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00:00The word promise means so many things and offers up so much.
00:07Promise is a noun, a verb and a virtue. It speaks of governance and of reassurance.
00:15It tells us of good things to come. A promise can be made or given. It can be broken or kept,
00:24binding or fragile, earthly or solemn. It can be divine or unutterably human.
00:34Apparently, when I was christened, I screamed my head off the whole way through the service.
00:40I don't remember it, of course, but I'll remember this.
00:45It is special and it deserves celebration, so may thou bless you and keep you always.
00:50But this is your Bible, Cyril. It's the one you bought from British Guyana.
00:55It came with me on my journey, so it's only right you have it at the start of yours.
01:05Go straight to Mrs. Kovach with these aids. Occupational therapy kept her waiting long enough.
01:11How long has she had multiple sclerosis? Five years, according to her notes.
01:16I'll read them before I set off. You're not setting off anywhere till I'm sure you fix that
01:21box to your bicycle correctly. Nurse Clifford is perfectly capable of managing the straps.
01:28With respect, Nurse Crane, it was you who encouraged me to go on the prevention of accidents course.
01:35Nurse Crane, before you get started, the roster may need recalibrating.
01:41St. Cuthbert's have called and they are short-staffed yet again. They have asked if one of our midwives
01:46might be seconded to maternity. Is that usual? More usual than it ought to be.
01:51Is this Sister Brooks asking again? Sister Marcus, I'm not sure we're familiar with her.
01:57I wondered if you might oblige, Nurse Highland. I know you enjoy hospital work.
02:02I would only go if Nurse Crane is agreeable. I'm agreeable enough. As long as you get in there and
02:07apprise them their shortcomings. These are the early discharge and the incorrect management of sutures.
02:16I will tell Sister Marcus to expect you.
02:19Oh, isn't he looking absolutely champion. He's getting so bonny. Oh, it's so lovely to be at this
02:32quieter point in his chemotherapy cycle. We're on our way to feed the ducks at the river but have
02:37forgotten to bring the bread. I don't suppose you'd mind watching him for a moment while I pop into the
02:42short. It will be an absolute pleasure. Hello. Sister Marcus, I'm Nurse Highland.
02:53The only thing better than being punctual is being early. A maternity ward must run like clockwork
03:00or it doesn't run at all. Babies do tend to turn up when they want to. Indeed. But we have two ladies
03:07booked in for induction tomorrow. That at least we can prepare for. Our senior midwives are all on
03:13the delivery ward this morning. I need you to supervise Mr. Perry's antenatal clinic. Of course,
03:18Sister Marcus. I always enjoy clinic work on the district. This is nothing like the district.
03:29Good morning. I'm here to see Mrs. Vera Kovac. Please do come in.
03:34Mrs. Clifford. Pleasure to meet you. This is my husband, László. We fled Hungary together during the
03:44revolution and he's been by my side ever since. He comes home every day at lunchtime to take me for a
03:51walk. But I'm too exhausted today. Tomorrow will be better and if it isn't I will carry you in my arms down
04:00the road. Just so you can see the sun. Look after her, please nurse. She's my treasure. I absolutely shall.
04:20Thank you. I'm sorry I didn't catch your name. Agata Balasa, my cousin who came from Hungary to help me
04:26round the house. I always say, God sent her. I've been here an hour. My urine's not even been tested yet.
04:38We've both checked out today so we can only have one urine sample at a time.
04:42Well then, what do? I'll test it myself. Come on girls, who else is sick of waiting?
04:47Come on. Come on. Do it ourselves. All right ladies, stop what you're doing and take a seat.
05:00One more peep out to any of you and you'll go to the bottom of today's list.
05:06Now, I know you've been waiting a long time so I'm going to send for the tea trolley.
05:11How does that sound? Tea and biscuits all round, free of charge.
05:24It is so frustrating not to be able to do the small things.
05:29You start to feel like half a person and you worry other people see you like that too.
05:34Your husband certainly doesn't. He seems utterly devoted.
05:42This hand does seem a little stiff still. I'll refer you back to the physiotherapist.
05:50Mrs Kovach, what's this?
05:53I lost my grip on a cup of tea. I couldn't really feel it at the time.
06:00That's possibly because of your condition. It's showing signs of infection.
06:05We'll need to dress it every day.
06:12Well, pop onto the couch for me, Mrs Hudson.
06:14Miss, but I'd generally just go by Eileen.
06:20You gave a good account of yourself out there, nurse.
06:22I was raised to take no nonsense.
06:24So was I. Number one rule in life. I was told,
06:26give as good as you get and never back down.
06:29As long as you do it with a smile.
06:32Only three weeks until your due date.
06:34How are preparations going for baby's arrival?
06:37I don't normally ask that. I'm on a budget, but I have been knitting.
06:42And have there been any changes since your last appointment?
06:47Yes, nurse. I, uh, went to LAV just after I got here.
06:54Is this fresh blood?
