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00:00A harvest marks a moment of arrival. Something fresh has been prized from the earth. Something
00:11new has been given or begun. And we marvel at what has been delivered, not thinking yet
00:18of all that is to come or must again be worked for. This is the moment to wrap up in ribbons,
00:26a time to savour without sowing seeds of doubt.
00:43Can I help you, honey? She's about to have the baby. We think. I just keep getting this.
00:48Oh, here it comes again. We'll get you inside in a moment.
00:51The blood samples were sent in two weeks ago. Sister Monica Joan, OSRN, also known as Antonia
01:02Kevill, miss. Very well. We shall do the tests again. The level of disregard for the comfort
01:11and convenience of an elderly patient is unforgivable. I don't know what that ice cream van's doing.
01:19Mrs. Bianchi's having some strong peers. We're going to get her settled and take a look at her.
01:24Oh, they're lasting a minute each. And how often are they coming?
01:30Well, I don't know. Am I meant to write them all down?
01:33Is that by any chance your ice cream van parked outside, Mr. Bianchi?
01:37Yes, it is. I only got in last summer. Best ice cream in Poplar. Guaranteed.
01:41I'm sure it is. But at the present moment, we're more interested in delivering babies than
01:47ice cream. Would you mind turning off the music?
01:51Oh, sorry.
02:00What do you want me to do with these, then?
02:01I'll take the rum of beans. We can have those with the chops I've planned. Everything else
02:09can go to the Harvest Festival.
02:11What? But even the marrows? They would have won first prize in the agricultural show if
02:16I'd have been ready in time.
02:18They're bigger than toddlers' legs, Fred. And I haven't the time to be stuffing them
02:22with mince and making a white sauce.
02:27I'll take them to the nurse's house, then.
02:29The children will march from there to the church in a procession. Your produce will be
02:35widely admired.
02:39You're not in labour just yet, honey. These are just what we call Braxton Hicks contractions.
02:44It's your body rehearsing for the routine.
02:46I feel a bit of a fool now. And it's taking Tony away from his van. That van's our whole livelihood
02:52now I've stopped working.
02:54Have I missed it?
02:55Oh, it's all right. Yes, I have.
02:57It was a false alarm.
03:01Good job we never told no one. I'll get me leg pulled something rotten.
03:09Is there anything you need taking to the post office, sister?
03:12Thank you. I'm rather more concerned about a letter I took to the post office two weeks ago.
03:17The one you wrote to the Board of Health?
03:18Yes. Telling them we would close Nanata's house if we were no longer allowed to work
03:24as Christian missionaries. I expected a response from them at the very least.
03:30It's entirely likely that they're playing games, keeping you waiting because you kept them waiting.
03:35One would hope they were above such pettiness when there is so much at stake.
03:39Come on, let's go, Mateo.
03:46Come on, this way.
03:50Idiot! You took her in too early.
03:52Hey, bro, you coming to football tonight?
03:54I don't know, Mateo.
03:56I'm not really in the mood.
03:57You stop coming to football, you stop coming swimming.
04:00You need to make the most of your freedom while you've got it.
04:04Come on, let's go.
04:04You got everything?
04:06Yes, good.
04:06See you, baby brother.
04:07You got the bag?
04:09Come on, let's go.
04:11I do not have unlimited quantities of corpucular matter in my veins.
04:16Sister, you're a nurse.
04:18You know as well as I do that blood replenishes itself.
04:23And we need to get to the bottom of what ails you.
04:26We all know what ails me.
04:29I am merely ancient and presumed frail as a consequence.
04:36Sister, I have five minutes before I leave on my rounds.
04:40Would you like me to move the television into your room?
04:42Do you suppose I'm at the point of expiry?
04:46There is no reason to treat me as an invalid,
04:50as the analysis of my blood will testify.
04:54Ladies and gentlemen,
05:00the doors to tonight's wrestling in the main hall will open in five minutes.
05:09She tapped the side, she gave up.
05:19In one, in two.
05:21So, so many in two.
05:23So many in two.
05:23I've learned so much about deferment since I gave up drink.
05:31I've learned you can bear anything if you pretend it's forever.
05:35I can postpone.
05:38I can wait.
05:40But putting things off until tomorrow doesn't always work.
05:43Because what if tomorrow never comes?
05:49I've been postponing a decision for a long time now.
05:55It's not a decision about drink.
06:17It's a decision about work.
06:22And work is my other addiction.
06:26Is there a doctor in here?
06:27Anyone?
06:28I'm a nurse.
06:29That'll do.
06:30It's a concussion.
06:31If you're staging sporting events, you're legally obliged to have medical help on the premises.
06:38I don't know nothing about, no legal obligations.
06:41And this is her, Harmony Savage.
06:43Hello, Harmony.
06:45I'm a nurse.
