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00:00Ah, nice to see you putting that fall behind you, Mr. Bucknell.
00:06You're doing very well on those no crutches.
00:08I'm recovering at a rate of knots.
00:10Can I interest you in yoga lessons?
00:12Is that how you did it?
00:14My son's running, Joel.
00:16He's inside, putting up a poster, hot off the plane from a year in India.
00:20Oh, of course, I remember him leaving.
00:23Joel, welcome home. I've been wondering where your wanderings took you.
00:28Well, I started out in Bombay, and then I worked my way right up to Ladakh, near Tibet.
00:32And then I went to an ashram in Baranasi for a few months.
00:34Baranasi, on the banks of the Ganges.
00:36And now I'm back on the banks of the Thames. There's no place like home.
00:40Take a leaflet. Yoga and meditation.
00:44I'm a very busy woman, but I shall.
00:47I haven't got a clue how this is supposed to work.
00:51The colours have all got to be mixed up for the Easter egg hunt,
00:54but they've got to be all separated out first.
00:58Can I hear one?
01:00Oh, go on.
01:01Better check to see how they've gone stale.
01:03Rocha!
01:08I pressed ganged Cyril into putting up the bunting.
01:12That isn't very public-spirited.
01:15Taking chocolate out of the mouths of children.
01:18It's so delicious.
01:21Fair days pay for a fair day's work.
01:24Hmm.
01:27Right now.
01:27I'll see you.
01:40Mrs. Estelle Glennon?
01:43Mrs. Hope Glennon?
01:45It must be rather fun being pregnant at the same time as your sister-in-law.
01:54Yes.
01:55Two more for the clan.
01:56Grandchild 10 and grandchild 11 for the Glennons.
02:00Family in Belfast are laying bets on which is born first and what the weights will be.
02:03Well, it may well be quite a close-run thing.
02:05Two dates, eight days apart.
02:07Do you have family over here as well?
02:10Hope's husband's working as a welder at the Barbican site.
02:12My Michael's doing the same, but on an oil rig.
02:15So they took me in to live with them.
02:17It's just us in London, really.
02:21So, four years since your first baby.
02:25And this one's going to be my last.
02:27Unless I get another boy and then I might try again for a wee girl.
02:30We've got a pill to help you choose how many.
02:33We've no control over anything else.
02:34You'd think science would have it all sorted, but now...
02:37Well, I'll have it soon.
02:40Do you think?
02:40The head's definitely engaged.
02:43With a second baby, that is usually the sign that things are about to get moving.
02:47I was thinking of taking castor on.
02:49Or going all modern and having a curry.
02:51My advice, Mrs Glennon, is to leave well alone.
02:55Chances are all you'll do is upset your tummy.
02:58And if labour gets going anyway, you're in for a dismal combination of events.
03:02Good things come to those who wait, eh?
03:05Well, you come into the maternity home.
03:07As soon as things start moving, we'll look after you.
03:12The shoemaker and his wife never saw the little elves again.
03:18But from that time, good luck was always with them.
03:23They were rich and happy for the rest of their lives.
03:27And that is the end of the story.
03:35I could listen to you read all day.
03:38You've got ever such a nice voice.
03:40I have to try to tell him the story through my tone of voice.
03:45But we're still not sure how much English he understands.
03:48Well, kiddies are kiddies, aren't they?
03:51All they really understand is how much they're loved.
03:54And in here, if someone's coming at him with a needle.
03:59I keep telling myself cancer treatment would bewilder him if he spoke fluent English.
04:05But perhaps the more he could comprehend, the more frightening it would be.
04:09You have to hand it to the National Health, though.
04:11All the nurses keep saying there's a real chance he could be cured.
04:15Yes, they do.
04:17The new chemotherapy is such a huge advance on what went before.
04:21Fingers crossed, eh?
04:21I always loved a community event, even as a child.
04:38Every day was a community event when I was growing up.
04:40My parents were in a boarding school for boys.
04:43Rosalind, your mother's on the telephone.
04:45Speak of the devil.
04:46Well, you must take in as much fluid as you can, Harry.
04:51Once the head goes on, you won't be able to drink for hours.
04:56I won't be able to visit the bathroom either.
04:58Oh, this is also true.
05:00Grandma, please explain to me again about the Easter Bunny.
05:03It's a mythical creature of pagan origin, which goes from house to house delivering sweet treats to children.
05:10So it's not Christian, then?
05:13It's best we don't quiz the connection too closely.
05:17Think I prefer Christmas.
05:18Welcome, everyone, to the Easter Egg Hunt.
05:33The rules are very simple.
05:39Everyone taking part will be given a basket, and there are more than 200 chocolate eggs hidden nearby, each wrapped in different coloured foil.
05:48The aim is to find six eggs, one pink, one blue, one green, one yellow, one purple, and one orange.
05:59And the winners are the first child in each age group to find all six.
06:04You can search anywhere within the boundaries marked by the carrot bunting.