06:59Yeah.
07:05I've just been in the stock room and none of those old papers has been cleared out.
07:10I found these old comics. They're great.
07:13Reggie, the whole point of a spring clean is to make space.
07:19They can't stay here. You'll have to think of something else.
07:27I shall arrange for Miss Hudson to have a soft tissue x-ray and she must be admitted to the ward.
07:32You mean stay in? How long for?
07:35Well, let's see what the x-ray tells us, but we should assume for the remainder of repregnancy.
07:40There's something wrong with the baby, isn't there?
07:45Honey, let's not jump to conclusions.
07:48I can't stay in. I haven't got anything with me.
07:50Is there no one who could pop in with a nightdress and some toiletries?
07:54I'm doing this on my own, nurse.
07:58The hospital has guns. I'll make sure you're kitted out.
08:01Oh, I didn't mean to wake you. I found some of Nurse Clifford's favorite tulips on the market
08:16and I wanted to give her a surprise.
08:17Young love was ever thus.
08:20I'm also hoping to ask her for help with a sermon.
08:23I've been asked to be a guest preacher at Centau's Wells and it's a different style to my own church.
08:37As a Pentecostalist, do you wait for the Holy Spirit to move you?
08:44Yes, usually.
08:45Oh, I have yearned for some Anglican clergy to do likewise.
08:53I have been given a text from Paul to start me off.
08:57For we walk by faith, not by sight.
09:00That is from the Corinthians.
09:03I would offer my assistance, but it is the voice of the fresh, nascent faith that you should heed.
09:11Age has attenuated me.
09:16You are the wisest soul, I know.
09:19I'm going to leave you to get on with your rest.
09:21Rest is for the dissolute.
09:25I am merely closing my eyes in pursuit of mental clarity.
09:30Good morning.
09:38I thought I was doing well being half an hour early.
09:42I have been here half an hour already.
09:45I always try to get ahead with rosters and notes before my shift begins so I can concentrate on our patients.
09:53I think of it as oiling the machine.
09:55Is there anything you could assign to me?
10:00I'm here to help.
10:02I aim to become a war sister too one day.
10:05I'm glad you used the word one day.
10:08I've been here 15 years and I was passed over for promotion four times.
10:14What made the difference in the end?
10:17Being exceptionally good at my job and persevering.
10:21If you want to succeed Nurse Highland, you will have to work harder than everyone else.
10:28Getting earlier than everyone else and oil that machine better than anyone else.
10:36Can you do that?
10:37I can try and I will try.
10:42I'm trying already.
10:43I know.
10:45But make no mistake, they are looking for reasons not to promote women like us.
10:53Whatever else you do, do not stick your head above the parapet.
11:00Say ouch if I hurt you.
11:03Burns can be very painful.
11:05No, you have a very gentle Dutch nurse.
11:08Well, one way and another I change a lot of dressings.
11:12And I handle a lot of babies.
11:17Watching a child come into the world must be a most magical thing.
11:23I hoped for so long to have my own child.
11:25But life is sweet in so many other ways.
11:35Soft tissue x-ray of the uterus reveals great free placenta previa with the placenta lying
11:41completely over the os when closed and up to three fingers dilation.
11:46Is that bad?
11:46It's not optimal in due to the risk of hemorrhage.
11:52We'll perform a caesarean section as soon as you reach 38 weeks.
11:56Bed rest in the meantime and I will see you daily.
12:02A caesarean section?
12:04They cut you open.
12:05It takes months to recover.
12:06I can't have that nurse.
12:07I know it's not what you want.
12:09But you're in the best place.
12:11Mr. Parr is going to look after you and so am I.
12:16Mr. Parr is going to look after you and so am I.
12:22Agata?
12:31Agata?
12:33Why were you eating from the bin?
12:34I was not eating.
12:37You are mistaken.
12:38I have a tea cake in my bag.
12:41Would you like it?
12:42I thought I might fancy a snack.
12:47I'm not hungry.
12:54Agata, have you hurt your arm?
12:57No, it is nothing.
13:00Please, you must go now.
13:02I'm afraid I won't leave until you let me look at it.
13:04You have a burn that's turning septic.
13:14You must come to the doctor and get it treated.
13:17No, I cannot go to the doctor.
13:21Why not?
13:23Agata, I want you.
13:26Because I do not leave this house.
13:34I have your iron pears, Ms. Hudson.
13:36Twice a day on Mr. Parry's orders.
13:38He certainly gives plenty of them.
13:40I hate using bedpans.
13:41I can't get any sleep.
13:43In this hospital night, he's rubbing my neck red raw.
13:45I'm sorry.
14:01My Aunty Mora always said big girls don't cry.
14:05Scared girls cry.
14:07Tired ones too.
14:09You've had a tough couple of days.
14:10I was feeling all gung-ho and can-do about bringing up a baby on my own,
14:18and now I'm just lying here thinking about it.
14:22I'm terrified.
14:26Who's Aunty Mora?
