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Call.The.Midwife.Season 15 Episode 7 (2026)
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00:00I'm pretty sure that's it for now.
00:02Go and get ready. I'll cover for you.
00:08Mum, what's going to happen when we close the maternity home?
00:12I wish there was a simple answer, May.
00:15The truth is, nobody knows.
00:18Will we have to move house?
00:20No. This is our home, and that's not going to change,
00:24because Daddy will still have his surgery.
00:28I promise you, sweetheart, everything will be all right.
00:33Angela needs to do everything together.
00:35Now we don't even get the same bus.
00:38She'll be home tonight, just as she always is.
00:41And Timothy's back in London, living at St Cuthbert's.
00:45So that's good, isn't it?
00:47I know. New things are always hard.
00:56The house crane's been held up at the maternity home.
00:58She's asked me to give out morning orders.
01:00Sister Catherine, are you happy to be on first call this afternoon?
01:04Of course.
01:04I was top of the call board myself,
01:06but I know I'm meeting halfway across London.
01:09Good morning, all.
01:10Rosalind Ladadette Ice. She's just sodding out a fresh beer.
01:14Well, I hope she's eaten a hearty breakfast.
01:15She's going to be cycling all over Poplar today.
01:25See you later.
01:26Six o'clock! And don't be late!
01:34Come in.
01:42And it is wakey, wakey, rise and shine for my favourite slugger bed.
01:50I bring grapefruit tea and French toast chaser.
01:56Am I overslept again?
01:57You're keeping not dissimilar hours to Princess Margaret.
02:01Although, I am told, her cooling tray has nothing on it
02:04but black coffee and an orange juice.
02:05She probably wakes up with a hangover.
02:08I've never had a hangover.
02:10Mm.
02:11Are you getting a bad back sleeping on the sofa?
02:14I did think of sending for an osteopath.
02:17Then I remembered I am one.
02:19Well, I've slept like a log every night since I came here.
02:22It's like I'm getting over an illness.
02:24You look to me as though you are recuperating nicely.
02:28Apart from the faintest suggestion of a few split ends,
02:31dare I make you a little appointmentette at the salon on the corner?
02:35The hairdressers.
02:36Oh, no, I really don't think I can go to the hairdressers.
02:39Not with my hair in this state.
02:44In a moment, we'll be inviting the ladies and gentlemen of the press inside
02:48to view the magnificent Ground Four extension funded by the bathroom grant scheme.
02:54But first, I'd like to ask Mrs Rhoda Mullocks,
02:58who's here today with her daughter Susan and son Paddy,
03:02to say a few words about how she and her family have benefited from this council initiative.
03:09This has been a really fortunate development for us.
03:13As many of you know, Susan was affected by thalidomide.
03:17And we were struggling a bit more than most with the old outside toilet and tin bath.
03:23Hello, Mum.
03:24For those of you who don't know, this is my second eldest, Perry.
03:28He's at technical college.
03:31My grandma was actually born in this house.
03:35And the addition of the bathroom has brought us bang into the middle of the 20th century.
03:41And what do you have to say, Susan?
03:42It's fantastic!
03:44That's great!
03:46In you go, members of the press, straight through to the back of the house.
03:50Oh, and Mrs Mullick's sanitary wear is in a new colour called Pampers Beige.
03:56So you might want to caption your photographs accordingly.
03:59Oh!
04:02Come on, love.
04:04Let's bump you up.
04:13I can't believe we're under notice of closure, yet we've still got a cohort of junior doctors coming in for
04:20district obstetrics.
04:21And all the more unsettling because my own son's one of the doctors.
04:25Oh, he was such a little boy when he came into my life.
04:28You were younger than he is now when your path first crossed with mine.
04:34And look at us now.
04:35Shutting up shop to all intents and purposes.
04:38Where do you think we'll be this time next year?
04:42Possibly in a better place than this.
04:46Possibly in a worse one.
04:48But not here?
04:50Sheila, the council are not going to give Nunata's house any more money.
04:57We'll have to see what God thinks.
05:00And what the order proposes.
05:04Hurry up, please, gentlemen.
05:06The mother is feeling the urge to push.
05:08And Mr Parry wants all junior doctors to be in guns.
05:14I'm sorry, Dr Turner, but I have begged for an extraordinary meeting of the Board of Health.
05:19And Dr Threatwood says we have to wait until the next one's scheduled on Friday.
05:24They might announce more closures at that one.
05:28There are half a dozen other maternity homes just waiting for the axe to fall.
05:32Which doesn't give the Board the right to treat you or Nunata's house like a canary down the mine.
05:38Meanwhile, I fear the fact that our GP practice is remaining open has confused matters.
05:44I had expected some degree of local uproar, but no one has so much as started a petition.
05:49The system we're heading into is going to be so big it dwarfs people's comprehension.
05:55Then, by the time they realise what's afoot, their voices will seem too tiny to be heard.
06:02Well, my voice isn't too tiny to be heard.
06:12Now, Mother, let's concentrate on the task in hand.
06:16Less noise equals more effective bearing down.
06:19I'd do better without a ruddy audience!
06:22Come, come. Just keep reminding yourself you're making very satisfactory progress.
06:27Now, whilst this contraction ends and Mother has ceased her exertions,
06:32would one of the gentlemen present like to step up and describe what he can see?
06:37Ah, Dr. Turner, Jr.
06:42Rule one of obstetrics. There is often something liquid on the floor.
