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00:00Thank you for listening.
00:30A harvest marks a moment of arrival. Something fresh has been prized from the earth. Something new has been given
00:40or begun. And we marvel at what has been delivered, not thinking yet of all that is to come, or
00:48must again be worked for.
00:50This is the moment to wrap up in ribbons. A time to savour without sowing seeds of doubt.
01:10Oh! Can I help you, honey?
01:12She's about to have the baby.
01:14We think. I just keep getting this. Oh, here it comes again.
01:17We'll get you inside in a moment.
01:22The blood samples were sent in two weeks ago. Sister Monica Joan, OSRN, also known as Antonia Kevil, miss.
01:30Yes. Very well. We shall do the tests again.
01:36The level of disregard for the comfort and convenience of an elderly patient is unforgivable.
01:44I don't know what that ice cream van's doing.
01:47Mrs. Bianchi's having some strong peers. We're going to get her settled and take a look at her.
01:52Oh, they're lasting a minute each.
01:54And how often are they coming?
01:57Well, I don't know. Am I meant to write them all down?
02:00Is that, by any chance, your ice cream van parked outside, Mr. Bianchi?
02:04Yes, it is. I only got it last summer. Best ice cream in Poplar. Guaranteed.
02:09I'm sure it is, but at the present moment, we're more interested in delivering babies than ice cream.
02:15Would you mind turning off the music?
02:18Oh, I'm sorry.
02:25Yes.
02:27What do you want me to do with these, then?
02:32I'll take the run of beans. We can have those with the chops I've planned.
02:36Everything else can go to the Harvest Festival.
02:39What? Even the marrows?
02:41They would have won first prize in the multicultural show if I'd have been ready in time.
02:45They're bigger than toddlers' legs, Fred, and I haven't the time to be stuffing them with mince and making a
02:51white sauce.
02:55I'll take them to the nurse's house, then.
02:57The children will march from there to the church in a procession. Your produce will be widely admired.
03:06You're not in labour just yet, honey.
03:08These are just what we call Braxton Hicks contractions.
03:11It's your buddy rehearsing for the real team.
03:13I feel a bit of a fool now.
03:16And it's taken Tony away from his van.
03:18That van's our whole livelihood now I've stopped working.
03:21Have I missed it?
03:22It's all right. Yes, sir.
03:24It was a false alarm.
03:29Good job you never told no one.
03:31I'll get me leg pulled something rotten.
03:37Is there anything you need taking to the post office, sister?
03:40I'm rather more concerned about a letter I took to the post office two weeks ago.
03:44The one you wrote to the Board of Health?
03:46Yes.
03:47Telling them we would close Nanata's house if we were no longer allowed to work as Christian missionaries.
03:54I expected a response from them at the very least.
03:57It's entirely likely that they're playing games.
03:59Keeping you waiting because you kept them waiting.
04:02One would hope they were above such a pettiness when there is so much at stake.
04:17Idiot!
04:18You took her in too early.
04:19Hey, bro, you coming to football tonight?
04:21I don't know, Mateo.
04:23I'm not really in the mood.
04:25You stop coming to football.
04:26You stop coming swimming.
04:27You need to make the most of your freedom while you've got it.
04:31Come on, let's go.
04:32You got everything?
04:33Let's go.
04:34See you, baby brother.
04:35You got the bag?
04:36Come on, let's go.
04:38I do not have unlimited quantities of corpucular matter in my veins.
04:43Sister, you're a nurse.
04:45You know as well as I do that blood replenishes itself.
04:50And we need to get to the bottom of what ails you.
04:53We all know what ails me.
04:56I am merely ancient and presumed frail as a consequence.
05:03Sister, I have five minutes before I leave on my round.
05:07Would you like me to move the television into your room?
05:10Do you suppose I'm at the point of expiry?
05:13There is no reason to treat me as an invalid.
05:17As the analysis of my blood will testify.
05:26Ladies and gentlemen, the doors to tonight's wrestling in the main hall will open in five minutes.
05:53I've learned so much about deferment since I gave up drink.
05:58I've learned you can bear anything if you pretend it's forever.
06:03I can postpone.
06:05I can wait.
06:07But putting things off until tomorrow doesn't always work.
06:11Because what if tomorrow never comes?
06:17I've been postponing a decision for a long time now.
06:43It's not a decision about drink.
06:46It's a decision about work.