06:46I'm sorry you've been hurt.
06:48Occupationalised.
06:50Did you lose consciousness or did you remain aware of your surroundings?
06:53I never went out.
06:54I was just putting on a bit of a show.
06:57Punters like it.
07:00I've got to go back out.
07:01Finish your job.
07:02Whoa, whoa.
07:02You were out cold.
07:04I did the count, but it's over.
07:07Brenda the butcher won fair and square.
07:12You'll have gone to give out the prize money.
07:15If you can't be absolutely sure that you weren't knocked out,
07:19I really think you ought to go to the casualty department.
07:22I'm going to go home to bed.
07:24Oh, hello, sweetie.
07:31Who's this?
07:32Carl, my boy.
07:34He comes to all my fights.
07:36Come on.
07:38Let's pack up and get you in the van.
07:40You really must not drive after blacking out.
07:43However briefly.
07:44Any better ideas?
07:48I know it was a false alarm to that heap, but...
07:52It made me think how real all this is.
07:57How we've made a proper grown-up life.
08:00You do go on.
08:04It's like being the baby of the family gave you a great big chip on your shoulder.
08:09No, it wasn't that.
08:11It was being the one who is no good at all the things the others did.
08:15It's not your fault you won't cut out for the tiling trade.
08:19Besides, I'd rather have a bit of soft scoop than a hundred yards of mosaic flooring.
08:27Come on, lights out.
08:29What's that?
08:30Oh, nothing.
08:32Tony, there's blood on your singlet.
08:33What is it?
08:35Show me.
08:41Ooh.
08:42How long have you had this?
08:44Oh, wow.
08:48I'll put the plaster on it.
08:50You will not.
08:52In the morning, I'm ringing the doctor.
08:53Out, get it.
09:08Wrestling was all I knew, even as a little girl.
09:12My double's burnt savage.
09:13Lamb of pamphlet.
09:15God rest him.
09:16I used to watch him every time he fought.
09:18It's rather wonderful that you followed in his footsteps.
09:21It'd be even more wonderful if it were legal.
09:22There's a whole ladies' circuit up north, just as legitimate as a men's.
09:25But in London, we're outlaws.
09:28I really would like you to be seen by a doctor if at all possible, Harmony.
09:32Oh, my real name's Gwen.
09:35Thanks for seeing us home.
09:37Come on, little him.
09:38I've given up doing sports and everything.
09:55So unsightly.
09:58I'll probably just bang it.
10:00It looks like a sebaceous cyst to me.
10:08Antibiotics will take the edge off it, but I think it needs to be removed.
10:12Well, I've got a baby to any day.
10:15All the more reason to get it out of the way.
10:17I'll call St. Cuthbert's myself.
10:28Now, that is the bird's song I can easily identify.
10:33The lesser-spotted buckle.
10:38Ah, sister, how you keeping?
10:40I'm keeping on.
10:43If a little more desiccated with every week the passes.
10:48Perhaps I should not linger.
10:51Lest you sweep me up with all the other dead leaves.
10:56I've got a bag of doughnuts in my shed.
10:58Would they cheer you up a bit?
11:00Are they jam-filled?
11:01No, they're the ones with the holes in.
11:03Then I will forego them.
11:05Do you detect a chill in the breeze today?
11:09I reckon I felt the first nip.
11:12I like it when the seasons start to turn, though.
11:15That time of year, the maced in me behold,
11:19when yellow leaves, or none or few,
11:22do hang upon those boughs that shake with cold.
11:29Bare ruined choirs,
11:32where late the sweet birds sang,
11:36In me thou seest the twilight of such day
11:41as after sunset fadeth in the west,
11:46which by and by, like night,
11:49doth take away their second self
11:52that seals up all in rest.
11:57Sister Monica Tone,
12:15what's brought this on?
12:19Time, Mr. Buckle.
12:21It's passage and its sheer, weary accumulation.
12:30Would you like a cup of tea?
12:33If you will sit and take one with me.
12:35Well, Miss Savage,
12:47I'm not seeing anything that needs further tests.
12:50Any other bumps or bruises you'd like me to look at?
12:53I've got a rash.
12:54Keeps coming up sort of on the back of my shoulder.
12:56If you just slip your blouse off, dear.
13:01I don't believe I've ever met a lady wrestler before.
13:05I imagine it's quite physically taxing.
13:08I call over sometimes, fight or no for it.
13:21I think I know what this is.
13:24It's a skin virus called herpes gladiatorum.
13:27Gladiator, like in Spartacus?
13:29I love a bit of Kirk Douglas.
13:32Don't be honest.
13:34I'm afraid this comes from grazing your skin
13:36on grubby canvas in the ring.
13:39Your best bet is to wash it daily with medicated soap
13:42and bathe the blisters in salt water.
