to assess Mr Kingsley yourself?
08:11Yes, as soon as possible.
08:13I haven't seen Faye or Nicky for two years.
08:16And there are gaps in their record before that.
08:20We'd better tell social services.
08:22Go on through.
08:24They're all in there.
08:24Oh, come on in, nurse.
08:27We're just having a women's lib meeting.
08:28You don't mind me getting on with things while I'm feeding, do you?
08:31Oh, no, not at all.
08:32But once baby's finished on the breast, I will need to examine you.
08:35Fair enough.
08:36Take a pew.
08:38Go on.
08:39You can join us.
08:39It doesn't matter if we're supported or derided on the Women's March through London.
08:45The most important thing is that we are seen and we are heard.
08:49Does derided mean made fun of?
08:51Yes, but it can also mean dismissed or belittled.
08:54Women have been put down since time immemorial and we aren't going to put up with it anymore.
08:58We want to get that on a placard.
09:00You might have to make it a bit shorter.
09:03And the point me and all the other women on the Cleaners Association want to make,
09:08placards or no placards,
09:09is that we want equal rights,
09:11equal status
09:12and equal pay.
09:14Which is why we are all going to be marching shoulder to shoulder through London.
09:21Thelma seems to be living on bits of toast and boiled sweets, Doctor.
09:26And she can scarcely keep those down.
09:28If she ends up clinically dehydrated, we'll send her to St Cuthbert's.
09:33I've not seen many cases of true hyperemesis,
09:36but every time, it's the lowest I've ever seen a pregnant woman brought.
09:42Mentally as well as physically.
09:44There's not really any medication for it, is there?
09:47Not after thalidomide.
09:48There will never be any medication for it after thalidomide.
09:54A political meeting at the bedside of a newly delivered mother.
09:58I'm amazed she had the energy.
10:00It was as though all the women were getting energy from each other.
10:03I've never seen anything like it.
10:05They even gave us some homework.
10:07Show them your book, child.
10:09The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer.
10:12What a very striking cover.
10:15What I want to know is, where do they come from?
10:18All these educated ladies campaigning side by side with cleaners from the East End.
10:23I think mostly hamstered, although there's no doubt the movement's spreading.
10:28Women of all classes have always been involved in women's advancement.
10:32My granny used to finish a factory shift in Paisley and go out campaigning.
10:38Will you come on the march with Joyce and I, Phyllis?
10:41Perhaps I should come to the meeting.
10:47I've no objection to finding out more.
10:50I think that's extremely public-spirited.
10:53The sisters and I look forward to hearing all about it.
10:56You forgot the knit lotion.
11:12I'm sorry.
11:12I must have got distracted putting a new diabetes kit together for Mr. Kingsley.
11:16I deal with him myself, but I've two new cases of Venus also.
11:20And I think the family as a whole might respond better to a younger person.
11:29So, the projected budget details are in the blue folder,
11:34but we're still missing the sign returns from the Board of Health.
11:36I'm afraid you've drawn a dreadfully short straw.
11:39I have assigned myself nursery duties in the maternity home
11:42for delicious little newborns, including twins.
11:47I'll be down at feeding time,
11:48and we agreed that secular staff make better inroads with the council.
11:52Go.
11:53Lead me to get on.
11:56I'm asking you to fill in the 1971 census.
12:00An army of men and women with light blue statues...
12:02Honey, I'm the nurse.
12:04Are your mom and dad at home?
12:06The form is secret.
12:08There is nothing to fear from completing it.
12:10When it's content to be...
12:11What are you doing with those pills?
12:14These are saccharine tablets.
12:16Never put them in your tea.
12:18What are you doing with them, child?
12:20Is that all you have to eat?
12:27Your daughter should be at school,
12:40and all of your children are hungry.
12:42They need to be deloused, but first, they need to be fed.
12:45Who gave you leave to come in here and start shouting odds, eh?
12:48My wife has been diagnosed with depression.
12:50I'm going to go to the corner shop and buy a loaf, some margarine and some jam.
12:56And when I get back, we're going to discuss a plan of action.
12:59I'm calling on behalf of Nunata's house, Hendy Street,
13:06with regard to our projected budget from June of this year.