06:50And work is my other addiction.
06:53Is there a doctor in here?
06:54Anyone?
06:56I'm a nurse.
06:57That'll do.
06:57It's a concussion.
07:01You're staging sporting events.
07:03You're legally obliged to have medical help on the premises.
07:06I know nothing about no legal obligations.
07:08This is her, Harmony Savage.
07:11Hello, Harmony.
07:12I'm a nurse.
07:14I'm sorry you've been hurt.
07:16Occupationalised.
07:17Did you lose consciousness or did you remain aware of your surroundings?
07:21I never went out.
07:21I was just putting on a bit of a show.
07:25Punters like it.
07:27I've got to go back out.
07:28Finish your job.
07:29Whoa, whoa.
07:30You were out cold.
07:31I did the count.
07:32It's over.
07:34Brenda the butcher won fair and square.
07:39You'll have gone to give out the prize money.
07:42If you can't be absolutely sure that you weren't knocked out,
07:47I really think you ought to go to the casualty department.
07:49I'm going to go home to bed.
07:53Oh, hello, sweetie.
07:58Who's this?
07:59Carl, my boy.
08:01He comes to all my fights.
08:04Come on.
08:05Let's pack up and get you in the van.
08:07You really must not drive after blacking out.
08:10However briefly.
08:12Any better ideas.
08:15I know it was a false alarm to that heap,
08:18but it made me think how real all this is.
08:25How we've made a proper grown-up life.
08:29You do go on.
08:32It's like me and the baby of the family
08:33gave you a great big chip on your shoulder.
08:36No, it wasn't that.
08:38It was being the one who was no good
08:41at all the things the others did.
08:43It's not your fault you weren't cut out for the tiling trade.
08:46Besides,
08:48I'd rather have
08:49a bit of soft scoop
08:51than a hundred yards of mosaic flooring.
08:54Come on.
08:55Light's up.
08:56What's that?
08:57Oh, nothing.
08:59Tony, there's blood on your singlet.
09:02What is it?
09:03Show me.
09:09Oh, how long have you had this?
09:12Oh, wow.
09:15I'll put a plaster on it.
09:17You will not.
09:19In the morning, I'm ringing the doctor.
09:30Out with kit.
09:36Wrestling was all I knew.
09:37Even as a little girl.
09:39My dab was Bert Savage.
09:41Lamb of pamphlet.
09:42God rest him.
09:44I used to watch him every time he fought.
09:45It's rather wonderful that you followed in his footsteps.
09:48It'd be even more wonderful if it were legal.
09:49There's a whole lady's circuit up north,
09:51just as legitimate as a men's,
09:53but in London, we're outlaws.
09:55I really would like you to be seen by a doctor
09:58if at all possible, Harmony.
09:59Oh, my real name's Gwen.
10:02Thanks for seeing us home.
10:05Come on, little in.
10:18I've given up doing sports and everything.
10:22It's so unsightly.
10:26I'll probably just bang it.
10:31It looks like a sebaceous cyst to me.
10:35Antibiotics will take the edge off it,
10:37but I think it needs to be removed.
10:39Oh, I've got a baby through any day.
10:42All the more reason to get it out of the way.
10:45I'll call St Cuthbert's myself.
10:57Now, that is a bird's song I can easily identify.
11:02The lesser spotted buck.
11:05Ah, sister, how are you keeping?
11:07I'm keeping on.
11:10If a little more desiccated,
11:13with every week the passes.
11:16Perhaps I should not linger,
11:19lest you sweep me up with all the other dead leaves.
11:23I've got a bag of doughnuts in my shed.
11:26Would they cheer you up a bit?
11:27Are they jam-filled?
11:29No, they're the ones with the holes in.
11:31Then I will forego them.
11:32Do you detect a chill in the breeze today?
11:35I reckon I felt the first nip.
11:39I like it when the seasons start to turn, though.
11:43That time of year, the maced in me behold
11:46When yellow leaves, or none or few
11:50Do hang upon those boughs that shake with cold
11:56Bare ruined choirs
12:00Where late the sweet birds sang
12:02In me thou seest the twilight of such day
12:08As after sunset fadeth in the west
12:12Which by and by, like night,
12:16Doth take away their second self
12:21That seals up all in rest
12:40Sister Monica Joan
12:42What's brought this on?
