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00:02A 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
00:26ribbons,
00:26a time to savour without sowing seeds of doubt.
00:44Can 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.
00:54The 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.
01:20Mrs. 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, guarantee.
01:41I'm sure it is. But at the present moment, we're more interested in delivering babies than ice cream.
01:47Would you mind turning off the music?
01:51Oh, sorry.
01:59What do you want me to do with these, then?
02:05I'll take the rum of beans. We can have those with the chops I've planned.
02:09Everything else can go to the Harvest Festival.
02:11What?
02:12But even the marrows?
02:13They would have won first prize in the multicultural show if I'd have been ready in time.
02:18They're bigger than toddlers' legs, Fred.
02:20And I haven't the time to be stuffing them with 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.
02:33Your produce will be widely admired.
02:39You're nothing labour just yet, honey.
02:41These are just what we call Braxton Hicks contractions.
02:44It's your buddy rehearsing for the routine.
02:46I feel a bit of a fool now.
02:48And it's taking Tony away from his van.
02:50That van's our whole livelihood now. I've stopped working.
02:54Have I missed it?
02:55It's all right. Yes, sir.
02:57It was a false alarm.
03:01Good job we never told no one.
03:04I'll get my leg pulled something rotten.
03:09Is there anything you need taking to the post office, sister?
03:13I'm rather more concerned about a letter I took to the post office two weeks ago.
03:16The one you wrote to the Board of Health?
03:18Yes.
03:20Telling them we would close Nanata's house
03:23if we were no longer allowed to work as Christian missionaries.
03:26I expected a response from them at the very least.
03:30It's entirely likely that they're playing games.
03:32Keeping you waiting because you kept them waiting.
03:35One would hope they were above such pettiness
03:38when there was so much at stake.
03:50Idiot!
03:50You took her in too early.
03:52Hey, bro.
03:53You coming to football tonight?
03:54I don't know, Matteo.
03:56I'm not really in the mood.
03:57You stop coming to football.
03:58You stop coming swimming.
04:00You need to make the most of your freedom while you've got it.
04:04Come on, let's go.
04:05You got everything?
04:06Let's go.
04:06See you, baby brother.
04:08You 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.
04:22And we need to get to the bottom of what ails you.
04:26We all know what ails me.
04:28I am merely ancient
04:31and presumed frail as a consequence.
04:36Sister, I have five minutes before I leave on my rounds.
04:39Would you like me to move the television into your room?
04:42Do you suppose I'm at the point of expiry?
04:45There is no reason to treat me as an invalid
04:49as the analysis of my blood will testify.
04:59Ladies and gentlemen,
05:00the doors to tonight's wrestling in the main hall
05:02will open in five minutes.
05:11She tapped aside, she gave up.
05:19It won!
05:20It won!
05:20It won!
05:21So, so near to!
05:22So near to!
05:25I've learned so much about deferment
05:27since I gave up drink.
05:31I've learned you can bear anything
05:33if you pretend it's forever.
05:35I can postpone.
05:38I can wait.
05:40But putting things off until tomorrow doesn't always work.
05:44Because what if tomorrow never comes?
05:49I've been postponing a decision
05:53for a long time now.
05:56Come on!
05:57Come on!
05:58Come on!
06:00Come on!
06:01Come on!
06:04Come on!
06:05Enter!
06:06She's out!
06:07Ring-a-bear!
06:08Ring-a-bear!
06:08Ring-a-bear!
06:10Ring-a-bear!
06:11Do I know?
06:13Harmony?
06:15It's not a decision about drink.
06:19It's a decision about work.
06:22And work is my other addiction.
