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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?
06:16I've been postponing a decision for a long time now.
06:23Come on!
06:24Come on!
06:25Come on!
06:26Come on!
06:30Come on!
06:31Come on!
06:32In three!
06:33In three!
06:34Out!
06:35Wingerbird!
06:35Wingerbird!
06:37Wingerbird!
06:38Wingerbird!
06:38Wingerbird!
06:41Wingerbird!
06:43It's not a decision about drink.
06:46It's a decision about work.
06:49And work is my other addiction.
06:53is there a doctor in here anyone i'm an ass that'll do it's a concussion
07:01you're staging sporting events you're legally obliged to have medical help on the premises
07:05i know nothing about no legal obligations um this is her harmony savage hello harmony i'm a nurse
07:13i'm sorry you've been hurt occupationalisered did you lose consciousness or did you remain
07:19aware of your surroundings i never went out i was just putting on a bit of a show punters like
07:27i've got to go back out finish your job whoa you were out cold i did the count but it's
07:33over
07:34brenda the butcher won fair and square
07:39you'll have gone to give out the prize money if you can't be absolutely sure that you weren't
07:46knocked out i really think you ought to go to the casualty department i'm gonna go home to bed
07:53oh hello sweetie
07:58who's this carl my boy he comes to all my fights
08:04come on let's pack up and get you in the van
08:07you really must not drive after blacking out however briefly any better ideas
08:15i know it was false alarms at that heat but
08:20made me think how real all this is how we've made a proper grown-up life
08:29you do go on it's like me and the baby of the family gave you a great big chip on
08:35your shoulder
08:36no it wasn't that it was being the one who is no good at all the things the others did
08:43it's not your fault you won't cut out for the tiling trade besides i'd rather have a bit of soft
08:50scoop than a hundred yards of mosaic flooring
08:54come on lights out what's that oh nothing
08:59tony there's blood on your singlet what is it show me
09:09oh how long have you had this oh wow
09:15i'll put the plaster on it you will not in the morning i'm ringing the doctor
09:30out
09:36wrestling was all i knew even as a little girl
09:39my dab was burnt savage lamb of pamphlet god rest him i used to watch him every time he fought
09:45it's rather wonderful that you followed in his footsteps
09:48even more wonderful if it were legal
09:49there's a whole ladies circuit up north just as legitimate as a men's but
09:53in london we're outlaws
09:55i really would like you to be seen by a doctor if at all possible harmony
09:59oh my real name's gwen
10:02thanks for seeing us home
10:05come a little in
10:18i've given up doing sports and everything
10:22so unsightly
10:26i probably just banged it
10:28oh
10:30it looks like a sebaceous cyst to me
10:35antibiotics will take the edge off it but i think it needs to be removed
10:39well i got a baby through any day
10:42all the more reason to get it out of the way
10:45i'll call st cuthberts myself
10:57now that is a bird song i can easily identify
11:01the lesser spotted buck
11:05ah sister how you keeping
11:07i'm keeping on
11:10if a little more desiccated with 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 donuts in my shed
11:25would 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
11:36i reckon i felt the first nip
11:39i like it when the seasons start to turn though
11:42that time of year the maest in me behold
11:46when yellow leaves
11:48or none or few
11:50do hang upon those boughs
11:53that shake with cold
11:56bare ruined choirs
11:59where late the sweet birds sang
12:03in me
12:04thou seest the twilight of such day
12:08as after sunset fadeth in the west
12:12which by and by
12:15like night doth take away their second self
12:19that seals up all in rest
12:24i think it must be very dense
12:44i think it's like an instant
12:55Accumination.
12:58Would you like a cup of tea?
13:00If you will sit and take one with me.
13:13Well, Miss Savage, I'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 that keeps coming up sort of on the back of my shoulder.
13:25If you just slip your blouse off, dear.
13:29I don't believe I've ever met a lady wrestler before.
13:32I imagine it's quite physically taxing.
13:35I call over sometimes, fight or no fight.
