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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!
06:39Come on!
06:40Come on!
06:41Harmony!
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?
06:54Anyone?
06:55I'm an arse.
06:57That'll do.
06:57It's a concussion.
07:01You're staging sporting events.
07:03You're legally obliged to have medical help on the premises.
07:06I know nothing about no legal obligations.
07:08This is her.
07:09Harmony Savage.
07:11Hello, Harmony.
07:12I'm a nurse.
07:13I'm sorry you've been hurt.
07:16Occupationalisered.
07:17Did you lose consciousness or did you remain aware of your surroundings?
07:21I never went out.
07:21I was just putting on a bit of a show.
07:25Punters like it.
07:27I've got to go back out.
07:28Finish your job.
07:29Whoa, whoa.
07:30You were out cold.
07:31I did the count, but it's over.
07:34Brenda the butcher won fair and square.
07:39You'll have gone to give out the prize money.
07:42If you can't be absolutely sure that you weren't knocked out, I really think you ought to go to the
07:48casualty department.
07:49I'm going to go home to bed.
07:53Oh, hello, sweetie.
07:58Who's this?
07:59Carl, my boy.
08:01He comes to all my fights.
08:04Come on.
08:05Let's pack up and get you in the van.
08:07You really must not drive after blacking out, however briefly.
08:12Any better ideas.
08:15I know it was a false alarm for that heat, but...
08:20It made me think how real all this is.
08:25How we've made a proper grown-up life.
08:29You do go on.
08:32It's like me and the baby of the family gave you a great big chip on your shoulder.
08:36No, it wasn't that.
08:38It was being the one who was no good at all the things the others did.
08:43It's not your fault you weren't cut out for the tiling trade.
08:48Besides, I'd rather have a bit of soft scoop than a hundred yards of mosaic flooring.
08:54Come on, like that.
08:56What's that?
08:57Oh, nothing.
08:59Tony, there's blood on your singlet.
09:02What is it? Show me.
09:09Oh, how long have you had this?
09:12Oh, wow.
09:15I'll put a plaster on it.
09:17You will not.
09:19In the morning, I'm ringing the doctor.
09:30Out with it.
09:36Wrestling was all I knew, even as a little girl.
09:39My dad was Bert Savage, lamb of pamphlet.
09:42God rest him.
09:44I used to watch him every time he fought.
09:45It's rather wonderful that you followed in his footsteps.
09:48It'd be even more wonderful if it were legal.
09:50There's a whole AD circuit up north, just as legitimate as the 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 on, little in.
10:18I've given up doing sports and everything.
10:22So unsightly.
10:25I probably just banged it.
10:31It looks like a sebaceous cyst to me.
10:35Antibiotics will take the edge off it, but I think it needs to be removed.
10:39Oh, I've got a baby through any day.
10:42All the more reason to get it out of the way.
10:45I'll call St Cuthbert's myself.
10:57Now, that is a bird's song I can easily identify.
11:02The lesser spotted buck.
11:05Ah, sister, how are you keeping?
11:07I'm keeping on.
11:10If a little more desiccated 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 doughnuts in my shed.
11:26Would they cheer you up a bit?
11:27Are they jam-filled?
11:29No, they're the ones with the holes in.
11:31Then I will forego them.
11:33Do 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 maced in me behold
11:46When yellow leaves, or none or few
11:50Do hang upon those boughs that shake with cold
11:56Bare ruined choirs
11:59Where late the sweet birds sang
12:02In 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
12:21That seals up all in rest
12:40Sister Monica Joan
12:42What's brought this on?
12:47Time, Mr. Buckle
12:50It's passage and its sheer
12:53Weary
12:55Accumulation
12:57Would you like a cup of tea?
13:00If you will sit and take one with me
13:13Well, Miss Savage
13:14I'm not seeing anything that needs further tests
13:18Any other bumps or bruises you'd like me to look at?
13:20I've got a rash
13:21Cutes coming up sort of on the back of my shoulder
13:25If you just slip your blouse off, dear
13:28I don't believe I've ever met a lady wrestler before
13:32Imagine it's quite physically taxing
13:35I call over sometimes
13:37Fight 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
14:09And bathe the blisters in salt water
14:12Can I do that with my hips and my knees?
14:14Do you have a rash there as well?
14:16No, we just hurt all the time
14:18Miss Savage, are you able to take a break from your work for a while?