13:45Can I do that with my hips and my knees?
13:47Do you have a rash there as well?
13:48No, we just hurt all the time.
13:51Miss Savage,
13:52are you able to take a break from your work for a while?
13:54No.
13:55I've got mouths to feed.
13:57Mine and my little boys.
13:58I've been looking forward to this moment all day.
14:07I popped in a market and bought myself
14:09a new pair of slippers for the winter.
14:11I never knew you could love a bit of sheepskin on your feet
14:18till I came to live in England.
14:19I'm trying to work out exactly when I started taking a pill,
14:32calculated against the number of actual pills you have to take before it protects you.
14:36And why is that?
14:38I've never missed a single one.
14:41I'm wondering if it's thrown my hormones out of whack.
14:44I mean, it can do that, can't it?
14:46Child,
14:47the whole point of the pill is to throw your hormones out of whack.
14:50That's how it stops you getting pregnant.
14:54Are you late?
14:56I've been late before.
14:58And things just sort of corrected themselves.
15:02That would have been before you had a boyfriend.
15:08Do you think you need to do it to us?
15:11No.
15:12Not yet.
15:19Do you want to attack?
15:20Do you want to give out?
15:21Are you sure?
15:21What!
15:32The referents can't do that!
15:36Hey!
15:37Yeah!
15:37Hey!
15:38Is that a close vessel?
15:42Do you want to take care of your man?
15:47The winner is...
15:50Demolition! Debbie!
16:10Are you feeling sick?
16:13This is not good, honey.
16:15But we're going to do a test.
16:17I'll help you.
16:18I don't want anyone to know.
16:20They won't.
16:24Morning, Miss Higgins.
16:26Have the samples gone off to the laboratory yet?
16:28They will be dispatched very shortly,
16:30but if you wish to add any to the list,
16:32I'm afraid you must see to the paperwork yourself.
16:35Nurse?
16:50Nurse?
16:51Good morning, Gwen.
16:53Dr Turner remembered an iodine preparation
16:55he thought might help with your skin condition.
16:57I told him I'd drop it off.
16:59Have you been in another fight?
17:02Yes.
17:03And I didn't win that one either.
17:11New school's day, old chap.
17:13I overslept again.
17:14I don't like going in late because it gets told off.
17:16I imagine you're exhausted after a match.
17:19I'm always exhausted, but I'm a mum, aren't I?
17:23And it's just me.
17:25If I weren't tired, I mean I was slacking.
17:26I'm a stepmother to a little boy of Carl's age
17:30that certainly keeps one on one's toes.
17:33I hope he talks like you do.
17:34You've got a lovely way of putting things.
17:37Can I make you a cuppa?
17:40A cuppa would actually be extremely welcome,
17:43but I should be making you one.
17:48I'm sorry.
17:48I'll have to get out.
17:49That's all I've got this time.
18:03I'll give you the full amount next week.
18:05I've heard that before and more than once.
18:09I am not a charity.
18:10Now there ain't nothing in here but feathers.
18:19I'm officially skeet.
18:21Do you keep your money in a cushion cover?
18:23I don't trust banks.
18:24At least that's where I know my money is.
18:26Even when I've got none.
18:29Sorry.
18:29I've gone dizzy.
18:35Mr. Bianchi?
18:36I'm Mr. Penn Warden.
18:38I'll be removing this cyst for you.
18:39Do you mind if I take a look?
18:50Don't want to go hacking away on the wrong side.
18:58Could just drain this,
19:00but I'm leaning on the side of getting the whole thing out.
19:02Your bloods may come back perfectly normal,
19:11but I strongly suspect
19:13that if you'd have almost passed out in front of Dr. Turner,
19:15he'd want to check your iron levels.
19:17Maybe I just need a tonic.
19:20Maybe you do.
19:21I just think that as another woman
19:23who's often had to stand on her own two feet,
19:25you need to be in better condition than this.
19:28Are you on your own with your kiddie?
19:32No.
19:33But I was very much on my own for a long time
19:35before he and his father came into my life.
19:39And I know what it feels like
19:40to be fighting an invisible opponent.
19:42I fight invisible ones and all.
19:45And I've no doubt you're extremely good at it.
19:47But you need someone more than a wrestling promoter
19:50in your corner.
19:50Now, let us help find out what's causing your malaise.
19:56Nurse Clifford's gone out to the cinema,
19:58but Nurse Highland says we can have the box.
20:00Her new slippers came in.
20:02Could there be a more perfect showcase for nature's bounty?
20:06Oh, we can do a lot with ribbon and crypt paper.
20:10And that's before we start tying bows around marrows.
20:12Oh, these lamentable scissors.
20:15They wouldn't cut butter.
20:17Shall I see if I can find a sharper pair?