14:28Will she be on home to her?
14:33She brought me up after my mum passed away.
14:36Never had any children of her own.
14:38I didn't have a mother of my own.
14:43So you filled each other's gaps.
14:45I was raised by my grandmother.
14:47I understand how it works.
14:50Do you understand how it can not work?
14:54You were each other's everything.
14:57Then you grew up and wanted more.
15:04I'd only got half of what I hoped for.
15:06a baby, no wedding ring.
15:11She wanted me to go away to have it and then give it up.
15:15I said no.
15:15You were entitled to say no.
15:19She called me a tart.
15:21I wouldn't mind, only she works at a club called Ostrichocogo.
15:26I have strippers.
15:27She swore she'd never speak to me again.
15:36And we'd have to hear that.
15:37Hello, Christopher.
15:48Did y'all have a lovely time together?
15:53We're watching Blue Peter.
15:54Blue Peter in 29 years time comes out here, they'll be able to dig up this box and see
16:01exactly what we were like and what we were doing here today.
16:04A time capsule.
16:06We should make our own.
16:08Mum, do you have any spare time capsules we could use?
16:12We could bury them in the garden.
16:13Here they are.
16:17Oh, tell you what, Reg.
16:22Spring cleaning ain't for the faint-hearted.
16:25I reckon we've earned a shandy down at the Hand and Shears.
16:28I can't, Dad. I'm busy.
16:32In what?
16:34Making a time capsule.
16:39I saw Agatha eating out of the bin, Miss Higgins.
16:42And not only was that berm extremely infected, she says she's not allowed to leave the house.
16:46I have nothing under her surname, Velasa.
16:50And she's not registered at the Kovach's address.
16:53Without an address, I can't locate her local hospital number.
16:56She may not have one, but she needs medical attention, Miss Higgins.
17:01Can we register her with this practice and arrange a home visit?
17:07I can set her up as a temporary patient, using the Kovach's address.
17:12But if her relatives are mistreating her, as you describe,
17:16you may need to think carefully before you intervene, lest it render her situation even worse.
17:22I don't think it could be much worse.
17:24Yes.
17:25Sister, Eileen Hudson's blood pressure seems a little high.
17:29What's the reading?
17:30One-thirty over ninety.
17:32I believe anxiety is to blame.
17:35She's distressed about her family situation and worried about bringing up her child alone.
17:40It's good to take note of these things, but this is a very busy ward and we have to focus on the medical issues.
17:48We always have time for a few kind words, but we don't have time for emotional involvement.
17:54What do you do with that for? A file that will go absolutely spare.
18:02Reginald Jackson!
18:06I need a tin for my tongue capsule.
18:10Well, that is all well and good, but did it have to be my button tin?
18:17You said we needed to make more space.
18:20I don't think I've ever known dinner to be so quiet.
18:27They're writing lists of things to put into their time capsule.
18:32They're making more just like on Blue Peter.
18:34It's captured their imagination ever so much.
18:37Daddy, do you think there will be doctors in year 2000?
18:41Of course there will, but there'll be robots.
18:44And they'll use rocket launches to fight to their appointments.
18:47No, they won't.
18:48They'll just beam themselves everywhere like they do in Star Trek.
18:52Well, I hope we'll still have some humans as doctors in the future.
18:56Why?
18:57Well, because people often keep quiet about what's bothering them.
19:01You need human ears to hear that.
19:03Poplar, 7982. Who's speaking, please?
19:25Eileen, is that you?
19:29Well, if it is, there is nothing I've got to say to you.
19:33Oh, goodness. You'll be in Australia if you carry on like that.
19:51Are you by any chance doing a Blue Peter time capsule?
19:55What are you going to bury?
19:56I'm putting comics in.
19:58People will always want funny things to read.
20:03You can do one with a Bible.
20:04I suppose I could.
20:07It wouldn't be very original though.
20:09Or have many jokes in.
20:10This feels lovely.
20:18Is it a hospital one?
20:20I found it at an artist's house.
20:22It's been freshly laundered.
20:24Did you have some breakfast this morning?
20:26They brought it around ever so early.
20:28Soggy cornflakes. I couldn't face it.
20:29I can't say I blame you.
20:31I'll find you a couple of rounds of toast.
20:33Did I hear the word toast?
20:35None for you, I'm afraid.
20:37You're having operation this afternoon.
20:40Why?
20:42Has something else gone wrong?
20:43Mr. Parry is unhappy with your blood pressure.
20:57Mr. Parry is not here.
21:06I know.
21:06I saw them leave for their midday walk.
21:08I've come to dress the burn on your arm.
21:10Mr. Parry must not know.
21:12It will make her angry.
21:14Mr. Parry not receiving the care you need makes me angry, Agata.
21:17But also, if you can tell me how this happened,
21:20it might help us to decide what we should do.
21:22Mr. Parry is not here.
21:24I know.
21:24I saw them leave for their midday walk.