06:10And if you're little and need a helper, then look out for the people wearing an Easter Egg bunch.
06:17The bell, if you would, please, Reggie.
06:20You may begin.
06:27Oh, and meanwhile, there is tea and signal cake for the grown-ups.
06:31And if you'd like a hot crust bun, just ask the Easter Bunny.
06:35I couldn't believe it when my mother said she and my father were coming to visit.
06:39I've lived here for two years, and they haven't been once.
06:42Better late than never, I suppose.
06:44They talk about being progressive and voting for the Liberal Party.
06:47But I always have to go to Leicestershire to visit them.
06:49Or meet them in a smart tea room in London if they happen to be in town.
06:53So if they're now going to go to the trouble of trekking all the way to Poplar,
06:58all the more reason to make them welcome.
06:59Oh, gosh.
07:01I'm not being very honour thy father and thy mother, am I?
07:05You should ask Violet if we can leave the bunting up.
07:10I'm going to welcome them with open arms.
07:13I've told them so much about you, and they do seem keen to meet.
07:17Have they never said anything about where I'm from?
07:20They've said you must be very enterprising to have come all the way from British Guyana.
07:29It seems like five minutes since you was in the Cubs.
07:39Oh, we're doing very well.
07:41We've got a pink one, a blue one, and a green one already.
07:46What other colours do we need, Donna?
07:47Yellow.
07:48That's right.
07:50And look, there's one over there on top of the dustbin.
07:54What a funny place to put it.
07:55I'll lift you up, but you must try not to touch the bin lid.
08:13Harry!
08:15Harry!
08:16What is the matter?
08:17Well, I think there's a dog in its death throes.
08:22There's foam round his mouth.
08:23I've seen dogs like this in the street in Delhi.
08:26Stay there.
08:28I'm going for assistance.
08:32Police, ambulance or fire?
08:35Police, urgently to St. Wilbur's School, Hendy Street.
08:44Everybody back!
08:47Everybody back!
08:49The Easter Egg Hunt is suspended.
08:56That means stopped, Mandy.
08:57Oh, I know.
08:59Come over with me.
09:06Nobody crosses this line.
09:08First of all, the civil defence.
09:10Establish and control the crisis area.
09:12Heavens to murder, Troy, with enough to contend with without children getting knocked down.
09:23What would this say?
09:27If we had to come our way, how can it be safe for Daddy?
09:30Let's go inside, Annie.
09:34Vet reports for a rabid dog, sir.
09:35Sir, it's a dead dog now.
09:38Dr. Turner, I'm on the police surgeon road to it.
09:40Sir.
09:42It'll have to be taken for a post-mortem, and this whole area needs to be cleansed.
09:48It has to be dealt with according to the rabies protocol.
09:51Mandy Singh.
09:52Kevin Rendergast.
09:57Teddy Turner.
10:05Everton Wheatley.
10:06Yes.
10:08John Muscatelli.
10:10As soon as the police give us permission, Baloo and I will walk with you to St. Oswald's
10:16Hall where you can be collected by your parents.
10:18Should I be serving butterfly cakes or kennel meat?
10:29This feels awfully close to home, Dr. Turner.
10:34You read about rabies happening in places like Germany that the squirrels get it there.
10:38It can spread from Germany to France to England.
10:43There was that case in Surrey last year.
10:45The rabid dog that ran amok days after it came out of quarantine.
10:49I'll never forget seeing the news, watching them rounding up people's pets.
10:54The results of the tests on the body won't be through for at least two days.
10:59But we have to find a way of keeping people calm.
11:06Cushions all ready.
11:06If you turn around, you can reverse into the chair like the occupational therapist show,
11:11Joe.
11:12I do not need instructions and I do not need a cushion.
11:17The only good thing about your mother not being with us anymore is that I am able to jettison
11:21her excessive soft furnishings.
11:24She liked keeping things cosy, Dad.
11:27She liked a lot of things.
11:30She liked Easter, as it happened, and kiddies.
11:33It would have broken her heart seeing that party stopped.
11:36It needed to be stopped.
11:38Have you any idea how much damage a rabid dog can do?
11:41I've seen that man foaming at the mouth on the public information films.
11:45That upset your mother no end.
11:46You're missing that, aren't you, Dad?
11:55What do you think?
12:05Shall I make a cup of tea?
12:15Jazz.
12:16If you walk out with a man for nigh on five months without introducing him to your parents,
12:21you're going to get nervous when that day rolls wrong.
12:25I knew my relationship with Cyril was going to be serious right from the very start.
12:30Didn't we all?
12:32I've known all my life that they are people with opinions.
12:36I had opinions too, to begin with.
12:39If that made you scared of theirs, then I'm sorry.
12:43Have you changed your mind, Joyce?
12:45I think the world at large is starting to change, if only a little bit.
12:56And you two are happy.
12:57I really, really want my parents to see that.
13:00I don't think anyone could miss it.
13:02Goodbye.
