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00:00Very well, we shall do the tests again.
00:03The level of disregard for the comfort and convenience of an elderly patient is unforgivable.
00:11I don't know what that ice cream van's doing.
00:14Mrs. Bianchi's having some strong peers.
00:17We're going to get her settled and take a look at her.
00:19Oh, they're lasting a minute each.
00:21And how often are they coming?
00:24Well, I don't know.
00:26Am I meant to write them all down?
00:27Is that by any chance your ice cream van parked outside, Mr. Bianchi?
00:31Yes, it is.
00:32I only got it last summer. Best ice cream in Poplar. Guaranteed.
00:36I'm sure it is, but at the present moment we're more interested in delivering babies than ice cream.
00:42Would you mind turning off the music?
00:45Oh, sorry.
00:54What do you want me to do with these then?
00:57OK.
00:58I'll take the run of beans. We can have those with the chops I've planned.
01:03Everything else can go to the harvest festival.
01:06What?
01:07Even the marrows?
01:08They would have won first prize in the multicultural show if I'd have been ready in time.
01:12They're bigger than toddlers' legs, Fred.
01:15And I haven't the time to be stuffing them with mince and making a white sauce.
01:19I'll take them to the nurse house then.
01:23The children will march from there to the church in a procession.
01:28Your produce will be widely admired.
01:31You're not in labour just yet, honey.
01:35These are just what we call Braxton Hicks contractions.
01:38It's your buddy rehearsing for the routine.
01:41I feel a bit of a fool now.
01:43And it's taking Tony away from his van.
01:45That van's our whole livelihood now I've stopped working.
01:47Have I missed it?
01:49It's all right.
01:50You're safe.
01:51It was a false alarm.
01:56Good job you never told no one.
01:58I'll get me leg pulled for something rotten.
02:04Is there anything you need taking to the post office, sister?
02:07I'm rather more concerned about a letter I took to the post office two weeks ago.
02:11The one you wrote to the Board of Health?
02:13Yes.
02:14Telling them we would close Nunnata's house if we were no longer allowed to work as Christian missionaries.
02:21I expected a response from them at the very least.
02:24It's entirely likely that they're playing games.
02:26Keeping you waiting because you kept them waiting.
02:29One would hope they were above such pettiness when there is so much at stake.
02:34Come on this way.
02:40Idiot!
02:41You took her in too early.
02:42Hey, bruv.
02:43You coming to football tonight?
02:44I don't know Matteo.
02:45I'm not really in the mood.
02:46You stop coming to football, you stop coming swimming.
02:49You need to make the most of your freedom while you've got it.
02:52Come on let's go.
02:53You got everything?
02:54Let's go.
02:55See you baby brother.
02:56You got the bag?
02:57Come on let's go.
02:58You got everything?
02:59See you baby brother.
03:00You got the bag?
03:01Come on let's go.
03:02Come on let's go.
03:03I do not have unlimited quantities of copacular matter in my veins.
03:10Sister, you're a nurse.
03:12You know as well as I do that blood replenishes itself.
03:17And we need to get to the bottom of what ails you.
03:21We all know what ails me.
03:23I am merely ancient and presumed frail as a consequence.
03:29Sister, I have five minutes before I leave on my rounds.
03:34Would you like me to move the television into your room?
03:36Do you suppose I'm at the point of expiry?
03:40There is no reason to treat me as an invalid.
03:44As the analysis of my blood will testify.
03:53Ladies and gentlemen, the doors to tonight's wrestling in the main hall will open in five minutes.
03:59I've learned so much about deferment since I gave up drink.
04:24I've learned you can bear anything if you pretend it's forever.
04:30I can postpone.
04:32I can wait.
04:34But putting things off until tomorrow doesn't always work.
04:38Because what if tomorrow never comes?
04:42I've been postponing a decision for a long time now.
04:49Come on!
04:51Come on!
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05:28Okay.
05:29If you're staging sporting events, you're legally obliged to have medical help on the when
05:33you Lag chimps.
05:34I know nothing about, no legal obligations.
05:35Um, this is her, Harmony Savage.
