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00:00It opens as fragile as courage, as simple as work, or as precious as compassion for our fellow human beings.
00:10These are the threads that bind the very warp and weft of days.
00:17The things we think we will remember, then move on from and forget.
00:27You poor giant.
00:30I'm pretty sure that's it for now.
00:32Go and get ready. I'll cover for you.
00:38Mum, what's going to happen when we close the maternity home?
00:42I wish there was a simple answer, May.
00:45The truth is, nobody knows.
00:48Will we have to move house?
00:50No, this is our home and that's not going to change because Daddy will still have his surgery.
00:58I promise you, sweetheart, everything will be all right.
01:03Angela needs to do everything together. Now we don't even get the same bus.
01:08She'll be home tonight, just as she always is.
01:11And Timothy's back in London, living at St Cuthbert's. So that's good, isn't it?
01:16I know. New things are always hard.
01:26Nurse Crane's been held up at the maternity home. She's asked me to give out morning orders.
01:30Sister Catherine, are you happy to be on first call this afternoon?
01:33Of course.
01:34I was top of the call board myself, but I know I'm meeting halfway across London.
01:39Good morning, all.
01:41Well, I hope she's eaten a hearty breakfast. She's going to be cycling all over Poplar today.
01:55See you later.
01:57Six o'clock! And don't be late!
02:04Come in.
02:12And it is wakey-wakey, rise and shine for my favourite slugger bed.
02:20I bring grapefruit tea and French toast chaser.
02:26Am I overslept again?
02:27You're keeping not dissimilar hours to Princess Margaret.
02:30Good. Although, I am told, her cooling tray has nothing on it but black coffee and an orange juice.
02:36She probably wakes up with a hangover. I've never had a hangover.
02:40Mm.
02:41Are you getting a bad back sleeping on the sofa?
02:44I did think of sending for an osteopath.
02:46Then I remembered I am one.
02:49Well, I've slept like a log every night since I came here.
02:52It's like I'm getting over an illness.
02:54You look to me as though you are recuperating nicely.
02:58Apart from the faintest suggestion of a few split ends, dare I make you a little appointmentette at the salon
03:04on the corner?
03:05The hairdressers.
03:06Oh, no, I really don't think I can go to the hairdressers.
03:09Not with my hair in this state.
03:14In a moment, we'll be inviting the ladies and gentlemen of the press inside to view the magnificent Ground Four
03:21extension funded by the Bathroom Grant Scheme.
03:24But first, I'd like to ask Mrs. Rhoda Mullocks, who's here today with her daughter Susan and son Paddy,
03:32to say a few words about how she and her family have benefited from this council initiative.
03:39This has been a really fortunate development for us.
03:43As many of you know, Susan was affected by thalidomide.
03:47And we were struggling a bit more than most with the old outside toilet and tin bath.
03:53Hello, Mum.
03:55For those of you who don't know, this is my second eldest, Perry.
03:58He's at Technical College.
04:01My grandma was actually born in this house.
04:05And the addition of the bathroom has brought us bang into the middle of the 20th century.
04:11And what do you have to say, Susan?
04:12It's fantastic.
04:15That's the thing.
04:16In you go, members of the press, straight through to the back of the house.
04:21Oh, and Mrs. Mullick's sanitary wear is in a new colour called Pampers Beige.
04:26So you might want to caption your photographs accordingly.
04:32Come on, love.
04:35Let's bump you up.
04:43I can't believe we're under notice of closure,
04:46yet we've still got a cohort of junior doctors coming in for district obstetrics.
04:51And all the more unsettling, because my own son's one of the doctors.
04:55Oh, he was such a little boy when he came into my life.
04:59You were younger than he is now when your path first crossed with mine.
05:04And look at us now.
05:06Shutting up shop to all intents and purposes.
05:09Where do you think we'll be this time next year?
05:12Possibly in a better place than this.
05:16Possibly in a worse one.
05:18But not here?
05:21Sheila, the council are not going to give Nannata's house any more money.
05:27We'll have to see what God thinks.
05:30And what the order proposes.
05:34Hurry up, please, gentlemen.
05:36The mother is feeling the urge to push.
05:38And Mr. Parry wants all junior doctors to be in guns.
05:44I'm sorry, Dr. Turner, but I have begged for an extraordinary meeting of the Board of Health.
05:49And Dr. Threatwood says we have to wait until the next one's scheduled on Friday.
05:55They might announce more closures at that one.
05:58There are half a dozen other maternity homes just waiting for the axe to fall.
06:02Which doesn't give the Board the right to treat you or Nannata's house like a canary down the mine.
06:08Meanwhile, I fear the fact that our GP practice is remaining open has confused matters.
06:14I had expected some degree of local uproar, but no one has so much as started a petition.
06:19The system we're heading into is going to be so big, it dwarfs people's comprehension.
06:25Then, by the time they realise what's afoot, their voices will seem too tiny to be heard.
06:32Well, my voice isn't too tiny to be heard.
06:42Now, Mother, let's concentrate on the task in hand.
06:46Less noise equals more effective bearing down.
06:49I'd do better without a ruddy audience!
06:52Come, come.
06:53Just keep reminding yourself you're making very satisfactory progress.
06:56Ah!