13:17Goodbye.
13:17I thought I'd come in early, but I had no idea how close to us that dog was until just now.
13:28Have there been any developments overnight?
13:30The Ministry of Agriculture seems to be in charge of the response.
13:33Agriculture.
13:34And I'm a health visitor, not a farmer.
13:37They say everyone has to sit tight until we know for certain that the animal was rabid.
13:41But what do they mean by sit tight?
13:43Are we all supposed to stay indoors?
13:45The school's been closed.
13:46The children were meant to be going back today.
13:48Meanwhile, Mrs Buckle has called a public meeting in an attempt to quell panic.
13:53She won't be told it's as likely to fan the flames of hysteria as it is to damp them down.
14:02Nanata's house, midwife speaking.
14:04This is Estelle Glennon.
14:05Is that Nurse Eilward?
14:07It is.
14:08Are you in labour, Estelle?
14:09No.
14:09But I think it's Hope's turn.
14:18Well, there you go, Nan.
14:22No, Mrs Kelly, we do not offer the rabies vaccine at this surgery.
14:27Yes, I can make a note of the fact that your children were at the Easter egg hunt.
14:30Thank you for calling.
14:33How may I help you, ladies?
14:34I think I'm in labour.
14:36Nurse Eilward said she'd meet us here.
14:38Don't come near her.
14:39Don't come near her.
14:40She's been scratched by a cat.
14:46I am beginning to resent the success of the government anti-rabies campaign.
14:51It's made everyone think they're going to die from infected animal saliva.
14:55If it carries on like this, you're going to have to appeal for calm through a megaphone.
15:00I'll take one to the public meeting.
15:01In the meantime, we've just ascended my 12 o'clock.
15:07You'll be pleased to hear it's a simple case of bunions.
15:09Dad, I can do that.
15:20You're interrupting my method.
15:22You've got collapsed vertebrae.
15:23I haven't got collapsed dignity.
15:25I'm trying to help, Dad.
15:26Dad, the best way you can help me is to get out of the house and find a way to make a living.
15:32Nobody wants yoga or meditation classes.
15:35I'm not that keen on them myself.
15:36Your mum would cry her eyes out.
15:40She saw the way you drifted.
15:43Good afternoon, district nurse.
15:46You come to give me my rabies, jab.
15:48Have you got any symptoms?
15:50Because if you have, it's too late for the vaccine.
15:52Things are starting to get going.
16:07Not very much in the way of dilation, but there is a little bit of water leaking, so I think we'll be keeping you in.
16:12I'll be back in two shakes of lamb's tail.
16:15I can't see any gas.
16:18They said there'd be gas.
16:20It'll be in the delivery room, won't it?
16:22I only needed one whiff of it last time, and they say the second one's easier.
16:29Which isn't to say the first is terrible.
16:32If it was, I wouldn't be doing it again, would I?
16:36That was a nasty old precious saw you had there.
16:39Quite deep.
16:41They said I was way too long laying on my back in hospital.
16:45I think this new sawness is because the belt on your trousers is pressing down on it.
16:49I caught him rubbing it with disinfectant, saying that it stings.
16:51Out!
16:55He will not stop fussing over me.
16:58Yeah, I feel sorry for the dog too, but the police didn't kill him.
17:07He was poorly, and he passed away.
17:10But it's sad that you died by the pence.
17:15Fred?
17:15Have you got any disinfectant?
17:18No.
17:19I saw a nasty little mongrel sniffing around my laundry at steps.
17:23Well, from that shelf there, and ten pence off if you buy the bleach as well.
17:29It's going to get worse than this if they build that channel tonight.
17:39Oh, Mrs. Turner, you do look tired.
17:51How's the little man doing?
17:54The first cycle of treatment is now under way.
17:57No vomiting or diarrhea so far, but he's not quite himself.
18:03I have permission from Sister Julianne to come in the evenings, if that would help you to get back to your own children.
18:15Oh, he would.
18:17He needs so much love, and there are so few people that he trusts.
18:25I don't want any more gas. It's made me sick twice now.
18:28I can see what's happening.
18:34This cheeky monkey's decided to lie on its back, so its spine's pressing against yours.
18:40Is that bad?
18:41Well, it's a little easier when they're lying face down with their head correctly tucked in.
18:45But you've got a bit of a non-conformist here.
18:48I'm telling you, nurse, the one thing this baby isn't is a Protestant.
18:51Thank you, Sister Veronica. That concludes the first part of our presentation.
19:10Thank you for the slideshow.
19:12Why didn't it mention the improperly regulated pet shops?
19:17You can't buy monkeys on the commercial road.
19:22Because we are here tonight to try to allay your fears.
19:29I used to be a steeplejack. I was always running into bats. Can you get it from bats?
19:35Bats can carry various diseases, including rabies, even in this country.
19:42You must always seek medical help if you've been bitten by a bat.
19:51The body is ready to push now, Hope.
19:54But we need you to slow everything down.