05:38Hello Harmony.
05:40I'm a nurse.
05:41I'm sorry you've been hurt.
05:43Occupationallisered.
05:45Did you lose consciousness, or did you remain aware of your surroundings?
05:47surroundings i never went out i was just putting on a bit of a show punters like i've got to go
05:54back out finish the job whoa you were out cold i did the count but it's over brenda the butcher
06:02won fair and square you'll have gone to give out the prize money if you can't be absolutely sure
06:12that you weren't knocked out i really think you ought to go to the casualty department i'm gonna
06:17go home to bed oh hello sweetie who's this cole my boy he comes to all my fights come on let's pack
06:33up and get you in the van you really must not drive after blacking out however briefly any better ideas
06:42i know it was false alarm to that he but
06:47made me think how real all this is how we've made a proper grown-up life you do go on
06:59it's like being the baby of the family gave you a great big chip on your shoulder
07:03it wasn't that it was being the one who was no good at all the things the others did
07:09it's not your fault you weren't cut out for the tiling trade besides i'd rather have a bit of soft
07:17scoop than a hundred yards of mosaic flooring come on lights up what's that oh nothing tiny there's
07:27blood on your singlet what is it show me
07:36oh how long have you had this oh wow
07:39i'll put the plaster on it you will not in the morning i'm ringing the doctor
07:47out
07:57out
07:58get
08:03wrestling was all i knew even as a little girl
08:06my dad was burnt savage lamb of pamphlet god rest him i used to watch him every time he fought
08:12it's rather wonderful that you followed in his footsteps even more wonderful if it were legal
08:17there's a whole lady circuit up north just as legitimate as a men's but in london we're outlaws
08:22i really would like you to be seen by a doctor if at all possible harmony
08:26oh my real name's gwen thanks for seeing us home come a little in
08:40i've given up doing sports and everything
08:50so unsightly
08:53i probably just banged it oh
08:58it looks like a sebaceous cyst to me
09:02antibiotics will take the edge off it but i think it needs to be removed
09:06well i got a baby to any day all the more reason to get it out of the way i'll call saint cuthberts
09:13myself
09:15now that is the bird song i can easily identify the lesser spotted buck
09:31oh sister how are you keeping i'm keeping on if a little more desiccated with every week
09:41the passes perhaps i should not linger lest you sweep me up with all the other dead leaves
09:50i've got a bag of donuts in my shed would they cheer you up a bit are they jam filled
09:56no they're the ones with the holes in
09:57then i will forego them
09:59do you detect a chill in the breeze today
10:03i reckon i felt the first nip
10:06i like it when the seasons start to turn though
10:08that time of year the maced in me behold when yellow leaves or none or few
10:18do hang upon those boughs that shake with cold
10:23bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang
10:29in me thou seest the twilight of such day as after sunset fadeth in the west
10:40which by and by like night doth take away their second self
10:46that seals up all in rest
11:07sister monica chone what was put this on
11:11time mr buckle its passage and its sheer weary accumulation
11:25would you like a cup of tea if you will sit and take one with me
11:30well miss savage i'm not seeing anything that needs further tests
11:45any other bumps or bruises you'd like me to look at
11:47i've got a rash keeps coming up sort of on the back of my shoulder
11:52if you just slip your blouse off dear
11:55i don't believe i've ever met a lady wrestler before
11:59imagine it's quite physically taxing
12:02i call over sometimes fight or no fight
12:16i think i know what this is it's a skin virus called herpes gladiatorum
12:22gladiator like in spartacus
12:23i love a bit of kirk douglas don't we always
12:28i'm afraid this comes from grazing your skin on grubby canvas in the ring
12:33your best bet is to wash it daily with medicated soap
12:37and bathe the blisters in salt water
12:39can i do that with my hips and my knees
12:41do you have a rash there as well no we just hurt all the time
12:45miss savage are you able to take a break from your work for a while
12:49no i've got mouths to feed mine and my little boys
12:59i've been looking forward to this moment all day
13:01i popped on the market and bought myself a new pair of slippers for the winter
13:06i never knew you could love a bit of sheepskin on your feet till i came to live in england