06:50The fetal scalp is not visible at the introitus during the pause between contractions, sir.
06:57The presenting part is the vertex in a cephalic presentation.
07:01The head is beginning to distend the perineum.
07:04The crowning has not yet occurred.
07:07And?
07:10Boy or girl?
07:13Well, it's reassuring to know your expertise knows its limits.
07:25Now, Lady Aylward.
07:28Matron of the Lady Emily Clinic for Women and Babies does have rather a ring to it.
07:33Yes, it does.
07:34And I'd like to accept, with caveats.
07:37You know I'll grant you any caveat you desire.
07:41I can't commence until the New Year.
07:44I have to give him my notice to Nonata's house.
07:47They're not in the best shape at the present time.
07:53BELL RINGS
07:54BELL RINGS
07:56BELL RINGS
07:57Had I to feel this bell much longer,
07:59I would have been in need of embrogation from my elbow,
08:03as well as assistance to the lavatory.
08:07This means the diuretics are working.
08:12And helping to cleanse your body of all the excess fluid.
08:17I am not in want of a biology lesson.
08:22Merely your aid.
08:24It might be more convenient if we set up a commode for you.
08:27I have always pried dignity above commillions.
08:35I've spent the whole of my career in the East End,
08:40which equates to almost all of my adult life.
08:42You would have served less time for murder.
08:45I don't see it that way, Mr. Scarisbrick.
08:48It wasn't a sentence.
08:50It was, and still is, a privilege.
08:54And now our maternity home is closing down.
08:58And the domestic delivery of babies could end up virtually outlawed.
09:03Thank you, Peel Report.
09:04I don't want to work in hospitals.
09:07I want to get to know the women I'm caring for.
09:10I want them to feel safe,
09:12as though birth is a miraculous but normal part of life.
09:17Soon I won't be able to provide that,
09:18and in my view that's a terrible loss.
09:24I'm simply grateful we're able to offer an alternative.
09:28To those who can afford to pay.
09:32Nevertheless, we have new adventures to look forward to.
09:35In due course, I'll have something else to put to you,
09:38but not today.
09:40We have quite enough to celebrate.
09:42Perhaps you'll allow me to take you out to dinner?
09:45Perhaps.
09:46In a week or two.
09:51Oh, good evening. Is that the Gazette?
09:53Oh, Miss Leverett. Glad they caught you.
09:56So, could you put me through to Mr. Reynolds on features?
10:01Paddy, what noise does a sheep make?
10:05Mum!
10:07I'm going to have to take Susan to the surgery tomorrow, Bernie.
10:10That blister looks like it's become infected.
10:13You can't have that, can we? Eh?
10:15What's the matter, how beautiful, eh?
10:18It hurts when I put the legs on.
10:21Doesn't it?
10:22If I take her first thing, can you drop Paddy at nursery?
10:25No, no, I can't. I've got a funeral.
10:27At ten o'clock out in East Ham.
10:29Mr. Albion wants us lined up at the hearse by nine.
10:32Sometime through the day you took that undertaking job.
10:35Oh, it's a steady line of work.
10:38You're drinking more of that milk and magnesia
10:40than you ever did when you were pregnant.
10:42You're not trying to tell me we got some news, are you?
10:44John's a beer fine thing.
10:47God, our almighty Father, we ask today for a blessing
10:51to add to all the blessings you have given us.
10:54And as we thank you for leading us to one another,
10:57and for letting us love one another,
11:01and fold us as my hands and fold hers,
11:03and protect us as her body protects our child.
11:06Amen.
11:08Amen.
11:16Oh, gosh.
11:18It is beautiful, isn't it?
11:22I've always loved pearls.
11:25The idea that inside all that sheen
11:27there's a tiny speck of sand.
11:35The heart of a pearl is so much stronger than we think.
11:41I didn't even know we kept Sherry on the premises.
11:44When a house is a home to a lot of young women,
11:47it's always wise to be prepared for a celebration.
11:50I managed to grab some twiglets and smokey bacon crisps
11:53while Fred sends his congratulations.
11:56This is turning into quite the shindig.
12:00Have you given any consideration to a date yet?
12:04I went to the register office this morning
12:06and filled in all the forms.
12:08It's going to be in three weeks' time.
12:12Three weeks?
12:17And what of your parents?
12:19Are they as delighted as we?
12:21They don't know yet.
12:23They've been away on the school trip to Bruges,
12:26so I'm going to call them tomorrow night.
12:29They are educated.
12:31They are educated.
12:32And they are inhabitants of the modern world.
12:36Congratulations.
12:38Congratulations.
12:46I've stopped short of going the full vid Elsa soon
12:50and giving you a geometric bob,
12:53but I think that's taken the curse off.
12:56Farewell, Splatoon.
12:59I've never had eggs rubbed in my hair before.
13:01It felt quite nice.
13:02Trixie put me onto the protein rinse when I decided to go long.
13:06But, Beryl, now that you've had a rest,
13:10we need to talk about the future.
13:13The Order want my answer in three weeks.
13:16And what are you going to do with those three weeks?
13:19Are you just going to sit them out indoors
13:21in the hope that clarity will come floating through the window?
13:25Or are you going to try to live a little?
13:27I think I'm living quite a lot just being here.
13:32Beryl, you know that's not true.
13:37Today, whilst I'm out manipulating the vertebrae of London's jet set,
13:45I want you to make a list of every single thing you wish to do
13:50before you tell the sisters whether you're going to leave or stay.
