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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!
06:03Anthony!
06:16It's not a decision about drink.
06:19it's a decision about work and work is my other addiction
06:25is there a doctor in here anyone i'm a nurse 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 or did you
06:52remain aware of your surroundings i never went out i was just putting on a bit of a show punters
06:58like
06:59i've got to go back out finish your job whoa you were out cold i did the count but it's
07:05over
07:07brenda 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
07:44any better ideas
07:48i know it was false alarm to that heap but
07:53made me think how real all this is
07:57how we've made a proper grown-up life
08:02you do go on
08:04it's like being the baby of the family gave you a great big chip on your shoulder
08:09no it 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
08:29what's that
08:31nothing
08:32tony there's blood on your singlet
08:34what is it show me
08:42how long have you had this
08:44oh wow
08:48i'll put the plaster on it
08:50you will not
08:51in the morning i'm ringing the doctor
09:03out
09:08wrestling was all i knew even as a little girl
09:12my double's burnt savage lamb of pamphlet
09:14god rest him i used to watch him every time he fought
09:18it's rather wonderful that you followed in his footsteps
09:20even more wonderful if it were legal there's a whole ladies circuit up north just as legitimate as a men's
09:25but
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 london
09:51i've given up doing sports and everything
09:55it's so unsightly
09:58i'll probably just banged it
10:01oh
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
10:17i'll call st cuthbert's myself
10:29now that is the bird's song
10:31i can easily identify
10:33the lesser spotted buckle
10:38ah sister how you keeping
10:40i'm keeping on
10:43if a little more desiccated with every week the passes
10:48perhaps i should not linger
10:51lest you sweep me up with all the other dead leaves
10:55i'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 holes in
11:03then i will forego them
11:05do you detect a chill in the breeze today
11:08i reckon i felt the first nip
11:11i like it when the seasons start to turn though
11:15that time of year the maced in me behold
11:19when yellow leaves
11:20or none or few
11:23do hang upon those boughs that shake with cold
11:29bare 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 their second self
11:53that seals up all
11:55in rest
12:13sister monica tone
12:15what was brought this on
12:20time mr buckle
12:23its passage and its sheer
12:26weary
12:27accumulation
12:30would you like a cup of tea
12:33if you will sit and 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
13:01i don't believe i've ever met a lady wrestler before
13:04imagine it's quite physically taxing
13:08i call over sometimes fight or no fight
13:21i think i know what this is
13:23it's a skin virus called herpes gladiatorum
13:27gladiator like in spartacus
13:29i 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 are 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 a 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
14:23i'm sorry chai
14:24you're all wrapped up in something
14:28i'm trying to work out exactly when i started taking a pill
14:32calculated 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 it's throwing my hormones out of whack
14:44i mean it can do that can't it
14:46chai
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
14:59and things just sort of corrected 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 out
15:21you're shot
15:21no
15:33do you want to attack
15:34no
15:35yes
15:37no
15:37yeah
15:37no
15:37hey
15:38is that a close risk
15:39no
15:40no
15:47The winner is Demolition Debbie!
16:11Are you feeling sick?
16:13This is not good honey, but we're going to do a test.
16:17I'll help you.
16:18I don't want anyone to know, they won't.
16:24My name is Higgins, have the samples gone off to the laboratory yet?
16:28They will be dispatched very shortly, but if you wish to add any to the list, I'm afraid
16:33you 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.
17:11New school 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.
17:30It 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, but I should be making you one.
17:48I'm sorry.
17:49I'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 skeet.
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.
18:26Even when I've got none.
18:29I'm sorry of calling to see you.
18:35Mr. Bianchi.
18:36I'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.
19:11But I strongly suspect that if you'd have almost passed out in front of Dr. Turner,
19:15he'd want to check your iron levels.
19:17Maybe I just need a tonic.
19:19Maybe you do.
19:21I just think that as another woman who's often had to stand on her own two feet,
19:26you need to be in better condition than this.
19:29You're on your own with your kitty.
19:31No.
19:33But I was very much on my own for a long time before he and his father came into my
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.
19:47But you need someone more than a wrestling promoter in your corner.
19:51Let us help find out what's causing your malaise.
19:56Nurse Clifford's gone out to the cinema,
19:58but Nurse Hyland says we can have the box.
20:01Her new slippers came in.
20:02Could there be a more perfect showcase for nature's bounty?
20:06Oh!
20:07We can do a lot with ribbon and crit paper.
20:10And that's before we start tying bows round marrows.
20:12Oh!
20:13These 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?
20:37Yes, I would settle for her implements if we can't have her.
20:41Hm.
21:07What is Sister Monica Joan?
21:09I was hoping it was something that could be done.
21:12I was hoping it would 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.
22:12Everything 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, but 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.
22:40I'll call in on him today.
22:42We 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.
22:56And 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.
23:17And has been given leave of absence for a while.
23:21She's staying at the Oliver Christian Retreat Centre at Gravesend.
23:26Alone.
23:29Without anyone she knows.
23:31Or any friends to support her.
