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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 aside, she gave up.
05:19In one, in two, two, somebody in two.
05:22I'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.
06:25Is there a doctor in here?
06:27Anyone?
06:28I'm a nurse.
06:29That'll do.
06:30It's a concussion.
06:33You're staging sporting events.
06:35You're legally obliged to have medical help on the premises.
06:38Don't know nothing about, no legal obligations.
06:40Um, this is her, Harmony Savage.
06:44Hello, Harmony.
06:45I'm a nurse.
06:46I'm sorry you've been hurt.
06:48Occupationalised.
06:50Did you lose consciousness?
06:51Or 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.
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.
07:26Oh, 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 false alarm to that heap,
07:50but...
07:52It made me think how real all this is.
07:57How we've made a proper grown-up life.
08:02You do go on.
08:04It's like being the baby of the family
08:06gave you a great big chip on your shoulder.
08:09No, it wasn't that.
08:11It was being the one who was no good
08:13at all the things the others did.
08:15It's not your fault you won't cut out for the tiling trade.
08:18Besides,
08:21I'd rather have a bit of soft scoop
08:23than a hundred yards of mosaic flooring.
08:27Come on, like that.
08:29What's that?
08:30Oh, nothing.
08:32Tony, there's blood on your singlet.
08:34What is it?
08:35Show me.
08:36Oh, how 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.
09:10Even as a little girl.
09:12Maddab was 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.
09:20It would be even more wonderful if it were legal.
09:23There's a whole ladies' circuit up north
09:24just as legitimate as the men's,
09:25but in London, we're outlaws.
09:28I really would like you to be seen by a doctor
09:30if at all possible, Harmony.
09:32Oh, my real name's Gwen.
09:35Thanks for seeing us home.
09:37Come on, little him.
09:48Oh.
09:50Giving up doing sports and everything.
09:55So unsightly.
09:58I probably just banged it.
10:01Oh.
10:03It looks like a sebaceous cyst to me.
10:08Antibiotics will take the edge off it,
10:09but I think it needs to be removed.
10:12Oh, I got a baby to any day.
10:14All the more reason to get it out of the way.
10:18I'll call St Cuthbert's myself.
10:19Now, that is the bird's song I can easily identify.
10:35The lesser spotted buckle.
10:36Oh, sister, how are you keeping?
10:39I'm keeping on.
10:43If a little more desiccated with every week the passes.
10:47Perhaps I should not linger.
10:51Lest you sweep me up with all the other dead leaves.
10:55I'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 maest in me behold
11:19When yellow leaves, or none or few,
11:23Do hang upon those boughs that shake with cold.
11:29Bear ruined choirs
11:31Where late the sweet birds sang
11:35In me thou seest the twilight of such day
11:41As after sunset fadeth in the west
11:45Which by and by, like night, doth take away
11:51Their second self
11:52That seals up all in rest
11:57Sister Monica Tone
12:14What's brought this on?
12:19Time, Mr. Buckle
12:21Its passage and its sheer
12:25Weary
12:26Accumulation
12:28Would you like a cup of tea?
12:33If you will sit and take one with me
12:36Well, Miss Savage
12:46I'm not seeing anything that needs further tests
12:49Any 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
13:04I imagine it's quite physically taxing
13:08I call over sometimes
13:10Fight or no fight
13:11I think I know what this is
13:23It's a skin virus called herpes gladiatorum
13:27Gladiatorum
13:27Gladiator like in Spartacus
13:29I love a bit of Kirk Douglas
13:31Don't be honest
13:33I'm afraid this comes from grazing your skin on grubby canvas in the ring
13:38Your best bet is to wash it daily with medicated soap
13:42And bathe the blisters in salt water
13:44Can I do that with my hips and my knees?
13:47Do you have a rash there as well?
13:48No, they just hurt all the time
13:50Miss Savage, are you able to take a break from your work for a while?
13:54No
13:55I've got mouths to feed
13:56Mine and my little boys
13:58I've been looking forward to this moment all day
14:07I popped on a market and bought myself a 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
14:19Me neither
14:21I'm sorry, child
14:24You're all wrapped up in something?