13:54To what end, Geoffrey?
13:56It may help you decide which sacrifice is bearable.
14:05What do you mean, Mayor turns midwife?
14:08You can't deliver babies, Mrs. Buckle.
14:11You're not qualified.
14:13I'm not intending to deliver them.
14:15The idea is that I follow you and the other ladies round Poplar
14:20as you go about your work, lending a hand, you know,
14:23as and when appropriate.
14:26And getting photographed by the Gazette?
14:28The Gazette feels that it will draw attention
14:30to the destruction of midwifery services as we know it.
14:36That I can't deny.
14:39But so far, we've left the news to seep out slowly so we don't cause alarm.
14:45Nurse Crane, in my opinion, we need to cause alarm to save the maternity home.
14:52If people protest, it might make a difference.
15:02How often do you wear the artificial legs?
15:04Every day.
15:05They make them wear them at school.
15:07There's three other Thalidomide kids and the teacher says they all have to set an example to each other.
15:12What do you think about it all, Susan?
15:14I don't really like them very much.
15:16The other kids.
15:18The legs.
15:19They're heavy and they hurt and they don't look like proper legs.
15:23You're probably ready for a bigger set.
15:25She's growing like a weed.
15:28While I'm here, Dr. Turner, I want mine some more milk of magnesium.
15:33Rhoda, you really need to get that gallbladder removed.
15:37You've been at the top of the waiting list twice and cancelled the operation both times.
15:41I'm too busy, Doctor.
15:43Belinda's away at university and I'm busier than ever with Paddy and Susan to look after.
15:50I can look after myself.
15:52Susan, you know that's not true.
15:54And the campaign for compensation has had so many ups and downs.
15:58I'll write you a prescription.
15:59It's cheaper than buying it over the counter, but promise me the next time your name comes up you'll get
16:05the operation done.
16:08They don't complain like this in male surgical.
16:14He's hungry.
16:16Oh, sorry mate.
16:18We don't run to bar snacks.
16:21The infant stomach is a small fusiform organ situated in the upper abdomen.
16:29The capacity of approximately 30 millilitres.
16:36Anatomically, it's comprised of the cardia, the fundus, the body, and the pilares.
16:46And the gastropoccuso is capable of selecting hydrochloric acid.
16:50What do you think you are doing with that infant?
16:53I was comforting him.
16:55His cry was quite high pitched, so we might have colic.
16:59And he stopped the moment you picked him up?
17:02Yes, sister.
17:04He just didn't seem very happy.
17:05A well-managed baby is a contented baby.
17:10Doctors do not care for babies.
17:13They diagnose them and they treat them.
17:16And junior doctors are on this ward to learn.
17:22Sorry, sister.
17:25Oh!
17:26I don't know what's going on here.
17:27This one's covered in lipstick and there's a whiff of whiskey.
17:31Oh!
17:35Now, you don't get a belt or badges because you're not a nurse.
17:39Your hair must be off your collar.
17:41There's to be no coloured eyeshadow.
17:43And I shall be inspecting your fingernails.
17:46Not that we'd let you too near the business end.
17:50I'm just so used to seeing you do everything.
17:53The caring and the medicine are mixed up.
17:56In a perfect world, the caring and the medicine would always be mixed up.
18:02And in obstetrics, most of all.
18:04Obstetrics and hospital just seems like another branch of surgery.
18:08There's so many rules and protocols.
18:10You'll be doing your rotation on the district soon enough.
18:13You'll probably wish there were more rules then.
18:16Just wish the maternity home wasn't closing.
18:19The maternity home was an innovation once.
18:22Practice evolves all the time.
18:24And as a doctor, you have to lean into it or medicine won't grow.
18:31Sometimes change is for the better.
18:34I mean, look at us tonight.
18:36Putting on fireworks for the children just like we always have.
18:40But timing them so Angela and May don't miss their pop music programme.
18:44If you're talking about the Partridge family, that is not change for the better.
18:54It looks like the Sunday Times has come out on our side again.
18:58About the manufacturer's latest compensation offer.
19:01The manufacturers, they want the book thrown out.
19:04Three million quid for 400 children.
19:07Arms missing, legs missing, some deaf, blind.
19:10I've heard the campaign leaders say the kids deserve 20.
19:13A million?
19:14I've never seen numbers that big until we started this campaign.
19:18And they'll never be big enough.
19:19Money can't buy what that girl will never have.
19:21WHISTLE BLOWS
19:24Susan, what's the matter?
19:27She's screaming at David Cassidy.
19:29Oh, he's a pop star.
19:31You have to scream when you see his picture.
19:37WHISTLE BLOWS
19:39David Cassidy.
19:41I want to scream every time I see his haircut.
19:44It's better than that T-Rex fella Belinda likes.
19:51That's Susan's going to grow up soon.
19:54Isn't she?
19:56Well, I think it's happening already.
20:03Right, Nurse Clifford, I'm assigning you to juice and milk tokens.
20:07That way you can show off your engagement ring.
20:09Thank you, Nurse Crane.
20:11Are you ready with the petitions, Miss Higgins?
20:14I have personally typed up four copies to be presented to the board
20:19and they will be circulated while clinic is in progress.
20:25Mrs Buckle, and a gentleman of the press,
20:28unless I'm mistaken, you are most welcome.