14:22No
14:22I've got mouths to feed
14:24Mine and my little boys
14:32I've been looking forward to this moment all day
14:35I 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
14:47Me neither
14:50I'm sorry child
14:52You're all wrapped up in something?
14:55I'm trying to work out exactly when I started taking a pill
14:59Calculated against the number of actual pills you have to take before it protects you
15:04And why is that?
15:05I've never missed a single one
15:09I'm wondering if it's thrown my hormones out of whack
15:11I mean, it can do that, can't it?
15:14Child, the whole point of the pill is to throw your hormones out of whack
15:18That's how it stops you getting pregnant
15:21Are you late?
15:24I've been late before
15:26And things just sort of corrected themselves
15:31That would have been before you had a boyfriend
15:35Do you think you need to do it to us?
15:38No
15:39Not yet
15:46Do you want to attack? Do you want to give up?
15:48You sure?
15:49No
15:50No
15:51No
15:53No
15:53No
15:55No
15:57No
15:59No
16:00I'm not ready to get it by
16:01No
16:03No
16:04Yes
16:04No
16:05No
16:08No
16:12No
16:13No
16:14No
16:15No
16:15No
16:38Are 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.
16:52Good morning, Miss 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.
17:18Nat?
17:18Good morning, Gwen.
17:20Dr. Turner remembered an iodine preparation he 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.
17:38Miss Gordstay, old chap.
17:39I 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.
17:52I weren't tired.
17:53I mean, I was slacking.
17:55I'm a stepmother to a little boy of Carl's age that certainly keeps one on one's toes.
18:01I 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, but 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 there 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 this way 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?
19:17I don't want to go hacking away on the wrong side.
19:26Could just drain this, but I'm leaning on the side of getting the whole thing out.
19:36Your bloods may come back perfectly normal.
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.
19:57You're on your own with your kiddie.
20:00No, but I was very much on my own for a long time before he and his father came into
20:04my life.
20:06I 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, but Nurse Highland 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, we can do a lot with ribbon and crypt paper.
20:37And that's before we start tying bows around marrows.
20:40Oh, these lamentable scissors.
20:42They 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.
20:52How 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.
21:32Oh, Sister Monica Joan.
21:37I was hoping it was something that could be treated.
21:41But chronic kidney disease is just...
21:43Something that takes old people gently but kindly.
21:48But 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.
22:14We'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,
22:48but 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.
23:20Our sister needed our discretion,
23:23and 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
23:34in 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
23:44and has been given leave of absence for a while.
23:48She is 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,
24:06Sister 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,
24:51we've learned so much about it.
24:54I can't have it.
24:57I'm a man.
24:59It is rare in men,
25:00especially 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.
25:11but 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
25:24and new approaches to surgery.
25:34Should I have done something sooner
25:36when I first felt the lump?
25:38We are going to focus on the future now, Tony.
25:42And we are going to be with you
25:44every step of the way.
25:48I don't care whereabouts in your body it is.
25:52You've got the big C.
25:53We have to face up to it.
25:55We can face up to it together.
25:58Without telling people.
26:00What is that going to achieve, Tony?
26:03You need help.
26:05You need love.
26:08Tina.
26:10I need...
26:13Dignity.
26:15I need to feel like a man.
26:19There's a bike for sale.
26:25Maybe for your birthday, eh?
26:28If you're in your next fight.
26:38Yes?
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.
26:55Just markers for minor inflammation.
26:58Slightly low white blood count.
27:01Could the pain relate to the wrestling?
27:03I saw her in the ring and it's incredibly physical.
27:06But an impact injury would be on one side, not both.
27:11It's just that one missing something.
27:14I never liked that.
27:17They 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.
27:31I 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 can take a look at you.
28:05Any chance of a 99?
28:07I've an elderly friend.
28:08Might like a bit of a pick-ne-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.
28:26I 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 you with this.
29:13There's going to be further surgery.
29:17And a radiography assessment.
29:24We're going to have to stop working.
29:26It won'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.
29:43I'm telling him nothing.
29:52Geoffrey Franklin?
29:53Mr. Franklin, it's Sister Catherine from Nunata's house.
29:57It's about Sister Veronica.
30:01And I'm calling you in confidence.
30:05I see.
30:06I don't like leaving you on your own, Tony.