13:14me neither
13:17i'm sorry jay you're all wrapped up in something
13:20i'm trying to work out exactly when i started taking a pill
13:26calculated against the number of actual pills you have to take before it protects you
13:30and why is that i've never missed a single one but i'm wondering if it's throwing my hormones out of
13:38whack i mean it can do that can't it child the whole point of the bill is to throw your hormones out
13:44of whack that's how it stops you getting pregnant are you late i've been late before and things just
13:54sort of corrected themselves that would have been before you had a boyfriend
14:02do you think you need to do with this no not yet
14:14do you want to tap do you want to give up he's short
14:24oh
14:43the winner is
14:54are you feeling sick this is not good honey but we're going to do a test I'll help you
15:12I don't want anyone to know they won't my name is against have the samples gone off
15:21to the laboratory yeah they will be dispatched very shortly but if you wish to add any to the
15:26list I'm afraid you must see to the paperwork yourself
15:44that's good morning Gwen dr. Turner remembered an iodine preparation he thought might help with
15:50your skin condition I told him I'd drop it off have you been in another fight yes and I didn't
15:58win that one either miss good stay old chap I overslept again they don't like going in
16:09lakes gets told off I imagine you're exhausted after a match I'm always exhausted but I'm a
16:16mum aren't I and it's just me I weren't tired I mean I was lacking I'm a stepmother to a little
16:24boy of Carl's age it certainly keeps one on one's toes I hope he talks like you do you've got a
16:29lovely way of putting things I couldn't make you a cuppa a cuppa would actually be extremely welcome
16:37but I should be making you one I'm sorry I'll I'll have to get out
16:56that's all I've got this time I'll give you the full amount next week I've heard that before and more than once I am not a charity
17:04now there ain't nothing in here but feathers I'm officially skinned do you keep your money in a cushion cover I don't trust banks at least this way I know my money is even when I've got none
17:22I'm sorry I've gone with disease
17:26Mr. Bianchi I'm Mr. Penn Warden I'll be removing this cyst for you do you mind if I take a look
17:35don't want to go hacking away on the wrong side
17:46could just drain this but I'm leaning on the side of getting the whole thing out
17:57your bloods may come back perfectly normal but I strongly suspect that if you'd have almost passed
18:09out in front of Dr. Turner he'd want to check your iron levels
18:11maybe I just need a tonic
18:13maybe you do
18:15I just think that as another woman who's often had to stand on her own two feet
18:19you need to be in better condition than this
18:22you're on your own with your kitty
18:24no
18:26but I was very much on my own for a long time
18:29before he and his father came into my life
18:31I know what it feels like to be fighting an invisible opponent
18:35I fight invisible ones and all
18:37and I've no doubt you're extremely good at it
18:40but you need someone more than a wrestling promoter in your corner
18:44let us help find out what's causing your malaise
18:48Nurse Clifford's gone out to the cinema
18:51but Nurse Ireland says we can have the box her new slippers came in
18:55could there be a more perfect showcase for nature's bounty
18:59oh we can do a lot with ribbon and crepe paper
19:03and that's before we start tying bows round marrows
19:05oh these lamentable scissors they wouldn't cut butter
19:10shall I see if I can find a sharper pair
19:12what we really need is sister Veronica and her magic pinking shears
19:18how long has she gone to the mother house for?
19:20a lengthy retreat
19:23I wasn't allowed to ask
19:25it's her private spiritual business
19:27do you suppose she took her pinking shears?
19:31I would settle for her implements if we can't have her
19:34hmm
19:57oh sister Monica Joan
20:02I was hoping it was something that could be treated
20:06but chronic kidney disease is just
20:09something that takes old people gently but kindly
20:13but it takes them
20:16how long has she been ill with this?
20:18I suspect not long
20:20how long does she have?
20:23the same
20:26unless we can persuade her to accept what treatment there is
20:31she'll progress to end-stage renal failure fairly quickly
20:35till that day comes
20:39we'll just have to love her as we always have
20:42but a bit more carefully
20:44you look happy
20:53today is a happy day
20:55I got a letter from the solicitor
20:59the decree absolute?