23:35Sister, out of all of us,
23:38Sister Veronica emits the most love.
23:41She needs the most love.
23:43She does not know what she needs or wants.
23:47And that is why she has had to go away.
23:54Morning.
23:57Have you come to see Tina?
23:58Mr Bianchi.
24:00We'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.
24:33Especially 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.
24:48And a tumour can start to develop.
24:51I have had some specialist training.
24:55And 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. We 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.
25:47You need to feel like a man.
25:52There's a bike for sale.
25:58Maybe for your birthday, eh?
26:01If you win your next flight.
26:10Yes?
26:12Doctor.
26:14Gwen Savage's records arrive 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, slightly 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 I'm 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's 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, might 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...
28:43I don't want to worry all this.
28:45There's going to be further surgery...
28:49and...
28:50a radiography assessment.
28:57You're going to have to stop working.
28:59Won'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.
29:13I don't...
29:16I'm telling him nothing.
29:19PHONE RINGS
29:21PHONE RINGS
29:24Geoffrey Franklin?
29:26Mr. Franklin, it's Sister Catherine from Nunata's house.
29:30It's about Sister Veronica.
29:33And...
29:34I'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.
29:54Nothing to be done till then.
29:57It's you and the baby we need to think about now.
30:01Alright.
30:02Just promise me.
30:04You'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.
30:41One 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...
31:02quite a long time.
31:05Let's see how we do, shall we?
31:08With these diuretics.
31:25Call?
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31:48we'll proceed with a full mastectomy of your right breast
31:51we'll remove the breast tissue along with the lymph nodes
31:54and the pectoralis major muscle
31:59I don't want to do this
32:01I promise you scarring will be minimal
32:03and at least you won't be having to deal with foam rubber falsies
32:06like my lady patients
32:15come on where are you
32:28can I help you I'm Carl Salvage's mum
32:31is he here because if he's not Carl Salvage
32:34I've just checked every member of his class for head lace
32:37including him
32:37oh thank god
32:40do you want to go in and speak with him
32:43Gwen what's happened
32:44I couldn't wake up this morning
32:45Carl 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 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
33:20and 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
33:37because it's such a strange sheet
33:40like a butterfly
33:43that herpes gladiatorum on your back
33:45was 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's ever had it
33:57or mentioned it
33:58no
33:59do you think that's what I've got
34:01this rash is so distinctive
34:03I'd put money on it as a diagnosis
34:05how long will it take to get rid of it
34:08it's going to be about management
34:10rather 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
34:20you are too unwell to fight
34:26Tony
34:26thank god
34:27I've been worried sick
34:28how'd it go at the hospital?
34:30it was all fine
34:32your doctor's very pleased with me
34:34oh
34:35really?
34:37so um
34:37what happens next?
34:39what treatment have they given you?
34:40so many pills
34:41I'll be rattling
34:44the important thing
34:46is 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
35:01and we'll be together again
35:03soon
35:20Tony
35:23Tony
35:24we're going down the pub
35:25we're coming
35:26Tony
35:29love you bud
35:29come on
35:30let's go down
35:49bearle burrows
35:50as I live and breathe
35:57do tell me you're on route to a harvest festival with that dreary swag because at the very least
36:02it would provoke a degree of fellow feeling in me i'm on potato peeling duty there's a rotor in the
36:09retreat stop stop before you completely break my heart come here almost every day sometimes i have
36:17an eclair when the fancy takes me i have a queen split you get a cherry on a cream split
36:23and there's
36:25this little burst of flavor when you bite it tell me you've eaten fish and chips in the street too
36:30in broad daylight wise although sometimes it feels as though it's the things i don't do that tell me
36:39more about where i am now or where i might go next what don't you do i don't pray
36:47i came here to pray or at least to decide what i ought to be praying for but i can't
36:54and you know why it's not different enough to the convent beryl and all the snatched patisserie in
37:02the world can't disguise the fact that you are still living the same sort of half-life
37:06trapped underneath a similar godly bell jar and how do you propose a change that
37:13come and stay with me jeffrey i am still technically a nun i can't live with a man you could
37:24lodge
37:24with a kindly confirmed bachelor
37:33you've missed two appointments at the hospital tony do you have anyone to talk to your brothers perhaps
37:43i can't i can't not have it been you know breast cancer it's so humiliating i can hear them now
37:55your typical tony
37:56what do you mean
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
38:07we 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 all his best fighting moves
38:24a cat gun was mentioned and something about which jelly babies tasted best
38:31green ones
38:34according to enzo
38:37always gave me the green ones
38:39brothers
38:40brothers look after each other tony
38:43i've seen it with my own boys
38:46right now i shouldn't be moaning about me
38:50i should be looking after tana
38:52dr turner says she can come home if you're feeling up to it
38:57of course i'm feeling up to it
39:00you
39:13you
39:17you
39:59you
40:00you stay in the dressing room tonight
40:01promise
40:03promise
40:04and if i win
40:05you'll get that bike
40:07my precious boy
40:31you're keeping up with us peppermints child
40:34i'm first on call tonight and i still feel quite queasy
40:37but it's not just in the morning
40:39maybe the pill itself
40:40doesn't agree with me
40:44i popped into the surgery
40:45when no one was there to check on your results
40:48i think we need to have a talk
40:56oh
40:56i can't seem to get comfortable
41:00my back is killing me
41:02my back is killing me
41:05my back is killing me
41:05right tony the sheets are wet
41:11do you think your walls have broken
41:13i thought they'd be more of a whoosh
41:16oh
41:17i don't feel right tony
41:19oh
41:20hi
41:21hi
41:22hi
41:23hi
41:23hi
41:23hi
41:23hi
41:24hi
41:36hi
41:43hi
41:44hi
41:54hi
42:02hi
42:04hi
42:06hi
42:09hi
42:09hi
42:09hi
42:09hi
42:15hi
42:22hello
42:25Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats for tonight's teeny-weeny-steenby-bikini extravaganza of a fight.