12:47Time, Mr. Buckle
12:50Its passage and its sheer
12:53Weary
12:55Accumulation
12:57Would you like a cup of tea?
13:00If you will sit and take one with me
13:13Well, Miss Savage
13:14I'm not seeing anything that needs further tests
13:18Any other bumps or bruises you'd like me to look at?
13:20I've got a rash
13:21It keeps coming up sort of on the back of my shoulder
13:25If you just slip your blouse off, dear
13:28I don't believe I've ever met a lady wrestler before
13:31I imagine it's quite physically taxing
13:35I call over sometimes
13:37Fight or no fight
13:48I think I know what this is
13:51It's a skin virus called herpes gladiatorum
13:55Gladiator, like in Spartacus
13:57I love a bit of Kirk Douglas
13:59Don't we all listen
14:01I'm afraid this comes from grazing your skin on grubby canvas in the ring
14:06Your best bet is to wash it daily with medicated soap
14:09And bathe the blisters in salt water
14:12Can I do that with my hips and my knees?
14:14Do you have a rash there as well?
14:16No, we just hurt all the time
14:18Miss Savage, are you able to take a break from your work for a while?
14:22No
14:22I've got mouths to feed
14:24Mine and my little boys
14:32I've been looking forward to this moment all day
14:34I popped on the market and bought myself a new pair of slippers for the winter
14:43I never knew you could love a bit of sheepskin on your feet till I came to live in England
14:48Me neither
14:50I'm sorry, child
14:52You're all wrapped up in something?
14:55I'm trying to work out exactly when I started taking a pill
14:59Calculated against the number of actual pills you have to take before it protects you
15:04And why is that?
15:05I've never missed a single one
15:09I'm wondering if it's thrown my hormones out of whack
15:11I mean, it can do that, can't it?
15:14Child, the whole point of the pill is to throw your hormones out of whack
15:18That's how it stops you getting pregnant
15:21Are you late?
15:24I've been late before
15:26And things just sort of corrected themselves
15:31That would have been before you had a boyfriend
15:35Do you think you need to do it to us?
15:38No
15:39Not yet
15:47Do you want to attack? Do you want to give up?
15:48He's short
15:51No
15:57No
15:58No
16:00We're free, she can't do that
16:04Hey
16:04Yes
16:05Hey, is that a close race?
16:07No
16:15The winner is
16:17Devinition Devin!
16:38are you feeling sick this is not good honey but we're going to do a test I'll help you I
16:45don't want anyone to know they won't my name is against have the samples gone off
16:54to the laboratory yeah they will be dispatched very shortly but if you wish
16:58to add any to the list I'm afraid you must see to the paperwork yourself
17:18that's good morning Gwen dr. Turner remembered an iodine preparation he
17:23thought might help with your skin condition I told him I'd drop it off have
17:27you been in another fight yes and I didn't win that one either
17:38this good stay old chap I overslept again they don't like going in lakes gets
17:43told off I imagine you're exhausted after a match I'm always exhausted but I'm a
17:49mum aren't I and it's just me if I weren't tired I mean I was slacking I'm a
17:56stepmother to a little boy of Carl's age that certainly keeps one on one's toes
18:01I hope he talks like you do you got a lovely way of putting things can I make you a
18:06cuppa
18:07a cuppa would actually be extremely welcome but I should be making you one
18:15I'm sorry I'll I'll have to get out
18:29that's all I've got this time I'll give you the full amount next week I've heard that before
18:34and more than once I am NOT a charity
18:44now there ain't nothing in here but feathers I'm officially skin do you keep
18:49your money in a cushion cover I don't trust banks at least this way I know my
18:53money is even when I've got none sorry I've gone dizzy
19:02mr. Bianchi I'm mr. Penn Warden I'll be removing this cyst for you do you mind if I
19:08take a look
19:17don't want to go hacking away on the wrong side
19:26could just drain this but I'm leaning on the side of getting the whole thing out
19:36your bloods may come back perfectly normal but I strongly suspect that if you'd have almost
19:41passed out in front of dr. Turner he'd want to check your iron levels maybe I just need a tonic
19:47maybe you do I just think that as another woman who's often had to stand on her own two feet
19:53you need to be in better condition than this you're on your own with your kitty no but I was
20:01very much on my own for a long time before he and his father came into my life I know
20:07what it feels like to be fighting an invisible opponent
20:09and I've no doubt you're extremely good at it but you need someone more than a wrestling
20:17promoter in your corner let us help find out what's causing your malaise
20:23nurse Clifford's gone out to the cinema but nurse island says we can have the box her new slippers
20:29came in could there be a more perfect showcase for nature's bounty oh we can do a lot with ribbon
20:36and