19:57Slow it down.
19:58Down.
19:59Down.
20:00Down.
20:00Down.
20:00Hope.
20:02Hope all is well.
20:05We're going to use this pain now, and we're going to make it work for us.
20:08Allow me to remind you all of the facts.
20:24We currently do not have any confirmed cases of rabies in Poplar, nor do we have anyone presenting with symptoms of rabies.
20:34The slides didn't make it clear what the symptoms are.
20:36Yeah, he's right, he's right, he's right, he's right.
20:47They're not his house.
20:48Sister Julianne speaking.
20:49Hello, sister. Could you possibly send reinforcements over to the maternity home?
20:54Early symptoms can look a bit like ordinary flu, with fever, nausea, aches and pains, all very easy to dismiss.
21:04But once the virus starts affecting the nervous system, things become more distinct.
21:10Muscle spasms, anxiety, confusion, paralysis, seizures and thirst, coupled with a violent fear of drinking fluids, even water.
21:29It's horrible.
21:31I know.
21:32That's why we have to take such care.
21:40Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
22:01Hope, with the next contraction, we need one long, strong, brave push that could well give us baby's head, and the worst will be ever.
22:09Success.
22:18We have the top of baby's head, and I can see the most perfect little pair of eyebrows.
22:27Well done, Hope. See how strong you are.
22:30When I finally get it out, I will know whether to kiss it or give it a piece of my mind.
22:36No!
22:37Bear down, Hope.
22:39Bear down, down.
22:41Come on, Hope. You can do it.
22:43No!
22:43That was the most magnificent push, Hope, but baby doesn't seem to have read the rule book.
22:58What's wrong?
22:58All will be well, but we need to work on getting baby's shoulder out.
23:05Dr. Tanner is only around the corner.
23:07We will work on the next massive push, while Nurse Aylward nips to the telephone.
23:14What's happened?
23:24There's nothing to be alarmed about.
23:27We can only remind you that analysis of the dog's remains is still ongoing.
23:41We simply have to be vigilant until the results come in.
23:53Don't wait for the pain this time, Hope.
23:55Just keep pushing.
24:03Sister Julianne's going to work internally to dislodge your baby's shoulder.
24:07We're going to get baby out.
24:08Just breathe deeply and push whenever we ask.
24:12Now.
24:23Baby's arm is lateral to its body.
24:26Baby's arm is lateral to its body.
24:40Push now.
24:42Push.
24:46Keep pushing.
24:47Push as hard as you can.
24:49Don't stop.
24:49Baby's arm is lateral to its body.
24:56I'm here.
25:00Well done.
25:03It's out.
25:04Oh.
25:08Oh.
25:22Oh.
25:26Large baby. Shoulder dystocia.
25:43It's the point.
25:51Well done.
25:53I may have broken his collarbone.
25:54You've saved his life.
26:24Good morning, Nanata's house.
26:38My sister's been regaling me with tales of slavering hounds.
26:43Are you still alive?
26:44When I last looked, yes.
26:46I haven't forgotten our conversation in the park.
26:51Nor have I.
26:52I just want you to know that the offer of a listening ear still stands.
26:56The offer of my friendship still stands.
26:59You sound like Humphrey Bogart.
27:00All you have to do is whistle.
27:02It was actually Lauren Bacall who said that to Humphrey Bogart, but I shall take it as a compliment.
27:11I do appreciate the things you said.
27:14You're really very kind.
27:15Will his arm be hurting him?
27:24I broke my toe once and it was agony.
27:26Baby's bones are very soft.
27:29And Doctor will be keeping an eye on him.
27:30In case he's restless and needs something for the pain.
27:35Wait till I tell him what he put us all through.
27:37It'll make a good tale once he's old enough to listen.
27:44Now, I need to take a look at your stitches.
27:46But if they're playing the game, we'll treat you to a little session with the heat lamp.
27:50What happened to Estelle?
27:52Your sister-in-law?
27:53I believe she popped off home when she heard the good news.
27:58To give you a time to rest.
27:59No.
28:00That's not what we agreed.
28:02She was going to be the first to hold him.
28:04Something's wrong if she didn't do that.
28:07It was rather delightful that your journey to matrimony started here.
28:15I ought to put up a plaque.
28:17There was a lot of sadness at the beginning, Mr. Scarisbrick.
28:21Even though there was happiness in the end.
28:23Yes, of course.
28:24Now, Lady Elwood, to what do I owe the pleasure of your visit?
28:28You are looking really remarkably well.
28:31I'm not expecting a baby as it happens.
28:33I'm hoping for professional insight into maternity care in Britain in 1971.
28:38Oh, are you tired of the medical landscape in Poplar?
28:41I'm as impressed as ever by what's accomplished at Nunata's house.
28:46But my eyes have been opened by living in New York.
28:49Yeah.
28:49Well, I've made more than one study over there myself.
28:52It's like a different world.
28:53Suddenly a different country.