14:28I'm trying to work out exactly when I started taking a pill
14:31Calculated against the number of actual pills you have to take before it protects you
14:36And why is that?
14:37I've never missed a single one
14:40I'm wondering if it's thrown my hormones out of whack
14:44I mean, it can do that, can't it?
14:46Child, the whole point of the pill is to throw your hormones out of whack
14:50That's how it stops you getting pregnant
14:52Are you late?
14:55I've been late before
14:57And things just sort of corrected themselves
15:02That would have been before you had a boyfriend
15:06Do you think you need to do a test?
15:11No
15:11Not yet
15:13No
15:15No
15:16No
15:17No
15:18No
15:19Do you want to attack?
15:20Do you want to give out?
15:21No
15:21You're shot
15:22No
15:22No
15:23No
15:23No
15:23No
15:24No
15:24No
15:25No
15:26No
15:27No
15:28No
15:28No
15:29No
15:30No
15:31No
15:31No
15:32No
15:32No
15:32No
15:33She can't do that!
15:35No!
15:36Hey!
15:37Yes!
15:38Hey!
15:39Is that a close miss?
15:48The winner is...
15:50...Demolition Debbie!
16:03Are you feeling sick?
16:12This is not good, honey.
16:14But we're going to do a test.
16:16I'll help you.
16:18I don't want anyone to know.
16:19They won't.
16:24My name is 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.
16:50Nurse?
16:51Good morning, Gwen.
16:52Dr 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?
17:01Yes.
17:02And I didn't win that one either.
17:11New school's day, old chap.
17:12I overslept again.
17:13I 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?
17:22And it's just me.
17:24If I weren't tired, then me and I were slacking.
17:27I'm a stepmother to a little boy of Carl's age.
17:30It certainly keeps one on one's toes.
17:32I hope he talks like you do.
17:34You've got a lovely way of putting things.
17:36Can I make you a cuppa?
17:39A cuppa would actually be extremely welcome,
17:42but I should be making you one.
17:44I'm sorry, I'll have to get out.
18:01That'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.
18:08I am not a charity!
18:16Now there ain't nothing in here but feathers.
18:19I'm officially skinned.
18:20Do you keep your money in a cushion cover?
18:22I don't trust banks.
18:24At least that's where I know my money is.
18:26Even when I've got none.
18:27I'm sorry of calling to see you.
18:35Mr. Bianchi, I'm Mr. Penn Warden.
18:37I'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.
18:57Hmm.
18:58Could just drain this,
19:00but I'm leaning on the side of getting the whole thing out.
19:08Your bloods may come back perfectly normal,
19:11but I strongly suspect that if you'd have almost passed out
19:14in front of Dr. Turner, he'd want to check your iron levels.
19:17Maybe I just need a tonic.
19:19Maybe you do.
19:21I just think that as another woman who's often had to stand on her own two feet,
19:25you need to be in better condition than this.
19:29Are you on your own with your kiddie?
19:31No.
19:33But I was very much on my own for a long time
19:35before he and his father came into my life.
19:38And I know what it feels like to 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 in your corner.
19:51Let us help find out what's causing your malaise.
19:56Nurse Clifford's gone out to the cinema,
19:58but Nurse Hyland says we can have the box.
20:00Her new slippers came in.
20:01Could there be a more perfect showcase for nature's bounty?
20:06Oh!
20:07We can do a lot with ribbon and crypt paper.
20:09And that's before we start tying bows round marrows.
20:12Oh!
20:13These lamentable scissors, they wouldn't cut butter.
20:16Shall I see if I can find a sharper pair?
20:18What we really need is Sister Veronica and 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.
20:35Do you suppose she took her pinking shears?
20:37Yes.
20:38I would settle for her implements if we can't have her.
20:40Hmm.
20:41Hmm.
20:42Hmm.
20:43Hmm.
20:44Hmm.
20:45Hmm.