21:01I'm officially a single man
21:03everything we do now is ours
21:07our choice to make
21:10the board of health requested a meeting
21:12I told them your diary was full
21:14but they were most insistent
21:16it's in your diary for Friday
21:18thank you
21:19I anticipate the usual fun and games
21:22I need to see Anthony Bianchi
21:25I've just had his histopathology results through from the hospital
21:29should I make an appointment for him?
21:31no, I'll call in on him today
21:35we told you the truth
21:38sister Veronica is on retreat
21:40you told us she had gone on retreat to the mother house
21:43she would need her cross in the mother house
21:45she would need her shoes
21:47our sister needed our discretion
21:49and I gave that willingly and with love
21:51I'm sorry if you feel that you should have been informed
21:54I'm sorry if I have been arrogant in thinking I deserved an explanation
22:04I can't tell you everything
22:05too much of it is personal to her
22:07but I can say she is struggling with her vows
22:11and has been given leave of absence for a while
22:14she's staying at the Oliver Christian Retreat Centre at Gravesend
22:19alone?
22:22without anyone she knows
22:25or any friends to support her
22:28sister
22:30out of all of us
22:32sister Veronica emits the most love
22:35she needs the most love
22:37she does not know what she needs or wants
22:40and that is why she has had to go away
22:43morning
22:49have you come to see Tina?
22:52Mr Bianchi we've come to see you
22:55I can't have breast cancer
23:00it's a women's disease
23:04we know all about that because his mum died of it
23:07I know
23:10she was a lovely lady
23:13and even in the five years since she passed away
23:17we've learned so much about it
23:20I can't have it
23:22I'm a man
23:25it is rare in men
23:27especially for someone of your age
23:29but it's not unheard of
23:31everyone has breast tissue Tony
23:33men and women
23:35we have less of it
23:37but it only takes a couple of cells to go rogue
23:41and a tumour can start to develop
23:44I have had some specialist training
23:48and there are new treatments
23:50and new approaches to surgery
24:00should I have done something sooner when I first felt the lump?
24:04we are going to focus on the future now Tony
24:07and we are going to be with you every step of the way
24:11I don't care whereabouts in your body it is
24:17you've got the big C
24:19we have to face up to it
24:21we can face up to it together
24:23without telling people
24:26what is that going to achieve Tony?
24:29you need help
24:31you need love
24:33Tina
24:35I need
24:37dignity
24:39I need to feel like a man
24:42there is a bike for sale
24:43maybe for your birthday eh?
24:52if you win your next fight
24:54yes?
24:56yes?
25:06doctor
25:08Gwen Savage's records arrived from her previous practice
25:11she has been suffering with tiredness and joint pain for five years
25:15did the blood test we did show anything?
25:18nothing at all conclusive
25:20just markers for minor inflammation
25:24slightly low white blood count
25:26could the pain relate to the wrestling?
25:29I saw her in the ring and it is incredibly physical
25:31but an impact injury would be on one side not both
25:35it is as though we are missing something
25:39I never liked that
25:41they said those Braxton Hicks pains was my body tuning up for the baby to be born
25:47I got used to them but they have got worse since I found out Tony isn't well
25:52you have an immense amount to contend with at the moment
25:55but baby's head is engaged Tina
25:58I really don't think you will have very long to wait
26:00oh this reading is just a little bit higher than I'd like
26:06we can't have anything else go wrong
26:09nothing is going to go wrong
26:11but I do want you to come over to the maternity home with me
26:15so Dr. Turner can take a look at you
26:31any chance of a 99?
26:33I have an elderly friend might like a bit of a pick-ne-up
26:36what's the matter pal?
26:38Brian!
26:43you won't put me down for a single match
26:48I can't afford to promote wrestlers who keep losing
26:52I can raise my game
26:54my dad used to say aim up things will look up
26:57your dad was one of the best who ever was
27:00the Lamb of Panther was revered
27:02look all I can offer you right now is the adult fixtures
27:07oh no no
27:08adult fixtures is one step away from stripping Brian
27:11I keep it clean
27:12it's a place down Deptford where they roll about in jelly
27:15girls earn 30 quid about
27:1730 quid?