28:54I learned a great deal by simply visiting American hospitals.
28:57And now I want to see if I might apply that knowledge within a British context.
29:02Well, you are, of course, most welcome to spend some time here observing.
29:08A little bird tells me you're planning on retiring very soon.
29:12Ah, yes.
29:13The golf club beckons.
29:16And selling the clinic.
29:18It's nice to see the baby.
29:48Two balloons up, one down, and one to go.
29:52They're for Anthony, really.
29:55Are you sure Hope's going to be all right?
29:57She's doing very nicely.
29:59And the paediatrician from St Cuthbert's is going to call in and check on baby's collarbone.
30:05Did you know they had chosen the name Niall?
30:08But Hope's all right.
30:10Her main concern at the moment is you.
30:16And I think I share it.
30:21It will be a relief to be out of the surgery for an hour, even if we barely have time for a sandwich.
30:26The public meeting did no good whatsoever.
30:29The phone is still ringing continually.
30:35What was that?
30:37Stay back, stay back.
30:38Come on.
30:40You need dog biscuits, not custard creams.
30:44They're getting her in the shed, aren't they?
30:45That's what matters.
30:46Be careful, Fred.
30:47Fred, have you sent for the police?
30:50They're supposed to be on their way.
30:51Shall I go and ring them again?
31:10I've seen the shed, Sergeant.
31:12Tottering on its pins a bit and drooling.
31:15Well, take a look.
31:16But toxicology came back on the one that died on Easter Monday.
31:19Well, may I ask, what was the conclusion?
31:21It was negative for rabies.
31:23Looks like it ate rat poison.
31:25So the crisis is over?
31:26Indeed it is, madam.
31:27Must have been drooling over the custard creams.
31:32Well, all's well that ends well.
31:34And there you have it.
31:36An object lesson in anticlimax and a British understatement.
31:40It would have been different in India.
31:43At home, the fear is always real.
31:45Yes.
31:51Me and Hope, we were terrified that somehow our men would get mixed up with the Republican
32:00army.
32:01That we wouldn't know that they'd be in danger.
32:04Or causing danger.
32:07But they wanted to get out from early on.
32:09Is that why you all left Belfast?
32:11They lost their jobs in the shipyard anyway.
32:15Catholics did.
32:16And men need to work.
32:18But women need family.
32:19So we stuck together.
32:20And it's a wonderful thing to see, Estelle.
32:23A bond like yours is something to be envied.
32:26I thought at first that it wouldn't touch us.
32:28There was so much talk for so long.
32:32There were demonstrations and they turned into riots.
32:34But you can keep away from them.
32:39You can't keep away from bombs.
32:41They hide them.
32:44And then they set them off in places where they'll do most damage.
32:48Places like banks.
32:50Estelle.
32:51Were you caught up in a bomb blast?
32:53In a bank.
32:54In a bank.
32:57Estelle.
32:58Estelle.
32:59Try to stay calm.
33:01You're safe here.
33:03You're safe now.
33:06This will stop you taking in too much oxygen.
33:09There was some screaming.
33:11And when I heard hope, when I heard hope, it was the same.
33:15Screaming.
33:16Screaming.
33:17You're safe now.
33:19When this is over, I'm going to walk you to the surgery to see the doctor.
33:28What's all this about, a whiffing sink?
33:36Can't have that with the in-laws coming round.
33:38Thanks, Fred.
33:39I was up till midnight repainting all the scurting boards.
33:42I don't know what's got into me.
33:44I love getting to you.
33:47I brought you some pot plants.
33:50And I broke my plunger.
33:53I heard my mother giving birth more than once.
33:55But it was the last one where she screamed and screamed.
34:02There were no more babies after that because it killed her.
34:10Nobody ever told me why she died.
34:14I just remember the mattress being burned because it was covered in blood.
34:19Even 20 years ago, death in childbirth was very, very rare.
34:25Now it's rarer still.
34:27One thing I can promise you is that your mother didn't die of pain.
34:32And we are going to make sure that you feel as little pain as possible.
34:38I can't do it.
34:39Yes, you can.
34:42And we will help you.
34:45Sister Juniang is one of the most soothing and resourceful midwives I know.
34:50But in New York, Estelle would have been simply booked in for an epidural.
34:54And a calm, controlled or completely painless birth would follow.
34:58I've read about epidural anaesthesia.
35:01I've been to lectures.
35:03I've never seen one performed because they don't offer it at St Cuthbert's.
35:07Which is extremely backward in my view.
35:10At the Lady Emily, you can have one for £20.
35:13£20?
35:15If you saw the difference it makes, you'd think it was cheap at the price.
35:19Have you been to the Lady Emily recently?
35:23Yes.
35:23I can connect you to Mr. Scarrowsbrick if you'd like.
35:30Not such a good day today.
35:32He's needed some antiemetics.
35:39A parcel with a wee hat arrived from his mother in Hong Kong this morning.
35:46But he wouldn't even let me try it on him.