06:57Now, whilst this contraction ends and Mother has ceased her exertions,
07:02would one of the gentlemen present like to step up and describe what he can see?
07:07Ah, Dr. Turner, Jr.
07:12Rule one of obstetrics.
07:14There is often something liquid on the floor.
07:21The fetal scalp is not visible at the introitus during the pause between contractions, sir.
07:27The presenting part is the vertex in a cephalic presentation.
07:32The head is beginning to distend the perineum.
07:35The crowning has not yet occurred.
07:38And?
07:40Boy or girl?
07:43It's reassuring to know your expertise knows its limits.
07:55Now, Lady Aylward, matron of the Lady Emily Clinic for Women and Babies does have rather a ring to it.
08:03Yes, it does.
08:04And I'd like to accept, with caveats.
08:08You know I'll grant you any caveat you desire.
08:11I can't commence until the new year.
08:14I have to give him my notice to Nonata's house.
08:17They're not in the best shape at the present time.
08:27Had I to feel this bell much longer, I would have been in need of embrocation from my elbow, as
08:35well as assistance to the lavatory.
08:37This means the diuretics are working and helping to cleanse your body of all the excess fluid.
08:47I am not in want of a biology lesson, merely your age.
08:54It might be more convenient if you set up a commode for you.
08:57I have always pried dignity above committance.
09:05I've spent the whole of my career in the East End, which equates to almost all of my adult life.
09:13You would have served less time for murder.
09:15I don't see it that way, Mr. Scarrisbrick.
09:18It wasn't a sentence.
09:19It was, and still is, a privilege.
09:24And now our maternity home is closing down.
09:28And the domestic delivery of babies could end up virtually outlawed.
09:33Thank you, Peel Report.
09:34I don't want to work in hospitals.
09:37I want to get to know the women I'm caring for.
09:40I want them to feel safe.
09:42As though birth is a miraculous but normal part of life.
09:47Soon I won't be able to provide that, and in my view, that's a terrible loss.
09:54I'm simply grateful we're able to offer an alternative.
09:58To those who can afford to pay.
10:02Nevertheless, we have new adventures to look forward to.
10:05In due course, I'll have something else to put to you, but not today.
10:10We have quite enough to celebrate.
10:12Perhaps you'll allow me to take you out to dinner.
10:16Perhaps in a week or two.
10:21Oh, good evening.
10:22Is that the Gazette?
10:24Oh, Miss Leverett.
10:25Glad they caught you.
10:27Could you put me through to Mr. Reynolds on features?
10:31Paddy, what noise?
10:32Dive.
10:32A sheep, mate.
10:38I'm going to have to take Susan to the surgery tomorrow, Bernie.
10:41That blister looks like it's become infected.
10:42We can't have that, can we, eh?
10:45What's the matter, how beautiful, eh?
10:48It hurts when I put the legs on.
10:51Doesn't it?
10:52If I take a first thing, can you drop Paddy at nursery?
10:55Oh, no, I can't.
10:56I've got a funeral.
10:57At ten o'clock, out in Easttown, Mr. Albion wants us lined up at the hearse by nine.
11:02Sometime through the day you took that undertaking job.
11:05Well, it's a steady line of work.
11:08You're drinking more of that milk and magnesia than you ever did when you were pregnant.
11:12You're not trying to tell me we've got some news, are you?
11:14Chance would be a fine thing.
11:17God, our almighty Father, we ask today for a blessing to add to all the blessings you have
11:23given us.
11:24And as we thank you for leading us to one another and for letting us love one another,
11:31enfold us as my hands, enfold hers, and protect us as her body protects our child.
11:36Amen.
11:38Amen.
11:46Oh, gosh.
11:48It is beautiful, isn't it?
11:52I've always loved pearls.
11:55The idea that inside all that sheen there's a tiny speck of sand.
12:05The heart of a pearl is so much stronger than we think.
12:11I don't even know we kept Sherry on the premises.
12:14When a house is a home to a lot of young women, it's always wise to be prepared for a
12:19celebration.
12:20I managed to grab some twiglets and smoke you bacon crisps.
12:24Well, Fred sends his congratulations.
12:26This is turning into quite the shindig.
12:30Have you given any consideration to a date yet?
12:34I went to the register office this morning and filled in all the forms.
12:38It's going to be in three weeks' time.
12:42Three weeks?
12:47And what of your parents?
12:49Are they as delighted as we?
12:51They don't know yet.
12:54They've been away on the school trip to Bruges, so I'm going to call them tomorrow night.
12:59They are educated, and they are inhabitants of the modern world.
13:07Congratulations.
13:08Congratulations.
13:16I've stopped short of going the full bit Elsa soon and giving you a geometric bob, but I think that's
13:25taken the curse off.
13:26Farewell, Splatoon.
13:29I've never had eggs rubbed in my hair before.
13:31It felt quite nice.
13:33Trixie put me on to the protein rinse when I decided to go long.
13:37But, Bevel, now that you've had a rest, we need to talk about the future.
13:43The Order will want my answer in three weeks.
13:46And what are you going to do with those three weeks?
13:49Are you just going to sit them out indoors in the hope that clarity will come floating through the window?
13:55Or are you going to try to live a little?
13:58I think I'm living quite a lot just being here.
14:02Beryl, you know that's not true.