42:36Lenata's house, midwife speaking.
42:38I'm ringing up about Tina Bianchi.
42:41We think she got into labour.
42:42I've been timing them, they're two minutes apart.
42:47Rosalyn?
42:49Rosalyn, come quickly.
42:5015, 20, as promised.
42:54Put on a good show for the gents, were you girls?
42:58They like a bit of hair pulling.
43:00Hair pulling's an illegal move.
43:03It'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?
43:10You're putting yourself in real danger if you fight tonight.
43:13Your body is severely weakened from lupus, and your chances of getting injured are high.
43:18And what would Carl do then?
43:19Look, if 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.
44:11That's it.
44:12Do it with me.
44:23You punch her.
44:23I said no punch.
44:31Dude.
44:37Do you want to tap?
44:38Do you want to give up?
44:41Tony, I need you to describe exactly what you can see.
44:45I don't know what I can see.
44:50I think it might be the baby's head.
45:00I don't know what I can see.
45:18No.
45:26Can you hear me?
45:28Gwen?
45:29Gwen?
45:30Call for an ambulance.
45:32Quickly!
45:37Mr. Bianchi, you need to get ready to deliver this baby yourself.
45:41But you must not hang up. Do you hear me?
45:54Oh, I can see. I can see the ache. It's sort of moving around. I can see its face.
46:02Good. Now, 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. Is that supposed to be there?
46:14It's the cord. All you have to do is slip your finger underneath it,
46:17and lift it over the baby's head.
46:20It should slide off quite easily.
46:28Have you managed to move it?
46:30It works. It's off.
46:32It's off, isn't it?
46:34It's off.
46:34You're trying to get out.
46:35No!
46:40No!
46:41No!
46:46It's her boy, Theo.
46:53We got a little boy.
46:55No!
46:57Yeah!
46:58No!
46:59No!
47:00No!
47:01No!
47:02No!
47:13You did it, Tony.
47:15You delivered our son.
47:18Just looking.
47:22Well, someone was in a hurry to get into the world.
47:28Wait till we tell all your uncles about this.
47:36There'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, even if your health allowed you to keep on fighting.
48:08There are alternatives.
48:11Just as there's alternatives to keeping your money in a cushion cover.
48:14And are you going to tell me what they are?
48:18Because I'd listen to you.
48:20You've told me you know what it is to find things hard.
48:30Another one for the footy team.
48:32A striker.
48:33My turn now.
48:33My turn.
48:35Oh, careful.
48:36Oh.
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.
48:54Yeah.
48:55This man, hmm?
48:58He's a proper man.
48:59He certainly is.
49:01And I salute him.
49:04APPLAUSE
49:05Bravo!
49:13Let's...
49:17Something's come up...
49:20that I'm...
49:21not going to be able to do single-handed.
49:27I've got cancer.
49:47brisket, son.
49:47Brisket, son.
49:48Oh.
49:48Tony.
49:51I wish Mama was here.
49:56No.
50:08You are the best of us, little brother.
50:12And we...
50:14will not let you go.
50:42I spoke to the surgery, Gwen.
50:43All 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 any more.
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's 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.
51:24Thanks.
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. And 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.
55:06With 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 patience has been our distinguishing characteristic.
55:40And now it doesn't have to be.
55:47There is no good harvest if there's been no rain.
55:52The 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.
56:07Life expands.
56:09Not in spite of the weather.
56:11But because of it.
56:13Thus we are nourished.
56:15We take root.
56:17We are taught how to endure.
56:21But there are times when the soul is hungry.
56:25When fruit falls to the ground and we cannot tell if it's a blessing or temptation.
56:32There are times when we know nothing.
56:37There are times when we know nothing.
56:37Nothing at all.
56:38Not yet.
56:41And so it seems that if we go down, we all go down together.
56:47The council have written to me confirming that the maternity home will close.
56:54And assuming that we too will now cease operations.
57:01Do we have any say in this?
57:05A present?
57:07It seems not.
57:13Call the midwife is back in a couple of weeks on the 1st of March.
57:18Call the midwife.
57:18Call the midwife.
57:18Call the midwife.
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