06:25is there a doctor in here anyone i'm an ass that'll do it's a concussion
06:33you're staging sporting events you're legally obliged to have medical help on the premises
06:38don't know nothing about no legal obligations um this is her harmony savage hello harmony
06:44i'm a nurse i'm sorry you've been hurt occupational i did did you lose consciousness
06:51or did you remain aware of your surroundings i never went out i was just putting on a bit of
06:56a show
06:57punters like it i've got to go back out finish your job
07:01whoa whoa you were out cold i did the count but it's over brenda the butcher won fair and square
07:12you'll have gone to give out the prize money if you can't be absolutely sure that you weren't
07:18knocked out i really think you ought to go to the casualty department i'm gonna go home to bed
07:26oh hello sweetie
07:31who's this carl my boy he comes to all my fights
07:36come on let's pack up and get you in the van
07:39you really must not drive after blacking out however briefly any better ideas
07:48i know it was false alarm to that heat but
07:52made me think how real all this is
07:57how we've made a proper grown-up life
08:02you do go on it's like being the baby of the family gave you a great big chip on your
08:07shoulder
08:09it wasn't that it was being the one who is no good at all the things the others did
08:15it's not your fault you won't cut out for the tiling trade
08:20besides i'd rather have a bit of soft scoop than a hundred yards of mosaic flooring
08:27come on lights out what's that oh nothing
08:31tony there's blood on your singlet what is it show me
08:42oh how long have you had this oh wow
08:48i'll put the plaster on it
08:50you will not in the morning i'm ringing the doctor
09:03out
09:08wrestling was all i knew even as a little girl
09:12my dab was burnt savage lamb of pamphlet god rest him i used to watch him every time he fought
09:18it's rather wonderful that you followed in his footsteps
09:20it'd be even more wonderful if it were legal
09:22there's a whole ladies circuit up north just as legitimate as a men's but
09:25in london we're outlaws
09:28i really would like you to be seen by a doctor if at all possible harmony
09:32oh my real name's gwen
09:35thanks for seeing us home
09:37come on little him
09:50giving up doing sports and everything
09:53so unsightly
09:56i probably just banged it
10:03it looks like a sebaceous cyst to me
10:07antibiotics will take the edge off it but i think it needs to be removed
10:12well i got a baby to any day
10:15all the more reason to get it out of the way
10:18i'll call st cuthbert's myself
10:29now that is a bird song i can easily identify
10:33the lesser spotted buckle
10:37ah sister how you keeping
10:39i'm keeping on
10:43if a little more desiccated
10:46with every week the passes
10:48perhaps i should not linger
10:51lest you
10:53sweep me up with all the other dead leaves
10:56i've got a bag of donuts 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
11:06a chill in the breeze today
11:08i reckon i felt the first nip
11:12i like it when the seasons start to turn though
11:15that time of year
11:17the maced in me behold
11:19when yellow leaves
11:20or none or few
11:23do hang upon those boughs
11:26that shake with cold
11:28bare ruined choirs
11:31where late the sweet birds sang
11:36in me
11:37thou seest the twilight of such day
11:41as after sunset fadeth in the west
11:45which by and by
11:47like night doth
11:49take away
11:50their second self
11:53that seals up all
11:55in rest
12:13sister monica tone
12:14what was brought this on
12:19time
12:20mr buckle
12:23its passage
12:24and its sheer
12:26weary
12:27accumulation
12:30would you like a cup of tea
12:33if you will sit
12:34and take one with me
12:45well miss savage
12:46i'm not seeing anything that needs further tests
12:50any other bumps or bruises you'd like me to look at
12:53i've got a rash keeps coming up sort of on the back of my shoulder
12:58if you just slip your blouse off dear
13:00i 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
13:20i think i know what this is
13:23it's a skin virus called herpes gladiatorum
13:27gladiator like in spartacus
13:30i love a bit of kirk douglas
13:32don't we all
13:34i'm afraid this comes from grazing your skin on grubby canvas in the ring
13:39your best bet is to wash it daily with medicated soap
13:42and bathe the blisters in salt water
13:44can i do that with my hips and my knees
13:46do you have a rash there as well
13:48no we just hurt all the time
13:51miss savage
13:52are you able to take a break from your work for a while
13:54no
13:54i've got mouths to feed
13:57mine and my little boys
14:04i've been looking forward to this moment all day
14:07i popped in the market and bought myself a new pair of slippers for the winter
14:16i never knew you could love a bit of sheepskin on your feet till i came to live in england
14:20me neither
14:22oh i'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
14:41i'm wondering if
14:42it's thrown my hormones out of whack
14:44i mean
14:44it can do that
14:45can't it
14:46child
14:47the whole point of the pill is to throw your hormones out of whack
14:50that's how it stops you getting pregnant
14:54are you late?