14:08Today, whilst I'm out manipulating the vertebrae of London's jet set, I want you to make a list of every
14:18single thing you wish to do before you tell the sisters whether you're going to leave or stay.
14:24To what end, Geoffrey?
14:26It may help you decide which sacrifice is bearable.
14:35What do you mean, Mayor turns midwife?
14:38You can't deliver babies, Mrs. Buckle.
14:41You're not qualified.
14:43I'm not intending to deliver them.
14:46The idea is that I follow you and the other ladies around Poplar as you go about your work, lending
14:52a hand, you know, as and when appropriate.
14:56I'm getting photographed by the Gazette.
14:58The Gazette feels that it will draw attention to the destruction of midwifery services as we know it.
15:05That I can't deny.
15:09But so far, we've left the news to seep out slowly so we don't cause alarm.
15:15Nurse Crane, in my opinion, we need to cause alarm to save the maternity home.
15:22If people protest, it might make a difference.
15:32How often do you wear the artificial legs?
15:34Every day.
15:35They make them wear them at school.
15:37There's three other Thalidomide kids and the teacher says they all have to set an example to each other.
15:42What do you think about it all, Susan?
15:44I don't really like them very much.
15:46The other kids?
15:48The legs.
15:49They're heavy and they hurt and they don't look like proper legs.
15:53You're probably ready for a bigger set.
15:55She's growing like a weed.
15:57Um, while I'm here, Dr Turner, I want mine some more milk of magnesia.
16:03Rhoda, you really need to get that gallbladder removed.
16:07You've been at the top of the waiting list twice and cancelled the operation both times.
16:11I'm too busy, Doctor.
16:13Belinda's away at university and I'm busier than ever with Paddy and Susan to look after.
16:20I can look after myself.
16:22Susan, you know that's not true.
16:24And the campaign for compensation's had so many ups and downs.
16:28I'll write you a prescription.
16:30It's cheaper than buying it over the counter, but promise me, the next time your name comes up, you'll get
16:35the operation done.
16:38They don't complain like this in male surgical.
16:51The infant stomach is a small fusiform organ situated in the upper abdomen with the capacity of approximately 30 millilitres.
17:06Anatomically, it's comprised of the cardia, the fundus, the body, and the pilaris.
17:16And the gastric macruso is capable of sedating hydrochloric acid.
17:20What do you think you are doing with that infant?
17:23I was comforting him.
17:25His cry was quite high-pitched, so we might have colic.
17:29And he stopped the moment you picked him up?
17:32Yes, sister.
17:33He just didn't seem very happy.
17:36A well-managed baby is a contented baby.
17:40Doctors do not care for babies.
17:43They diagnose them and they treat them.
17:46And junior doctors are on this ward to learn.
17:52Sorry, sister.
17:55Ooh!
17:56I don't know what's gone on here.
17:57This one's covered in lipstick and there's a whiff of whiskey.
18:01Oh!
18:05Now, you don't get a belt or badges because you're not a nurse.
18:09Your hair must be off your collar.
18:11There's to be no coloured eyeshadow.
18:13And I shall be inspecting your fingernails.
18:16Not that we'd let you two near the business end.
18:20I'm just so used to seeing you do everything.
18:23The caring and the medicine are mixed up.
18:26In a perfect world, the caring and the medicine would always be mixed up.
18:32And in obstetrics, most of all.
18:35Obstetrics and hospital just seems like another branch of surgery.
18:38There's so many rules and protocols.
18:40You'll be doing your rotation on the district soon enough.
18:43You'll probably wish there were more rules then.
18:46Just wish the maternity home wasn't closing.
18:49The maternity home was an innovation once.
18:52Practice evolves all the time.
18:54And as a doctor, you have to lean into it or medicine won't grow.
19:01Sometimes change is for the better.
19:04I mean, look at us tonight.
19:06Putting on fireworks for the children just like we always have.
19:10But timing them so Angela and May don't miss their pop music programme.
19:14If you're talking about the Partridge family, that is not change for the better.
19:24It looks like the Sunday Times has come out on our side again.
19:28Like the manufacturer's latest compensation offer.
19:31The manufacturers, they want their book thrown at them.
19:35Three million quid for 400 children.
19:37Arms missing, legs missing, some deaf blind.
19:40I've heard the campaign leaders say the kids deserve 20.
19:43A million.
19:44I've never seen numbers that big until we started this campaign.
19:48And they'll never be big enough.
19:49Money can't buy what that girl will never have.
19:55Susan, what's the matter?
19:57She's screaming at David Cassidy.
19:59He's a pop star.
20:01You have to scream when you see his picture.
20:10David Cassidy.
20:11I want to scream every time I see his hair cut.
20:14It's better than that T-Rex fella, Belinda Likes.
20:21That Susan's going to grow up soon.
20:24Isn't she?
20:26I think it's happening already.
20:33Right.
20:34Nurse Clifford, I'm assigning you to juice and milk tokens.
20:37That way you can show off your engagement ring.
20:40Thank you, Nurse Crane.
20:41Are you ready with the petitions, Miss Higgins?
20:44I have personally typed up four copies to be presented to the board,
20:49and they will be circulated while clinic is in progress.