20:18What we really need is Sister Veronica
20:22and her magic pinking shears.
20:24How long has she gone to the Mother House for?
20:27A lengthy retreat.
20:30I wasn't allowed to ask.
20:32It's her private spiritual business.
20:34Do you suppose she took her pinking shears?
20:38I would settle for her implements if we can't have her.
20:41Hmm.
20:48I was hoping it was something that could be treated.
21:12But chronic kidney disease is just...
21:16Something that takes old people gently but kindly.
21:20But it takes them.
21:22How long has she been ill with this?
21:25I suspect not long.
21:26How long does she have?
21:31The same.
21:34Unless we can persuade her to accept what treatment there is,
21:38she'll progress to end-stage renal failure fairly quickly.
21:44Till that day comes,
21:47we'll just have to love her as we always have.
21:50But a bit more carefully.
21:52You look happy.
22:00Today is a happy day.
22:04I got a letter from the solicitor.
22:06The decree absolute.
22:07I'm officially a single man.
22:12Everything we do now is ours.
22:14Our choice to make.
22:17The Board of Health requested a meeting.
22:19I told them your diary was full,
22:20but they were most insistent
22:22it's in your diary for Friday.
22:26I anticipate the usual fun and games.
22:29I need to see Anthony Bianchi.
22:32I've just had his histopathology results through from the hospital.
22:36Should I make an appointment for him?
22:39No.
22:40I'll call in on him today.
22:43We told you the truth.
22:44Sister Veronica is on retreat.
22:46You told us she had gone on retreat to the mother house.
22:50She would need her cross in the mother house.
22:52She would need her shoes.
22:53Our sister needed our discretion,
22:56and I gave that willingly and with love.
22:58I'm sorry if you feel that you should have been informed.
23:03I'm sorry if I have been arrogant
23:06in thinking I deserved an explanation.
23:09I can't tell you everything.
23:12Too much of it is personal to her.
23:14But I can say she is struggling with her vows
23:16and has been given leave of absence for a while.
23:21She's staying at the Oliver Christian Retreat Centre
23:24at Gravesend.
23:26Alone?
23:29Without anyone she knows
23:31or any friends to support her.
23:35Sister,
23:36out of all of us,
23:38Sister Veronica emits the most love.
23:41She needs the most love.
23:43She does not know what she needs or wants.
23:47And that is why she has had to go away.
23:49Good morning.
23:57Have you come to see Tina?
23:59Mr Bianchi,
24:00we've come to see you.
24:05I can't have breast cancer.
24:08It's a women's disease.
24:10We know all about that
24:12because his mum died of it.
24:15I know.
24:17She was a lovely lady.
24:20And even in the five years
24:22since she passed away
24:23we've learned so much about it.
24:27I can't have it.
24:30I'm a man.
24:31It is rare in men,
24:33especially for someone of your age.
24:36But it's not unheard of.
24:38Everyone has breast tissue, Tony.
24:40Men and women.
24:42We have less of it.
24:45But it only takes a couple of cells
24:47to go rogue.
24:48and a tumour can start to develop.
24:51I have had some specialist training
24:55and there are new treatments
24:57and new approaches to surgery.
24:59should I have done something sooner
25:09when I first felt the lump?
25:11We are going to focus on the future now, Tony.
25:15And we are going to be with you
25:16every step of the way.
25:18I don't care whereabouts in your body it is.
25:24You've got the big C.
25:26We have to face up to it.
25:28We can face up to it together
25:29without telling people.
25:32What is that going to achieve, Tony?
25:35You need help.
25:37You need love.
25:39Tina.
25:41I need dignity.
25:46I need to feel like a man.
25:49There's a bike for sale.
25:58Maybe for your birthday, eh?
26:01If you win your next flight.
26:02Yes?
26:03Doctor, Gwen Savage's records
26:16arrived from her previous practice.
26:18She's been suffering with tiredness
26:20and joint pain for five years.
26:22Did the blood test we did show anything?
26:25Nothing at all conclusive.
26:28Just markers for minor inflammation,
26:31slightly low white blood count.
26:33Could the pain relate to the wrestling?
26:36I saw her in the ring
26:37and it's incredibly physical.
26:38But an impact injury would be on one side,
26:41not both.
26:44It's as though we're missing something.
26:46I never liked that.
26:49They said those Braxton Hicks pains
26:51was my body tuning up
26:52for the baby to be born.
26:54I got used to them,
26:55but they've got worse
26:57since I found out Tony isn't well.
26:59You've an immense amount
27:00to contend with at the moment.
27:02But baby's head is engaged, Tina.
27:04I really don't think
27:05you'll have very long to wait.
27:08Oh, this reading is just
27:11a little bit higher than I'd like.
27:13We can't have anything else go wrong.
27:16Nothing's going to go wrong.