13:09Please hold for a moment.
13:11Of course.
13:13Would that be my friend, Lady Aylward?
13:16Yes.
13:18I wasn't expecting to be put through to you, Dr Threpwood.
13:21I asked to be connected directly, should you call.
13:24I feel I should forewarn you of certain developments.
13:28Now?
13:28It would be expedient to meet within the week.
13:35Come on.
13:36Nurse Highland.
13:39Mr Kingsley refused to cooperate with their diabetes protocols,
13:43and I'm taking the children to the cleansing station.
13:46There's no way of heating water in that flat,
13:48and I think the youngest has scabies, as well as lice.
13:52I'd better take a look at them.
13:54Come on.
13:55Oh, yeah.
13:57I know.
13:58This belly aches worse than the sickness, sister.
14:05If I could just go.
14:07Go properly.
14:09You know what I mean.
14:10If you're dehydrated, that might well lead to constipation.
14:13But I'll have a feel of your tummy,
14:15just to make sure things are as they should be.
14:16I'll be back.
14:25I am putting in a complaint as soon as I get back to the surgery.
14:28That cleansing station needs to be open at all times,
14:31not on request or by appointment.
14:33I've never seen a family in a worse state than this.
14:36I've thought that so many times.
14:42May I come in?
14:43Yeah.
14:49Have your bowels moved at all, Selma?
14:51I'm going to get you back to bed with a hot water bottle.
15:01Then I'm calling Dr Turner.
15:03There's nothing you can give me.
15:05Don't waste his time.
15:07The surgery's three minutes walk away,
15:09and we won't be wasting his time
15:11if we ask him to pop round and rule out early labour.
15:15We need to take care of you, Selma, and your baby.
15:22I wish there was no baby sometimes.
15:24I wish there was no baby sometimes.
15:39We're going to have to get them taken into care.
15:42It may take a few days to implement,
15:44but this is a clear case of neglect.
15:47I think it's worse than neglect.
15:49There's bruises on the backs of the children.
15:53And I need you to look between Nikki's toes.
15:56I think there's a cigarette burn there.
15:58Something's moving it to the toilet.
16:16Can I see?
16:20Was it a baby?
16:23Yes, sweetheart, it was.
16:24Don't move.
16:37Sweetheart, we need to get you up.
16:48It's all right, Selma.
16:50I'm with you.
16:51I'm going to leave you, but only for a moment.
16:56I need to fetch my bag.
16:57Okay.
16:57I'm afraid I always fear the worst
17:11when Dr. Threepwood starts taking an interest in our fortunes.
17:28All I could do was arrange to meet him at his office next week.
17:32Baby, 28 weeks gestation delivered into the toilet.
17:35Still breathing.
17:36Dr. Turner?
17:37Dr. Turner?
17:38He wants breathing.
17:40What's happened?
17:41Permatural baby.
17:42Six months gestation.
17:44Get the flying squad.
17:45Sweetie, whose baby is it?
17:47Thelma Cutler, 8 Lutman Street.
17:51Colonel Wethro.
17:52Yes.
17:53The infant is still showing signs of life.
17:57The sensor is still searched.
18:00The skin.
18:01The skin is like tissue paper.
18:03We've lost respiration.
18:09Come on.
18:10Come on, little warrior.
18:18It's all right, Thelma.
18:19Everything's going to be all right.
18:22Where did Sister Catherine go?
18:24She took your baby to the maternity home, Thelma.
18:27Because it was dead?
18:29No.
18:30Because it's alive.
18:34Is it a boy or a girl?
18:36I don't know.
18:40We're taking it to Imperial Hospital.
18:42It's the only place in London with any expertise when they're this early.
18:45And this small.
18:47We haven't weighed in.
18:49Weight was the least of our concerns.
18:51Fingers crossed it survives the journey across town.
18:54Blue lights all the way.
18:55It is a little boy.
18:58I wouldn't generally advise taking the bull by the horns in such a way, Nurse Highland.
19:21But in this case, it's as well you did.
19:24It's the indifference that angers me.
19:26The indifference and the laziness, as well as the cruelty.
19:31Life is more of a struggle for some people than it is for others.