20:55Mrs. Buckle, and a gentleman of the press,
20:58unless I'm mistaken, you are most welcome.
21:07I've drawn up a list of suitable poses,
21:10but first you'll need to help me with the hat.
21:16I'm telling you now,
21:17you'll not last long in a slingback corkshaw.
21:26You may enter.
21:30I brought you some crescent, sister.
21:33They're still coming up lovely on the allotment.
21:39There was an earwig in the last bouquet.
21:42I watched him climb from petal to petal for an hour.
21:47It was so like being out in nature
21:49that I almost fancied I felt sunlight on my face.
21:55Would you like us to get you into the garden, sister?
21:57I could light the brazier.
21:59You could have a blanket on your knees.
22:01I think you mistake me for one elderly and frail.
22:06Never.
22:11I'm sorry to confess it.
22:17But I do not think my feet will carry me.
22:23Sit with me for a while.
22:30That's right.
22:31Give me the joy.
22:33Give me the excitement.
22:38Trouble with this is
22:40we do our most important work
22:42when people aren't smiling.
22:52Do you reckon Sister Monica
22:54turns far you didn't, sister?
22:56She's certainly weakening.
22:58And the worst thing is
23:00she knows it.
23:03She must be getting scared.
23:06Not of death
23:07but
23:10letting go of life.
23:12And life
23:14means so much more than
23:15breath
23:16and a heartbeat.
23:19It's
23:21independence
23:22and
23:23company
23:24and joy.
23:27Even nuns take pleasure in things.
23:30And with every day that passes
23:32she's
23:33denied a little more.
23:38Maybe it's time
23:40time to move the telly
23:41to a bedroom.
23:42That said
23:43I don't even think
23:44the TV will perk her up.
23:47It's only the test card
23:48after time.
23:51We need to get her outside.
23:55Why aren't you and Sarah
23:56making this call together?
23:59Because
23:59in case you've forgotten
24:00my parents haven't spoken to him
24:02since the day I introduced them
24:04which was also the day
24:05they said he wasn't
24:06the man for me.
24:08I think I need to
24:09break the ice.
24:11Honey
24:11you're going to need
24:12a pickaxe.
24:14My mother and father
24:15aren't bad people Joyce.
24:17They're just very
24:18blinkered.
24:19And my marriage
24:20is their chance
24:21to see things
24:22a different way.
24:24You're a good child
24:25child.
24:37My name's Bernie.
24:38I'm an alcoholic.
24:41I used to be a warehouse man
24:44before they closed the docks.
24:46I was good at it.
24:48Things
24:49on shelves
24:50things in boxes
24:52lists
24:53to tick.
24:56I was in control
24:57and then I lost my job
25:00and I have to have a reason
25:02to get up every morning
25:03to get dressed
25:04go out
25:06or else the drink
25:07comes creeping in.
25:08So when Mr Albion
25:09offered me a job
25:12I thought
25:13yeah
25:14things in boxes
25:17that feels familiar.
25:19I didn't know
25:20that I would find
25:21my calling
25:23that it would
25:24make me more
25:25human
25:25that it could
25:26make me feel
25:27so much
25:27and you don't feel
25:28much of anything
25:29at all
25:31apart from safe
25:32in a warehouse.
25:39Rosalyn!
25:44A little while back
25:48we had to take care
25:49of a family
25:51who'd come to grief
25:51in their own home.
25:53Carbon monoxide.
25:57It took a mum
25:58it took a dad
25:59it took a little girl.
26:04and the little girl
26:05was the same age
26:06as my youngest daughter.
26:09Even their names
26:10were nearly the same
26:11Suzanne
26:12instead of Susan.
26:17And her hair
26:21I had to wash
26:22and brush
26:25her hair.
26:32but it was
26:32when I was
26:33washing her feet
26:34that I thought
26:35these
26:39perfect
26:41little feet
26:43will never
26:44go dancing.
26:49We all found
26:50that one hard.
26:53It was a hard job.
26:56but I can't put
26:58those feelings
26:59on the shelf
27:02that keeps
27:03things safe
27:06because
27:07my Susan's feet
27:10they'll never
27:10go dancing either.
27:14Her hands
27:16never wear
27:17a wedding ring
27:17never hold
27:19a child.
27:24and I love her so much.
27:28Every imperfection
27:29she has
27:29is beautiful to me.
27:32There are days
27:33I think
27:33I just live
27:34to see her laughing.
27:38And sometimes
27:41sometimes
27:42when
27:44when I stop
27:45to look at her
27:51I'll stop.
27:59But I know
28:01I am not
28:02at ease
28:07with
28:10what was done
28:11to her
28:16because sometimes
28:19I
28:23sometimes
28:23I compare
28:25to the dead.
28:32Rosalind
28:34a telephone call
28:36we could have made
28:36together
28:37telling you
28:38if we couldn't
28:39deliver him
28:39a person
28:39was never going
28:40to end in happiness
28:41for anyone involved.
28:43I suppose
28:44I just
28:45thought
28:45that
28:46the niceness
28:47I'd always
28:49seen in them
28:50the general
28:51decency
28:52they'd always
28:53shown
28:53would
28:53somehow
28:55come out
28:55on top
28:58but it
28:59didn't.
29:01What did they say
29:02about the baby?