27:18I pay 20
27:20bring your own bikini
27:25usually Tina reads stuff for me but I don't want to worry all this
27:38there's going to be further surgery
27:41and a radiography assessment
27:47I'm going to have to stop working
27:52it won't be for long
27:54you've got family to support you
27:56I've only just proved to him that I'm a man
27:59I'm making a go of the van earning my own living
28:02and now I've got a woman's disease
28:05and I can't provide it
28:09I'm telling them nothing
28:11I'm telling you
28:13I'm telling you
28:18Geoffrey Franklin
28:20Mr. Franklin it's Sister Catherine from Ninata's house
28:23it's about Sister Veronica
28:26and
28:28I'm calling you in confidence
28:30I see
28:32I don't like leaving you on your own Tony
28:36don't be daft
28:39I'm fine
28:41hey
28:42look
28:45got my appointment through already
28:48nothing to be done till then
28:50it's you and the baby we need to think about now
28:55alright
28:56just promise me
28:58you'll tell your brothers
29:02I promise
29:09you'll need to take these diuretics first thing in the morning
29:12as you don't want to be up all hours of the night
29:15we can bring the commode into your room
29:17the commode will not be entertained
29:20you may come to revise that opinion
29:23your tone is brisk
29:25given that my days are numbered
29:27everybody's days are numbered
29:30everybody's days are numbered sister
29:33mine as well as yours
29:35one way and another
29:40but you may be going on for quite a long time
29:44possibly feeling slightly better than you have done
29:48given that we know what ails you now
29:50maybe I do not care to go on for
29:56quite a long time
29:58let's see how we do shall we
30:01with these diuretics
30:02what are these diuretics?
30:20Cole?
30:21we'll proceed with a full mastectomy of your right breast
30:44we'll remove the breast tissue
30:46along with the lymph nodes
30:48and the pectoralis major muscle
30:53I don't want to do this
30:55I promise you scarring will be minimal
30:57and at least you won't be having to deal with foam rubber falsies like my lady patients
31:09come on, where are we?
31:18will I help you?
31:19I'm Carl Savage's mum
31:21is he here?
31:23because if he's not...
31:27Carl Savage?
31:29I've just checked every member of his class for head lace
31:31including him
31:33Oh thank god
31:35do you want to go in and speak with him?
31:37Gwen? what's happened?
31:38I couldn't wake up this morning
31:39Carl took himself to school
31:42it's the worst I've ever felt
31:44what's this on your face, Gwen?
31:45on your face, Gwen. It's like this all the time. I'll cover it with a pan stick, usually.
32:08You waiting for your wife? My husband says he can't stand the smell of this place.
32:13He drops me at the door and waits in the pub. Mr Bianchi?
32:22Is this ever itchy or sore? No, and it's never all blisters like the one on my back. It's more like
32:29a sunburn. You've been covering it up with pan stick because it's such a strange sheet.
32:34Like a butterfly. That herpes gladiatorum on your back was a complete red herring.
32:41This is what leads us to your diagnosis. Have you ever heard of a condition called lupus?
32:49Nobody in your family's ever had it? Or mentioned it? No. Do you think that's what I've got?
32:55This rash is so distinctive. I'd put money on it as a diagnosis. How long will it take to get rid of it?
33:00It's going to be about management rather than cure. But I promise you we can get you feeling better.
33:10Can't be cured. But I need to win matches again. Gwen, you are too unwell to fight.
33:16Tony, thank god. I've been worried sick. How did it go at the hospital? It was all fine.
33:27Your doctor's very pleased with me. Oh, really? So what happens next? What treatment are they giving you?
33:35So many pills I'll be rattling. The important thing is that you are getting some rest.
33:43Not worrying yourself silly. I'm not now. I've heard your voice. I love your voice.
33:49I hardly ever get to talk on the phone. Because we're together all the time.
33:54And we'll be together again. Soon.
34:15Tony! Tony! We're going down the pub. You're coming. Tony!