21:26Who thought you would have hurt me from the catering?
21:36She hurt me.
21:38She hurts me all the time.
21:43One minute I'm scared.
21:45The next I'm excited.
21:47Let's go with excited.
21:49I'll be right in the room with Yani.
21:51...
21:53...
21:54Agatha, can you tell me why Vera would do this to you?
22:04She wants me to have a baby.
22:07Why does she want you to have a baby?
22:10Not for me, for her.
22:13She cannot, so I must.
22:16But when I bleed, she hits me.
22:20So you aren't pregnant now?
22:22I wish, yes, so he will stop.
22:27But I think no.
22:30So he keeps on.
22:33He?
22:34Who is he?
22:36Paslo.
22:40They say I belong to them, that all is permitted.
22:43None of this is permitted.
22:46This is rape.
22:48Have you ever tried to run away?
22:49I have no papers.
22:54They took my passport and I have no money.
22:59Because they don't pay you?
23:03Agatha, have you ever asked anyone for help?
23:06I think that I am asking that.
23:20Go on to your tractor, please.
23:30BP rising.
23:31Baby girl.
23:45Time, please.
23:46Two minutes past two.
23:48And now we turn our attention to the delivery of our erstwhile adversary, the placenta.
24:10Orgometrian, if you'd be so kind.
24:11Agatha needs every kind of help, Cyril.
24:25I can put her on the Linatus books as an antenatal patient.
24:28But we have to find her somewhere safe to live now.
24:31Before she is injured again.
24:32Before she is raped again.
24:34And before she actually gets pregnant.
24:36Rosalind, you have to slow down.
24:38I'll open a file on her straight away.
24:40But these things have to be done properly.
24:42Can you get her into the women's hostel tonight?
24:44It's full.
24:45It's been full for two weeks.
24:48I'm going to tell her to go there anyway.
24:50Agatha, I will be quick.
25:06But I need you to listen.
25:07Agatha!
25:09This is the address of a women's hostel.
25:11They will take you in and you will be safe.
25:19Sorry, ladies.
25:20I just took a jug of lemon barley after Reggie.
25:23He's been digging like a navvy all afternoon.
25:26Every child at the knit clinic was talking about time capsules.
25:30They're even doing one at John Tess School.
25:32The headmaster has contacts at the raw mint.
25:35And it's going to include samples of every current banknote.
25:38It's fascinating to try to think that far ahead.
25:41I'll be 55 in the year 2000.
25:44I was 55 in the general strike.
25:48During the abdication.
25:52My recollections fade.
25:55But it matters not to God for whom a thousand years is but a day.
26:01I wonder how many babies will have been born in Poplar by the time they dig these capsules up.
26:09And who will be delivering them if Narnata's house isn't here anymore?
26:12That's an interesting assumption, Miss Aylward.
26:14I suggest we refrain from speculation at present.
26:20Sister Veronica, would you like to lead us in the grace?
26:22Well, what's all this?
26:30Are we having a jumble sale?
26:32Daddy, it's for our time capsule.
26:33I've had to remove a sachet of angel delight and a box of chocolate fingers that somehow made their way into the capsule.
26:40We might be hungry in the year 2000.
26:42I think we should take a photo of us all together when we bury it.
26:47And one all together when we dig it up.
26:50We won't be together in the year 2000.
26:53Christopher won't be in England anymore, will he?
26:56That's right.
26:57As soon as he's better, he's going home to mummy in Hong Kong.
27:01Her BP has stabilised and her blood loss is normal.
27:08That can be the last of the 30-minute observations.
27:12Hourly checks from now on.
27:20But Lou and I have had an idea about something to put in the 13th Poplar time capsule.
27:25But what suggestions do you have, Pat?
27:27We should bury a car because in the year 2000 it will all be spaceships.
27:36Thank you, Neil.
27:37But I think we may struggle to get a car into a biscuit tin.
27:41What we thought was that we would include a selection of Cub Scout badges.
27:48And each of you can write a letter about one of the badges and what you did to earn it.
27:54Hands up.
27:54Who thinks that's a good idea?
27:57Thank you, Andrew.
28:00Your hand went up first, so you get first pick of the badges.
28:03Now, are there any questions?
28:07My teeth just come out.
28:09Can I put that in?
28:10Can I get some money?
28:12Can I put that in?
28:13Can I put that in?
28:13Can I put that in?
28:14How much longer do you feel?
28:19She's young.
28:20And she's healthy.
28:22She's not like me.
28:24She should have conceived by now.
28:26It will happen soon.
28:28I will make sure of it.
28:30Where are you going with those?
28:44Do that.
28:48And they'll come to me.
28:49Agatha, come to me.
29:10Agatha, come to me.
29:17Oh.
29:20Eileen.
29:21I was just coming to do your observations.
29:23I didn't know you were awake.
29:25Are you in a lot of pain?
29:27I don't know where my baby is.
29:29I thought we'd be in a coma.