20:46Hmm.
20:47Hmm.
20:48Hmm.
20:49Hmm.
20:50Hmm.
20:51Hmm.
20:52Hmm.
20:53Hmm.
20:54Hmm.
20:55Hmm.
20:56Hmm.
20:57Hmm.
20:58Hmm.
20:59Hmm.
21:00Hmm.
21:01Hmm.
21:02Hmm.
21:03Hmm.
21:04Hmm.
21:05Hmm.
21:06Hmm.
21:07Oh, Sister Monica Joan.
21:08I was hoping it was something that could be treated.
21:12But chronic kidney disease is just...
21:15Something that takes old people gently but kindly.
21:19But it takes them.
21:21How long has she been ill with this?
21:24I suspect not long.
21:28How long does she have?
21:31The same.
21:34Unless we can persuade her to accept what treatment there is,
21:37she'll progress to end-stage renal failure fairly quickly.
21:44Till that day comes, we'll just have to love her as we always have.
21:48But a bit more carefully.
21:58You look happy.
22:00Today is a happy day.
22:03I got a letter from the solicitor.
22:05The 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.
22:18I told them your diary was full.
22:19But they were most insistent it's in your diary for Friday.
22:25I anticipate the usual fun and games.
22:28Hmm.
22:30I need to see Anthony Bianchi.
22:32I've just had his histopathology results through from the hospital.
22:35Should I make an appointment for him?
22:36No.
22:39I'll call in on him today.
22:42We told you the truth.
22:44Sister Veronica is on retreat.
22:46You told us she had gone on retreat to the mother house.
22:49She would need her cross in the mother house.
22:51She would need her shoes.
22:53Our sister needed our discretion and I gave that willingly and with love.
22:57I'm sorry if you feel that you should have been informed.
23:03I'm sorry if I have been arrogant in thinking I deserved an explanation.
23:10I 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.
23:17And has been given leave of absence for a while.
23:21She's staying at the Oliver Christian Retreat Centre at Gravesend.
23:24Alone.
23:28Without anyone she knows.
23:31Or any friends to support her.
23:34Sister.
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.
23:46And that is why she has had to go away.
23:48Morning.
23:50Have you come to see Tina?
23:52Mr Bianchi.
23:53We've come to see you.
23:55I can't have breast cancer.
23:57It's a women's disease.
23:59We know all about that because his mum died of it.
24:01I know.
24:03She was a lovely lady.
24:05And even in the five years since she passed away we've learned so much about it.
24:12I can't have it.
24:14I'm a man.
24:15It is rare in men.
24:16Especially for someone of your age.
24:17But it's not unheard of.
24:18Everyone has breast tissue Tony.
24:19Men and women.
24:20We have less of it.
24:21But it's not unheard of.
24:22Everyone has breast tissue Tony.
24:23Men and women.
24:24We have less of it.
24:25But it only takes a couple of cells to go rogue.
24:26And a tumour can start to develop.
24:27I have had some specialists in the world.
24:28I've learned so much about it.
24:29I've learned so much about it.
24:30I can't have it.
24:31I can't have it.
24:32I'm a man.
24:33It is rare in men.
24:34Especially for someone of your age.
24:35But it's not unheard of.
24:36Everyone has breast tissue Tony.
24:39Men and women.
24:40We have less of it.
24:41But it only takes a couple of cells to go rogue.
24:45And a tumour can start to develop.
24:50I have had some specialists in the world.
24:53Some specialist training.
24:55And there are new treatments.
24:57And new approaches to surgery.
25:07Should I have done something sooner when I first felt the lump?
25:10We are going to focus on the future now Tony.
25:14And we are going to be with you every step of the way.
25:18I don't care whereabouts in your body it is.
25:23You've got the big C.
25:25We have to face up to it.
25:27We 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.
25:50Maybe for your birthday.
25:51Eh?
25:52If you win your next flight.
25:53Yeah.
25:54Yes?
25:55Yes.
25:56Doctor.
25:57Gwen Savage's records arrived from her previous practice.