19:35We're fortunate.
19:37Our struggle is only with our feelings.
19:39Good afternoon, Mr. Kingsley.
19:53Have you got my kids?
19:54Your children are all here.
19:56They have been receiving hygiene treatment.
19:58We're taking them home.
19:59I suggest you come inside and speak to Sister Veronica.
20:02As a health visitor, she is the best person to advise.
20:05As her father, I'm best placed to advise the lawyer.
20:09You do not have the right to enter private premises in this manner.
20:13And you do not have the right to abduct my children.
20:17Edna.
20:18Edna.
20:19Edna, Nurse Highland brought your children here because they were in desperate need of bathing.
20:24And now we have found bruises that will have to be explained.
20:28You'll have to prove they weren't inflicted here.
20:30Huh?
20:31I know the way your sort operate and we know our rights.
20:36Edna.
20:36Come on!
20:45Come on!
20:50Come on!
20:55And thank you, Eleanor, for reminding us that women are not just discriminated against in the professional field,
21:06they are also discriminated against at home.
21:10The time has come for us to declare our self-respect and to claim a full identity
21:16and to get equal pay for equal work!
21:24Before we move on to discussing the logistics of the march,
21:27Maxine will highlight the things we're going to do to publicise it.
21:31Namely the one-day strike on Saturday and the exhibition of bra burning.
21:34First, I'd like to open the meeting to the floor, in case anyone has anything to say.
21:39I would like to say two things.
21:41Thank you very much to the Women's Liberation Movement and it's high time!
21:46Thank you, Eleanor, thank you, Eleanor!
21:49I would like to say thank you, too, to the women who welcomed me round this table tonight,
21:57to the women who showed me that this fight is necessary,
22:00and to the women who I will stand with when we shout this from the rooftops!
22:04Thank you, Eleanor!
22:05Enter!
22:18You need not concern yourself with your attire.
22:25The Lord gave you those tresses,
22:27and if they are his delight, they do not offend me.
22:30I have prepared you a beverage out of concern for the day you have endured but I find I have
22:55left it in the kitchen. I'm happy just to have your company.
23:00It was a terrible day. I have seen its like many times. An infant lost or maimed or not shaped well.
23:15I keep turning it over and over again in my mind. Did I do all I should have done? Did I do anything to make things worse?
23:30I recall that unabating voice. The doubt that pursues you home and seeks to be your bedfiller.
23:40But say this to yourself. Tonight a child breathes. Tonight a mother lives.
23:52Tomorrow you will resume your tasks. But what is my task now?
24:02The child is born. It has arrived. But the mother is still on the journey. And you must bring her home.
24:14I have never once doubted the importance of female solidarity. But for women of my age it went unspoken. If we had a motto it would have been deeds not words. But we had a war to be getting on with.
24:32Even in the war too many women were forced into limiting roles because of damaging stereotypes. That's why burning bras is so important. It's about the rejection of frivolity.
24:42A good bra is a very practical item and not frivolous at all. Trixie tell me you're not going to be joining in with all that carry on.
24:52Well perhaps not with my current bras. I bought them at a New York lingerie department. But definitely something from my back catalogue.
24:59You were quite quiet in the meeting Joyce. Didn't you enjoy it?
25:06I go quiet when I think. And I was doing a lot of thinking.
25:10So was I. I kept thinking my husband had the power to run our finances into the ground without telling me.
25:17My husband beat me so badly I left him without telling him. But what I learned tonight is that it's not what men have done to us that matters. It's what we do.
25:28It's what we do as women going forward. Left I can't argue with.
25:42And that's it. We're ready for your outing. Shoes on. Coats at the ready. And I've got your washing up bowl.
25:49I don't need it Kev. Haven't been sick since yesterday. I keep trying to picture the baby.
25:56I never even saw his face. The sooner we get you to the hospital, the sooner you can have a proper look. You'll feel better then, I promise you.
26:08I can't believe the ideas women's liver coming up with. A one day strike.
26:16We'll draw attention to the march at a local level and give women who can't attend the chance to demonstrate their views.
26:22They tried it last year in America. Women withdrew their labour right across the country. No cooking, no ironing, no childcare.