13:48I think I know what this is.
13:50It'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 and 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, I'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.
15:40Not yet.
15:47Do you want to attack? Do you want to give up?
15:48You're short.
15:57Do you want to attack?
16:15The winner is Devonition Deppie!
16:37Are you feeling sick?
16:40This is not good, honey.
16:42But we're going to do a test.
16:44I'll help you.
16:45I don't want anyone to know.
16:47They won't.
16:52My name is Higgins.
16:53Have the samples gone off to the laboratory yet?
16:55They will be dispatched very shortly,
16:57but if you wish to add any to the list,
16:59I'm afraid you must see to the paperwork yourself.
17:11I'll help you.
17:18Nurse?
17:19Good morning, Gwen.
17:20Dr Turner remembered an iodine preparation
17:22he thought might help with your skin condition.
17:24I told him I'd drop it off.
17:27Have you been in another fight?
17:29Yes.
17:30And I didn't win that one either.
17:38New school's day, old chap.
17:40I overslept again.
17:41I don't like going in late because it gets told off.
17:44I imagine you're exhausted after a match.
17:47I'm always exhausted, but I'm a mum, aren't I?
17:50And it's just me.
17:52If I weren't tired, I mean I was slacking.
17:55I'm a stepmother to a little boy of Carl's age
17:58that certainly keeps one on one's toes.
18:00I hope he talks like you do.
18:02You've got a lovely way of putting things.
18:05Can I make you a cuppa?
18:07A cuppa would actually be extremely welcome,
18:10but I should be making you one.
18:15I'm sorry.
18:16I'll have to get out.
18:29That's all I've got this time.
18:30I'll give you the full amount next week.
18:33I've heard that before and more than once.
18:36I am not a charity.
18:44Now there ain't nothing in here but feathers.
18:47I'm officially skinned.
18:48Do you keep your money in a cushion cover?
18:50I don't trust banks.
18:52At least that's where I know my money is.
18:54Even when I've got none.
18:56Sorry.
18:58I've gone dizzy.
19:02Mr. Bianchi.
19:04I'm Mr. Penn Warden.
19:05I'll be removing this cyst for you.
19:07Do you mind if I take a look?
19:17Don't want to go hacking away on the wrong side.
19:25Hmm.
19:26Could just drain this,
19:27but I'm leaning on the side of getting the whole thing out.
19:36Your bloods may come back perfectly normal.
19:39But I strongly suspect that if you'd have almost passed out in front of Dr. Turner, he'd want to check
19:43your iron levels.
19:45Maybe I just need a tonic.
19:47Maybe you do.
19:49I just think that as another woman who's often had to stand on her own two feet, you need to
19:54be in better condition than this.
19:56Are you on your own with your kiddie?
19:59No.
20:00But I was very much on my own for a long time before he and his father came into my
20:05life.
20:06And I know what it feels like to be fighting an invisible opponent.
20:10I've fought invisible ones and all.
20:12And I've no doubt you're extremely good at it.
20:14But you need someone more than a wrestling promoter in your corner.
20:19Let us help find out what's causing your malaise.
20:23Nurse Clifford's gone out to the cinema.
20:26But Nurse Hyland says we can have the box.
20:28Her new slippers came in.
20:29Could there be a more perfect showcase for nature's bounty?
20:33Oh!
20:34We can do a lot with ribbon and crypt paper.
20:37And that's before we start tying bows round marrows.
20:40Oh! These lamentable scissors. They wouldn't cut butter.
20:44Shall I see if I can find a sharper pair?
20:46What we really need is Sister Veronica and her magic pinking shears.
20:51How long has she gone to the mother house for?
20:55A lengthy retreat.
20:57I wasn't allowed to ask.
20:59It's her private spiritual business.
21:02Do you suppose she took her pinking shears?
21:05I would settle for her implements if we can't have her.
21:34What was Sister Monica Joan?
21:37I was hoping it was something that could be treated.
21:41But chronic kidney disease is just something that takes old people gently but kindly.