29:31I didn't see you when I woke up now.
29:34Didn't they get her out?
29:36Honey.
29:37You've just had an operation, so you're not thinking straight just yet.
29:41You have a beautiful little girl.
29:44And she's up in the nursery, giving you some peace and quiet.
29:47I can't help me.
29:50I'm ready to see you in the nursery.
29:51Why don't you make me?
29:53After I've checked you over, I'm going up to the nursery,
29:56and I'll bring her down in the bassinet.
29:59Only for five minutes, mind.
30:02I just need to see that she's real.
30:10We are full, but we will always find a corner somewhere,
30:13if you're under Nonata's house.
30:17This whole store's not so bad, you know, love?
30:19I wouldn't usually ask to speak with you so late at night,
30:26but I find I'm unable to take my sisters into my confidence
30:29as much as I would like.
30:31They know some things, but not all.
30:35I understand.
30:37But since Easter, when the board gave us their ultimatum...
30:40Since Lent, when I told them I would make a decision
30:42at the time of our choosing.
30:44Well, I've been talking to the Lady Emily
30:47about how they're financed,
30:49and it's extremely interesting.
30:51Why have you been talking to the Lady Emily?
30:52That clinic is run for the benefit of the rich, not the needy.
30:56Our mission lies with the poor.
31:06Nonata's house, Sister Julian.
31:09I'm afraid Nurse Clifford is not here.
31:11We do have another midwife on duty
31:14who will come and see Agatha.
31:20Here she is.
31:21Excited as anything to meet her, Mummy.
31:26Eileen!
31:32Uncle.
31:32Uncle.
31:32I need help.
31:53We have a major postpartum hemorrhage.
31:55You've got a little girl who needs you, Eileen.
32:12Can you hear her, Eileen?
32:14She needs you.
32:15She needs her mother.
32:16Mother.
32:20What is this baby doing here?
32:21We can't get the bleeding to stop.
32:24It's too substantial.
32:25I'll call Mr. Parry.
32:26She needs her uterus back in.
32:28We have to get her to theatre.
32:32You must have been terrified to run out of the house
32:35without even a handbag or your purse.
32:37I have no handbag and no purse,
32:39and I am afraid now this is not a good place.
32:41But it is a safe place,
32:42and sometimes that's the only thing that matters.
32:45Although I grant you,
32:46it isn't the Ritz.
32:48Agatha,
32:51the wardress,
32:53the lady at the door,
32:54thought you might be expecting a baby
32:56if you were sent here by Ninata's house.
33:00No.
33:00I think no.
33:02I don't want a baby.
33:03I don't want anything.
33:10Please, Agatha,
33:11will you let me examine you?
33:14I am your friend.
33:26All will be well.
33:28You didn't have to wait to receive the news.
33:33I wanted to.
33:38Rosalyn?
33:39Hello, Trixie.
33:40I was just coming back from kitchen duty
33:43at the men's shelter.
33:44Shall I make us some Horlicks?
33:46Yes.
33:48Please do.
33:56I'm sorry, Trixie.
33:57I just had to get her out of that house.
33:59Yes.
34:10I think it was very necessary.
34:14But you took sore responsibility
34:16in a situation which could have become extremely dangerous.
34:19It was already extremely dangerous.
34:22And it's even more so now.
34:24Agatha is expecting a baby.
34:27She said she was having periods.
34:30When I questioned her,
34:31there seems to have been nothing but light spotting for some time.
34:35And the fundal height suggests she's about three months.
34:38What if the Kovachers find out
34:41and try to get her back?
34:44It makes everything worse, doesn't it?
34:47Yes, it does.
34:50You're a good nurse, Rosalyn.
34:52And a good woman.
34:53But please don't make any more bold moves
34:56without speaking to someone more senior first.
35:08You have a very rare blood turnt, Miss Hudson.
35:28AB negative.
35:29You've now had all the hospital had in store
35:32and we're awaiting supplies.
35:34Does it have to be special blood color?
35:37Can I just have the normal kind?
35:39They tried a substitute group overnight, honey.
35:41But your body wasn't having it.
35:43Sometimes a family member will have the same blood type.
35:46We test them,
35:46they might be able to donate immediately
35:48and solely for you.
35:50I've got no family.
35:51Come on now, no squabbling.
36:00I never realised burying a time capsule
36:02would be such a feat of diplomacy.
36:04I saw less complicated maps in Alamein.
36:08I've just about squeezed them all in.
36:10Have you room for one more?
36:12I've had a wee idea.
36:13I don't reckon there's a single corner left.
36:17Unless you take Regisole.
36:20There's nothing going in there
36:21apart from fresh air and old soil.
36:23Has he lost interest?
36:25No.
36:26He's gone off the idea of burying his comics.
36:31We'll send off a urine sample,
36:34but you do seem to be about three months pregnant.
36:38Don't make me go back to that house.
36:40Nobody is making you go back to that house, sweetie.