35:48He'll settle down.
35:50He's a lucky little fellow in some ways.
35:53So many mothers looking after him.
35:58You go, Mrs. Turner.
36:00Back to your other children.
36:02I'll hold the fort.
36:11I'm heading down the black sail.
36:14Do you want to come?
36:15No, thanks.
36:16I'm not feeling great.
36:18And I'm writing letters for a couple of factory jobs.
36:21Factory jobs?
36:22And I'm also planning a haircut.
36:28I've had enough adventures to last me a lifetime, Dad.
36:33Just let me come home.
36:35Children are having a picnic tea upstairs.
36:39Sausage rolls and crisps.
36:40I'm assuming that's because the grown-ups are discussing policy.
36:46Yes.
36:49Sister, I am trying to move things on with regard to epidural provision at St. Cuthbert's.
36:55Do you think that's wise?
36:57We'd never be able to offer it for home births and even at the maternity home.
37:01It requires an anaesthetist.
37:03It does.
37:04But we can refer patients to deliver in hospital in the GP unit.
37:10Some mothers, like Gastel Glennon, would really benefit.
37:15So, I have arranged to see an epidural block being performed tomorrow at the Lady Emily clinic.
37:23We do know the Order's dealings with them to an abrupt end.
37:28They were performing abortions there when such a thing was still illegal.
37:32But I have something I need to tell you, too.
37:39Also about policy.
37:41For the animal you love and couldn't leave behind.
37:44And for you or someone like you, death in a manner that is beyond description.
37:49Whichever way you look at it, rabies means death.
38:02Sister Julianne, this is terrible.
38:07Why didn't you tell us sooner?
38:10I needed time to consider the Order's position.
38:15And I still do.
38:16Does it make it easier or harder that the National Health have made their intentions so clear?
38:21But there must be a chance that they'll keep funding the Nartas House when they take control from the Council.
38:27Not if we insist on retaining our religious clothing.
38:29Sister, if you close down in Potlars, so must we.
38:36Our practice is enmeshed with yours.
38:40I know.
38:43And there's so much work to do.
38:48If we don't agree to the new terms,
38:51we will receive no more funds from the end of this year.
38:56I've told them I will give my decision at the end of August.
38:59On the Feast of St. Raymond Linnatus.
39:01Yes.
39:04And in the meantime,
39:06we go on.
39:15Ah, Lady Hale with Dr. Turner.
39:17Glad you could join us.
39:19Mrs. Duchenne is a most delightful lady.
39:21I'm so very accommodating.
39:28How are we feeling, Mrs. Duchenne?
39:30Fine.
39:31Good?
39:37Where's Joel today?
39:38Is he out looking for work?
39:39No, he's not.
39:42He's off colour and lying down.
39:44It's like he's lost all his sparks since he's come home.
39:46I don't know why he doesn't want to keep on adventuring.
39:49Do you think maybe he's just a homebody?
39:51He doesn't have to be.
39:52Not in the modern world.
39:54I had to be a steeplejerk because my uncle was.
39:57Spent my life mending chimneys.
39:59Once.
40:00Just once.
40:01I was at the top of this church spire,
40:04pulling up my weather vane.
40:06You could see for miles.
40:09And all I saw was all the places I would never go.
40:12Joel certainly grabbed the opportunities he had with both hands.
40:16No-one else round here had a kid who went to an ashram.
40:19It's the kind of thing the Beatles did.
40:22And I was proud of him.
40:24Did you tell him that?
40:26What?
40:27Did you tell him you were proud?
40:29Oh, no.
40:29We're not soft like that.
40:33It's one thing to read about it.
40:36It's quite another to say it in action.
40:40It shouldn't just be for people who can afford to pay, should it?
40:45No.
40:46I'm going to talk to St. Cuthbert's.
40:48I'm going to talk to St. Cuthbert.
40:51I'm going to talk to St. Cuthbert.
40:51Yep.
40:51I'm going to talk to St. Cuthbert.
40:54Never do a thing
40:584 and 20 blackbirds sing along
41:01Royal gifts they all will bring
41:04When you are a king
41:07Everywhere you go
41:09People bowing low
41:12Carriages to take you anywhere
41:16People never touch a thing
41:19When you are a king
41:24Shoe black on your face
41:31You're really a disgrace
41:34Mommy smiles all the while
41:36Because she loves you she will worry so
41:39And if you're good you know
41:42That when you grow you'll be a king
41:44Never do a thing
41:484 and 20 blackbirds sing along
41:51Royal gifts they all will bring
41:54When you are a king
41:57Everywhere you go
41:59People bowing low
42:02Carriages to take you anywhere
42:06Feet won't ever touch a thing
42:09When you are a king
42:13When you are a king
42:16When you are a king
42:17Never do a thing
42:214 and 20 blackbirds sing along
42:24Royal gifts they all will bring
42:27When you are a king
42:30Everywhere you go
42:32People bowing low
42:35When you are a king
42:36When you are a king
42:38When you are a king
42:40I appreciate Mrs. Glennon is a special case
42:44You could always persuade us to switch entirely into our care
42:47I am not convinced that that would do her any good at all
42:51She needs a lot of care and a lot of attention
42:55Epidural anesthesia requires the same
42:57Which is why we have yet to introduce the practice
42:59Philip
43:00St. Cuthbert's is a good hospital
43:03It's even an innovative hospital
43:05I have respect for innovative things
43:09I am saying this in the kindest and most respectful way possible Patrick
43:14But
43:15You're a dying breed
43:18I know I am
43:19And I don't know if my way of delivering babies
43:23Has much time left at all
43:26Do you think the National Health is going to close you down?