25:58She's been suffering with tiredness and joint pain for five years.
26:02Did the blood test we did show anything?
26:03Nothing at all conclusive.
26:04Just markers for minor inflammation.
26:05Slightly low weight loss.
26:06No.
26:07No.
26:08No.
26:09No.
26:10No.
26:11No.
26:12No.
26:13No.
26:14No.
26:15No.
26:16No.
26:17No.
26:18No.
26:19No.
26:20No.
26:21No.
26:22No.
26:23No.
26:24No.
26:25No.
26:26No.
26:27No.
26:28No.
26:29No.
26:30You've got a lot of short del ajuda.
26:31Long inflammation.
26:32Slightly low white blood count.
26:33Could the pain relate to the wrestling?
26:35I saw in the ring and it's incredibly physical.
26:38But an impact injury would be on one side not both.
26:43It's as though we're missing something.
26:47I never liked that.
26:49They said those Braxton Hicks pains was my body tuning-up for the baby to be born.
26:54I got used to them, but they've got worse since I found out Toni isn't well.
26:58You've an immense amount to contend with at the moment.
27:01But baby's head is engaged, Tina.
27:04I really don't think you'll have very long to wait.
27:07Oh, this reading is just a little bit higher than I'd like.
27:13We can't have anything else go wrong.
27:15Nothing's going to go wrong.
27:17But I do want you to come over to the maternity home with me
27:21so Dr. Turner can take a look at you.
27:28Any chance of a 99?
27:39I've an elderly friend. Might like a bit of a pick-the-up.
27:42What's the matter, pal?
27:49Brian!
27:51You won't put me down for a single match.
27:55I can't afford to promote wrestlers who keep losing.
27:58I can raise my game.
28:00My dad used to say, aim up, things will look up.
28:04Your dad was one of the best there ever was.
28:06The Lamb of Panther was revered.
28:10Look, all I can offer you right now is the adult fixtures.
28:13Oh, no, no.
28:14Adult fixtures is one step away from stripping, Brian.
28:17I keep it clean.
28:18It's a place down Deptford where they roll about in jelly.
28:21Girls earn 30 quid about.
28:2330 quid about.
28:2430 quid?
28:25I pay 20.
28:26Bring your own bikini.
28:28Usually Tina reads stuff for me, but I don't want to worry all this.
28:44There's going to be further surgery and a radiography assessment.
28:53We're going to have to stop working.
28:58Won't be for long.
29:00You've got a family to support you.
29:02I've only just proved to them that I'm a man.
29:05I'm making a go of the van, earning my own living.
29:08And now I've got a woman's disease.
29:11And I can't provide it.
29:15I'm telling them nothing.
29:17I don't like leaving you on your own, Tony.
29:30Don't be daft.
29:32I'm fine.
29:33Hey.
29:34Look.
29:35Got my appointment through already.
29:37Nothing to be done till then.
29:39It's you and the baby we need to think about now.
29:42Alright.
29:43Just promise me.
29:44You'll tell your brothers.
29:45I promise.
29:46You'll need to take this.
29:47I promise.
29:48You'll need to take this.
29:49I promise.
29:50I promise.
29:51You'll need to take me away.
29:52It will take me away.
29:53I promise.
29:54You'll need to take me away.
29:55Yeah?
29:56You'll need to take me away.
29:57Hey.
29:59Look.
30:00Got my appointment through already.
30:01Nothing to be done till then.
30:03I'm sure the baby, we need to think about now.
30:04Alright.
30:05Just promise me.
30:06You'll tell your brothers.
30:08I promise.
30:09I promise.
30:15You'll need to take these diuretics first thing in the morning,
30:18as you don't want to be up all hours of the night.
30:21We can bring the commode into your room.
30:23The commode will not be entertained.
30:26You may come to revise that opinion.
30:29Your tone is brisk, given that my days are numbered.
30:36Everybody's days are numbered, sister.
30:39Mine as well as yours, one way or another.
30:45But you may be going on for quite a long time.