36:42No, but we are going to have to get you
36:45sleeping somewhere clean and comfortable
36:47and eating properly.
36:49I eat for the baby, yes?
36:52For the baby and for yourself.
36:55I want to do blood tests and weigh you.
36:58I think you may be very malnourished.
37:02That's no good for either of you.
37:04Laszlo and Vera do not know there is a child
37:08and you're under no obligation to tell them.
37:11But Laszlo is the father
37:12and Vera wants to be the mother.
37:14If we move you here to our maternity home,
37:17we don't need to concern ourselves with what they want.
37:21And with your permission, I am going to the police.
37:24No, not police.
37:26Laszlo and Vera say I will go to jail
37:28because I am illegal.
37:30I have no papers.
37:31You have no papers
37:32because they stole them from you.
37:36Meanwhile,
37:36you've been tortured,
37:39imprisoned,
37:41starved
37:41and raped.
37:43Agatha,
37:44you are not the one
37:45who's committed a crime.
37:47Thank you, Mr. Parry.
38:09Sister,
38:15Eileen's pulse is becoming weak and thready.
38:18We've just been told
38:18that national supplies of AB blood
38:20are extremely low.
38:22There may be none available for days
38:25and she has no family we can ask.
38:27Because I took time to get to know her,
38:30I can tell you she does have family.
38:32She has an aunt
38:33whom I think I can find.
38:35We do not have the time
38:37for you to go on a wild goose chase.
38:39Sister,
38:40I'm sticking my head above the parapet.
38:47And if it helps our patient,
38:51I'm not stopping you.
38:55I will.
38:57Thank you very much.
39:00It was as expected.
39:02The police,
39:03I'm afraid to say,
39:05had no interest
39:06in the terrible sexual abuse
39:07Agatha suffered.
39:09The officer called it
39:10a bit of he said, she said.
39:14Such a woeful dereliction of duty.
39:17However,
39:18they were interested
39:19in the theft of Agatha's passport.
39:22They're going round
39:23to the Kovaches this afternoon.
39:26Good night.
39:32We're not hiring.
39:41The uniform could come in useful.
39:44I'm not here for that.
39:46I understand you have a niece
39:48called Eileen.
39:52I have one.
39:54She made it very clear
39:55she's going to go her own way
39:55in life.
39:56I'm no longer interested
39:58in anything she has to say.
40:00Eileen has had the baby
40:01and she is very, very sick.
40:07I want her to weigh him high.
40:10That's all.
40:12I want her to be respectable.
40:15You don't have to make amends with her.
40:17You don't even have to see her.
40:19She desperately needs
40:20a blood transfusion
40:21and there's a possibility
40:23you might be a match.
40:30This is all rather novel.
40:33I had hoped to surprise you
40:34and then realised
40:36if it wasn't advertised
40:37we wouldn't have anything
40:38to put in it.
40:40So many of our mothers
40:41have brought little things along
40:43just because of word of mouth.
40:45Of dozens of nappy pins
40:47pink and blue.
40:49And quite a few name bracelets
40:51from the maternity home.
40:53During the war
40:53we used to write the baby's names
40:56on sticking plaster
40:57taped across their back.
40:59I don't think that sounds hygienic
41:01but all these souvenirs are lovely.
41:08I had a prolapse cord with Claire.
41:11She would have died
41:11if it hadn't been
41:12for Nanot's house.
41:15That is just perfect.
41:18Good afternoon, Mrs. Kovach.
41:25I've come to collect
41:26Agatha's belongings.
41:27Where is she?
41:29She's asked that we don't
41:30disclose her whereabouts.
41:31The police have been here
41:32raking through every cupboard,
41:35every drawer.
41:35I imagine they were looking
41:36for her passport.
41:37They found it.
41:38It wasn't lost.
41:39It wasn't stolen.
41:41Nor was it yours to withhold.
41:42We need to know
41:43she's safe.
41:45She's safe now
41:46and she's receiving
41:47medical attention.
41:48She's our flesh and blood.
41:50She's not too clever in the head.
41:51She needs our protection.
41:53I beg to differ
41:54as it happens
41:55and Agatha
41:57needs her clothes.
42:00Now you can let me in
42:01or I shall send
42:02for the police again.
42:10The results of Miss Hudson's
42:12art have come back.
42:14A, B, negative.
42:15We have a match.
42:16We do.
42:17And you did the right thing.
42:28You need to keep your fluids up
42:29when you're donating blood.
42:33The least I could do.
42:35All I ever wanted
42:36was to see her thrive.
42:38And that was what upset me
42:39when she was hell-bent
42:40on being an unmarried mother.
42:42I work with these sort of girls
42:43and they don't lead
42:45an enviable life.
42:46I think Eileen is going
42:48to lead a good life.
42:49She loves her daughter
42:51as much as you love her.
42:55I'll be off now.
42:58Done all I can.
43:01I'm not sure that's true.
43:04You did very well
43:05with your main course,
43:06I must say.
