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