30:51Possibly feeling slightly better than you have done.
30:55Given that we know what ails you now.
30:59Maybe I do not care to go on for quite a long time.
31:05Let's see how we do, shall we?
31:08With these diuretics.
31:15Cole?
31:27Cole?
31:36Cole?
31:37Cole?
31:37Cole?
31:45We'll proceed with a full mastectomy of your right breast.
31:51We'll remove the breast tissue, along with the lymph nodes and the pectoralis major muscle.
31:59I don't want to do this.
32:01I promise you scarring will be minimal.
32:04And at least you won't be having to deal with foam rubber falsies like my lady patients.
32:07Come on, Cole, where are we?
32:25Can 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 every member of his class for headlace, including him.
32:38Oh, thank God.
32:39Thank God.
32:41Do you want to go in and speak with him?
32:43Gwen, what's happened?
32:44I couldn't wake up this morning.
32:46Carl took himself to school.
32:48It's the worst I've ever felt.
32:51What's this on your face, Gwen?
32:52It's like this all the time.
32:54I'll cover it with pan stick, usually.
32:56MUSIC PLAYS
32:58You waiting for your wife?
33:16My husband says he can't stand the smell of this place.
33:19Drops me at the door and waits in the pub.
33:24Mr. Bianchi?
33:24Is this ever itchy or sore?
33:30No.
33:31And it's never all blisters like the one on my back.
33:33It's more like a sunburn.
33:36But you've been covering it up with pan stick because it's such a strange shape.
33:40Like a butterfly.
33:43That herpes gladiatorum on your back was a complete red herring.
33:48This is what leads us to your diagnosis.
33:51Have you ever heard of a condition called lupus?
33:53Nobody in your family's ever had it?
33:57Or mentioned it?
33:58No.
33:59Do you think that's what I've got?
34:01This rash is so distinctive.
34:03I'd put money on it as a diagnosis.
34:05How long will it take to get rid of it?
34:08It's going to be about management rather than cure.
34:12But I promise you we can get you feeling better.
34:15Can't be cured.
34:17But I need to win matches again.
34:19Gwen, you are too unwell to fight.
34:22Tony, thank God.
34:27I've been worried sick.
34:29How'd it go at the hospital?
34:30It was all fine.
34:33Your doctor's very pleased with me.
34:34Oh, really?
34:37So, um, what happens next?
34:39What treatment have they given you?
34:40So many pills I'll be rattling.
34:42The important thing is that you are getting some rest.
34:49Not worrying yourself, silly.
34:50I'm not now.
34:51I've heard your voice.
34:53I love your voice.
34:54Now do you ever get to talk on the phone?
34:56Because we're together all the time.
35:01And we'll be together again soon.
35:03Shaming.
35:20Tony!
35:23Tony!
35:24We're going down the pub.
35:25We're coming.
35:27Tony!
35:27Tony!
35:49Beryl Burrows, as I live and breathe.
35:51Do you tell me you're en route to a harvest festival with that dreary swag?
36:01Because at the very least it would provoke a degree of fellow feeling in me.
36:05I'm on potato peeling duty.
36:07There's a rotor in the retreat house.
36:09Stop, stop.
36:11Before you completely break my heart.
36:13Come here almost every day.
36:16Sometimes I have an eclair.
36:18When the fancy takes me, I have a queen split.
36:21You get a cherry on a queen split.
36:24And there's this little burst of flavour when you bite it.
36:28Tell me you've eaten fish and chips in the street too.
36:31In broad daylight.
36:32Twice.
36:34Although sometimes it feels as though it's the things I don't do that tell me more about where I am now.
36:41Or where I might go next.
36:43What don't you do?
36:45I don't pray.
36:47I came here to pray.
36:50Or at least to decide what I ought to be praying for.
36:53But I can't.
36:55And do you know why?
36:57It's not different enough to the convent, Beryl.
37:00And all the snatched patisserie in the world can't disguise the fact that you are still living the same sort of half-life.
37:07Trapped underneath a similar, godly, bell jar.