43:07Dr. Turner's keen
43:07to see you put some weight on.
43:09This is the best food
43:10I have had in England.
43:12Ristles and cabbage.
43:13Oh, sweetie,
43:13you're breaking my heart.
43:15And these clothes
43:16are breaking my heart
43:17a little too.
43:20But they're yours
43:21and you're entitled to them.
43:23I don't want them.
43:24They smell of that house.
43:25They smell of hemp.
43:27We can certainly arrange
43:28for them to be laundered.
43:30Or burnt.
43:33There's a cupboard
43:34at Nonata's house
43:35full of lovely things
43:36passed on
43:37from women and children
43:38for other women
43:39and children
43:40who might need them.
43:41take it out of the fire.
43:44But not these.
43:46This Bible came with me.
43:47It stays on the journey.
43:49I have a Bible
43:50that traveled around the world.
43:52At home in Hungary,
43:53the communists
43:54made us afraid
43:54to practice our religion.
43:56I thought when I came here,
43:59I could go to church
44:00and pray
44:01where there were statues.
44:02I was wrong.
44:05I have not been in the church
44:06since I came to this country.
44:08This book was all I had.
44:11At least it was something.
44:14It was not enough.
44:21Good evening.
44:23Mr. and Mrs. Kovac.
44:24I'm about to close
44:26the surgery for the evening,
44:27but may I be of assistance?
44:29We are looking
44:29for my young relative,
44:31Agatha Bollosho.
44:32We are very concerned
44:33about her.
44:34We were told
44:34she needed medical assistance.
44:37There is nobody
44:38of that name registered
44:39with this practice.
44:40And the only patients
44:41on the premises
44:42are our maternity cases.
44:44A nurse from this practice
44:46has been to our home.
44:48Miss Higgins,
44:48when does the
44:49rag and bone man come?
44:51Agatha says she doesn't
44:52want to keep any of this.
44:52Agatha!
44:53Agatha, where are you?
44:55Call the police!
45:00General Jack,
45:01trespass on a hospital
45:02premises in this way.
45:03Get out!
45:04Get out now!
45:04Are you here
45:05because you're having a baby?
45:07She is here
45:07because she was starving
45:08and brutalized
45:09and required nursing.
45:11Anything else
45:11is none of your business.
45:12Have you been telling
45:13your stories again?
45:14She's not well.
45:15You see, nurse in the head.
45:17She needs to come home.
45:19Don't you, Agatha?
45:20You can't take care
45:21of a baby, Agatha.
45:23If you come home,
45:25we can look after you
45:26and the child.
45:28You can look after me again
45:29and we can all be happy together
45:31like we used to be.
45:33We were never happy together.
45:34I was never happy at all.
45:36We gave you a home.
45:38Without us,
45:38you are nothing.
45:40That is enough.
45:42Agatha is a human being.
45:44You stole her freedom
45:45for long enough,
45:46but you aren't going
45:47to erase her.
45:51And I am telling you to go
45:53because I am someone.
45:57I can choose.
45:58I can speak.
45:59Do you hear me?
46:00Oh, you look as though
46:10you've had a long day.
46:13The terrible way
46:15people can treat each other.
46:17It still surprises me,
46:19even after all this time.
46:21Oh, some things
46:22are always difficult.
46:23What's all this?
46:28Teddy wanted a photo
46:29of Petula for the time capsule.
46:31I knew we had one from Easter.
46:34As I was looking,
46:35I came across this.
46:40This time between
46:41Christopher's chemotherapy sessions
46:43has felt so precious.
46:45It's all precious, isn't it?
46:47Every second we get
46:50to spend with them.
46:56Well,
46:56someone certainly
46:57looks brighter.
46:59They said it had
46:59the proper blood.
47:01Where'd you get it from?
47:03I asked your aunt to donate
47:05if her group proved
47:06to be the same as yours.
47:08And it was,
47:09and she agreed.
47:11Would you like to see her?
47:13Would she come
47:14after all the things we said?
47:17Is that her?
47:29A little girl?
47:30And is that you?
47:32She's been right
47:33beside her all day.
47:35The little girl
47:35needs her family.
47:37Just like me and you, love.
47:39I should never have said
47:40the things I said.
47:41I should have backed down.
47:43And so should I.
47:44But I am not
47:47your mother
47:47and I never have been.
47:49No.
47:50You are everyone.
47:53You've been my mum,
47:55my dad,
47:56my aunt,
47:57and my best friend.
48:04As tough girls,
48:06we don't let them
48:06see us cry.
48:07But we do.
48:11Don't let this one
48:12be scared
48:13to feel her feelings.
48:33Thank you, nurse.
48:34Laszlo and Vera
48:38can't hurt you
48:39anymore, Agatha.
48:40They have no power
48:41over you.
48:42And the police
48:43have charged them
48:43with false imprisonment.
48:45Then they are the ones
48:47who will be in jail?
48:48It is very likely.