29:04Nothing
29:06because
29:07I didn't
29:08tell them.
29:10Rosalind
29:11the baby
29:12is more important
29:13than the wedding.
29:13I know that
29:14but just
29:16it's
29:17agony
29:17enough
29:18having them
29:18reject
29:19the man
29:19I love
29:21I'm not
29:22going to
29:22give them
29:22the chance
29:23to reject
29:23our child.
29:30One
29:31buy a new dress.
29:33Oh
29:33Beryl
29:34well that's a bit
29:35basic.
29:36I have put
29:37not in navy blue
29:38in brackets
29:40I'll add
29:41mustn't go
29:42with a wimple
29:43and lace-ups.
29:44I could see
29:45you in
29:46tiger print
29:47chiffon.
29:48No I don't
29:48think animal
29:49print ever
29:49really works
29:50if you're
29:51bigger than
29:51the actual
29:52animal.
29:52The only
29:53member of the
29:53feline species
29:54you outrank
29:55in the size
29:55department
29:56is
29:57tabby cat.
29:58The door is
29:59wide open
30:00for tiger print
30:01and indeed
30:02leopard.
30:04Two
30:05drink wine
30:07while making
30:08crepes
30:09we de mer
30:09at the
30:10galloping gourmet
30:11while I can
30:11put a line
30:11through that
30:12one after
30:12tonight.
30:13And we'll
30:13get the
30:13scorch marks
30:14off the
30:14frying pan
30:15eventually.
30:16Three
30:19earn some
30:19money.
30:21How am I
30:22going to
30:22earn money?
30:24Sing hymns
30:25in the street
30:25and put a
30:26hat down?
30:27I need a
30:28secretary.
30:29You could
30:29be the
30:30Miss Higgins
30:30of Harley
30:31Street.
30:32I don't
30:32have a
30:33felt hat
30:33or a
30:34petrifying
30:35manner.
30:35No no no
30:36it makes
30:36perfect sense
30:37I hire
30:37space in
30:38three sets
30:39of consulting
30:39rooms and
30:40I'm always
30:40missing calls
30:41but do
30:42say yes.
30:43Only if you
30:44forgive me
30:45for the
30:45frying pan.
30:46I'll do
30:46more than
30:46forgive you
30:47I will
30:47buy you
30:47a felt
30:48hat
30:49and an
30:50ocelot
30:50two piece.
31:01Oh hell
31:02spells
31:02Roda.
31:08what's
31:09what's
31:09what's
31:09the
31:09matter?
31:09The
31:10pain.
31:10What?
31:11The
31:11pain.
31:12I can't
31:13stop being
31:14sick.
31:16I've
31:16woken up
31:16Paddy now.
31:17He's got
31:18nursery in the
31:18morning.
31:19I'm going to
31:19call 999.
31:20morning.
31:20Oh.
31:22Oh.
31:25Thank you for
31:26attending this
31:27seminar today
31:28gentlemen.
31:29This practice was
31:30established in 1947
31:32under the auspices of
31:34the then new
31:35National Health Service
31:37and the maternity home
31:38was opened in 1958.
31:41Is it true that it's
31:42due to close down?
31:44Yes.
31:46In a word.
31:47Do you have any
31:48questions relating
31:49to your training?
31:51Do we have to ride
31:52bikes?
31:53Proficiency in cycling
31:54is considered an
31:56advantage.
32:00Evolution gave you
32:02two hands
32:02Dr. Drinkwater
32:03Can we see
32:04one on each
32:05handlebar
32:06please?
32:07Now gentlemen
32:08if you would all
32:09oblige me
32:10by signalling
32:11as if you were
32:12turning
32:13left
32:16That's the other
32:17left
32:18Dr. Turner
32:19Junior
32:22Sorry
32:24He was like
32:25that as a
32:25little lad
32:26and I had him
32:26in council
32:31Any oil
32:32left in that
32:32can Fred?
32:36They're going to
32:36operate tomorrow
32:38take the whole
32:39thing out
32:39I know
32:40and the nurse
32:41says that it's
32:42worse because
32:42it's an emergency
32:44Dr. Turner's
32:45not getting on at
32:45you for the
32:46good of his
32:46health
32:46it's for yours
32:48and you ignored
32:49him
32:49I've got too
32:50much to do
32:51now you've
32:52got too much
32:53to do
32:54I'll cope
32:56your sister's
32:56going to come
32:57and pick up
32:57Paddy
32:58I have to
33:00give her a list
33:02about Susan
33:10It's not
33:11the most
33:12luxurious
33:12mode of
33:13transport
33:14but
33:14with a couple
33:15of cushions
33:16it'll be
33:17just the job
33:18for taking
33:18you out
33:19in the fresh
33:19air
33:21By fresh
33:22air
33:22do you mean
33:23in public?
33:26Sister
33:27you need
33:28stimulation
33:29and you're
33:30capable of
33:31embracing it
33:33Why then
33:34did you bring
33:35that infernal
33:36television
33:37into my
33:37chamber?