37:12And how do you propose a change that?
37:14Come and stay with me.
37:16Geoffrey.
37:16I am still technically a nun.
37:21I can't live with a man.
37:23You could lodge with a kindly confirmed bachelor.
37:28You've missed two appointments at the hospital, Tony.
37:37Do you have anyone to talk to?
37:40Your brothers, perhaps?
37:42No, I can't.
37:46Not if it's been, you know, breast cancer.
37:50It's so humiliating.
37:52I can hear them now.
37:53A typical Tony.
37:56Dr. Turner and I delivered a baby at the maternity home last week.
38:03And the mother asked if the older brother could come in and meet him.
38:08We placed the baby in his little arms and he was awestruck.
38:12This was his brother.
38:17He promised right then and there to teach him everything he knew.
38:22All his best fighting moves.
38:24A cap gun was mentioned.
38:27And something about which jelly babies tasted best.
38:32Green ones.
38:34According to Enzo.
38:37Always gave me the green ones.
38:39Brothers look after each other, Tony.
38:43I've seen it with my own boys.
38:47Right now, she'll be moaning about me.
38:51She'll be looking after Taylor.
38:53Dr. Turner says she can come home if you're feeling up to it.
38:57Of course I'm feeling up to it.
39:09I'm feeling up to it.
39:09I'm feeling up to it.
39:10I'm feeling up to it.
39:10I'm feeling up to it.
39:11I'm feeling up to it.
39:12I'm feeling up to it.
39:13I'm feeling up to it.
39:14I'm feeling up to it.
39:15I'm feeling up to it.
39:16I'm feeling up to it.
39:17I'm feeling up to it.
39:18I'm feeling up to it.
39:19I'm feeling up to it.
39:20I'm feeling up to it.
39:21I'm feeling up to it.
39:22I'm feeling up to it.
39:23I'm feeling up to it.
39:24I'm feeling up to it.
39:25I'm feeling up to it.
39:26I'm feeling up to it.
39:27I'm feeling up to it.
39:28I'm feeling up to it.
39:29I'm feeling up to it.
39:30I'm feeling up to it.
40:01Tonight. Promise.
40:03Promise.
40:04And if I win, you'll get that bike.
40:07My precious boy.
40:31You're keeping up with those peppermints, child?
40:34I'm first on call tonight and I still feel quite queasy.
40:37But it's not just in the morning.
40:39Maybe the pill itself doesn't agree with me.
40:43I popped into the surgery when no-one was there to check on your results.
40:48I think we need to have a talk.
40:52I can't seem to get comfortable.
40:58My back is killing me.
41:01Tony, the sheets are wet.
41:06Do you think your walls have broken?
41:12I thought they'd be more of a whoosh.
41:15I don't feel right, Tony.
41:19Joyce, what am I going to do?
41:26The pill was supposed to be foolproof.
41:29Honey, the pill was invented by man and is taken by women.
41:33It's always going to be subject to human error.
41:36I 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 Cyril.
41:43What? I approve of Cyril.
41:45He is a good man and he will support you.
41:48Whatever you choose to do.
41:50Choose to do?
41:52Joyce, I'm not even going to consider an abortion.
41:56That's why it's so hard.
41:59That's why I'm going to get the sack.
42:02Talk to Cyril.
42:04You've got time before you have to tell anybody else.
42:07And I will cover for you in any way I can.
42:15You have enough of peppermint and wash your fears.
42:25Please take your seats for tonight's teeny-weeny-steamy-bikini extravaganza of advice.
42:36Nanata's house, midwife speaking.
42:38I'm ringing up about Tina Bianchi.
42:40We think she's gone into labour.
42:42I've been timing them for two minutes apart.
42:48Rosalyn?
42:49Rosalyn, come quickly!
42:5015, 20.
42:52As promised.
42:54Put on a good show for the gents, were you girls?
42:58They like a bit of hair pulling.
43:00Hair pulling's an illegal move.
43:02Is that an illegal game though, is it Gwen?