26:28And there are no reports of any deaths.
26:32Prescriptions signed by Dr. Turner. All present and correct.
26:36Oh, thank you. We're very low on pethidine. And Mrs. Kumar's penicillin was becoming urgent. It's good of you when you're so busy.
26:45Well, I might be a lady of leisure tomorrow if I join in with this strike. Will you be participating?
26:51No, Mrs. Turner. I've decided to forego the pleasure. Why is that?
26:56Because I come from a generation of women that got on with it. No histrionics, no sloganeering, and our foundation garments stayed intact.
27:06Baby weighed in at exactly two pounds and a half an hour. We've had a couple of two-pounders do very well this past year. The doctors here are very skilled, learning all the time.
27:23What's with the blade paint? I think those are the transistorised monitors. There's one attached to every incubator. If a baby stops breathing or there's a problem with the heartbeat, an alarm goes off.
27:35That's correct. Here he is. Baby Cutler. We can update the labels once you've picked a Christian name.
27:44We liked James, didn't we? James Kevin or James Paul. Look at him, Felmer. He's beautiful. He's gorgeous.
27:56Baby Smith has collapsed.
28:01She needs a chair.
28:05I'm sorry.
28:06It's all right, Wilma. You only gave birth yesterday.
28:10But did I give birth? It was nothing that felt like a contraction. I didn't even realise that I pushed. My body just... let go of him. I failed.
28:26You didn't fail. You were valiant throughout your whole pregnancy. It wasn't even a whole pregnancy.
28:36God, it doesn't even look like a baby.
28:40It's my fault.
28:41It's my fault. It's my fault because I said that I wished that there was one.
28:47But baby James is doing well.
28:53Oh, Lady Aylwood. What an unexpected pleasure. Are you looking for anything in particular?
28:58Yes. Support for the Women's Liberation March on March the 6th.
29:03Oh, women's lib. Would you want me as Violet Buckle haberdasher or me in my mayoral robes?
29:11Either or both. Violet Buckle haberdasher is a highly successful businesswoman and the mayor of Tower Hamlets is a trailblazing female politician.
29:22But I never thought of myself as liberated.
29:26Probably because you've been too busy.
29:28It's not necessarily men holding women back, Violet.
29:32But if we don't stand shoulder to shoulder with each other, we're never going to realise just how strong we are.
29:37I'll come, but only as myself.
29:41The Alderman might object if I wear the mayoral chain.
29:44What happened to your moped?
29:53It fell foul of budgetary cuts.
29:56Do you need to brief me on anything before we head in?
30:00The gap in their records is because they were out of the area when their son died.
30:05I've telephoned Greenwich, but we still don't know what happened.
30:07It's nice to see the children eating a cooked meal at lunchtime, Edna.
30:14While Faye gets a hot dinner at school and I want you to see I'm not incompetent.
30:18Social services are not your enemy.
30:20We're here to help.
30:22Especially with the children.
30:24You were meant to help when Martin died.
30:26Hmm?
30:28Fat lot of you she were then.
30:30Ian, do you want to tell us what happened to Martin?
30:32He had a fit.
30:34That's all. Babies have fits all the time.
30:37Martin wasn't a baby.
30:38He was four and a half.
30:40You're just setting a trap.
30:41Nobody's setting a trap.
30:43But we do need to understand why there are injuries on your children.
30:46Then look at how we can help you get back on your feet as a family.
30:49We've heard that before.
30:51When they took the kids away from us.
30:53After Martin died, it took us six months to get them back.
30:57You...
30:59I'm not having them this time.
31:03You...
31:04You...
31:05You...
31:06Blessed are the midnight riders
31:11Who are in the shadow of God they sleep
31:20Blessed are the huddled hikers
31:25Staring out a falling rain
31:28Wondering at the retribution
31:32In their personal acquaintance with pain
31:39Blessed are the blood relations
31:46Of the young ones who have died
31:51Who had not the time or patience
31:55To carry on with this earthly life
32:02Rain will come and winds will glow
32:09While deer die in the mountains snow
32:14Birds will be to heaven's home
32:18Ticking away like a little clock, just the way I like to hear it.