14:56i've been late before
14:58and
14:59things just sort of
15:01corrected themselves
15:03that would have been before you had a boyfriend
15:08do you think you need to do a test?
15:10no
15:12not yet
15:19do you want to attack?
15:20do you want to give up?
15:21no
15:21you sure?
15:30no
15:31no
15:32no
15:33no
15:33no
15:33no
15:34no
15:34no
15:34no
15:35no
15:35no
15:36no
15:37no
15:37no
15:37no
15:39yes
15:45no
15:46no
15:46no
15:47no
15:47no
15:48The winner is Demolition Debbie!
16:10Are you feeling sick?
16:12This is not good, honey.
16:14But we're going to do a test.
16:17I'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.
16:53Dr Turner remembered an iodine preparation he thought might help with your skin condition.
16:57I told him I'd drop it off.
16:59Have you been in another fight?
17:02Yes.
17:03And I didn't win that one either.
17:11No school's stay, old chap.
17:12I overslept again.
17:14I don't like going in late because it gets told off.
17:17I imagine you're exhausted after a match.
17:19I'm always exhausted, but I'm a mum, aren't I?
17:23And it's just me.
17:24If I weren't tired, I mean I was slacking.
17:28I'm a stepmother to a little boy of Carl's age
17:30that certainly keeps one on one's toes.
17:33I hope he talks like you do.
17:34You've got a lovely way of putting things.
17:37Can I make you a cuppa?
17:40A cuppa would actually be extremely welcome,
17:42but I should be making you one.
17:48I'm sorry.
17:48I'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.
18:21Do you keep your money in a cushion cover?
18:23I don't trust banks.
18:24At least that's what I know my money is.
18:26I think one I've got none.
18:29Sorry.
18:30I've got me dizzy.
18:35Mr. Bianchi, I'm Mr. Penn Warden.
18:38I'll be removing this cyst for you.
18:40Do you mind if I take a look?
18:50Don't want to go hacking away on the wrong side.
18:58Could just drain this, but I'm leaning on the side of getting the whole thing out.
19:09Your bloods may come back perfectly normal, but I strongly suspect that if you'd have
19:13almost passed out in 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, you need
19:26to be in better condition than this.
19:29You're on your own with your kiddie.
19:32No, but I was very much on my own for a long time before he and his father came into
19:37my
19:37life.
19:38And I know what it feels like to be fighting an invisible opponent.
19:42I've fought invisible ones and all.
19:44And I've no doubt you're extremely good at it, but you need someone more than a wrestling
19:49promoter in your corner.
19:51Let us help find out what's causing your malaise.
19:56Nurse Clifford's gone out to the cinema, but Nurse Ireland says we can have the box.
20:01Her new slippers came in.
20:02Could there be a more perfect showcase for nature's bounty?
20:06Oh, we can do a lot with ribbon and crypt paper.
20:10And that's before we start tying bows round marrows.
20:12Oh, these lamentable scissors.
20:15They wouldn't cut butter.
20:17Shall I see if I can find a sharper pair?
20:19What 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.
20:34Do you suppose she took her pinking shears?
20:37I would settle for her implements if we can't have her.
21:06Oh, Sister Monica Joan.
21:09I was hoping it was something that could be treated.
21:13But chronic kidney disease is just...
21:16Something that takes old people gently but kindly.