34:21I'll give up. Come on. Let's come down. Let's come down.
34:43Beryl burrows as I live and breathe.
34:45Do tell me you're en route to a harvest festival with that dreary swag. Because at the very
34:56least it would provoke a degree of fellow feeling in me. I'm on potato peeling duty.
35:02There's a rota in the retreat house. Stop. Stop. Before you completely break my heart.
35:07I come here almost every day. Sometimes I have an eclair. And when the fancier takes me,
35:14I have a cream split. You get a cherry on a cream split. And there's this little burst of flavour
35:21when you bite it. Tell me you've eaten fish and chips in the street too. In broad daylight.
35:26Twice. Although sometimes it feels as though it's the things I don't do that tell me more about where
35:34I am now. Or where I might go next. What don't you do? I don't pray. I came here to pray. Or at least
35:44to decide what I ought to be praying for. But I can't. And do you know why? It's not different
35:52enough to the convent, Beryl. And all the snatched patisserie in the world can't disguise the fact
35:58that you are still living the same sort of half-life. Trapped underneath a similar godly bell jar.
36:06And how do you propose a change that? Come and stay with me. Geoffrey. I am still technically
36:15a nun. I can't live with a man. You could lodge with a kindly confirmed bachelor.
36:28You've missed two appointments at the hospital, Tony. Do you have anyone to talk to? Your brothers,
36:35perhaps? I can't. Not with it being, you know, breast cancer. It's so humiliating. I can hear him now.
36:49Your typical Tony.
36:53Dr. Turner and I delivered a baby at the maternity home last week.
36:58And the mother asked if the older brother could come in and meet him. We placed the baby in his little
37:04arms and he was awestruck. This was his brother. He promised right then and there to teach him
37:15everything he knew. All his best fighting moves. A cat gun was mentioned. And something about
37:23which jelly babies tasted best. Green ones. According to Enzo. They always gave me the green ones.
37:34Brothers look after each other, Tony. I've seen it with my own boys.
37:39Please. Right now she'll be moaning about me. She'll be looking after Tina. Dr. Turner says she can come home if you're feeling
37:50up to it. Of course I'm feeling up to it.
37:58Something tells me something's gonna happen tonight.
38:05I read in the papers that Gem and our people will make it tonight.
38:10Stars will be shining. My sign is aligning with love.
38:19So come on and make it. Let's take everything that we've been dreaming of.
38:27Something tells me something's gonna happen to you.
38:32You stay in the dressing room tonight. Promise?
38:56Promise? Promise. And if I win, you'll get that bike. My precious boy.
39:15You keeping up with those peppermints, child?
39:28I'm first on call tonight and I still feel quite queasy.
39:31But it's not just in the morning. Maybe the pill itself doesn't agree with me.
39:36I popped into the surgery when no-one was there to check on your results.
39:43I think we need to have a talk.
39:50Oh, I can't seem to get comfortable.
39:54My back is killing me.
39:59Right, Tony, the sheets are wet.
40:01Do you think your walls have broken?
40:07I thought it'd be more of a whoosh.
40:11Oh, I don't feel right, Tony.
40:18Joyce, what am I going to do?
40:21The pill was supposed to be foolproof.
40:24Honey, the pill was invented by man and is taken by women.
40:27I'm just always going to be subject to human error.
40:31I will lose my job.
40:33I will have to tell my parents and I hardly speak to them as it is because they don't approve of Cyril.
40:37What? I approve of Cyril.
40:40He's a good man and he will support you.
40:43Whatever you choose to do.
40:45Choose to do?
40:48Joyce, I'm not even going to consider an abortion.
40:52That's why it's so hard.
40:55That's why I'm going to get the sack.
40:57Talk to Cyril.
40:59You've got time before you have to tell anybody else.
41:02And I will cover for you in any way I can.
41:10You have enough peppermint and wash your face.
41:12Please take your seats for tonight's teeny-weeny-steamy-bikini extravaganza of a fight.
41:30Nanata's house, midwife speaking.
41:32I'm ringing up about Tina Bianchi.