32:23You have obviously been doing everything right
32:26Not many people say that sort of thing to me
32:29Edna
32:30Doctor and I were wondering if you'd like to come and have a look at the ward and deliver your own work
32:34Oh, we thought you'd like to mull over having the baby with us instead of at St Cuthbert's
32:38I've decided against St Cuthbert's now
32:41I'm having a home birth
32:43This is your sixth pregnancy, Edna
32:45And you just tell me I've been doing everything right
32:47I'm not spending one night away from our kids
32:50This will be a home birth
32:51So you best get that in your reds
32:53I used to work as a paediatric nurse, sister
33:04And I know the quest to heal can cause terrible suffering
33:09Baby James was born at 28 weeks
33:11He is considered viable
33:13But what does viable mean?
33:15Does it mean he'll go home as a happy, healthy baby?
33:19Or could he be brain damaged and blind?
33:22We're working to regulate the amount of oxygen these babies receive
33:25Now we know too much can affect their eyesight
33:28Sister Wilmot, do you share that information with the parents?
33:33We tell the parents what they need to know when they have to make decisions
33:36James' mother is in no fit state to make any decision
33:41She struggles to even believe he is her child
33:45And without that bond, how can she choose what's right?
33:50Sometimes the parents don't choose
33:52Sometimes the problems overwhelm the babies and they simply declare themselves
33:56We can't help them all
33:58But you can help the mothers
34:01Or at least you could help me to help this one
34:05I'm sorry, Mr. Robinson
34:09Sister Veronica has left for her district visits
34:12The Kingsley family's case notes have come through
34:15I have more details on the death of Martin
34:18Good
34:18I don't like having a child
34:20Merely marked as deceased in our records
34:22It seems to speak of want of care
34:26Martin died of oxygen deprivation
34:30From a seizure that was only witnessed by his parents
34:33The post-mortem noted old bruises on his upper arms and back
34:38And a cigarette burn was found between his toes
34:41Were the parents ever charged?
34:43No, they were not
34:44There was thought to be insufficient evidence of child battery or neglect
34:48And the police fell back on a compassionate approach
34:50Will surveillance of the family increase now?
34:54It's ten past five on a Friday
34:55But yes, it will
34:59Hands through the portholes
35:01Like that
35:03Excellent
35:04And then just clean his little face with the damp cotton wool
35:07I'm worried if you're sore with that big plaster on it
35:11That's where he's smiling
35:14It's like his lips just turned up a little bit at the corners
35:17Stand back, you stop breathing
35:21That's the three of us
35:32Often ready for our big adventure
35:34Sister Veronica will collect Christopher
35:37She's going to read to him from some Cantonese storybooks
35:40Oh, that's great
35:41Teddy and me are going to do an airfix model
35:43But we're on strike, Patrick
35:45In preparation for the Women's March next Saturday
35:48And I'm all for it
35:50Some of the newspaper coverage has been really thought-provoking
35:53But, Daddy, you need to do the ironing and washing
35:57I was in the army
35:59Ironing holds no fears
36:01Have you left us a casserole or something?
36:04That's not how women's strike works
36:07What's this fire?
36:14It's a list
36:15It's a list of everything that I usually do on a Saturday and Sunday
36:18In order to keep this household on the straight and narrow
36:21But it starts with run a haberdasher shop
36:23And then it says batch bake
36:26And then it says clean all the shoes
36:29And then it says and my handbags
36:31I mean, how do you fit all this in an afternoon?
36:34You've got more handbags than the Queen Mum
36:36I do your shoes
36:38Then I do my shoes and my bags
36:41While the batch bake's in the oven
36:42Why do you think I close the shop at four o'clock at weekends?
36:47A home and a family do not run themselves, Fred Buckle
36:51But I can't run the haberdasheries
36:53I don't know the names of all the different types of elastic
36:56And people come in and ask for, um, female things
37:01I'll stick with the paper shop
37:03Cyril's running the paper shop
37:05He's strongly in support of feminist ideals
37:09I'm sorry we're having to do this here
37:18I do need to ask you a few questions about bleeding
37:22And what goes on in the bathroom
37:24But we can do that before Kevin gets back with the tea
37:27Kevin keeps pushing me to agree to give James a tracheal to me
37:33I have the consultant said it's for the best
37:37They've said it's best for his chance of survival
37:40How do we know it's the best thing for him?