21:20But it takes them.
21:22How long has she been ill with this?
21:25I suspect not long.
21:28How long does she have?
21:31The same.
21:34Unless we can persuade her to accept what treatment there is,
21:38she'll progress to end-stage renal failure fairly quickly.
21:44Till that day comes,
21:46we'll just have to love her as we always have.
21:50But a bit more carefully.
21:58You look happy.
22:00Today is a happy day.
22:04I got a letter from the solicitor.
22:06The decree absolute.
22:07I'm officially a single man.
22:11Everything we do now is ours.
22:14Our choice to make.
22:17The Board of Health requested a meeting.
22:19I told them your diary was full,
22:20but they were most insistent.
22:22It's in your diary for Friday.
22:25I anticipate the usual fun and games.
22:29I need to see Anthony Bianchi.
22:32I've just had his histopathology results through from the hospital.
22:36Should I make an appointment for him?
22:39No, I'll call in on him today.
22:43We told you the truth.
22:45Sister 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.
22:52She would need her shoes.
22:53Our sister needed our discretion,
22:55and I gave that willingly and with love.
22:58I'm sorry if you feel that you should have been informed.
23:03I'm sorry if I have been arrogant 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
23:16and has been given leave of absence for a while.
23:21She's staying at the Oliver Christian Retreat Centre at Gravesend.
23:26Alone?
23:39No, Neil.
23:55No, Neil.
23:57Have you come to see Tina?
23:59Mr Bianchi, we've come to see you.
24:04I can't have breast cancer.
24:08It's a women's disease.
24:10We know all about that because his mum died of it.
24:15I know.
24:17She was a lovely lady.
24:20And even in the five years since she passed away,
24:23we've learned so much about it.
24:27I can't have it.
24:30I'm a man.
24:31It is rare in men, especially for someone of your age.
24:36But it's not unheard of.
24:38Everyone has breast tissue, Tony.
24:40Men and women.
24:42We have less of it.
24:44But it only takes a couple of cells to go rogue.
24:49And a tumour can start to develop.
24:51I have had some specialist training and there are new treatments and 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.
25:15And we are going to be with you every step of the way.
25:21I don't care whereabouts in your body it is.
25:24You've got the big C.
25:26We have to face up to it.
25:28We can face up to it together.
25:31Without telling people.
25:33What is that going to achieve, Tony?
25:36You need help.
25:37You need love.
25:40Tina.
25:42I need...
25:45Dignity.
25:47I need to feel like a man.
25:52There's a bike for sale.
25:58Maybe for your birthday, eh?
26:00If you're in your next fight.
26:05Yes?
26:13Doctor.
26:14Gwen Savage's records arrived from her previous practice.
26:18She's been suffering with tiredness and joint pain for five years.
26:22Did the blood test we did show anything?
26:25Nothing at all conclusive.
26:28Just markers for minor inflammation.
26:31Slightly low white blood count.
26:33Could the pain relate to the wrestling?
26:35I saw her in the ring and it's incredibly physical.
26:38But an impact injury would be on one side, not both.
26:44It'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 Tony isn't well.
26:58You've an immense amount to contend with at the moment.
27:02But baby's head is engaged, Tina.
27:04I really don't think you'll have very long to wait.
27:08Oh, this reading is just a little bit higher than I'd like.
27:13We can't have anything else go wrong.
27:16Nothing is going to go wrong.
27:18But I do want you to come over to the maternity home with me.
27:22So Dr Turner can take a look at you.
27:38Any chance of a 99?
27:39I've an elderly friend.
27:40Might like a bit of a pick-the-up.
27:43What's the matter, pal?
27:49Brian?
27:52You ain't put me down for a single match.
27:56I can't afford to promote wrestlers who keep losing.
27:59I can raise my game.
28:01My dad used to say, aim up, things will look up.
28:04Your dad was one of the best there ever was.
28:07The Lamb of Panther was revered.