20:37I've drawn up a list of suitable poses, but first you'll need to help me with the hat.
20:46I'm telling you now, you'll not last long in a sling-back corkshaw.
20:56You may enter.
21:00I bought you some crescent, sister.
21:03They're still coming up lovely on the allotment.
21:09There was an earwig in the last bouquet.
21:12I watched him climb from petal to petal for an hour.
21:17It was so like being out in nature that I almost fancied I felt sunlight on my face.
21:25Would you like us to get you into the garden, sister?
21:28I could light the brazier, you could have a blanket on your knees.
21:31I think you mistake me for one elderly and frail.
21:36Never.
21:41I'm sorry to confess it.
21:47But I do not think my feet will carry me.
21:53Sit with me for a while.
22:00That's right. Give me the joy.
22:03Give me the excitement.
22:08Trouble with this is,
22:10We do our most important work when people aren't smiling.
22:23Do you reckon Sister Monica turns fading, sister?
22:26She's certainly weakening.
22:28And the worst thing is, she knows it.
22:33She must be getting scared.
22:36Not of death, but letting go of life.
22:42And life means so much more than breath and a heartbeat.
22:50It's independence and company and joy.
22:56Even nuns take pleasure in things.
23:00And with every day that passes, she's denied a little more.
23:08Maybe it's time to move the telly to her bedroom.
23:12That said, I don't even think the TV will perk her up.
23:17It's only the test card after time.
23:21We need to get her outside.
23:22I don't know.
23:25I don't know.
23:26Why aren't you and Sarah making this call together?
23:28Because, in case you've forgotten, my parents haven't spoken to him since the day I introduced them.
23:34Which was also the day they said he wasn't the man for me.
23:38I think I need to break the ice.
23:41Honey, you're going to need a pickaxe.
23:43My mother and father aren't bad people, Joyce.
23:47They're just very blinkered.
23:49And my marriage is their chance to see things a different way.
23:54You're a good child, Chad.
24:07My name's Bernie.
24:08I'm an alcoholic.
24:11I used to be a warehouse man.
24:13Before they closed the docks.
24:16I was good at it.
24:18Things on shelves, things in boxes.
24:23Lists to tick.
24:25I was in control.
24:27And then I lost my job.
24:30And I have to have a reason to get up every morning, to get dressed, go out.
24:36Or else the drink comes creeping in.
24:38So when Mr Albion offered me a job, I thought, yeah, things in boxes.
24:47That feels familiar.
24:49I didn't know that I would find my calling.
24:53That it would make me more human.
24:55That it could make me feel so much.
24:58And you don't feel much of anything at all.
25:01Apart from safe.
25:03In a warehouse.
25:09Rosalyn!
25:14A little while back, we had to take care of a family who'd come to grief in their own home.
25:23Carbon monoxide.
25:27It took a mum, it took a dad, it took a little girl.
25:34And the little girl was the same age as my youngest daughter.
25:39Even their names were nearly the same.
25:41Suzanne instead of Susan.
25:47And her hair.
25:50And her hair.
25:51I had to wash and brush her hair.
26:02But it was when I was washing her feet, that I thought these...
26:10...perfect...
26:10...little feet...
26:13...we'll never go dancing.
26:19And we all found out it wasn't hard.
26:23It was a hard job.
26:26But I can't put...
26:28...those feelings on the shelf...
26:32...that keeps things safe.
26:36Because my Susan's feet...
26:39...they'll never go dancing either.
26:44Her hands...
26:46...never wear a wedding ring.
26:48Never hold a child.
26:54And I love her so much.
26:57Every imperfection she has is beautiful to me.
27:02There are days I think I'll just live to see her laughing.
27:08And sometimes...
27:12...sometimes...
27:13...when...
27:14...when I stop...
27:16...to look at her...
27:21...I won't stop.
27:29But I know...
27:31...that I am not...
27:32...at ease...
27:38...with...
27:40...with what was done...
27:42...to her.
27:48Because sometimes...
27:51...I...
27:53...
27:53...sometimes I compare her...
27:55...to the dead.
28:03Rosalind...
28:04...a telephone call we could've made together...
28:07...telling you as we couldn't deliver him...
28:09...a person was never going to end in happiness...
28:11...for anyone involved.
28:13I suppose I just...
28:15...thought that...
28:16...the niceness...
28:18...I'd always seen in them.
28:20The general decency they'd always shown...
28:23...would...
28:24...somehow come out on top.
28:28But it didn't.
28:31What did they say about the baby?
28:34Nothing.
28:37Because...
28:37...I didn't...
28:38...tell them.
28:40Rosalind...
28:41...the baby is more important than the wedding.
28:43I know that.
28:44I just...
28:46...it's agony enough...
28:48...having them reject the man I love.
28:51I'm not going to give them the chance to reject our child.
28:59One.
29:01Buy a new dress.
29:03Oh, Beryl.
29:04Well, that's a bit basic.
29:06I have put, not in navy blue in brackets.
29:10I'll add, mustn't go with a wimple...
29:13...and lace-ups.
29:14I could see you in tiger print chiffon.
29:17No, I don't think animal print ever really works...
29:20...if you're bigger than the actual animal.
29:22The only member of the feline species...
29:24...you outrank in the size department is...
29:27...tabby cat.
29:28The door is wide open for tiger print.
29:31And, indeed...
29:32...leopard.
29:34Two.
29:35Drink wine.
29:37While making crepes.