41:35We think she's gone into labour.
41:37I've been timing them for two minutes apart.
41:42Rosalyn?
41:43Rosalyn!
41:44Come quickly!
41:4515, 20.
41:47That's promised.
41:49Putting a good show for the gents, were you girls?
41:52They like a bit of hair pulling.
41:55Hair pulling's an illegal move.
41:57It's not an illegal game though, is it, Gwen?
42:00Who's going to complain?
42:02Don't do this, Gwen.
42:03Please.
42:03What are you doing here?
42:05You're putting yourself in real danger if you fight tonight.
42:07Your body is severely weakened from lupus.
42:10And your chances of getting injured are high.
42:12And what would Carl do then?
42:13Look, if you're not going to fight, you can hand that money back right now.
42:16A midwife is on her way.
42:46And I'm going to stay with you on the end of this phone until she gets there.
42:51She keeps saying she wants to push.
42:55Tell her to blow.
42:56Tell her to blow as if she is blowing out candles.
42:58Tina, don't push.
43:00Blow.
43:01Blow.
43:03Blow.
43:05Yeah, that's it.
43:06Do it with me.
43:13Wait, wait, wait, wait.
43:17Are you punching?
43:18I said no puns.
43:25June!
43:31Do you want to tap?
43:32Do you want to give up?
43:36Tony, I need you to describe exactly what you can see.
43:39I don't know what I can see.
43:40I think it might be the baby's head.
43:57Oh, I think it might be the baby's head.
43:59Come on!
44:20Can you hear me?
44:21Gwen!
44:22Gwen!
44:23Gwen!
44:24Call for an ambulance.
44:26Quickly!
44:30Mr. Bianchi, you need to get ready to deliver this baby yourself.
44:34But you must not hang up. Do you hear me?
44:48Oh, I can see. I can see the egg.
44:51It's sort of moving around.
44:54I can see his face.
44:55Good.
44:56Now, very gently place your hands under its head.
44:59Wait for the next big contraction.
45:01And guide the body out.
45:03Don't pull.
45:04There's something blue wrapped around its neck.
45:06Is that supposed to be there?
45:07It's the cord.
45:08All you have to do is slip your finger underneath it
45:11and lift it over the baby's head.
45:13It should slide off quite easily.
45:22Have you managed to move it?
45:24It works.
45:25It's off.
45:26It's so cold.
45:27Yeah, look.
45:28No!
45:29No!
45:30No!
45:31No!
45:32It's so cold.
45:37No!
45:38It's a boy's here.
45:42No!
45:43No!
45:44No!
45:45No!
45:46No!
45:47No!
45:48No!
45:49No!
45:50No!
45:51No!
45:52You did it, Tony.
46:09You delivered our son.
46:13Just look at you.
46:17Well, someone was in a hurry to get into the world.
46:22Wait till we tell all your uncles about this.
46:30There's you.
46:32There's my boy.
46:37You were lucky you didn't cause any more damage to your body.
46:40At least I got the rent money out of it.
46:43Gwen, the hospital are asking who will be looking after Carl whilst you're in here.
46:47They're willing to talk to social services.
46:48I bet they are.
46:50Social services will take him off me.
46:51I'm sure that isn't the case.
46:54But, Gwen, you're treading a dangerous path in London, even if your health allowed you to keep on fighting.
47:03There are alternatives, just as there's alternatives to keeping your money in a cushion cover.
47:09And are you going to tell me what they are?
47:12Because I'd listen to you.
47:13You've told me you know what it is to find things hard.
47:24Another one for the footy team.
47:26A striker.
47:27My turn now.
47:28My turn.
47:28Oh, careful.
47:30There come on.
47:30There's a little bit of a...
47:31There's a little bit of a...
47:31Oh, Maggie.
47:32There's a little bit of a...
47:33Oh, Maggie.
47:33There's a little bit of a...
47:34Mrs. Turner's just helping Tina to freshen up.
47:37And then Master Bianchi needs to have his lunch.
47:40The Neo Papa did a good job on his own then, Doctor.
47:43Not many people could deliver their own son single-handed.