20:36crypt paper and that's before we start tying bows around marrows oh these lamentable scissors they
20:42they wouldn't cut butter should I see if I can find a sharper pair what we really need is sister
20:49Veronica and her magic pinking shears how long has she gone to the mother house for a lengthy retreat I
20:57wasn't allowed to ask it's her private spiritual business do you suppose she took her pinking shears
21:04I would settle for her implements if we can't have her
21:36I was hoping it was something that could be treated but chronic kidney disease is just something that
21:44takes old people gently but kindly but it takes them how long has she been ill with this
21:51I suspect not long how long does she have the same unless we can persuade her to accept what
22:04treatment there is she'll progress to end-stage renal failure fairly quickly till that day comes
22:14we'll just have to love her as we always have but a bit more carefully
22:25you look happy today is a happy day
22:31I got a letter from the solicitor the decree absolute I'm officially a single man
22:39everything we do now is ours our choice to make
22:44the board of health requested a meeting I told them your diary was full but they were most insistent
22:49it's in your diary for Friday thank you I anticipate the usual fun and games
22:57I need to see Anthony Bianchi I've just had his histopathology results through from the hospital
23:03should I make an appointment for him no I'll call in on him today
23:10we told you the truth sister Veronica is on retreat
23:14you told us she had gone on retreat to the mother house
23:16she would need her cross in the mother house she would need her shoes
23:21our sister needed our discretion and I gave that willingly and with love
23:25I'm sorry if you feel that you should have been informed
23:31I'm sorry if I have been arrogant in thinking I deserved an explanation
23:38I can't tell you everything too much of it is personal to her
23:41but I can say she is struggling with her vows
23:44and has been given leave of absence for a while
23:49she's staying at the Oliver Christian Retreat Centre at Gravesend
23:55alone without anyone she knows or any friends to support her
24:03sister out of all of us sister Veronica emits the most love
24:08she needs the most love
24:10she does not know what she needs or wants
24:14and that is why she has had to go away
24:22morning
24:24have you come to see Tina
24:26Mr Bianchi we've come to see you
24:32I can't have breast cancer
24:36it's a women's disease
24:38we know all about that because his mum died of it
24:43I know
24:45she was a lovely lady
24:47and even in the five years since she passed away
24:51we've learned so much about it
24:54I can't have it
24:57I'm a man
24:58it is rare in men
25:00especially for someone of your age
25:02but it's not unheard of
25:05everyone has breast tissue Tony
25:07men and women
25:10we have less of it
25:11but
25:12it only takes a couple of cells to go rogue
25:16and a tumour can start to develop
25:18I
25:19have had some
25:20specialist training
25:22and there are new treatments
25:24and new approaches to surgery
25:34should I have done something sooner
25:36when I first felt the lump
25:38we are going to focus on the future now Tony
25:42and we are going to be with you
25:44every step of the way
25:48I don't care whereabouts in your body it is
25:51you've got the big seat
25:53we have to face up to it
25:55we can face up to it together
25:58without telling people
26:00what is that going to achieve Tony
26:03you need help
26:05you need love
26:08Tina
26:10I need
26:12dignity
26:15I need to feel like a man
26:19there's a bike for sale
26:25maybe for your birthday
26:27eh
26:28if you win your next fight
26:37yes
26:40doctor
26:41when savages records arrived from her previous practice
26:45she's been suffering with tiredness and joint pain for five years
26:50did the blood test we did show anything
26:52nothing at all conclusive
26:55just markers for minor inflammation
26:58slightly low white blood count
27:00could the pain relate to the wrestling
27:02I saw in the ring and it's incredibly physical
27:05but an impact injury would be on one side not both
27:11it's as though I'm missing something
27:14I never liked that
27:16they said those Braxton Hicks pains was my body tuning up for the baby to be born
27:21I got used to him
27:23but they've got worse since I found out Tony isn't well
27:26you've an immense amount to contend with at the moment
27:29but baby's head is engaged Tina
27:31I really don't think you'll have very long to wait
27:36oh this reading is just a little bit higher than I'd like
27:40we can't have anything else go wrong
27:43nothing's going to go wrong
27:45but I do want you to come over to the maternity home with me
27:49so Dr. Turner can take a look at you
28:05any chance of a 99 I've an elderly friend might like a bit of a pick me up
28:11what's the matter pal
28:16Brian
28:20you won't put me down for a single
28:23match
28:24I can't afford to promote wrestlers who keep losing
28:26I can raise my game
28:28my dad used to say