43:28There's a big shake-up coming
43:29And when it does
43:31I want to know
43:32That the women who would otherwise have been in my care
43:35Are going to be looked after properly
43:37That they are going to trade what we can give them
43:40For something that might just
43:42Might be even better
43:44And that starts with us, doesn't it?
43:46It will end with you two
43:47Joel!
43:49I thought you said you'd come down for something to eat
43:52I've opened a tin of oxtail
43:55Greetings, Mr. Bagnall
44:07I have come from the surgery with a new prescription for your ointment
44:10Dad!
44:12I can't move my legs
44:13He's at a temperature
44:16Joel!
44:17I don't know what's wrong
44:18It's all right, my friend
44:26I will fetch help for you
44:27First let me get you some water
44:29Then Mr. Parry called this morning and it's a yes
44:40We had two anaesthetists already raring to go and applying pressure from their end
44:46And he's content to have Estelle Glennon have epidural pain relief in the GP supervised unit
44:53Yes, Mr. Parry will be there too
44:55In fact, it's going to be a fairly crowded room
44:58Estelle is one of the most anxious and distressed women I've ever seen
45:02And if it helps her
45:04I have no reservations
45:07But what are the implications for you and for our practice?
45:12It might put me out of business
45:14But it might give this place a fighting chance of working in tandem with the National Health
45:20By delivering more babies in hospital, regardless of what they ask
45:23That might be the way ahead
45:24For all sorts of reasons
45:26Dr. Turner
45:28I'm afraid a very urgent call has just come in
45:31Hello, darling
45:35Lovely to see you
45:38Mummy!
45:39How do you do?
45:39Lovely to meet you
45:40Hello, Daddy
45:41Good afternoon, Mrs. Clifford
45:42It's terribly good for you to come and meet us
45:44Josephine has far more of her faith in this A to Z book than I do
45:49Well, the underground was quite challenging enough
45:52Three tube lines
45:54We're staying with friends in Hampstead
45:56Hampstead is a tricky journey from popular
45:58Cyril comes to pick me up from women's liberation meetings if they finish late
46:03I'm very gallant of it
46:04Although I expect you to intervene if she starts wearing dungarees
46:07And you've no memory of being bitten or scratched by anything while you were in India
46:22Bitten and scratched
46:24By a cat and a shrimp
46:27But I've been fine
46:30How long ago did this happen, Jill?
46:32Weeks
46:33Well, must be something else, then
46:36It can take up to three months for rabies symptoms to appear, Jill
46:44Have you been worrying about this?
46:49We are going to call an ambulance
46:51To take you directly to the London Hospital of Tropical Medicine
46:54They all know what to do
46:57Tell me
47:03In this social work line
47:06Do you do any work with maladjusted boys?
47:09It's increasing all the time
47:11The council have just opened a special educational unit for them
47:14Which we're really hoping will pave the way for change
47:17We've taken a few of the odder types into our own school
47:20But we seem to have sorted them all out
47:22With plenty of fresh air and a bit of discipline
47:26Oh, this is a first-class material
47:33Cyril made it
47:35Oh, full marks, dear
47:38And now Rosalind tells us that she's getting confirmed
47:43Did you have a hand in that?
47:45We're different denominations
47:47But it gives us a common interest
47:49I'll show you the chaplain in an artist's house
47:52When I take you over to meet my colleagues
47:53It was joining them for prayers that got me thinking
47:56Well, we always said that Rosalind could make up her own mind
48:00About being confirmed
48:01And some of our friends were quite shocked
48:03But we have always been, um, progressive thinkers
48:07More tea, Mrs Clifford
48:15Yes, please
48:16Some Dick's back to Earl Grey
48:19As soon as you feel your first contraction
48:24You must contact Nanata's house
48:26And you and I will travel together by ambulance
48:29Dr Turner will meet us at the hospital
48:31This...epidural
48:34You say it's brand new?