29:39Well, I can put a line through that one after tonight.
29:43And we'll get the scorch marks off the frying pan eventually.
29:46Three.
29:48Earn some money.
29:51How am I going to earn money?
29:54Sing hymns in the street and put a hat down?
29:57I need a secretary.
29:58You could be the Miss Higgins of Harley Street.
30:01I don't have a felt hat.
30:04Or a petrifying manner.
30:05No, no, no. It makes perfect sense.
30:07I hire space in three sets of consulting rooms...
30:10...and I'm always missing calls.
30:11But do say yes.
30:13Only if you forgive me for the frying pan.
30:16I'll do more than forgive you.
30:17I will buy you a felt hat.
30:19And an ocelot two-piece.
30:21HE LAUGHS
30:25HE LAUGHS
30:26HE LAUGHS
30:27HE LAUGHS
30:29HE LAUGHS
30:30Oh, hell's hell, Soda.
30:33HE LAUGHS
30:35HE LAUGHS
30:38What's the matter?
30:39The pain.
30:40What?
30:41The pain.
30:42I can't stop being sick.
30:45I've woken up Paddy now.
30:47He's got nursery in the morning.
30:49I'm going to call 999.
30:55Thank you for attending this seminar today, gentlemen.
30:59This practice was established in 1947
31:03under the auspices of the then-new National Health Service
31:07and the maternity home was opened in 1958.
31:11Is it true that it's due to close down?
31:14Yes.
31:15In a word.
31:17Do you have any questions relating to your training?
31:21Do we have to ride bikes?
31:23Proficiency in cycling is considered an advantage.
31:31EVOLUTION GAVE YOU TWO HANDS, DR. DRINKWATER.
31:34EVOLUTION GAVE YOU TWO HANDS, DR. DRINKWATER.
31:34CAN WE SEE ONE ON EACH HANDLEBAR, PLEASE?
31:37NOW, GENTLEMEN, IF YOU WOULD ALL ABLIGE ME BY SIGNALING
31:41AS IF YOU WERE TURNING LEFT.
31:46THAT'S THE OTHER LEFT, DR. TURNER, JUNIOR.
31:51Oh, sorry.
31:54HE WAS LIKE THAT AS A LITTLE LAD.
31:56I HAD HIM IN CUBS.
32:01ANY OIL LEFT IN THAT CAN, FRED?
32:05THEY'RE GONNA OPERATE TOMORROW.
32:08TAKE THE WHOLE THING OUT.
32:09I KNOW.
32:10AND THE NURSE SAYS THAT IT'S WORSE BECAUSE IT'S AN EMERGENCY.
32:14DR. TURNER'S NOT GETTING ON AT YOU FOR THE GOOD OF HIS HEALTH.
32:17IT'S FOR YOURS.
32:18AND YOU IGNORED HIM.
32:19I'VE GOT TOO MUCH TO DO.
32:22NOW YOU'VE GOT TOO MUCH TO DO.
32:24I'LL COPE.
32:25YOUR SISTER'S GONNA COME AND PICK UP PADDY.
32:28AVIS?
32:30I'LL HAVE TO GIVE HER A LIST.
32:32WHAT ABOUT SUSAN?
32:40IT'S NOT THE MOST LUXURIOUS MODE OF TRANSPORT.
32:44BUT WITH A COUPLE OF CUSHIONS, IT'LL BE JUST THE JOB FOR TAKING YOU OUT IN THE FRESH AIR.
32:51BY FRESH AIR, DO YOU MEAN IN PUBLIC?
32:57SISTER, YOU NEED STIMULATION, AND YOU'RE CAPABLE OF EMBRACING IT.
33:03WHY THEN DID YOU BRING THAT INFERNAL TELEVISION INTO MY CHAMBER?
33:08IT IS THE EQUIVALENT OF PUTTING STRAW DOWN IN THE STREET SO A MORIBUND PATIENT WILL NOT BE DISTURBED BY
33:16THE CARROT WHEELS.
33:17YOU MAKE ALL THESE GESTURES BECAUSE YOU THINK I AM NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD.
33:24CAN YOU NOT SEE THAT ALL OF THESE GESTURES ARE BECAUSE WE LOVE YOU?
33:29I HAVE NEITHER THE TIME OR THE TEMPER TO ENGAGE IN VIOLENT SENTIMENT.
33:36LOVE IS NOT VIOLENT, SISTER.
33:39LOVE IS PATIENT, AND LOVE IS KIND, AND SOMETIMES LOVE PUSHES US TO PLACES WHERE WE DO NOT WISH TO
33:47GO.
33:47I THEREBY REFER YOU TO MY FEELINGS REGARDING THAT CONVEYANCE.
33:59SHE WAS AS MULISH AS I HAVE EVER SEEN HER AND I CAME AS CLOSE TO LOSING PATIENCE AS I
34:04EVER HAVE.
34:05WHEN I WAS IN FORMATION, MOTHER ALBERT USED TO SAY THAT OUR GREATEST TRIALS WOULD ALWAYS COME FROM WITHIN OUR
34:13FAMILY CIRCLE.
34:14I'VE HAD FLESH AND BLOOD SISTERS, AS WELL AS SISTERS IN CHRIST.
34:18THE THING IS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO FORGIVE THE FLESH AND BLOOD ONES.
34:22YOU CAN JUST ROLL AROUND ON THE FLOOR AND SMACK EACH OTHER AND FORGET.