28:29aim up
28:30things will look up
28:32your dad was one of the best there ever was
28:34the Lamb of Panther was revered
28:38look all I can offer you right now is the adult fixtures
28:41oh no no
28:42adult fixtures is one step away from stripping Brian
28:44I keep it clean
28:46it's a place down Deptford where they roll about in jelly
28:50girls earn 30 quid about
28:5130 quid
28:53I pay 20
28:57bring your own bikini
29:08usually Tina reads stuff for me but
29:11I don't want to worry all this
29:13there's going to be further surgery
29:16and
29:18a radiography
29:20assessment
29:24I'm going to have to stop working
29:27won't be for long
29:28you've got family to support you
29:31I've only just proved to him that I'm a man
29:34I'm making a go of the van earning my own living
29:37and now I've got a woman's disease
29:39and I can't provide
29:42I'm telling him nothing
30:04I'm telling him nothing
30:10I'm going to be daft
30:12I'm fine
30:15hey look
30:18got my appointment through already
30:21nothing to be done till then
30:24it's you and the baby we need to think about now
30:28well I just promise me
30:31you'll tell your brothers
30:35I promise
30:42you'll need to take these diuretics first thing in the morning
30:46as you don't want to be up all hours of the night
30:48we can bring the commode into your room
30:51the commode will not be entertained
30:53you may come to revise that opinion
30:57your tone is brisk
30:59given that my days are numbered
31:04everybody's days are numbered sister
31:07mine as well as yours
31:08one way and another
31:15but you may be going on for quite a long time
31:19possibly feeling slightly better than you have done
31:22given that we know what ails you now
31:26maybe I do not care to go on for
31:30quite a long time
31:32let's see how we do shall we
31:35with these diuretics
32:15we'll proceed with a full mastectomy of your right breast
32:19we'll remove the breast tissue along with the lymph
32:21nodes and the pectoralis major muscle
32:27I don't want to do this
32:28I promise you scarring will be minimal
32:31and at least you won't be having to deal with foam rubber falsies like my lady patients
32:43come on car where are you
32:56can i help you i'm carl savage's mum
32:58is he here because if he's not a car savage
33:02i've just checked every member of his class for headlace including him
33:05oh thank god thank god
33:08do you want to go in and speak with him
33:10gwen what's happened
33:12i couldn't wake up this morning carl took himself to school
33:16it's the worst i've ever felt
33:18what's this on your face gwen
33:19it's like this all the time
33:21i'll cover it with pan stick usually
33:41you waiting for your wife
33:43my husband says he can't stand the smell of this place
33:46drops me at the door and waits in the pub
33:51mr bianchi
33:55is this ever itchy or sore
33:58no
33:58and it's never all blisters like the one on my back
34:01it's more like a sunburn
34:03you've been covering it up with pan stick because it's such a strange she
34:07like a butterfly
34:10that herpes gladiatorum on your back was a complete red herring
34:15this is what leads us to your diagnosis
34:18have you ever heard of a condition called lupus
34:22nobody in your family's ever had it
34:24or mentioned it
34:25no
34:26do you think that's what i've got
34:28this rash is so distinctive
34:30i'd put money on it as a diagnosis
34:32how long will it take to get rid of it
34:35it's going to be about management rather than cure
34:39but i promise you we can get you feeling better
34:43can't be cured
34:45but i need to win matches again
34:46gwen
34:47you are too unwell to fight
34:53tony
34:54thank god i've been worried sick
34:56had it go at the hospital
34:57he was all fine
35:00your doctor's very pleased with me
35:02oh
35:02really
35:04so um
35:05what happens next
35:06what treatment are they giving you
35:07so many pills i'll be rattling
35:12the important thing
35:14is that you are getting some rest
35:16not worrying yourself silly
35:18i'm not now i've heard your voice
35:20i love your voice
35:21i only ever get to talk on the phone
35:26because we're together all the time
35:28and we'll be together again
35:30soon
35:47tony
35:50tony
35:51we're going down the pub
35:52coming
35:53tony
36:16beryl burrows as i live and breathe
36:24do tell me you're en route to a harvest festival with that dreary swag
36:28because at the very least it would provoke a degree of fellow feeling in me
36:32i'm on potato peeling duty
36:35there's a rotor in the retreat house
36:37stop stop
36:38before you completely break my heart
36:41come here almost every day
36:43sometimes i have an eclair
36:45when the fancy takes me
36:47i have a cream split
36:48you get a cherry on a cream split
36:51and there's this little burst of flavour when you bite it
36:55tell me you've eaten fish and chips in the street too
36:58in broad daylight
36:59wise
37:01although sometimes it feels as though
37:03it's the things i don't do
37:06that tell me more about where i am now
37:08or where i might go next