47:47But Tony did.
47:49This man, hmm?
47:52He's a proper man.
47:54He certainly is.
47:56And I salute him.
48:00Bravo!
48:07Let's.
48:11Something's come up.
48:13That I'm...
48:15Not going to be able to do single-handed.
48:22I've got cancer.
48:41Breast cancer.
48:42Oh.
48:43Tony.
48:43Tony.
48:43I wish Mama was here.
48:50No.
48:52No.
49:02You are the best of us, little brother.
49:04And we will not let you go.
49:10We will not let you go.
49:10We will not let you go.
49:12I spoke to the surgery, Gwen.
49:21I spoke to the surgery, Gwen.
49:23All your records will be sent to the new GP we found for you up north.
49:41Thanks, nurse.
49:42I've got to start looking after myself now, haven't I?
49:45Haven't I?
49:45She's not going to be a russer any more.
49:48I know.
49:49Would you like a hand putting that in the van?
49:52Or are you planning on pedalling all the way to Blackpool?
49:54Thanks, nurse.
49:56And thanks for the advice.
50:03It was like a bold move, taking a job in a gym, training other women.
50:06But it's legal in Lancashire, Gwen.
50:10And you won't be exploited.
50:12It will give your body time to recover.
50:15And my dad would like it.
50:16Good old lamb of pamphering his contacts.
50:18Thanks.
50:47Oh.
50:48I came home from a lunch hour.
50:50Do you want to go for a walk?
50:51No.
50:53I'm afraid I don't.
50:55It seems you've made a decent fist at moving your weekly clinic onto hospital premises.
51:01Yes.
51:02There was some grumbling from patients about bus fares, but I think we're on an even keel.
51:08Good.
51:09Because speaking scientist to scientist, and to paraphrase our friend Charles Darwin,
51:14it is not necessarily the strongest or most intelligent of any given species that survives.
51:20It's the one most adaptable to change.
51:23I know that.
51:25And I know I can't look after my patients properly if I don't adapt.
51:29A very good attitude to have, which is why we're placing you front and centre of our plans and closing you down.
51:38Closing us down?
51:44Not as a GP, although you'll probably want to join forces with someone else now.
51:49There are real incentives for group practices.
51:52But the council are not going to renew the licence for the maternity home.
51:58But the licence runs out in a matter of weeks.
52:04It's always been renewed as a formality.
52:07This is the brave new world, Turner.
52:09There is no always anymore.
52:11There isn't even an always for me.
52:14The council will have to hand everything over to the National Health.
52:16But while you still have power, you're doing this.
52:20To us, and to Nanata's house.
52:24Nanata's house.
52:26They were forever outliers.
52:29And eccentric.
52:31Threatwood, what is the logic in all of this?
52:35How is it going to benefit the patients?
52:38I knew you'd say that.
52:39And it's why we chose to put you at the vanguard.
52:42No matter what goes on somewhere far away in the offices of Whitehall,
52:47there will always be patients.
52:52And you say that as though it's a problem.
52:59I'm so sorry, Cyril.
53:02You wanted to take responsibility,
53:04but I was absolutely certain that nothing could be better
53:08than this magnificent wonder drug that gave me control over my own body.
53:12We both agreed it was what we wanted.
53:15That it would let us have other things we wanted.
53:19And want it very much.
53:22We just didn't want this, did we?
53:26I think
53:27that it's something that has happened a little out of order.
53:33But I wouldn't have taken you to bed if I didn't mean to marry you.
53:36And I always meant to marry you and build a life with you.
53:42And building a life with you means more than just rings and mortgages and bricks and mortar.
53:50Did you ever close your eyes and try to see our children?
53:56I see our children every day with my eyes wide open.
54:03I see them crossing the street in Poplar or swinging on a swing down at the wreck.
54:08And I think
54:09we could have a little boy like that one.
54:14Or
54:14that little girl has a smile like hers.
54:21I thought I'd have to be patient.
54:24And I'm not very good at being patient.
54:26I would not say
54:29patience has been a
54:30distinguishing characteristic.
54:34And now it doesn't have to be.
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