37:44A tracheotomy will prevent James from suffering so many collapses, Thilma
37:49They'll cut into his throat from the outside
37:53And stick a plastic nozzle in
37:55He'll have to breathe through his neck
37:57How's that better?
38:01Why is it better to just keep him surviving?
38:04Even if he may never see
38:07Even if his brain is going to be damaged
38:09We don't know any of those things are going to happen, Thilma
38:12No, we don't know that they won't
38:14You know more than me, Sister Catherine
38:18But when it comes to a baby like James
38:21Nobody knows anything
38:24Hey, keep it up
38:36There's probably a cub badge for potato peeling
38:39It's taking you an hour to do two shirts
38:44Trixie, you made it
38:55Yes, Jaunty's nanny said she'd go on strike next week instead
38:58We worked it out between us
39:00Compromise is power
39:02Are you sure that's right?
39:03When I have arguments, I like to win them
39:05Oh, Mrs Turner, you are quite the dark horse
39:08You ever invented new pence
39:14Once hanging
39:16I've had to charge people in decimal
39:18For things that I'm measuring in yards
39:20And that's before you start talking about
39:22Two-ply wool and press studs
39:24Oh, flaming Nora
39:27Flaming scones
39:35Being a man is terrible
39:38What happened?
39:51She fell out the window
39:52Where are berries?
39:56I don't know
39:56Do you know the child, sir?
39:58Yes
39:59I'm a social worker
40:01Excuse me, love
40:05You haven't got such a thing as a compact mirror, have you?
40:10I'm sorry, it's not a thing I generally carry around
40:13I suppose not
40:14I've got five minutes before a photographer arrives
40:17Me and my Nina are going to be in the papers
40:19We're taking her home
40:2114 months we've been in here
40:2314 months?
40:25She must have been in the wars
40:27Not half
40:28Born at 28 weeks
40:30Bowel surgery
40:31Tracheotomy
40:32They thought she had a brain bleed
40:33Now all we're waiting for is a set of ankle splints and we're off
40:37Is my lippy all right?
40:39For the photograph
40:41It's a bit smudged
40:43Here
40:43Tal
40:46I owe you a favour
40:48I told the consultant you'll need a statement
40:56But he confirmed that Faye has a fractured femur and collarbone and concussion
41:02The police wouldn't need a copy too
41:04They also found she had catastrophically low blood sugar
41:08She seems to have swallowed prescription drugs or been fed them
41:13Why would anyone feed a child prescription drugs?
41:15Because low blood sugar makes a child dozy and compliant
41:18I don't know
41:20It is the honest answer
41:22Just as I don't know how anyone blessed
41:26Blessed with such beautiful children could treat them with such hideous contempt
41:31Millicent
41:41Do you think I'm barking up the wrong tree
41:44Resisting all this women's lib talk
41:47Well
41:48Not everyone is in support
41:50I've heard quite a number of ladies saying I'm not a feminist
41:53But
41:54I just don't like the gimmicky way it's all been put together
41:58I would always counsel against objecting to a book because of its cover
42:02Innocent, you're reading the female eunuch
42:07The authoress makes a series of very sensible points
42:11Notably regarding female sexuality
42:15It's a thing
42:18I spent much of my life being ashamed of
42:22I never did, oddly enough
42:26It's like being a vegetarian
42:29As though I was wired to run counter to the general view
42:33But why am I being like this?
42:40Why am I picking holes in something the young people are full of fervour for?
42:45Do we perhaps fear losing our place in the scheme of things?
42:53Two weeks ago, I was standing outside the drapers on Inkeman Street
42:57And there was a blouse in the window with a psychedelic pattern
43:01Dual tones, but with such a beguiling design
43:06And I was looking at it
43:09And I thought
43:11I will never wear that blouse
43:14Why?
43:16There's no harm in breaking out a bit, fashion-wise
43:20Phyllis
43:20There is no harm in breaking out
43:24And if we don't, we'll be left behind
43:28You're not wrong
43:30Psychedelic pattern or no psychedelic pattern
43:35Police?