27:18But I do want you
27:19to come over to the maternity home with me
27:21so Dr. Turner
27:23can take a look at you.
27:24Any chance of a 99?
27:39I've an elderly friend
27:40might like a bit of a pick-the-up.
27:43What's the matter, pal?
27:44Brian?
27:53You won't put me down
27:54for a single match.
27:56I can't afford to promote
27:57wrestlers who keep losing.
27:59I can raise my game.
28:01My dad used to say,
28:02aim up,
28:03things will look up.
28:04Your dad was one of the best
28:05there ever was.
28:07The Lamb of Panther
28:08was revered.
28:08Look, all I can offer you
28:11right now
28:12is the adult fixtures.
28:13Oh, no, no.
28:15Adult fixtures
28:15is one step away
28:16from stripping, Brian.
28:17I keep it clean.
28:19It's a place down Deptford
28:20where they roll about
28:21in jelly.
28:22Girls earn 30 quid about.
28:2430 quid?
28:25I pay 20.
28:30Bring your own bikini.
28:31Usually Tina reads stuff
28:42for me, but
28:43I don't want to worry
28:44all this.
28:45There's going to be
28:46further surgery
28:47and
28:49a radiography
28:52assessment.
28:57We're going to have
28:57to stop working.
28:59Won't be for long.
29:01You've got a family
29:02to support you.
29:03I've only just proved
29:04to them that I'm a man.
29:06I'm making a go
29:07of the van,
29:08earning my own living.
29:10And now I've got
29:10a woman's disease.
29:12They can't provide.
29:16I'm telling them nothing.
29:24Geoffrey Franklin?
29:26Mr. Franklin,
29:27it's Sister Catherine
29:28from the Natter's house.
29:29it's about
29:31Sister Veronica
29:31and
29:33I'm calling you
29:35in confidence.
29:37I see.
29:39I don't like
29:40leaving you on your own,
29:41Tony.
29:42Don't be daft.
29:45I'm fine.
29:47Hey,
29:48look,
29:50got my appointment
29:52through already.
29:54Nothing to be done
29:55until then.
29:56It's you and the baby
29:57we need to think about
29:58now.
30:01Well,
30:01I,
30:02just promise me
30:04you'll tell your brothers.
30:09I promise.
30:15You'll need to take
30:16these diuretics
30:17first thing in the morning
30:18as you don't want to be up
30:19all hours of the night.
30:21We can bring the commode
30:22into your room.
30:24The commode
30:24will not be entertained.
30:26You may come to revise
30:27that opinion.
30:29Your tone is brisk,
30:31given that my days
30:33are numbered.
30:33Everybody's days
30:37are numbered,
30:38sister.
30:39Mine as well as yours,
30:41one way and another.
30:47But you may be going on
30:49for quite a long time,
30:51possibly feeling slightly
30:53better than you have done,
30:55given that we know
30:56what ails you now.
30:59Maybe I do not care
31:00to go on for
31:01quite a long time.
31:05Let's see how we do,
31:06shall we?
31:08With these diuretics.
31:26Cor?
31:31We'll proceed with
31:49a full mastectomy
31:49of your right breast.
31:51We'll remove
31:52the breast tissue,
31:53along with the lymph nodes
31:54and the pectoralis
31:56major muscle.
31:59I don't want to do this.
32:01I promise you,
32:02scarring will be minimal.
32:04And at least you won't
32:04be having to deal
32:05with foam rubber falsies
32:06like my lady patients.
32:15Come on,
32:16where are we?
32:17Can I help you?
32:30I'm Carl Savage's mum.
32:31Is he here?
32:32Because if he's not...
32:33Carl Savage?
32:34I've just checked
32:35every member of his class
32:36for headlace,
32:37including him.
32:38Oh, thank God.
32:39Thank God.
32:41Do you want to go in
32:42and speak with him?
32:43Gwen?
32:44What's happened?
32:44I couldn't wake up
32:45this morning.
32:46Carl took himself
32:47to school.
32:48It's the worst
32:49I've ever felt.
32:51What's this
32:51on your face, Gwen?
32:52It's like this
32:53all the time.
32:54I'll cover it
32:55with pan stick,
32:55usually.
32:56You waiting for your wife?
33:16My husband says
33:17he can't stand
33:18the smell of this place.
33:19Drops me at the door
33:20and waits in the pub.
33:24Mr. Bianchi?
33:24Is this ever itchy
33:29or sore?
33:30No.
33:31And it's never all blisters
33:32like the one on my back.
33:33It's more like a sunburn.
33:36You've been covering it up
33:37with pan stick
33:37because it's such
33:38a strange shape.
33:40Like a butterfly.
33:43That herpes gladiatorum
33:45on your back
33:45was a complete red herring.