34:26THAT SOUNDS QUITE APPEALING.
34:33SISTER CATHERINE, I'M AFRAID I HAVE TO INCREASE YOUR NURSING DUTIES.
34:38MOTHER MILDRID HAS ASKED ME TO GO TO THE MOTHER HOUSE TO DISCUSS PLANS FOR OUR MISSIONARY WORK.
34:45YOU'VE ALWAYS SAID WE ARE MISSIONARIES HERE.
34:48AND THERE'S A WHOLE WORLD IN NEED OF HEALING.
34:51LET US SEE WHAT IS PROPOSED.
35:02BELINDA.
35:04HELLO, LOVE.
35:05YEAH, WE NEED YOU TO COME HOME.
35:08HELP LOOK AFTER SUSAN.
35:10DID MOM SAY THAT'S WHAT SHE WANTS?
35:12OH, NO.
35:13SHE WANTS YOU TO PRIORITISE YOUR STUDIES. IT'S ME, I'M ASKING YOU.
35:16THEN I'M DOING WHAT MOM WANTS.
35:17I WOULDN'T BE AT UNIVERSITY IF SHE HADN'T WORKED SO HARD TO HELP ME.
35:21I OWE IT TO HER TO WORK HARD AND MAKE THE MOST OF THE OPPORTUNITY.
35:24BUT WHAT ABOUT SUSAN?
35:25I CAN'T, DAD. I JUST CAN'T.
35:30YOU DON'T HAVE TO STAY HERE FOR THIS, ROSALIND.
35:34FROM NOW ON, WE SHARE ALL THE HARD THINGS.
35:41SO, PASTOR ROBINSON, ROSALIND.
35:46WHAT'S ALL THIS?
35:48WE WANTED TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE ENGAGEMENT AND THE WEDDING.
35:51THIS IS THE WEDDING THAT'S TAKING PLACE IN THREE WEEKS' TIME.
35:54LESS THAN THREE WEEKS NOW.
35:58AND YOU THINK I DON'T HAVE EYES IN MY HEAD?
36:00THERE'S A LOOK TO YOUNG MOTHERS.
36:03EVEN BEFORE THEIR BODYS TELL THE TALE.
36:07HAVE YOU GUESSED, MRS WELLIS?
36:09I HAVE.
36:11I MUST HAVE SAID SOME TERRIFYING THINGS IN YOUR IMAGINATION.
36:16YES.
36:18THEN LET THAT BE YOUR PUNISHMENT.
36:21NOW MAKE ME A CUP OF TEA.
36:30I BEG YOUR PARDON
36:33I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN
36:37ALONG WITH THE SUNSHINE
36:40THERE'S GOTTA BE A LITTLE RAIN SOMETIMES
36:45BUT WHEN YOU TAKE YOU GOTTA GIVE
36:47SO LIVE, NOT LIVE, OR LET GO
36:50OH, OH, OH, OH, OH, I BEG YOUR PARDON
36:55I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN
37:00I COULD PROMISE YOU THINGS LIKE BIG DIAMOND RINGS
37:04BUT YOU DON'T FIND ROSES GROWING ON STOCKS SO CLOSER
37:09SO YOU BETTER THINK IT OVER
37:14WELL, IT'S SWEET TALK AND YOU COULD MAKE IT COME TRUE
37:18I WILL GIVE YOU THE WORLD RIGHT NOW ON A SILVER BLADDER
37:24BUT WHAT WOULD IT MATTER
37:29THIS NEWSPAPER STORY CERTAINLY MADE A SPLASH
37:32WILL IT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE, DO YOU SUPPOSE?
37:35MY DAD WENT ALONG WITH IT BUT I DON'T THINK HE'S VERY OPTIMISTIC
37:40I KEEP FEELING AS THOUGH I SHOULD BE HELPING YOU
37:43YOU'RE A JUNIOR DOCTOR NOW, NOT A STUDENT
37:46NO DONKEY WORK ALLOWED
37:51THERE'S SOME SORT OF SPRING STICKING OUT OF THIS SADDLE AND INTO MY BACKSIDE, JOYCE
37:57DISTRICT WORK IS ALL ABOUT DETERMINATION IN THE FACE OF CHALLENGE
38:00AND IF YOU CAN'T GET ON BOARD WITH THAT, YOU'RE NOT GETTING YOUR RED CARD AGAIN
38:08I FEEL FOR THE PAIR OF THEM, MRS. WALLACE
38:11NOTHING TAKES A SHINE OF A WEDDING LIKE PARENTAL DISAPROVAL
38:15IT WAS ALBERS GOING TO BE UNDER A SHADOW BECAUSE OF PASTOR ROBINSON'S DIVORCE
38:19BUT HE DESERVES AS MUCH HAPPINESS AS ANY OTHER MAN
38:23NOW HIS MISTAKES ARE BEHIND HIM
38:25I DON'T THINK HIS MARRIAGE TO LUCILLE WAS A MISTAKE, MRS. WALLACE
38:29IT WAS NEVER A UNION WITHOUT LOVE
38:36PERHAPS MATTERS WOULD HAVE TURNED OUT DIFFERENTLY IF THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO HAVE A CHILD
38:40A BABY IS ALWAYS A BLESSING
38:44AND NOW WE MUST LOOK TO THE FUTURE
38:49LET US SAY NOTHING FURTHER
38:54MEANWHILE, HISTORY ARRANGED THOUGH IT MAY BE, THIS IS ROSALIND'S FIRST WEDDING
39:00HOW DO WE MAKE IT SPECIAL FOR THEM?