37:10what don't you do
37:13i don't pray
37:15i came here to pray
37:17or at least to decide what i ought to be praying for
37:21but i can't
37:22and do you know why
37:24it's not different enough to the convent beryl
37:27and all the snatched patisserie in the world
37:30can't disguise the fact that you are still living the same sort of half-life
37:34trapped underneath a similar godly bell jar
37:39and how do you propose a change that
37:41come and stay with me
37:43jeffrey
37:44i am still technically a nun
37:48i can't live with a man
37:50you could lodge with a kindly confirmed bachelor
38:00you've missed two appointments at the hospital tony
38:04do you have anyone to talk to
38:07your brothers perhaps
38:09i can't
38:13not have it been you know
38:15breast cancer
38:16it's so humiliating
38:19i can hear him now
38:22your typical tongue name
38:26dr turner and i delivered a baby at the maternity home last week
38:30and the mother asked if the older brother could come in and meet him
38:34we placed the baby in his little arms and he was awestruck
38:41this was his brother
38:45he promised right then and there to teach him everything he knew
38:50all his best fighting moves
38:51a cat gun was mentioned
38:53and something about
38:55which jelly babies tasted best
38:59green ones
39:02according to enzo
39:04always gave me the green ones
39:06brothers look after each other tony
39:10i've seen it with my own boys
39:14right now i shouldn't be moaning about me
39:16i should be looking after tana
39:20dr turner says she can come home
39:22if you're feeling up to it
39:24of course i'm feeling up to it
39:31something tells me something's gonna happen tonight
39:38i read in the papers that jim and our people will make it tonight
39:45stars will be shining my signs aligning with love
39:52so come on and make it let's take everything that we've been dreaming of
40:00something tells me something's gonna happen to you
40:07smile on my face is the smile you were wearing a moment or two
40:13so get it together you see it's gonna be alright
40:21something tells me something's gonna happen tonight
40:26you stay in the dressing room tonight
40:29promise
40:30promise
40:31and if i win
40:32you'll get that bike
40:34my precious boy
40:59you're keeping up with us peppermints child
41:01i'm first on call tonight and i still feel quite queasy
41:04but it's not just in the morning
41:07maybe the pill itself doesn't agree with me
41:11i popped into the surgery when no one was there to check on your results
41:16i think we need to have a talk
41:23i can't seem to get comfortable
41:27my back is killing me
41:32right tony the sheets are wet
41:38do you think your walls have broken
41:40i thought they'd be more of a whoosh
41:44oh i don't feel right tony
41:52joyce what am i going to do
41:54the pill was supposed to be foolproof
41:57honey
41:58the pill was invented by man and is taken by women
42:01it's always going to be subject to human error
42:04i will lose my job
42:06i will have to tell my parents and i hardly speak to them as it is because they don't approve
42:10of cyril
42:11what i approve of cyril
42:12he is a good man and he will support you
42:15whatever you choose to do
42:17choose to do
42:21joyce i'm not even going to consider an abortion
42:25that's why it's so hard
42:27that's why i'm going to get the sack
42:30talk to cyril
42:32you've got time before you have to tell anybody else
42:35and i will cover for you in any way i can
42:41thank you
42:42you have enough peppermint and wash your face
42:53gentlemen please take your seats for tonight's tinie-willed steamy-bikini extravaganza of a fight
43:04nanata's house midwife speaking
43:05i'm ringing up about tina bianchi
43:08we think she got into labour
43:09i've been timing them they're two minutes apart
43:15rosalyn
43:16rosalyn come quickly
43:1815 20
43:20as promised
43:22putting a good show for the gents with you girls
43:25they like a bit of hair pulling
43:28hair pulling's an illegal move
43:30it's not an illegal game though is it gwen
43:33who's going to complain
43:35don't do this gwen
43:36please
43:37what are you doing here
43:38you're putting yourself in real danger if you fight tonight
43:40your body is severely weakened from lupus
43:43and your chances of getting injured are high
43:45and what would karl do then
43:46look if you're not going to fight
43:47you can hand that money back right now
44:17a midwife is on her way
44:19and i'm going to stay with you on the end of this phone until she gets there
44:25she keeps saying she wants to push
44:28tell her to blow
44:29tell her to blow as if she is blowing out candles
44:32tina don't push
44:33blow
44:34blow
44:36blow
44:38yeah that's it
44:39do it with me
44:46wait wait wait wait wait
44:50you punch it i said no punch
45:04do you want to tap do you want to give up
45:09tony i need you to describe exactly what you can see
45:12i don't know what i can see
45:17oh i think it might be the baby's head
45:29oh
45:30no
45:31no
45:32no
45:34no
45:34no
45:53Can you hear me?