28:10Look, all I can offer you right now is the adult fixtures.
28:13Oh, no, no.
28:15Adult fixtures is one step away from stripping, Brian.
28:17I keep it clean.
28:19It's a place down Deptford where they roll about in jelly.
28:22Girls earn 30 quid about.
28:2430 quid?
28:25I pay 20.
28:29Bring your own bikini.
28:40Usually Tina reads stuff for me, but I don't want to worry all this.
28:45There's going to be further surgery.
28:49And a radiography assessment.
28:57We're going to have to stop working.
28:59It won't be for long.
29:01You've got a family to support you.
29:03I've only just proved to him that I'm a man.
29:06I'm making a go of the van, earning my own living.
29:10And now I've got a woman's disease.
29:12They can't provide.
29:15I'm telling him nothing.
29:24Jeffrey Franklin?
29:26Mr. Franklin, it's Sister Catherine from Nunata's house.
29:30It's about Sister Veronica.
29:34And I'm calling you in confidence.
29:37I see.
29:39I don't like leaving you on your own, Tony.
29:42Don't be daft.
29:45I'm fine.
29:47Hey.
29:48Look.
29:51Got my appointment through already.
29:54Have to be done till then.
29:57It's you and the baby we need to think about now.
30:00Well, I just promise me you'll tell your brothers.
30:08I 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 and another.
30:47But 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.
31:26Cole?
31:36Cole?
31:36Cole?
31:37Cole?
31:38Cole?
31:48We'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.
32:15Come on, Carl, where are we?
32:24Come on, Carl, where are we?
32:31Is he here?
32:32Is he here?
32:33Because 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?
32:43What?
32:44What'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.
33:14You 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.
33:23Mr. Bianchi?
33:27Is 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.
33:35You've been covering it up with pan stick because it's such a strange sheet.
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?
33:55Nobody in your family has 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.
34:26Tony, thank God I've been worried sick.
34:29How did it go at the hospital?
34:30It was all fine.
34:33Your doctor's very pleased with me.
34:34Oh, really?
34:37So what happens next?
34:39What treatment are they giving you?
34:40So many pills I'll be rattling.
34:44The 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.
34:52I love your voice.
34:54I hardly ever get to talk on the phone.
34:58Because we're together all the time.
35:01We'll be together again.
35:03Soon.
35:20Tony!
35:23Tony!
35:24We're going down the pub.
35:25We're coming.
35:26Tony!
35:28Tony!
35:28Tony!
35:29Tony!
35:49Beryl burrows as I live and breathe.
35:53Tony!
35:54Tony!
35:57Do 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 rota in the retreat house.
36:09Stop, stop.
36:11Before you completely break my heart.
36:14Come here almost every day.
36:16Sometimes I have a neclair.
36:18When the fancy takes me, I have a queen split.
36:21You get a cherry on a queen split.
36:23And there's this little burst of flavour when you bite it.
36:28Tell me you've eaten fish and chips in the street too, in 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
36:40now.
36:41Or where I might go next.
36:43What don't you do?
36:45I don't pray.
36:47I came here to pray.
36:49Or 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
37:05of half-life.
37:07Trapped underneath a similar, godly, bell jar.
37:12And how do you propose to change that?
37:14Come and stay with me.
37:16Geoffrey.
37:18I am still technically a nun.
37:21I can't live with a man.
37:23You could lodge with a kindly confirmed bachelor.
37:33You'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.
37:45Not with it being, you know, breast cancer.
37:50It's so humiliating.
37:52I can hear him now.
37:55A typical Tony.
37:59Dr. 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.
38:14This was his brother.
38:18He 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 Tina.
38:53Dr. Turner says she can come home if you're feeling up to it.
38:57Of course I'm feeling up to it.
39:13But the older brother.
39:14It changed my body.
39:17I was feeling up to it.
39:19Brother with Matt, I was being able to find him.