48:50As your social worker,
48:51I'd help to guide you
48:52through the court case.
48:54Where am I to live
48:55so that they will not
48:56find me?
48:57There is quite a large
48:58Hungarian community
48:59in Stoke-on-Trent.
49:01And I've found
49:02a mother and baby
49:03home there
49:03that you might
49:04like to consider
49:04once all your papers
49:06are in order.
49:07We might also
49:08be able to get you
49:09home to Hungary
49:10if that's what
49:11you decide.
49:13I decide?
49:16I am not ready
49:17to decide.
49:18That's all right.
49:20We're here to help
49:21you when you do.
49:22I found you
49:27the most gorgeous
49:28coat.
49:29Are you ready
49:30for our outing?
49:34It's nice of you
49:35to let the night
49:35of the south
49:36use your spot.
49:41What if I
49:41changed my mind?
49:43It's too late
49:44to change your mind.
49:45Mother Mary,
50:08she has everything
50:09in my religion.
50:11Thank you for letting
50:12me see her again.
50:14I always think Mary
50:15was so brave,
50:16giving birth
50:17on a dirt floor
50:17with no one
50:18to help her.
50:19A mother's love
50:20is often indivisible
50:21from a mother's courage.
50:32Good morning, sister.
50:34Early again.
50:35I could set
50:36my watch by you.
50:38You've done well
50:39this week,
50:40Nurse Highland.
50:41It's certainly
50:42been interesting,
50:43which is what
50:43I wanted.
50:44I spoke to Mr.
50:46Parry and asked
50:46if he'd be agreeable
50:48to you remaining
50:49with us here
50:50for a few more weeks.
50:52He was.
50:53I hope you'll
50:54consider it.
50:55I'd be delighted
50:56to.
50:58I'll do the
50:58staffing roster.
51:00You set up
51:00the clinic tests.
51:01Got to keep
51:02boiling that machine.
51:05Oh, goodness me!
51:06He had a brainwave!
51:07Careful down,
51:08no stairs!
51:09It's about
51:09the time capsule.
51:10We think Christopher
51:11will love it.
51:12Ooh!
51:13We're going to need
51:15lots and lots of paint.
51:20My Huntley and Palmer's
51:22biscuit tin
51:22should suffice
51:23for the capsule.
51:25Oh!
51:28Whatever is amiss?
51:31It's just
51:31this description
51:34one of the boys
51:35has written.
51:38The silver arrow badge
51:40is very special.
51:42I got mine
51:44building a campfire.
51:47Our leaders
51:47are called
51:48Arkela
51:49and Baloo.
51:50They are
51:52very, very
51:53old ladies
51:55so they will
51:56be dead
51:57in the year
51:572000
51:58when you
51:59open this.
52:01But I don't
52:02want you to
52:03forget them.
52:05So this is
52:06what they look
52:07like.
52:11Oh!
52:16Well,
52:17as they have
52:18been so creative,
52:19perhaps we
52:21should be too.
52:49I did not expect
52:57to be so moved
52:58by this.
53:01Whatever happens
53:02to the Order
53:02in the future,
53:03we will have
53:04always been here.
53:06And perhaps
53:07that's all that matters.
53:08do you like it, Mummy?
53:17Oh, it's
53:17perfect.
53:20In fact,
53:21I think we should
53:22make another one.
53:24May,
53:24would you like to
53:25send one to your
53:26mum in Hong Kong?
53:27I'm sure she'd
53:28love to see it.
53:29and what else
53:34are we hoping
53:35for in the
53:36year 2000?
53:38What about
53:39a magic oven
53:39that could cook
53:40a whole dinner
53:41in five minutes?
53:44Rocket boots!
53:45Fine car.
53:46Mandate needles
53:47are sticking in
53:48material,
53:49not people.
53:50but people are
53:51very good with
53:51when we can
53:52get rid of
53:53the
54:17I saved you a tulip.
54:21Do you still need help with your sermon?
54:24No.
54:42We promise our children that there is a future.
54:47That one day there'll be others on the grass where they play now.
54:52Looking back in wonder at the lives that went before.
54:59Every life contains some promise at the outset.
55:04Sometimes its potential is not reached.
55:08Sometimes it blossoms despite the wound and rain.
55:13We all carry seeds within us.
55:18If we are blessed, they bloom into courage.
55:22Faith, hope and the love that finds a way.
55:27Children see nothing of that, nor do they need to.
55:33It is enough that they are laughing.
55:36Saying, this is who we were last week.
55:39Yesterday, an hour ago.
55:42A child's past to a child is already ancient history.
55:49And their future feels as far off as the moon.
55:54That is as it ought to be.
55:57Let the present nourish us.
55:59Let us turn our faces to the sun.
56:02And even as the moment fades and falls away.
56:07Let us vow we will remember it.
56:11Details of help and support with sexual violence or modern day slavery.
56:26Available on the Action Line pages of the BBC website.
56:31You
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