33:48This is what leads us
33:49to your diagnosis.
33:51Have you ever heard
33:52of a condition
33:52called lupus?
33:54Nobody in your family
33:56has ever had it
33:56or mentioned it?
33:58No.
33:59Do you think
34:00that's what I've got?
34:01This rash is so distinctive.
34:03I'd put money on it
34:04as a diagnosis.
34:05How long will it take
34:06to get rid of it?
34:08It's going to be about
34:09management
34:10rather than cure.
34:12But I promise you
34:13we can get you
34:14feeling better.
34:14I can't be cured.
34:17But I need to win
34:18matches again.
34:19Gwen,
34:20you are too unwell
34:21to fight.
34:26Tony,
34:26thank God
34:27I've been worried sick.
34:29How'd it go
34:29at the hospital?
34:30It was all fine.
34:33Your doctor's
34:33very pleased with me.
34:34Oh,
34:35really?
34:36So,
34:37what happens next?
34:39What treatment
34:39are they giving you?
34:40So many pills
34:41I'll be rattling.
34:44The important thing
34:46is that you
34:47are getting some rest.
34:49Not worrying yourself,
34:50silly.
34:50I'm not now.
34:51I've heard your voice.
34:53I love your voice.
34:54Now I'll ever get
34:55to talk on the phone.
34:56because we're
34:59together all the time.
35:01And we'll be
35:02together again
35:02soon.
35:20Tony!
35:23Tony!
35:24We're going down
35:24to the pub.
35:25Coming!
35:26Tony!
35:49Beryl Burrows,
35:50as I live and breathe.
35:51Do tell me
35:58you're en route
35:58to a harvest festival
35:59with that dreary swag.
36:02Because at the very least
36:02it would provoke
36:03a degree of fellow
36:04feeling in me.
36:05I'm on potato
36:06peeling duty.
36:08There's a rotor
36:08in the retreat house.
36:09Stop, stop.
36:11Before you completely
36:11break my heart.
36:13I come here.
36:14I come here almost every day.
36:16Sometimes I have an eclair.
36:18When the fancy takes me,
36:20I have a queen split.
36:21You get a cherry
36:23on a queen split.
36:24And there's this little
36:25burst of flavour
36:26when you bite it.
36:28Tell me you've eaten
36:29fish and chips
36:30in the street too,
36:31in broad daylight.
36:32Twice.
36:34Although sometimes
36:35it feels as though
36:36it's the things
36:37I don't do
36:38that tell me more
36:39about where I am now
36:40or where I might go next.
36:43What don't you do?
36:45I don't pray.
36:47I came here to pray
36:49or at least to decide
36:51what I ought to be praying for.
36:53But I can't.
36:55And do you know why?
36:57It's not different enough
36:58to the convent, Beryl.
37:00And all the snatched
37:01patisserie in the world
37:03can't disguise the fact
37:04that you are still living
37:05the same sort of half-life.
37:07Trapped underneath
37:08a similar, godly,
37:10bell jar.
37:12And how do you propose
37:13to change that?
37:14Come and stay with me.
37:16Geoffrey.
37:18I am still technically
37:20a nun.
37:21I can't live with a man.
37:23You could lodge
37:25with a kindly
37:26confirmed bachelor.
37:28You've missed two appointments
37:35at the hospital, Tony.
37:37Do you have anyone
37:39to talk to?
37:40Your brothers, perhaps?
37:43I can't.
37:46Not with it being, you know,
37:48breast cancer.
37:50It's so humiliating.
37:51I can hear him now.
37:55A typical tongue, Nate.
37:59Dr. Turner and I
38:00delivered a baby
38:01at the maternity home
38:02last week.
38:03And the mother asked
38:04if the older brother
38:05could come in
38:06and meet him.
38:08We placed the baby
38:09in his little arms
38:10and he was awestruck.
38:14This was his brother.
38:18He promised right then
38:20and there
38:20to teach him
38:21everything he knew.
38:22All his best fighting moves.
38:24A cat gun
38:25was mentioned
38:26and something about
38:28which jelly babies
38:30tasted best.
38:32Green ones.
38:34According to Enzo.
38:37They always gave me
38:38the green ones.
38:39Brothers
38:40look after each other, Tony.
38:43I've seen it
38:44with my own boys.
38:47Right now
38:47shouldn't be moaning
38:48about me.
38:51Should be looking
38:52after Tina.
38:52Doctor Turner
38:54says she can come home
38:55if you're feeling up to it.
38:57Of course
38:58I'm feeling up to it.
39:22She can come home
39:23to her.
39:24You know what?
39:26She can come home
39:27if we're getting
39:28a little bit
39:28more.
39:30She can come home
39:31and talk to her.
39:31She can come home
39:32and tell her
39:33that she can come
39:34and tell her
39:35how to get good.