33:38It is the
33:39equivalent
33:40of putting
33:41straw down
33:42in the street
33:43so a
33:44moribund
33:44patient
33:45will not
33:45be disturbed
33:46by the
33:46carriage wheels
33:47You make
33:48all these
33:49gestures
33:49because
33:51you think
33:52I am not
33:52long for
33:53this world
33:54can you
33:55not see
33:55that
33:56all of
33:57these
33:57gestures
33:58are because
33:59we love
33:59you
33:59I have
34:00neither
34:00the time
34:01or the
34:02temper
34:02to engage
34:03in violent
34:04sentiment
34:06Love is
34:07not
34:07violent
34:08sister
34:09Love is
34:10patient
34:11and love
34:12is kind
34:13and sometimes
34:14love
34:15pushes us
34:16to places
34:16where we
34:16do not
34:17wish to
34:17go
34:17I thereby
34:18refer you
34:19to my
34:20feelings
34:20regarding
34:21that
34:22conveyance
34:29she was
34:29as
34:30muleish
34:30as I
34:31have
34:31ever
34:31seen
34:31her
34:31and
34:32I
34:32came
34:32as
34:33close
34:33to
34:33losing
34:33patience
34:34as
34:34I
34:34ever
34:34have
34:35When I
34:36was
34:36in
34:36formation
34:37Mother
34:38Albert
34:38used to
34:39say
34:39that
34:39our
34:39greatest
34:40trials
34:40would
34:41always
34:42come
34:42from
34:42within
34:43our
34:43family
34:43circle
34:44I've
34:45had
34:45flesh
34:45and
34:45blood
34:45sisters
34:46as
34:47well
34:47as
34:47sisters
34:47in
34:48Christ
34:48The
34:49thing
34:49is
34:49you
34:50don't
34:50have
34:50to
34:50forgive
34:50the
34:50flesh
34:51and
34:51blood
34:51ones
34:52you
34:52can
34:52just
34:52roll
34:53around
34:53on the
34:54floor
34:54and
34:54smack
34:55each
34:55other
34:55and
34:56forget
34:56That
34:57sounds
34:57quite
34:58appealing
35:03Sister
35:03Catherine
35:04I'm
35:04afraid
35:04I
35:05have
35:05to
35:05increase
35:06your
35:07nursing
35:07duties
35:08Mother
35:09Mildred
35:09has
35:10asked
35:10me
35:10to
35:10go
35:11to
35:11the
35:11mother
35:11house
35:11to
35:12discuss
35:12plans
35:13for
35:13our
35:13missionary
35:14work
35:14You've
35:15always
35:15said
35:16we
35:16are
35:16missionaries
35:17here
35:17And
35:18there's
35:18a
35:18whole
35:19world
35:19in
35:19need
35:19of
35:20healing
35:21Let
35:22us
35:22see
35:22what
35:22is
35:22proposed
35:32Belinda
35:34Hello
35:34love
35:35Yeah we need you to come home
35:38help look after Susan
35:40Did mum say that's what she wants?
35:42No
35:42She wants you to prioritise your studies
35:44it's me I'm asking you
35:46Then I'm doing what mum wants
35:47I wouldn't be at university
35:49if she hadn't worked so hard to help me
35:51I owe it to her to work hard and make the most of the opportunity
35:53But what about Susan?
35:55I can't dad
35:56I just can't
36:00You don't have to stay here for this
36:02Rosalind
36:04From now on we share all the hard things
36:11So
36:12Pastor Robinson
36:14Rosalind
36:16What's all this?
36:18We wanted to talk to you about the engagement
36:20and the wedding
36:21This is the wedding that's taking place in three weeks time
36:24Less than three weeks
36:26now
36:28And you think I don't have eyes in my head?
36:30There's a look
36:31to young mothers
36:33even before their bodies tell the tale
36:37Have you guessed Mrs. Willis?
36:39I have
36:41I must have said some terrifying things
36:44in your imagination
36:47Yes
36:49Then let that be your punishment
36:52Now make me a cup of tea
36:59I beg your pardon
37:02I never promised you a rose garden
37:07Along with the sunshine
37:10There's gotta be a little rain sometimes
37:15When you take your God
37:17You gotta give
37:17So live
37:18Let live
37:19Or let go
37:20Oh
37:21Oh
37:21Oh
37:22Oh
37:22Oh
37:22I beg your pardon
37:25I never promised you a rose garden
37:29I could promise you things like big diamond rings
37:34But you don't find roses growing when stocks are closer
37:39So you better think it over
37:44Well it's sweet talk
37:45And you could make it come true
37:48I will give you the world right now
37:50On a silver flag
37:54But what would it matter
37:59This newspaper story certainly made a splash
38:02Will it make any difference do you suppose?
38:05My dad went along with it
38:06But I don't think he's very optimistic
38:10I keep feeling as though I should be helping you
38:13You're a junior doctor now
38:15Not a student
38:16No donkey work allowed
38:21There's some sort of spring sticking out of this saddle
38:24And into my backside, Joyce
38:27District work is all about determination
38:29In the face of challenge
38:31And if you can't get on board with that
38:32You're not getting your red card again
38:39I feel for the pair of them, Mrs. Wallace
38:41Nothing takes a shine of a wedding
38:43Like parental disapproval
38:45It was always going to be under our shadow
38:47Because of Pastor Robinson's divorce
38:50But he deserves as much happiness as any other man
38:53Now his mistakes are behind him
38:55I don't think his marriage to Lucille was a mistake, Mrs. Wallace
38:59It was never a union without love
39:02What it was, was a union without luck
39:05Perhaps matters would have turned out differently
39:08If they'd been able to have a child
39:10A baby is always a blessing
39:14And now we must look to the future
39:18Let us say nothing further
39:24Meanwhile, he's still arranged though it may be
39:27This is Rosalind's first wedding
39:30How do we make it special for them?