43:42Don't answer it
43:43Mr. Kingsley?
43:47Mrs. Kingsley?
43:49Because of concerns about the welfare of your children
43:52A place of safety order has been issued
43:54We have come to remove them
43:56Don't let them take them in
43:58They're our kids
43:59They're not going anywhere
44:01They're terrified
44:02Mr. Kingsley will force entry if you do not cooperate
44:05As well as the police, I have Sister Veronica with me
44:07The children will be well taken care of
44:09Mr. Kingsley?
44:13Mrs. Kingsley?
44:16This is uncultful
44:17I ain't Kingsley
44:19And I'm married Kingsley
44:20I'm arresting you
44:21I'm suspicious of child neglect and cruelty
44:23This is what they wanted all along
44:26We've already lost one of our children
44:29Doesn't that mean anything to you?
44:33It means a very great deal, Mrs. Kingsley
44:36And I wish
44:38That we didn't have to do this
44:41Mummy
44:47Mummy
44:49Mummy
44:52Honestly, love, you wouldn't have given a tuppence apennie for her chances in the first few weeks in old money or new money
45:05She's as bonny as anything now
45:20Look at her chubby little cheeks, Phil
45:22I asked you with normal food
45:25After all those months with the cheap up her nose
45:27Oh, she's great with chocolate pudding
45:29Not so good with her greens though
45:31But as long as it's all mushed up
45:33She's just like any other baby, really
45:35Do you ever feel like any other mum, Bernice?
45:39I feel like her mum
45:40It's not so different from having any other child
45:44You can't turn your back on them
45:46Can't work out what they're thinking
45:48Can't picture the future
45:51The doctors never gave us any guarantees
45:54No baby gets a guarantee, really
45:57Guarantees are the things you buy in shops
46:00And we're lucky
46:01We get to call our babies miracles
46:04Yes, my waters are broken
46:14And I'm not going to hospital
46:17Edna Kingsley is in labour
46:20Screaming blue murder and refusing to get into the ambulance
46:24Police said she wants one of us to attend
46:27And I'm first on the court board
46:29Whatever's gone on in the past
46:33Or is yet to come
46:35She is still a mother
46:38Let me know if it's a boy or a girl
46:42And I shall add it to my notes
46:44I'll get my back
47:03I'm afraid this isn't good news, Lady Edward
47:16And it can't be countermanded
47:18Even with all the womanly wiles at your disposal
47:21A simple statement of facts will suffice, Dr Threatwood
47:24Very well
47:25By 1974, all medical service provision across the country will be taken out of Council hands and given direct to the National Health
47:34But the Order have worked hand in glove with the National Health since its inception
47:38And this Council has been the go-between
47:41Without our future involvement there can be no more cajolery
47:45No more persuasion
47:47It is over
47:48A great deal could happen between now and 1974
47:51The new rules will be facing from this year
47:54And there is one I know the sisters won't accept
47:58I know it, Edna, lass
48:04Save your strength
48:06I want it to be alright, nurse
48:08You're on the home straight, I promise
48:10There's no reason to suppose anything will be amiss
48:13I don't mean with the baby, I mean with everything
48:16Come on
48:18So come up, Barley Sugar
48:20And concentrate on what's happening here and now
48:23They can't take a newborn off you, can they?
48:26Edna?
48:27Edna
48:28Save your energy for this last big push
48:34Come on now
48:36Steady push
48:38Steady
48:40Steady push
48:42You have a beautiful little daughter, Edna
48:48BBC
48:49pulses
48:50A
48:57Who?
48:58кой
49:00Fitt
49:01Principal
49:02Corps
49:04Fיט
49:05Martyn looked just like that when he was born
49:09Martin looked just like that when he was born.
49:14You forget when we haven't got a photo of him.
49:18We never had a camera.
49:23I'm gonna give you the best life.
49:26Do you hear that?
49:28The best life.
49:35Hello, you.
49:39Oh, Mr. Franklin.
49:42So good of you to go out of your way.
49:44What sort of friend would I be if I didn't tip up with a cup of Rosie
49:48and the chips are down?
49:52Dr. Threepwood is right.
49:54We will not accept that diktat.