39:36But she can come
39:37and see if that
39:37she can come
39:38and see how
39:40she can come
39:40when she comes
39:42and thinks
39:42her
39:43is a six-year-old
39:44mother-archment
39:45and her
39:46mother-archment
39:48and her
39:48mother-archment
39:49and she can
39:49come
39:50for her.
39:51So
39:51you stay in the dressing room tonight promise promise and if i win you'll get that bike my
40:08precious boy
40:21you're keeping up with those peppermints child i'm first on call tonight and i still feel quite
40:36queasy but it's not just in the morning maybe the pill itself doesn't agree with me
40:44i popped into the surgery when no one was there to check on your results
40:47i think we need to have a talk
40:56oh i can't seem to get comfortable my back is killing me
41:05right tiny the sheets are wet
41:11do you think you're what was a prank i thought they'd be more of a whoosh
41:15oh i don't feel right tony
41:24joyce what am i going to do the pill was supposed to be foolproof honey the pill was invented by man
41:32and is taken by women it's always going to be subject to human error i will lose my job
41:38i will have to tell my parents and i hardly speak to them as it is because they don't approve of
41:43cyril what i approve of sarah he's a good man and he will support you whatever you choose to do
41:51choose to do joyce i'm not even going to consider an abortion that's why it's so hard that's why i'm going
42:01to get the sack talk to cyril you've got time before you have to tell anybody else
42:08and i will cover for you in any way i can
42:10thank you thank you you have enough peppermint and wash your fears
42:18please take your seats for tonight's teeny-weeny-stimmy-bikini extravaganza of a fight
42:36nanata's house midwife speaking i'm ringing up about tina bianchi we think she got into labor
42:42i've been timing them they're two minutes apart rosalyn rosalyn come quickly 15 20 as promised
42:54put on a good show for the gents were you girls they like a bit of hair pulling
43:00hair pulling's an illegal move it's not an illegal game though is it gwen who's gonna complain
43:08don't do this gwen please what are you doing here you're putting yourself in real danger
43:12if you fight tonight your body is severely weakened from lupus and your chances of getting
43:16injured are high and what would carl do then if you're not gonna fight you can hand that money back
43:21right now
43:42a midwife is on her way and i'm going to stay with you on the end of this phone until she gets there
43:57she keeps saying she wants to push tell her to blow tell her to blow as if she is blowing out candles
44:04see that don't push blow blow blow yeah that's it do it with me
44:17you punch her i'd send you no punch
44:37do you want to tap do you want to give up
44:39i don't know what i can see
44:50oh i think it might be the baby's head
45:01oh
45:07oh
45:26can you hear me gwen gwen call for an ambulance quickly
45:37mr bianchi you need to get ready to deliver this baby yourself but you must not hang up do you hear me
45:54oh i can see i can see the egg it's sort of moving around
45:59i can see it's fine good now very gently place your hands under its head wait for the next big
46:07contraction and guide the body out don't pull there's something blue wrapped around its neck is that
46:13supposed to be it's the cord all you have to do is slip your finger underneath it and lift it over the baby's head
46:20it should slide off quite easily
46:21have you have you managed to move it it works it's off
46:35no
46:37no
46:39no
46:41no
46:43no
46:45no
46:47no
46:49no
46:51no
46:53no
46:55no
47:09no
47:11no
47:13no
47:15no
47:17no
47:19no
47:21no
47:23no
47:25no
47:27no
47:29no
47:31no
47:33no
47:35no
47:37no
47:39no
47:41no
47:43no
47:45no
47:47no
47:49there who are
47:51people are asking who will be looking after call whilst you're in here
47:53they're willing to talk to social services
47:55i bet they are
47:56the social services will take him off me
47:57i'm sure this isn't the case
47:59but Gwen
48:01you're treading a dangerous path in London
48:05even if your health allowed you to keep on fighting
48:08there are alternatives
48:11just as there's alternatives to keeping your money in a cushion cover
48:14And are you going to tell me what they are?
48:18Because I'd listen to you.
48:20You've told me you know what it is to find things hard.
48:30Another one for the footy team.
48:32A striker.
48:32My turn now.
48:33My turn.
48:35Oh, be careful.
48:35Come on.
48:36Come on, Bianca.
48:37Oh.
48:38Okay, go be careful.
48:40Mrs. Turner's just helping Tina to freshen up.
48:42And then Master Bianchi needs to have his lunch.
48:46The Neo-Papa did a good job on his own then, Doctor.
48:49Not many people could deliver their own son single-handed.
48:53But Tony did.
48:55This man, hmm?
48:58He's a proper man.
49:00He certainly is.
49:02And I salute him.
49:06Bravo!
49:12Lads.
49:17Something's come up.
49:19That I'm...
49:20not going to be able to do single-handed.