48:36New-ish
48:37It's catching on all over the country
48:39And I won't feel anything
48:40You'll be in
48:41None
48:42Nothing at all
48:43Between your tummy and your toes
48:45Everything is going to be as calm and controlled
48:49And as comfortable as we can make it for you
48:52Oh, darling
48:55I'm so proud of you
48:58We never entirely thought you'd be able to knuckle down to nursing
49:01But, um, well, you've proved us all wrong
49:04Ignore your mother
49:05She's such a wet blanket
49:07I never had any doubts
49:08At all
49:09Now, Sister Julianne really was absolutely delightful
49:15Can you see why I love Nanata's house?
49:17Oh, yes, it's very quaint
49:19And what about Cyril?
49:24Charming
49:25Hmm
49:26Yes, he's, um, charming
49:29Impressive, even
49:31But really, he's, uh, not the chap for you, is he?
49:39He is the chap for me, actually
49:41That's why we're going out together
49:43He is in the middle of a divorce
49:47And this is the modern world
49:48He is also black
49:51And you're going to have to look beyond that
49:54We haven't said one word about him being black
49:56And I think that is to our credit
49:58Frankly
49:59You don't have to say anything
50:02I saw it the moment you met
50:04He is a perfectly decent, respectable man
50:08We just, uh, don't want you to have any regrets
50:12That is all
50:12Now
50:14Can we have a kiss
50:16Before we part?
50:18Hmm?
50:19Or don't send us back to Hampstead in the doldrums?
50:42Yes
50:50It's early for coffee, isn't it?
50:58Nurse Ailwood telephoned to say Estelle Glennon is en route to St Cuthbert's by ambulance with labour pains
51:03Can you tell Mr Parry I am on my way?
51:06Of course
51:07Doctor, I also received a call from the London Hospital of Tropical Medicine
51:12About Joe Bagnell
51:13Lysaviris rabies has been confirmed
51:15And the paralysis is spreading very rapidly
51:19I keep thinking of all the times I've looked at him through windows
51:29I looked at him through a window on the day that he was born
51:33At the hospital
51:34And I used to wave at him through the front room window
51:39When I was coming home from work
51:41When he was just a little nipper
51:43The consultant said you can go inside and sit with him
51:48And his mum and me
51:50We washed him through the glass at the airport
51:53When he flew off on his big adventure
51:55Go to him, Mr Bagnell
51:57The food I have brought you will keep
51:59I will leave it here
52:01Thanks
52:01There's things I need to tell him
52:05While he's still alive to hear
52:08Well done, Estelle
52:26Well done
52:27Any moment now you should feel the pain relief starting to take effect
52:32But it's already passing through that tiny tube
52:35Blood pressure's stable
52:37The fun starts now, Estelle
52:40I can feel the pain stopping
52:42It's like everything inside my body is going quiet
52:46That's what we want
52:47Rosalind, I know their reaction wasn't what you wanted
52:57And I hoped it would be better to
52:59But you didn't expect it to be
53:02Did you?
53:04No
53:04I did not
53:06To them
53:08I was always going to be
53:10Too different
53:12Well, I'm different too now
53:17And if they can't accept that
53:20If they can't accept you
53:22They're going to have to accept that
53:25Their place in my life has now become much smaller
53:27Please don't cut them off
53:29Nobody should ever cut their parents off
53:33However much hurt they have caused
53:36However ignorant they have been
53:37It's hard
53:39But Cyril
53:41You've had it harder
53:43You've had to put up with prejudice
53:46Ever since you've been here
53:48Hold my hand
54:02I want everyone to see
54:04This is a really strong contraction
54:11Push now
54:12Push as hard as you can
54:13That's beautiful, Estelle
54:16Keep going
54:16Keep going
54:17How are you feeling, Estelle?
54:19I think I'm excited
54:22But peaceful
54:23Contraction?
54:29Right, Estelle
54:31We're doing this together now
54:32I'm pulling
54:33You're pushing
54:34Come on
54:35Come on
54:37Are we doing it?
54:38Are we doing it?
54:43Yes
54:43Yes, you are
54:45Oh, stop, Estelle
54:52It's a go
55:01Hello
55:01Hello
55:13It's quite something, isn't it, sister?
55:22It is the future
55:23And the future's going to hold so many things
55:27You're beautiful
55:28You're beautiful
55:28Choice is too often a privilege not granted
55:41You must take what is given and surrender what God takes
55:46But pain is never all there is
55:50There is endurance and resilience
55:53There is tenderness and strength
55:56All these gifts
55:59Forced through like sunlight
56:02Often at a cost
56:04But then welcomed all the more
56:07We're home
56:11We cannot dictate the weather
56:13Only our response to it
56:15And we must turn
56:17To face the elements
56:18Embracing all that comes
56:21What's all this?
56:25Are we having a jumble sale?
56:26Daddy, it's for our time capsule
56:27I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name
56:29Agatha Bollasher
56:30Why have you been talking to the Lady Emily?
56:32That clinic is run for the benefit of the rich, not the needy
56:35Is there no one who could pop in?
56:36With a nightdress and some toiletries
56:38I'm doing this on my own, nurse
56:39No, I cannot go to the doctor
56:41Why not?
56:42Because I do not leave this house
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