39:20Saint Mary Kenyon.
39:20You will be able to find him better.
39:22I've been able to find him live in clean experiences.
39:23Yeah.
39:25To be honest, he'll be cafe, go to it.
39:41Touch the inside.
39:41Get in your heart so well when I Lucifer saw his father.
39:59you stay in the dressing room tonight promise promise and if I win you'll get
40:06that bike my precious boy
40:31you're keeping up with us peppermints child I'm first on call tonight and I still feel quite
40:36crazy but it's not just in the morning maybe the pill itself doesn't agree with me I popped
40:44into the surgery when no one was there to check on your results I think we need to have a
40:50talk
40:55oh I can't seem to get comfortable my back is killing me
41:05right tiny the sheets are wet
41:11do you think your walls have broke I thought it'd be more of a whoosh
41:17oh I don't feel right Tony
41:24Joyce what am I going to do the pill was supposed to be foolproof
41:29honey the pill was invented by man and is taken by women it's always going to be subject to human
41:36error I will lose my job I will have to tell my parents and I hardly speak to them as
41:41it is because
41:42they don't approve of Cyril what I approve of Cyril he's a good man and he will support you
41:48whatever you choose to do choose to do Joyce I'm not even going to consider an abortion
41:57that's why it's so hard that's why I'm going to get the sack
42:03talk to Cyril you've got time before you have to tell anybody else
42:07and I will cover for you in any way I can
42:13thank you
42:15you have enough of peppermint and wash your fears
42:25please take your seats for tonight's teeny really steamy bikini extravaganza of a fight
42:36Nanata's house midwife speaking
42:38I'm ringing up about Tina Bianchi we think she got into labour
42:42I've been timing them they're two minutes apart
42:48Rosalyn
42:49Rosalyn come quickly
42:5015 20 as promised
42:54put on a good show for the gents with you girls
42:58they like a bit of hair pulling
43:00hair pulling's an illegal move
43:03it's not an illegal game though is it Gwen
43:05who's going to complain
43:08don't do this Gwen please
43:09what are you doing here you'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
43:19if you're not going to fight you can hand that money back right now
43:50a midwife is on her way
43:51and I'm going to stay with you on the end of this phone until she gets there
43:58she keeps saying she wants to push
44:00tell her to blow
44:02tell her to blow as if she is blowing out candles
44:04Tina don't push
44:06blow
44:07blow
44:09blow
44:11yeah that's it
44:12do it with me
44:37do you want attack do you want to give up
44:42Tony I need you to
44:43describe exactly what you can see
44:44I don't know what I can see
44:50I think it might be the baby's head
44:56do it with me
45:01oh
45:25Can you hear me?
45:27Gwen?
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?
45:49Oh, I can see.
45:55I can see the egg.
45:58It's sort of moving around.
46:00I can see it's fine.
46:02Good.
46:03Now, very gently place your hands under its head.
46:06Wait for the next big contraction.
46:08And 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.
46:28Have you managed to move it?
46:30It works.
46:32It's off.
46:46It's a boy, Tia.
46:48Shh, shh, shh.
46:53We got a little boy.
47:12You did it, Tony.
47:15You delivered our son.
47:18Just look at you.
47:24Well, 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.
47:46At 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.
47:56Social 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 you've got to tell me what they are.
48:18Because I'd listen to you.
48:20You've told me you know what it is to find things hard.
48:30Another one for the footy team.
48:32A striker.
48:32My turn now.
48:33My turn.
48:35Oh, be careful.
48:40Mrs. Turner's just helping Tina to freshen up.
48:43And then Master Bianchi needs to have his lunch.
48:46Then they'll 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, he's a proper man.
48:59He certainly is.
49:01And I salute him.
49:13Lads.
49:17Something's come up that I'm not going to be able to do single-handed.
49:27I've got cancer.
49:46I've got cancer.
49:47Breast cancer.
49:47Oh, Tony.