39:33How do we make up for the fact that her parents have treated them so coldly?
39:38It's simple enough, Nurse Crean
39:40We show them love
39:44Nurse
39:44Nurse, my wife is on the second floor
39:48I will take you to her
39:50That's okay, honey
39:51Let us park these bicycles and we'll head straight out
39:54This is young Dr. Turner, by the way
39:57Uh, doctor, yes?
39:58He'll be working under my supervision
40:10Do you have running water, Mr. Das?
40:13We have only one room
40:14We use this stack
40:23Oh, that's Ireland
40:25It's Mrs. O'Day, isn't it?
40:27I remember you're from the clinic
40:28You couldn't come and look at my little Barry, could you?
40:31He don't seem right
40:32I'm on my way to a lady in labour
40:35What's the matter with him?
40:36It's like a cold and a bit of a cough
40:38Please?
40:39I can hear crying out
40:41Have you taken him to the surgery?
40:43I haven't got the bus fare
40:44I don't get my money till tomorrow
40:46Please
40:48I'll pop down later, honey, when I get a chance
40:55I'll have to run or the chippy will be closed
40:58Do you want cod or haddock?
41:00Cod
41:00And get haddock for Dad
41:02He's hungry when he comes in from picking up dead bodies
41:06I'll be back in ten
41:10Perry!
41:11My Jackie magazine's still in the bedroom
41:38Thank you
41:40My husband cannot touch me now
41:43Even though he wishes to
41:47Are you Hindu, Mrs. Starrs?
41:49Yes
41:50And we are Bengali
41:53We could not stay in our own country anymore
41:55Don't worry about where you've come from
41:57The only thing that matters tonight
41:59Is what's going to happen in this room
42:01I should not be here
42:02No man should be here
42:04Unless he's a doctor
42:07But I have nowhere else to go
42:09And I do not want to leave her
42:11We could rig up a screen
42:13I can go out onto the landing
42:14And requisition a bit of washing wine
42:17You get cracking
42:18But I need you back quickly
42:19Or this won't come towards your rotation
42:49Oh stop
42:54Mom, we will do all the time
42:55Mom, we will do all the time
42:57Mama, we will do all the time
42:59From there
43:08Back for life
43:09This next pain, you're going to need a really long, strong push from you, Ranjani.
43:14I am too tired.
43:15You're stronger than you know, and you've come further than you think already.
43:20This one talks a good talk. Let's see if we can prove him right.
43:29Help! Help!
43:31It's excellent, Ranjani. It's excellent.
43:35I'll check for it to send it to the head.
43:42It's crawling.
43:46The baby's head has been born, Ranjani.
43:50It's resting right here in my hand.
43:54Help! We need the nurse!
44:00Do you mind? A lady is having a baby in here.
44:03I can't stop breathing!
44:12Help!
44:17Just rest, Ranjani. Just rest.
44:22And I'll talk you through the next bit.
44:25Help! I'm sorry!
44:29What's all this, young man?
44:31You can...
44:33What happened?
44:35Did he choke on something?
44:37It was just like he was just choking on the air and then he just stopped.
44:42Why is he going blue?
44:44Somebody call an ambulance!
44:56This is just your baby turning, Ranjani.
44:59Everything's okay.
45:06Larry, Larry, please, Larry.
45:08Is he breathing? Is he breathing?
45:10Is he breathing? Is he breathing?
45:15It's...
45:16He's not working!
45:17He's going public!
45:19He's going public!
45:20Did somebody call an ambulance?
45:22Yes!
45:25You're almost there.
45:27This is it, Ranjani.
45:30Yes!
45:30Yes!
45:31Yes!
45:37And you have a little girl.
45:41No!
45:54I'm not going to stop until the ambulance gets here.
46:09Where is the midwife?
46:26Ranjani.
46:28I'm going to have to give you an injection.
46:53I'm going to go to the hospital and we checked.
46:56He'll need to go to the hospital and we checked.
47:18I don't suppose many health schools end up with two ambulances arriving.
47:22No.
47:23The baby seems to have had croup.
47:26And they do bounce back from that.
47:28And Ranjani will be alright after a blood transfusion.
47:31I froze for a moment.
47:34But then it was like my heart rate shot up.
47:37And my brain kicked in.
47:39That would be the adrenaline.
47:42I wonder if anyone's ever done blood tests on doctors immediately after a crisis situation.
47:47That might make an interesting research paper.
47:49Yes.
47:55Belinda.
47:56I can't show you the bruises your sister has all down her back.
48:00But I'm telling you, you have to come home.
48:03You said I was to throw everything I've got at university.
48:06You said it was something you never had.
48:08This isn't about you.
48:09And it isn't about me.
48:11This is about Susan.
48:13Roll her.
48:13This will be a shame really necessary.
48:15Everything is always about Susan.
48:18And I know you love her as much as us.
48:22There are essentially two ways of approaching makeup.