49:28I've got cancer.
49:29brisket, son.
49:47Brisket, son.
49:48Oh.
49:49Tony.
49:52I wish Mama was here.
49:53You are the best of us, little brother.
50:12And we...
50:13will not let you go.
50:15I spoke to the surgery, Gwen.
50:43All your records will be sent to the new GP we found for you up north.
50:47Thanks, nurse.
50:49I've got to start looking after myself now, haven't I?
50:52She's not going to be a russer anymore.
50:54I know.
50:55Would you like a hand putting that in the van?
50:58Or are you planning on pedalling all the way to Blackpool?
51:00Thanks, nurse.
51:06And thanks for the advice.
51:08It was like a bold move, taking a job in a gym.
51:11Training other women.
51:12But it's legal in Lancashire, Gwen.
51:16And you won't be exploited.
51:18It will give your body time to recover.
51:20And my dad would like it.
51:22Good old lamb of pamphering his contacts.
51:24Thanks.
51:36Thanks.
51:37Thanks.
51:38Oh, I came home from a lunch hour.
51:55Do you want to go for a walk?
51:57No.
51:58I'm afraid I don't.
52:01It seems you've made a decent fist
52:04at moving your weekly clinic onto hospital premises.
52:07Yes.
52:08Well, there was some grumbling from patients about bus fares,
52:12but I think we're on an even keel.
52:14Good.
52:15Because speaking scientist to scientist,
52:17and to paraphrase our friend Charles Darwin,
52:20it is not necessarily the strongest or most intelligent
52:23of any given species that survives.
52:26It's the one most adaptable to change.
52:29I know that.
52:31And I know I can't look after my patients properly if I don't adapt.
52:35A very good attitude to have.
52:36Which is why we're placing you front and centre of our plans.
52:43And closing you down.
52:48Closing us down?
52:50Not as a GP.
52:52Although you'll probably want to join forces with someone else now.
52:55There are real incentives for group practices.
52:57But the council are not going to renew the licence for the maternity home.
53:02But the licence runs out in a matter of weeks.
53:09It's always been renewed as a formality.
53:12This is the brave new world, Turner.
53:15There is no always anymore.
53:17There isn't even an always for me.
53:19The council will have to hand everything over to the National Health.
53:22But why do you still have power here doing this?
53:25To us and to Nanata's house?
53:28Oh, Nanata's house.
53:32They were forever outliers and eccentric.
53:36Threatwood, what is the logic in all of this?
53:41How is it going to benefit the patients?
53:43I knew you'd say that.
53:45And it's why we chose to put you at the vanguard.
53:49No matter what goes on somewhere far away in the offices of Whitehall,
53:53there will always be patients.
53:58And you say that as though it's a problem.
54:04I'm so sorry, Cyril.
54:06You wanted to take responsibility, but I was absolutely certain
54:12that nothing could be better than this magnificent wonder drug
54:16that gave me control over my own body.
54:18We both agreed it was what we wanted.
54:20That it would let us have other things we wanted.
54:24And wanted very much.
54:28We just didn't want this, did we?
54:30I think that it's something that has happened a little out of order.
54:39But I wouldn't have taken you to bed if I didn't mean to marry you.
54:42And I always meant to marry you.
54:46And build a life with you.
54:48And building a life with you means more than just rings and mortgages
54:54and bricks and mortar.
54:56Did you ever close your eyes and try to see our children?
55:04I see our children every day.
55:06With my eyes wide open.
55:08I see them crossing the street in Poplar
55:11or swinging on a swing down at the wreck.
55:15And I think...
55:16We could have a little boy like that one.
55:20Or that little girl has a smile like hers.
55:23I thought I would have to be patient.
55:30And I'm not very good at being patient.
55:34I would not say patience has been our distinguishing characteristic.
55:40And now it doesn't have to be.
55:41There is no good harvest if there's been no rain.
55:52The earth requires it.
55:55And so do we.
55:56For how else does the heart grow?
56:00Not through relentless sunshine.
56:03Nor under a cloudless sky.
56:07Life expands.
56:09Not in spite of the weather.
56:11But because of it.
56:13Thus we are nourished.
56:15We take root.
56:17We are taught how to endure.
56:19But there are times when the soul is hungry.
56:26When fruit falls to the ground.
56:28And we cannot tell if it's a blessing or temptation.
56:33There are times when we know nothing.
56:37Nothing at all.
56:38Not yet.
56:39And so it seems that if we go down.
56:44We all go down together.
56:47The council have written to me.
56:50Confirming.
56:51That the maternity home will close.
56:55And assuming that.
56:56We too will now cease operations.
57:01Do we have any say in this?
57:05A present.
57:07It seems not.
57:08Call the Midwife is back in a couple of weeks on the 1st of March.
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