21:47But it takes them.
21:50How long has she been ill with this?
21:52I suspect not long.
21:55How long does she have?
21:59The same.
22:02Unless we can persuade her to accept what treatment there is,
22:05she'll progress to end-stage renal failure fairly quickly.
22:12Till that day comes, we'll just have to love her as we always have.
22:18But a bit more carefully.
22:25You look happy.
22:28Today is a happy day.
22:31I got a letter from the solicitor.
22:33The decree absolute.
22:35I'm officially a single man.
22:39Everything we do now is ours.
22:42Our choice to make.
22:44The Board of Health requested a meeting.
22:46I told them your diary was full, but they were most insistent.
22:50It's in your diary for Friday.
22:53I anticipate the usual fun and games.
22:57I need to see Anthony Bianchi.
22:59I've just had his histopathology results through from the hospital.
23:03Should I make an appointment for him?
23:06No.
23:07I'll call in on him today.
23:10We told you the truth.
23:12Sister Veronica is on retreat.
23:14You told us she had gone on retreat to the mother house.
23:17She would need her cross in the mother house.
23:19She 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.
23:39Too much of it is personal to her.
23:41But I can say she is struggling with her vows and has been given leave of absence for a while.
23:48She's staying at the Oliver Christian Retreat Centre at Gravesend.
23:53Alone.
23:56Without anyone she knows or any friends to support her.
24:02Sister, out of all of us, Sister Veronica emits the most love.
24:09She needs the most love.
24:11She does not know what she needs or wants.
24:14And that is why she has had to go away.
24:21Morning.
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.
24:42I know.
24:45She was a lovely lady.
24:47And even in the five years since she passed away we've learned so much about it.
24:54I can't have it.
24:57I'm a man.
24:59It is rare in men, especially for someone of your age.
25:03But it's not unheard of.
25:05Everyone has breast tissue, Tony.
25:08Men and women.
25:10We have less of it.
25:12But it only takes a couple of cells to go rogue.
25:16And a tumour can start to develop.
25:19I have had some specialist training.
25:22And there are new treatments and new approaches to surgery.
25:35Should I have done something sooner when 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 every step of the way.
25:48I don't care whereabouts in your body it is.
25:51You've got the big C. We 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...
26:13Dignity.
26:15You need to feel like a man.
26:19There's a bike for sale.
26:25Maybe for your birthday, eh?
26:28If you win your next fight.
26:33Yes?
26:40Doctor.
26:42Gwen Savage's 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.
26:55It's just markers for minor inflammation, slightly low white blood count.
27:01Could the pain relate to the wrestling?
27:03I 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 them but 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.
27:32I really don't think you'll have very long to wait.
27:35Oh, this reading is just a little bit higher than I'd like.
27:41We 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 could take a look at you.
28:05Any chance of a 99?
28:07I've an elderly friend, might like a bit of a pick-the-up.
28:11What's the matter, pal?
28:16Brian?
28:20You ain't put me down for a single match.
28:24I can't afford to promote wrestlers who keep losing.
28:26Look, I can raise my game.
28:28My dad used to say, aim up, things 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.
28:45I 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 I don't want to worry all this.
29:12There's going to be further surgery and a radiography assessment.
29:24We're going to have to stop working.
29:26Won't be for long.
29:28You've got a 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.
29:39They can't provide it.
29:43I'm telling them nothing.
29:48PHONE RINGS
29:52Geoffrey Franklin?
29:53Mr Franklin, it's Sister Catherine from Nunata's house.
29:57It's about Sister Veronica.
30:00And...
30:01I'm calling you in confidence.
30:04I see.
30:06I don't like leaving you on your own, Tony.
30:10Don't be daft.
30:12I'm fine.
30:14Hey.
30:16Look.
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.
30:28Alright.
30:30Just promise me.
30:32You'll tell your brothers.
30:36I 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, given that my days are numbered.
31:04Everybody's days are numbered, Sister.
