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