45:55Gwen?
45:56Gwen?
45:57Call for an ambulance.
46:00Quickly!
46:04Mr. Bianchi, you need to get ready to deliver this baby yourself.
46:08But you must not hang up.
46:10Do you hear me?
46:17Oh, I can see.
46:23I can see the ache.
46:25It's sort of moving around.
46:28I can see its face.
46:29Good.
46:30Now, very gently place your hands under its head.
46:33Wait for the next big contraction and guide the body out.
46:37Don't pull.
46:38There's something blue wrapped around its neck.
46:40Is that supposed to be there?
46:41It's the cord.
46:43All you have to do is slip your finger underneath it and lift it over the baby's head.
46:47It should slide off quite easily.
46:55Have you managed to move it?
46:58It works.
46:59It's off.
47:00No!
47:01Take it out.
47:03No!
47:07No!
47:08No!
47:10No!
47:13It needs a boy to eat.
47:20He got a little boy.
47:40You did it, Tony.
47:42You delivered our son.
47:46Just looking.
47:51Well, someone was in a hurry to get into the world.
47:56Wait till we tell all your uncles about this.
48:03There's you.
48:05There's my boy.
48:10You were lucky you didn't cause any more damage to your body.
48:13At least I got the rent money out of it.
48:16Gwen, the hospital are asking who will be looking after Carl whilst you're in here.
48:20They're willing to talk to social services.
48:21I bet they are.
48:23Social services will take him off me.
48:25I'm sure that isn't the case.
48:27But, Gwen, you're treading a dangerous path in London,
48:32even if your health allowed you to keep on fighting.
48:36There are alternatives,
48:38just as there's alternatives to keeping your money in a cushion cover.
48:42And you've got to tell me what they are.
48:45Because I'd listen to you.
48:48You've told me you know what it is to find things hard.
48:57Another one for the footy team.
48:59A striker.
49:00My turn now.
49:01My turn.
49:02Oh, careful.
49:07Mrs. Turner's just helping Tina to freshen up.
49:10And then Master Bianchi needs to have his lunch.
49:13The Neo-Papa did a good job on his own then, Doctor.
49:16Not many people could deliver their own son single-handed.
49:20But Tony did.
49:21Yeah.
49:23This man, hmm?
49:25He's a proper man.
49:27He certainly is.
49:29And I salute him.
49:33Bravo!
49:52Shh!
49:55I've got cancer.
50:14Breast cancer.
50:15Oh, Tony.
50:19I wish Mumma was here.
50:35You are the best of us, little brother.
50:39And we will not let you go.
50:44We will not let you go.
51:09I spoke to the surgery, Gwen.
51:11All your records will be sent to the new GP we found for you up north.
51:14Thanks, Nurse.
51:16I've got to start looking after myself now, haven't I?
51:19She's not going to be a russer anymore.
51:21I know.
51:23Would you like a hand putting that in the van?
51:25Or are you planning on pedalling all the way to Blackpool?
51:27Thanks, Nurse.
51:33And thanks for the advice.
51:36It's like a bold move, taking a job in a gym.
51:38Training other women.
51:41But it's legal in Lancashire, Gwen.
51:44And you won't be exploited.