48:25One can purely use it to disguise nature's shortcomings or push things a little further and deploy it as a
48:31sort of costume.
48:32You mean like a disguise?
48:33No.
48:34People hide behind disguises.
48:37Bold lips and defined eyes can bring out our inner confidence.
48:42Try putting this on by yourself this time.
48:46And then I'll show you how to blot.
48:59Do you ever have to bring out your inner confidence?
49:02More frequently than you might imagine.
49:08It's jolly hot in here.
49:10Bear with me a moment.
49:12It's the excitement of seeing yourself transformed perhaps.
49:15No.
49:16I suspect it's something else.
49:19It's past now.
49:21Let's get on with your nails.
49:26And before we turn our attention to the riveting recent investigation into unlicensed butchery operations,
49:34we have item five on the agenda.
49:37The closure of Kenilworth Row Maternity Home.
49:40Which counts as unlicensed butchery all on its own.
49:44Thank you, Turner.
49:46Any comments from the wider committee?
49:48Yes.
49:49From me, Dr Threatford.
49:55This is what midwifery looks like in your district.
50:00And this is what local people think about your proposal.
50:04The women of Poplar know how vital and how valuable the sisters are.
50:10And you're closing them down too.
50:12This is the direction of travel dictated by the National Health.
50:18Meanwhile, Turner, rest assured that even as you progress to this next phase, we continue to learn from you.
50:25Will you be watching to see what goes wrong?
50:28Because there'll be plenty.
50:31May we move on now to item six?
50:40I will pray for you when I say the offices.
50:42You will not be as alone in the chapel as you imagine.
50:46Oh, keep the home fires burning and all of that.
50:51I will telephone from the mother house if there is anything to report.
50:57Mother phone!
51:04I'm ready, I'm ready!
51:10One, two!
51:17Yes, I'm ready!
51:22Are you happy to take your diuretics with just water?
51:25Or would you like me to make some hot blackcurrant?
51:30I require no beverages, for I will take no pills.
51:40But the treatment is working.
51:43It is not treatment.
51:45It is merely postponing all that is to come.
51:50You would have me out in nature,
51:53but I would sooner admit nature into this room
52:00and let it take its course.
52:06Sister, I'm speaking to you nurse to nurse now.
52:11If you refuse your medication,
52:13you will progress from chronic kidney disease
52:17to end-stage renal failure very rapidly.
52:23And what if that is what the Lord intends?
52:28And what if that is what the Lord intends?
52:44Sister Catherine, what's this?
52:50I chose this life because I wanted certainty.
52:55There was work and a rule of life
53:00and there was faith to knit all together.
53:05But now nobody is where they ought to be
53:08and we don't know what's coming next.
53:13Sister, are you doubting your vocation?
53:17No.
53:18I have made my vows
53:20and those vows are indivisible from my soul.
53:26But if I felt I could leave, I would leave.
53:32Because right now it would be easier.
53:34It would not.
53:36I can promise you that.
53:39No.
53:40I'm sorry.
53:43But just now, just today, I feel so alone.
53:53I'm almost at the end of Harry's new jumper.
53:56I suppose I'll be casting on for Rosalind's baby after this.
54:00Yes.
54:00There is going to be a baby, isn't there?
54:02Of course there is.
54:03Yes.
54:04The girl's been locked in the bathroom every morning.
54:09Oh.
54:12There's so much change afoot.
54:20Phyllis, I often find people speak of change as if they're speaking about rats.
54:27As if change is something hiding underneath the house,
54:32attempting to get in and gnaw at all that we hold precious.
54:36Perhaps we would be better to compare change to the birds.
54:44Enlighten me.
54:45Well, birds do what birds will.
54:48They carry twigs in their beaks and seeds.
54:52So they build nests and sow flowers.
54:57However accidentally.
54:59Maybe you should put that in a poem.
55:09Good things can come from birds.
55:12And it's the same with change.
55:17Oh.
55:18It's Mrs Turner.
55:24Is that Belinda?
55:25Oh, hello, darling.
55:27Hello.
55:29Hi.
55:30Well, come home, love.
55:39That's what I think is.
55:42I'm eight months gone.
55:44I managed to hide it over the summer holidays.
55:47And then once I went back, I thought I'd be safe.
55:49I thought I wouldn't have to tell you.
55:52And then I had to come home because of Susan.
56:02It's what I'm trying to do.
56:22I think I could do it over the summer holidays.
56:22Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
56:22I didn't know what to do.
56:23No, no, no, no, no.
56:23I had to go to my house.
56:23Oh, no, no, no.
56:24No, no, no, no.
56:24outgunned and love expressed becomes love doubled and ignited whether we light the fire through words
56:34or deeds there is always a way ahead a route through the woods a path that leads us to the
56:47place we need to be we listen always for the voice that calls us
57:00but sometimes love speaks loudest as we let it go
57:07i have news to impart would you consider entering into partnership with me i'll never finish with
57:13god thank you for your patience ladies may i present the bra i would like you to summon someone
57:18from this establishment albion and sons is an undertaking and every bed kidney bowl and set
57:23of clamps is staying on these premises until the last mother and baby go out of those doors
57:32judged is a new podcast on sounds exploring what happens when a mother's love is pushed to the limit
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