31:07Mine as well as yours, one 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 quite a long time.
31:32Let's see how we do, shall we?
31:35With these diuretics.
31:53Call?
32:03Call?
32:15We'll proceed with a full mastectomy of your right breast.
32:19We'll remove the breast tissue, along with the lymph nodes and the pectoralis major muscle.
32:27I don't want to do this.
32:29I 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, where are you?
32:56Can I help you?
32:57I'm Carl Savage's mum.
32:59Is he here because if he's not a-
33:01Carl Savage?
33:02I've just checked every member of his class for headlace, including him.
33:06Oh, thank God.
33:07Thank God.
33:08Do you want to go in and speak with him?
33:10Gwen?
33:11What's happened?
33:12I couldn't wake up this morning.
33:13Carl took himself to the hospital.
33:14I'm going to school.
33:16It's the worst I've ever felt.
33:18What's this on your face, Gwen?
33:20It's like this all the time.
33:21I'll cover it with a 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.
33:59And 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 sheet.
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 has 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.
34:33How 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.
34:47Gwen, you are too unwell to fight.
34:53Tony, thank God I've been worried sick.
34:56How did it go at the hospital?
34:57It was all fine.
35:00Your doctor's very pleased with me.
35:02Oh, really?
35:04So what happens next?
35:06What treatment have they given you?
35:08So many pills I'll be rattling.
35:12The important thing is that you are getting some rest.
35:16Not worrying yourself silly.
35:18I'm not now.
35:18I've heard your voice.
35:20I love your voice.
35:22Now do you ever get to talk on the phone?
35:26Because we're together all the time.
35:28And we'll be together again soon.
35:48Tony!
35:50Tony!
35:51We're going down the pub.
35:52You're coming?
35:54Tony!
35:56I'll give up.
35:57Come on.
35:58Let's go down.
36:01Oh, no.
36:02Come on.
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 rota in the retreat house.
36:37Stop.
36:37Stop.
36:38Before you completely break my heart.
36:41Come here almost every day.
36:43Sometimes I have an eclair.
36:45When the fancier takes me, I have a cream split.
36:49You get a cherry on a cream split.
36:51And there's this little burst of flavour when you bite it.
36:56Tell me you've eaten fish and chips in the street too.
36:58In broad daylight.
36:59Why?
37:01Although sometimes it feels as though it's the things I don't do that tell me more about where I am
37:07now.
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 can't disguise the fact that you are still living the same sort
37:33of half-life.
37:34Trapped underneath a similar, godly, bell jar.
37:39And how do you propose a change that?
37:42Come and stay with me.
37:43Geoffrey.
37:45I am still technically a nun. I 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.
38:05Do you have anyone to talk to? Your brothers, perhaps?
38:10I can't.
38:13Not with it being, you know, breast cancer.
38:17It's so humiliating.
38:19I can hear them now.
38:22Your typical Tony.
38:26Doctor 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.
38:35We 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.
38:50Older's best fighting moves.
38:51A cat gun was mentioned.
38:54And something about which jelly babies tasted best.
38:59Green ones.
39:02According to Enzo.
39:04Always gave me the green ones.
39:07Brothers look after each other, Tony.
39:10I've seen it with my own boys.
39:14Right now I shouldn't be moaning about me.
39:18I should be looking after Tina.
39:20Doctor Turner says she can come home if you're feeling up to it.
39:25Of course I'm feeling up to it.
39:31Something tells me something's gonna happen tonight.
39:38I read in the papers that Gem 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.
40:26You stay in the dressing room tonight. Promise?
40:30Promise.
40:31And if I win, you'll get that bike.
40:35My precious boy.
40:59You're keeping up with those 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.
41:27Her 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.
41:44I don't feel right, Tony.
41:51Joyce, what am I going to do?
41:54The pill was supposed to be foolproof.
41:57Honey, the 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
42:09because they don't approve of Cyril.
42:11What? I approve of Cyril.
42:13He is a good man and he will support you.
42:16Whatever you choose to do.