39:03HOW DO WE MAKE UP FOR THE FACT THAT HER PARENTS HAVE TREATED THEM SO COLD
39:08BE SIMPLE ENOUGH, NURSE CRANE
39:10WE SHOW THEM LOVE
39:14NURSE
39:15NURSE
39:15NURSE, MY WIFE IS ON THE SECOND FLOOR
39:18I WILL TAKE YOU TO HER
39:20THAT'S OKAY HONEY
39:20LET US PACK THESE BICYCLES AND WE'LL HEAD STRAIGHT OUT
39:23THIS IS YOUNG DR. TURNER BY THE WAY
39:26UH, DOCTOR, YES?
39:28HE'LL BE WORKING UNDER MY SUPERVISION
39:41DO YOU HAVE RUNNING WATER, MR. DAS?
39:43WE HAVE ONLY ONE ROOM
39:44WE USE THIS STACK
39:53OH, NOW SILENT
39:55IT'S MISSES O'DAY, ISN'T IT?
39:57I REMEMBER YOU'RE FROM THE CLINIC
39:58YOU COULDN'T COME AND LOOK AT MY LITTLE BARRY COULD YOU?
40:01YOU DON'T SEEM RIGHT
40:02I'M ON MY WAY TO A LADY IN LABOR
40:05WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH HIM?
40:06IT'S LIKE A COLD AND A BIT OF A COFF
40:08PLEASE
40:09I CAN HEAR CRYING OUT
40:11HAVE YOU TAKEN HIM TO THE SURGERY?
40:13I HAVEN'T GOT THE BUS FEAR
40:14I DON'T GET MY MONEY TO YOU TOMORROW
40:16PLEASE
40:18I'LL POP DOWN LATER, HONEY, WHEN I GET A CHANCE
40:25I'LL HAVE TO RUN OR THE CHIPPIE WILL BE CLOSED
40:28JUMP COD OR HADDOCK
40:30COD?
40:31AND GET HADDOCK FOR DAD
40:32HE'S HUNGRY WHEN HE COMES IN FROM PICKING UP DEAD BODIES
40:36I'LL BE BACK IN TEN
40:40PERRY!
40:40MY JACKIE MAGAZINE IS STILL IN THE BEDROOM
40:44MY JACKIE MAGAZINE IS STILL IN THE BEDROOM
40:44MY JACKIE MAGAZINE IS STILL IN THE BEDROOM
40:51MY JACKIE MAGAZINE IS STILL IN THE BEDROOM
41:14MY JACKIE MAGAZINE IS STILL IN THE BEDROOM
41:16MY JACKIE MAGAZINE IS STILL IN THE BEDROOM
41:31I SHOULD NOT BE HERE
41:33NO MAN SHOULD BE HERE
41:35UNLESS HE'S A DOCTOR
41:37BUT I HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO GO AND I DO NOT WANT TO LEAVE HER
41:41WE COULD RIG ON A SCREEN
41:43I CAN GO OUT ONTO THE LANDING AND REQUISITION A BIT OF WASHING LINE
41:47YOU GET CRACKING
41:48BUT I NEED YOU BACK QUICKLY
41:49OR THIS WON'T COME TOWARDS YOUR ROTATION
41:51YOU KNOW?
41:54USE
42:38Now, with this next pain, we're going to need a really long, strong push from you, Ranjini.
42:44I am too tired.
42:45You're stronger than you know, and you've come further than you think already.
42:49Mm-hmm. This one talks a good talk.
42:52Let's see if we can prove him right.
42:59Help! Help!
43:01It's excellent, Ranjini. It's excellent.
43:05I'll check for it to send it to the head.
43:12It's crawling.
43:16The baby's head has been born, Ranjini.
43:20It's resting right here in my hand.
43:24Help! We need the nurse!
43:30Do you mind? A lady is having a baby in here.
43:33I can't stop breathing!
43:47Just rest, Ranjini. Just rest.
43:53And I'll talk you through the next bit.
43:55Help! I'm sorry!
43:59What's all this, young man?
44:01You okay?
44:03What happened?
44:04Did he choke on something?
44:06It was just like he was just choking on the air and then he just stopped.
44:12Why has he gone blue?
44:14Somebody call an ambulance.
44:26This is just your baby turning, Ranjini.
44:29Everything's okay.
44:35Mary, Mary, please, Mary.
44:38Is he breathing? Is he breathing?
44:41What?
44:46He's not working! He's going public!
44:49He's going public!
44:50Did somebody call an ambulance?
44:52Oh!
44:55You're almost there.
44:57This is it, Ranjini.
44:59Yes!
45:07And you have a little girl.
45:24I'm not going to stop until the ambulance gets here.
45:39Where is the midwife?
45:56Ranjini.
45:58I'm going to have to give you an injection.
46:25He needs to go to the hospital and be checked.
46:36He needs to go to the hospital and be checked.
46:48I don't suppose many health schools end up with two ambulances arriving.
46:52No.
46:53The baby seems to have that crew.
46:55And they do bounce back from that.
46:58And Ranjini will be alright after a blood transfusion.
47:01I froze for a moment.
47:04But then it was like my heart rate shot up.
47:07And my brain kicked in.
47:09That would be the adrenaline.