43:04Who's going to complain?
43:07Don't do this Gwen.
43:08Please.
43:09What are you doing here?
43:10You're putting yourself in real danger if you fight tonight.
43:12Your body is severely weakened from lupus.
43:15And your chances of getting injured are high.
43:17And what would Carl do then?
43:18Look, if you're not going to fight, you can hand that money back right now.
43:21Look at the midwife, right now.
43:22I want to pick up your father.
43:23And it's not the most great thing.
43:24But I want to pack my second house, Ernie.
43:25Say I'm um…
43:26Because I need to pick up your second house, please.
43:27I'm hungry and I'm hungry and I might be hungry.
43:28Because you're hungry and I can't help.
43:29I'm hungry and I'm hungry.
43:30Take care here, Sam.
43:31Baby, on Twitter.
43:32I think I can put the deal on the next step.
43:33I want to pack my third house.
43:34Wenn you're hungry and I'm hungry with you.
43:35I want to pack my third house.
43:36A midwife is on her way and I'm going to stay with you on the end of this phone until she
43:55gets there.
43:56She keeps saying she wants to push.
44:01Tell her to blow.
44:02Tell her to blow as if she is blowing out candles.
44:04See that?
44:05Don't push.
44:06Blow.
44:07Blow.
44:08Blow.
44:09Yeah, that's it.
44:12Do it with me.
44:17Wait, wait, wait, wait.
44:22You punched her.
44:23I said no punch.
44:30Do you want to tap?
44:31Do you want to give up?
44:32Tony, I need you to describe exactly what you can see.
44:45Oh, I can see.
44:46Oh, I think it might be the baby's head.
44:52You're playing.
44:53Oh my god.
44:56Fuck!
44:57No!
44:58Oh my god.
45:00No!
45:01No!
45:03No.
45:05No!
45:07No!
45:09No!
45:10No!
45:11Oh my god.
45:12No!
45:13Can you hear me?
45:28Gwen?
45:29Gwen?
45:30Call for an ambulance.
45:32Quickly!
45:37Mr. Bianchi, you need to get ready to deliver this baby yourself.
45:41But you must not hang up.
45:42Do you hear me?
45:43Oh, I can see.
45:56I can see the egg.
45:57It's sort of moving around.
46:00I can see its face.
46:02Good.
46:03Now, very gently place your hands under its head.
46:06Wait for the next big contraction and guide the body out.
46:10Don't pull.
46:11There's something blue wrapped around its neck.
46:13Is that supposed to be there?
46:14It's the cord.
46:15All 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.
46:24Have you managed to move it?
46:30It works.
46:32It's off.
46:32It's coming.
46:33Oh.
46:34It's now.
46:35It's now.
46:35It's ready.
46:35No.
46:36Oh!
46:37Oh!
46:41Oh!
46:41Oh, oh!
46:42Oh!
46:43Oh!
46:44Oh!
46:44Oh!
46:45Oh!
46:45Oh!
46:46Oh!
46:46Oh!
46:47Oh!
46:47Oh!
46:47Oh!
46:48We got a little boy.
47:13You did it, Tony.
47:15You delivered our son.
47:18Just look at you.
47:23Well, someone was in a hurry to get into the world.
47:28Wait till we tell all your uncles about this.
47:36There's you.
47:38There's my boy.
47:43You were lucky you didn't cause any more damage to your body.
47:45At least I got the rent money out of it.
47:48Gwen, the hospital are asking who will be looking after Carl whilst you're in here.
47:52They're willing to talk to social services.
47:54I bet they are.
47:55Social services will take him off me.
47:57I'm sure that isn't the case.
48:00But, Gwen, you're treading a dangerous path in London,
48:04even 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.
48:22Another one for the foot, Tina.
48:23A striker.
48:24My turn now.
48:25My turn.
48:26Oh, careful.
48:27And Mrs. Turner's just helping Tina to freshen up,
48:30and then Master Bianchi needs to have his lunch.
48:33The Neopapa did a good job on his own then, Doctor.