51:45It will give your body time to recover.
51:48And my dad would like it.
51:50Good old lamb of pamphering his contacts.
51:52Thanks.
52:20Oh, I came home from a lunch hour.
52:23Do you want to go for a walk?
52:24No.
52:26I'm afraid I don't.
52:28It seems you made a decent fist at moving your weekly clinic onto hospital premises.
52:34Yes.
52:36There was some grumbling from patients about bus fares, but I think we're on an even keel.
52:42Good.
52:42Because speaking scientist to scientist, and to paraphrase our friend Charles Darwin,
52:48it is not necessarily the strongest or most intelligent of any given species that survives.
52:53It's the one most adaptable to change.
52:56I know that.
52:58And I know I can't look after my patients properly if I don't to, Dan.
53:02A very good attitude to have.
53:05Which is why we're placing you front and centre of our plans.
53:10And closing you down.
53:16Closing us down?
53:17Not as a GP, although you'll probably want to join forces with someone else now.
53:22There are real incentives for group practices.
53:26But the council are not going to renew the licence for the maternity home.
53:32But the licence runs out in a matter of weeks.
53:37It's always been renewed as a formality.
53:40This is the brave new world, Turner.
53:42There is no always anymore.
53:44There isn't even an always for me.
53:46The council will have to hand everything over to the National Health.
53:50But why you still have power here doing this?
53:54To us and to Nanata's house?
53:57Nanata's house.
53:59They were forever outliers.
54:01And eccentric.
54:04Threatwood, what is the logic in all of this?
54:09How is it going to benefit the patients?
54:11I knew you'd say that.
54:12And it's why we chose to put you at the vanguard.
54:17No matter what goes on somewhere far away in the offices of Whitehall, there will always be patients.
54:25And you say that as though it's a problem.
54:32I'm so sorry, Cyril.
54:35You wanted to take responsibility, but I was absolutely certain that nothing could be better than this magnificent wonder drug
54:43that gave me control over my own body.
54:45We both agreed it was what we wanted, that it would let us have other things we wanted, and want
54:52it very much.
54:55We just didn't want this, did we?
54:59I think that it's something that has happened a little out of order, but I wouldn't have taken you to
55:08bed if I didn't mean to marry you.
55:10And I always meant to marry you and build a life with you.
55:15And building a life with you means more than just rings and mortgages and bricks and mortar.
55:25Did you ever close your eyes and try to see our children?
55:31I see our children every day, with my eyes wide open.
55:36I see them crossing the street in Poplar or swinging on a swing down at the wreck.
55:42And I think, we could have a little boy like that one.
55:47Or that little girl has a smile like hers.
55:55I thought I would have to be patient.
55:57And I'm not very good at being patient.
56:01I would not say patience has been our distinguishing characteristic.
56:07And now it doesn't have to be.
56:15There is no good harvest if there's been no rain.
56:20The earth requires it, and so do we.
56:24For how else does the heart grow?
56:34Life expands, not in spite of the weather, but because of it.
56:41Thus, we are nourished, we take root, we are taught how to endure.
56:48But there are times when the soul is hungry, when fruit falls to the ground, and we cannot tell if
56:57it's a blessing or temptation.
57:00There are times when we know nothing, nothing at all, not yet.
57:08And so it seems that if we go down, we all go down together.
57:14The council have written to me confirming that the maternity home will close.
57:22And assuming that we too will now cease operations.
57:29Do we have any say in this?
57:32A present?
57:34It seems not.
57:38Sometimes change is for the better.
57:40What do you mean, mayor to midwife?
57:42We need to cause alarm.
57:44And now our maternity home is closing down.
57:46Susan was affected by thalidomide.
57:48The council are not going to give Lenata's house any more money.
57:52But the treatment is working.
57:53It is not treatment.
57:55It is merely postponing all that is to come.
57:59The council are not going to give Lenata's house any more money.
58:01The council are not going to give Lenata's house any more money.
58:04The council are not going to give Lenata's house any more money.
58:08The council are not going to give Lenata's house any more money.
58:15The council are not going to give Lenata's house any more money.
58:17The council are not going to give Lenata's house any more money.
58:18The council are not going to give Lenata's house any more money.
58:19The council are not going to give Lenata's house any more money.
58:19The council are not going to give Lenata's house any more money.
58:22The council are not going to give Lenata's house any more money.
58:26You
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