47:12I wonder if anyone's ever done blood tests on doctors immediately after a crisis situation.
47:17That might make an interesting research paper.
47:19Yes.
47:25Belinda.
47:26I can't show you the bruises your sister has all down her back.
47:30But I'm telling you, you have to come home.
47:33You said I was to throw everything I've got at university.
47:36You said it was something you never had.
47:38This isn't about you.
47:39And it isn't about me.
47:41This is about Susan.
47:43Roll her.
47:43This will be a shame really necessary.
47:45Everything is always about Susan.
47:48And I know you love her as much as us.
47:52There are essentially two ways of approaching makeup.
47:55One can purely use it to disguise nature's shortcomings or push things a little further and deploy it as a
48:01sort of costume.
48:01You mean like a disguise?
48:03No.
48:04People hide behind disguises.
48:07Bold lips and defined eyes can bring out our inner confidence.
48:12Try putting this on.
48:13By yourself this time.
48:16And then I'll show you how to blot.
48:29Do you ever have to bring out your inner confidence?
48:32More frequently than you might imagine.
48:38It's jolly hot in here.
48:40Bear with me a moment.
48:42It's the excitement of seeing yourself transformed perhaps.
48:45No, I suspect it's something else.
48:49It's past now.
48:51Let's get on with your nails.
48:56And before we turn our attention to the riveting recent investigation into unlicensed butchery operations.
49:04We have item five on the agenda.
49:07The closure of Kenilworth Row maternity home.
49:10Which counts as unlicensed butchery all on its own.
49:14Thank you, Turner.
49:16Any comments from the wider committee?
49:18Yes.
49:19From me, Dr Threatford.
49:25This is what midwifery looks like in your district.
49:30And this is what local people think about your proposal.
49:34The women of Poplar know how vital and how valuable the sisters are.
49:40And you're closing them down too.
49:42This is the direction of travel dictated by the National Health.
49:48Meanwhile, Turner, rest assured that even as you progress to this next phase, we continue to learn from you.
49:55Will you be watching to see what goes wrong?
49:58Because there'll be plenty.
50:01May we move on now to item six?
50:10I will pray for you when I say the offices.
50:12You will not be as alone in the chapel as you imagine.
50:16Oh, keep the home fires burning and all of that.
50:21I will telephone from the mother house if there is anything to report.
50:24All right.
50:27All right.
50:27To-the other word!
50:29Oh...
50:34I'm with you, I'm ready!
50:40Oh, shoot!
50:46Yes, I'm done!
50:52Are you happy to take your diuretics with just water
50:55or would you like me to make some hot blackcurrant?
51:00I require no beverages
51:02for I will take no pills
51:10But the treatment is working
51:13It is not treatment
51:14It is merely postponing all that is to come
51:20You would have me out in nature
51:24But I would sooner admit nature into this room
51:30and let it take its course
51:36Sister, I'm speaking to you nurse to nurse now
51:41If you refuse your medication
51:43you will progress from chronic kidney disease
51:47to end stage renal failure very rapidly
51:53And what if that is what the Lord intends?
52:14Sister Catherine, what's this?
52:20I chose this life because I wanted certainty
52:25There was work and a rule of life
52:30and there was faith to knit it all together
52:35But now nobody is where they ought to be
52:38and we don't know what's coming next
52:43Sister, are you doubting your vocation?
52:47No
52:47I have made my vows
52:50and those vows are indivisible from my soul
52:55But if I felt I could leave
52:59I would leave
53:02Because right now it would be easier
53:04It would not
53:05I can promise you that
53:10I'm sorry
53:13Just now
53:15Just today
53:19I feel so alone
53:23I'm almost at the end of Harry's new jumper
53:26I suppose I'll be casting on for Rosalind's baby after this
53:30There is going to be a baby, isn't there?
53:32Of course there is
53:33The girl's been locked in the bathroom every morning
53:43There is so much change afoot
53:50Phyllis
53:51I often find people speak of change
53:54As if they are speaking about rats
53:56As if change is something hiding underneath the house
54:02Attempting to get in
54:04And gnaw at all that we hold precious
54:06Perhaps we would be better to compare change
54:11To the birds
54:14Enlighten me
54:15Well, birds do what birds will
54:18They carry twigs in their beaks
54:20And seeds
54:22So they build nests
54:24And sow flowers
54:26However accidentally
54:29Maybe you should put that in a poem
54:39Good things can come from birds
54:41And it's the same with change
54:47Oh, it's Mrs. Turner
54:54Is that Belinda?
54:56Oh, no, darling
54:57Hello
54:59Hi
55:00Welcome home, love
55:08Is that what I think it is?
55:12I'm eight months gone
55:14I managed to hide it over the summer holidays
55:17And then once I went back
55:18I thought I'd be safe
55:19I thought I wouldn't have to tell you
55:22And then I had to come home
55:23Because of Susan
55:50Often a fear faced up to
55:52Is a fear outgunned
55:55And love expressed becomes
55:58Love doubled and ignited
56:01Whether we light the fire through words or deeds
56:07There is always a way ahead
56:11A route through the woods
56:14A path that leads us to the place we need to be
56:22We listen always for the voice that calls us
56:30But sometimes love speaks loudest
56:34As we let it go
56:36I'm not sure what we need to do
56:36I'm not sure what we need to do
56:36I'm not sure what we need to do
56:37I'm not sure what we need to do
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