48:35Be careful.
48:40Mrs. Turner's just helping Tina to freshen up.
48:43And 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.
48:52But Tony did.
48:55This man, hmm?
48:58He's a proper man.
49:00He certainly is.
49:02And I salute him.
49:05Bravo!
49:13Let's...
49:17Something's come up...
49:19that I'm...
49:22not going to be able to do single-handed.
49:28I've got cancer.
49:35Brisk cancer.
49:47Oh.
49:48Tony.
49:51I wish Mama was here.
49:53You are the best of us, little brother.
50:09And we...
50:11will not let you go.
50:13And we...
50:14will not let you go.
50:15I spoke to the surgery, Gwen.
50:31All your records will be sent to the new GP we found for you up north.
50:46Thanks, Nurse.
50:47I've got to start looking after myself now, haven't I?
50:50She's not going to be a wrestler anymore.
50:51I know.
50:52Would you like a hand putting that in the van?
50:53Or are you planning on peddling all the way to Blackpool?
50:54Thanks, Nurse.
50:55And thanks for the advice.
50:56It's like a bold move, taking a job in a gym, training other women.
51:00But it's legal in Lancashire, Gwen.
51:01And you won't be exploited.
51:02It will give your body time to recover.
51:03And my dad would like it.
51:04Good old Lamb of Panther and his contacts.
51:05Good old Lamb of Panther and his contacts.
51:22Good old Lamb of Panther and his contacts.
51:31Oh, 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 made a decent fist at moving your weekly clinic onto hospital premises.
52:07Yes.
52:08Now, 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 of any given species that survives.
52:26It's the one most adaptable to change.
52:29I know that.
52:30And I know I can't look after my patients properly if I don't to them.
52:35A very good attitude to have.
52:38Which is why we're placing you front and centre of our plans.
52:43And closing you down.
52:48Closing us down?
52:49Not as a GP, although you'll probably want to join forces with someone else now.
52:55There are real incentives for group practices.
52:58But the council are not going to renew the licence for the maternity home.
53:02But the licence runs out in a matter of weeks.
53:08It's always been renewed as a formality.
53:12This is the brave new world, Turner.
53:14There is no always any more.
53:17There isn't even an always for me.
53:19The council will have to hand everything over to the National Health.
53:22But while you still have power, you're doing this.
53:26To us and to Nanata's house.
53:30Nanata's house.
53:31They were forever outliers.
53:34And eccentric.
53:36Threatwood, what is the logic in all of this?
53:40How 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.
53:48No 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.
54:08You 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.
54:17We both agreed it was what we wanted.
54:20That it would let us have other things we wanted.
54:24And want it very much.
54:28We just didn't want this, did we?
54:32I 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.
54:45And build a life with you.
54:47And building a life with you means more than just rings and mortgages and bricks and mortar.
54:56Did you ever close your eyes and try to see our children?
55:04I see our children every day with my eyes wide open.
55:07I see them crossing the street in Poplar or swinging on the swing down at the wreck and I think we could have a little boy like that one or that little girl has a smile like hers.
55:23I thought I would have to be patient.
55:28And I'm not very good at being patient.
55:31I would not say patience has been our distinguishing characteristic.
55:38There is no good harvest if there's been no rain.
55:52The earth requires it and so do we.
55:55For how else does the heart grow?
55:59Life expands not through relentless sunshine nor under a cloudless sky.
56:06Life expands not in spite of the weather but because of it.
56:13Thus we are nourished.
56:14Thus we are nourished.
56:15We take root.
56:16We are taught how to endure.
56:19But there are times when the soul is hungry, when fruit falls to the ground and we cannot tell if it's a blessing or temptation.
56:32There are times when we know nothing, nothing at all, not yet.
56:39And so it seems that if we go down, we all go down together.
56:45The council have written to me confirming that the maternity home will close and assuming that we too will now cease operations.
57:02Do we have any say in this?
57:06A present?
57:07It seems not.
57:10Call the Midwife is back in a couple of weeks on the 1st of March.
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