42:18Choose 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.
42:43You have enough of peppermint and wash your face.
42:53Gentlemen, please take your seats for tonight's teeny-weeny-stimpy-bikini extravaganza of advice.
43:05I'm ringing up about Tina Bianchi.
43:08We think she's gone into labour.
43:10I've been timing them for two minutes apart.
43:15Rosalyn?
43:16Rosalyn!
43:17Come quickly!
43:1815, 20.
43:20As promised.
43:22Put on 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 Carl do then?
43:46Look, if you're not going to fight, you 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.
45:04Do you want to tap? Do you want to give up?
45:09Do you want to give up?
45:10Do you want 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.
45:29No!
45:32Wait!
45:33No!
45:33Don't.
45:35No!
45:53Can you hear me?
45:55Gwen?
45:56Gwen?
45:58Call for an ambulance.
46:00Quickly!
46:04Mr. Bianchi?
46:05You need to get ready to deliver this baby yourself.
46:08But you must not hang up.
46:10Do you hear me?
46:21Oh, I can see.
46:23I can see the egg.
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.
46:35And 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.
46:42All 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.
47:14It's a boy, Tia.
47:20We call it a boy.
47:40You did it, Tony.
47:42You delivered our son.
47:46Just look at you.
47:51Well, someone was in a hurry to get into the world.
47:55Wait till we tell all your uncles about this.
48:03There she is.
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, even if your health allowed you to keep on fighting.
48:36There are alternatives, just as there's alternatives to keeping your money in a cushion cover.
48:42And are you going 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.
49:03Look, I'm going to ask you.
49:04Oh.
49:07Mrs. Turner's just helping Tina to freshen up.
49:10And then Master Bianchi needs to have his lunch.
49:13The nail 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!
49:41Let's...
49:44Something's come up.
49:47That I'm...
49:48Not going to be able to do single-handed.
49:55I've got cancer.
50:09I've got cancer.
50:14Breast cancer.
50:15Oh, Tony.
50:19I wish Mama was here.
50:36You are the best of us, little brother.
50:40And we...
50:42will 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.
51:30Thanks, Nurse.
51:33And thanks for the advice.
51:36It's like a bold move, taking a job in a gym, training other women.
51:41But it's legal in Lancashire, Gwen, and 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.
51:51Thanks.
52:21I came home from a lunch hour. Do you want to go for a walk?
52:24No. I'm afraid I don't.
52:28It seems you've made a decent fist at moving your weekly clinic onto hospital premises.
52:34Yes. There was some grumbling from patients about bus fares, but I think we're on an even keel.
52:42Good. Because speaking scientist to scientist, and to paraphrase our friend Charles Darwin,
52:47it 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. And I know I can't look after my patients properly if I don't adapt.
53:02A very good attitude to have. Which 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. There is no always anymore.
53:44There isn't even an always for me. The 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 Ninata's house.
53:57Ninata's house.
53:59They were forever outliers. And 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. And 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.
54:44And you say that as though it's a problem.
54:52I want it very much.
54:55We just didn't want this.
54:57Did we?
54:59I think that it's something that has happened a little out of order.
55:06But I wouldn't have taken you to bed 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 the 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'd have to be patient.
55:57And I'm not very good at being patient.
56:01I would not say patience has been a distinguishing character.
56:07And now it doesn't have to be.
56:15There is no good harvest if there's been no rain.
56:19The earth requires it, and so do we.
56:23For how else does the heart grow?
56:27Not through relentless sunshine, nor under a cloudless sky.
56:34Life expands, not in spite of the weather, but because of it.
56:41Thus, we are nourished. We take root.
56:44We are taught how to endure.
56:48But there are times when the soul is hungry.
56:53When fruit falls to the ground, and we cannot tell if it's a blessing or temptation.
56:59There 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?
57:33A 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 an artist's house any more.
57:52But the treatment is working.
57:53It is not treatment.
57:55It is merely postponing all that is to come.
58:06To be continued...
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