49:56But it is a diktat, Sister Julianne.
49:59You aren't going to be allowed to wear the habit anymore.
50:01My sisters and I have dressed like this since the inception of the Order.
50:04It is the outward expression of the reason why we do this.
50:09The powers that be don't give two hoots why you do this.
50:12They just want it done.
50:14If Nonata's house is to survive at all,
50:17we are all going to be national health employees.
50:20And the new rules state that we will have to dress as such,
50:22or leave the system.
50:25We have never been a part of the system.
50:27We have rejoiced in that.
50:29Dr. Threepwood said he'd like your response by the end of this month.
50:32I think it ties in with the end of the financial year.
50:39Who is this man to lay down the law in this way?
50:45This decision will be driven by prayer, not by the fiscal calendar.
50:49Therefore, I will choose the appropriate date.
50:54We will tell him what we are going to do on August 31st,
50:59which happens to be the feast day of St. Raymond Nonatus.
51:03People think I talk too much.
51:08I don't.
51:10I know.
51:12And I know you listen.
51:14I've never seen Here She Goes Again, writ large on your face.
51:18But the thing I think people don't understand about the life I chose,
51:29is so much of it is silence.
51:34I understand.
51:36It isn't about when we can't speak.
51:39It's about what we can never say.
51:43What we can never name because that might expose us.
51:51Lay us bare.
51:53Yes.
51:55We can't afford that, can we?
51:58No.
52:00Because really,
52:02who wants the whole wide world to hear them howling?
52:07I don't think I can silence the howling anymore.
52:10What is it you want, Veronica?
52:20If we're going to drop the sister bit,
52:25I think you better call me Beryl, my real name.
52:31You can call me Geoffrey if it's not too much of a stretch.
52:37What is it you want?
52:40I want a child.
52:47I want a child of my own
52:50to hold in my arms
52:53and
52:55keep safe
52:57and cherish
52:59always.
53:01I want a child
53:03before it becomes impossible.
53:05I feel like he ought to have a special little night even if he's to have an operation.
53:14I feel like his dad should have had the day off work.
53:17James' first year is going to be a long haul, Thelma.
53:21Keeping up a normal routine is going to be good for everyone.
53:23I'm good at routines.
53:26Before I fell pregnant, I used to dream I'd have all the nappies on the line every Monday.
53:32Dreams are a lovely thing to have.
53:35But sometimes we just have to dream for longer than we thought.
53:38He'll be a baby for longer too.
53:41I think I might like that.
53:48Have you come to take James for his tracheotomy?
53:55I'm his mother.
53:56What's this?
54:13Something to wear on Saturday perhaps?
54:15On your marks. Get set.
54:28You want a sausage roll?
54:30I'll have one.
54:34I'll tell you what, pal.
54:36I love our lady folk. All of them.
54:39But it's liberation, Mark.
54:41It's hard work.
54:42It's hard work.
54:53I went for cotton. I thought it would burn longer.
54:57I bought this one from discounted stock.
55:00Nobody's buying long line these days.
55:02I relented.
55:04Bergdorf Goodman's finest.
55:08Girls! Where did you get that from?
55:10The charity cupboard.
55:13Provenance? Uncertain.
55:15Sisterhood takes many forms.
55:17I think we should celebrate them all.
55:19There will always be things that we cannot change, even when there is the will and the belief that we should try.
55:35Change chooses its own seeds, sows them in its own selected soil.
55:45Our task is to alter them and not trample green shoots underfoot.
55:51In the spring of 1971, there was so much that was altered.
56:01There were endings and there were beginnings.
56:05There was uncertainty and there was confidence.
56:09There was rage and there was love.
56:12And so we marched together into all the things we did not know.
56:19Hoping and also fearing things would never be the same.
56:23You may begin!
56:25I started out in Bombay and then I worked my way right up to Ladakh.
56:28Find a way to make a living.
56:29I can't see any gas.
56:31It'll be in the delivery room, won't it?
56:32So many mothers looking after him.
56:33I'm telling you nurse, the one thing this baby isn't is a protestant.
56:34More tea, Mrs. Clifford.
56:35Yes, please.
56:36Some dicks back till I'll grow.
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