49:51I wish Mama was here.
49:56No.
49:58No.
50:08You are the best of us, little brother.
50:12And we will not let you go.
50:42I spoke to the surgery, Gwen.
50:44All your records will be sent to the new GP we found for you up north.
50:47Thanks, nurse.
50:49I've got to start looking after myself now, haven't I?
50:52She's not going to be a wrestler anymore.
50:54I know.
50:55Would you like a hand putting that in the van?
50:58Or are you planning on pedalling all the way to Blackpool?
51:00Thanks, nurse.
51:06And thanks for the advice.
51:08It was like a bold move, taking a job in a gym, training other women.
51:14But it's legal in Lancashire, Gwen.
51:16And you won't be exploited.
51:18It will give your body time to recover.
51:20And my dad would like it.
51:22Good old lamb of pamphering his contacts.
51:24Oh, thanks.
51:52Oh.
51:54I came home from a lunch hour. Do you want to go for a walk?
51:57No. I'm afraid I don't.
52:01It seems you've made a decent fist at moving your weekly clinic onto hospital premises.
52:07Yes. There was some grumbling from patients about bus fares, but I think we're on an even keel.
52:14Good. Because speaking scientist to scientist, and 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. And I know I can't look after my patients properly if I don't adapt.
52:35A very good attitude to have. Which is why we're placing you front and centre of our plans.
52:43And closing you down.
52:48Closing us down?
52:50Not as a GP. 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.
53:04But the licence runs out in a matter of weeks.
53:09It's always been renewed as a formality.
53:12This is the brave new world, Turner. There 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 why do you still have power here doing this?
53:26To us and to Nanata's house?
53:30Nanata's house.
53:32They were forever outliers.
53:34And eccentric.
53:36Threatwood, what is the logic in all of this?
53:41How is it going to benefit the patients?
53:43I knew you'd say that.
53:45And it's why we chose to put you at the vanguard.
53:49No matter what goes on somewhere far away in the offices of Whitehall,
53:53there will always be patients.
53:58And you say that as though it's a problem.
54:04I'm so sorry, Cyril.
54:08You wanted to take responsibility,
54:09but I was absolutely certain that nothing could be better
54:14than this magnificent wonder drug that 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 wanted very much.
54:27We 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.
54:48And building a life with you
54:50means more than just rings and mortgages
54:54and bricks and mortar.
54:58Did you ever close your eyes and try to see our children?
55:04I see our children every day
55:05with my eyes wide open.
55:08I see them crossing the street in Poplar
55:11or swinging on a swing down at the wreck.
55:14And I think
55:17we could have a little boy like that one.
55:20Or that little girl has a smile like hers.
55:27I thought I would have to be patient.
55:30And I'm not very good at being patient.
55:34I would not say
55:35patience has been our
55:37distinguishing characteristic.
55:40And now it doesn't have to be.
55:47There is no good harvest
55:50if there's been no rain.
55:51The earth requires it
55:54And so do we
55:56For how else does the heart grow?
56:00Not through relentless sunshine
56:03Nor under a cloudless sky
56:06Life expands
56:08Not in spite of the weather
56:11But because of it
56:13Thus we are nourished
56:15We take root
56:16We are taught
56:18How to endure
56:21But there are times
56:22When the soul
56:24Is hungry
56:25When fruit
56:26Falls to the ground
56:28And we cannot tell
56:29If it's a blessing
56:31Or temptation
56:32There are times
56:34When we know
56:35Nothing
56:36Nothing at all
56:38Not yet
56:40And so it seems
56:42That if we go down
56:43We all go down together
56:47The council
56:48Have written to me
56:49Confirming
56:51That the maternity home
56:53Will close
56:54And assuming that
56:56We too
56:57Will now cease
56:58Operations
57:01Do we have any say
57:03In this?
57:05A present
57:07It seems not
57:13Call the midwife
57:14Is back in a couple of weeks
57:16On the first of March
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