30:10Don't be daft.
30:12I'm fine.
30:14Hey, look.
30:18Got my appointment through already.
30:21Nothing to be done till then.
30:24It's you and the baby we need to think about now.
30:28Well, I just promise me you'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.
31:37All right.
31:53Carl?
32:03Carl?
32:04Carl?
32:05Carl?
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, and at least you won't be having to deal with foam rubber falsies
32:34like my lady patients.
32:43Come on, Carl, where are you?
32:56Can I help you?
32:57I'm Carl Savage's mum. Is he here because if he's not a Carl Savage?
33:02I've just checked every member of his class for headlace, including him.
33:05Oh, thank God. Thank God.
33:08Do you want to go in and speak with him?
33:10Gwen, what's happened?
33:12I couldn't wake up this morning. Carl took himself to school.
33:16It's the worst I've ever felt.
33:18What's this on your face, Gwen?
33:20It's like this all the time. I cover it with pan stick, usually.
33:41You waiting for your wife?
33:43My husband says he can't stand the smell of this place.
33:47Drops me at the door and waits in the pub.
33:51Mr. Bianchi?
33:55Is this ever itchy or sore?
33:58No. And it's never all blisters like the one on my back. It's more like a sunburn.
34:03You've been covering it up with pan stick because it's such a strange shape.
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.
34:32How long will it take to get rid of it?
34:35It's going to be about management rather than cure.
34:39But I promise you we can get you feeling better.
34:43Can't be cured.
34:45But I need to win matches again.
34:47Gwen, you are too unwell to fight.
34:53Tony, thank God I've been worried sick.
34:56How'd it go at the hospital?
34:57It was all fine.
35:00Your doctor's very pleased with me.
35:02Oh, really?
35:04So, um, what happens next?
35:06What treatment are they giving 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.
35:22I only ever get to talk on the phone.
35:26Because we've been together all the time.
35:28And we'll be together again soon.
35:48Tony!
35:50Tony!
35:52We're going down the pub.
35:53You're coming?
35:54Tony!
35:56I'll be your boa.
35:57Come on.
35:58Let's go down.
35:59I'll be still in the hour.
36:00I'll deal with the girl.
36:01Oh, God.
36:02All right.
36:16Beryl burrows as I live and breathe.
36:24Do tell me you're en route to a harvest festival with that dreary swag, because at the very
36:30least it would provoke a degree of fellow feeling in me.
36:32I'm on potato peeling duty, there's a rota in the retreat house.
36:37Stop, stop, before you completely break my heart.
36:41Come here almost every day, sometimes I have an eclair and when the fancy takes me I have
36:47a cream split, you get a cherry on a cream split and there's this little burst of flavour
36:54when you bite it.
36:56Tell me you've eaten fish and chips in the street too, in broad daylight.
36:59Twice.
37:01Although sometimes it feels as though it's the things I don't do that tell me more about
37:07where I am now or where I might go next.
37:10What don't you do?
37:13I don't pray.
37:15I came here to pray, or 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
37:32living the same sort of 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.
37:46I am still technically a nun.
37:49I 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?
38:07Your brothers, perhaps?
38:10I can't.
38:13Not with it being, you know, breast cancer.
38:17It's so humiliating.
38:19I can hear him now.
38:22Your typical tongue, Nate.
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.
38:50All his 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, she'll be moaning about me.
39:18She'll be looking after Tina.
39:20Dr. Turner says she can come home if you're feeling up to it.
39:25Of course I'm feeling up to it.
39:32Something tells me something's gonna happen tonight.
39:38I read in the papers that Jim and our people will make it tonight.
39:45The stars will be shining.
39:47My signs aligning with love.
39:52So come on and make it.
39:54Let'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.
40:29Promise?
40:30Promise.
40:31Promise.
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 it'd be more of a whoosh.
41:44Oh, I don't feel right, Tony.
41:48Bye.
41:49Bye.
41:50Bye.
41:52Joyce, 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 because they don't approve
42:10of Cyril.
42:11What?
42:11I 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.
42:42You have enough of peppermint and wash your face.
42:53Please take your seats for tonight's teeny-meaning skinny-bikini extravaganza of advice.
43:03Nanata's house, midwife speaking.
43:05I'm ringing up about Tina Bianchi.
43:08We think she's gone into labour.
43:10I've been timing them, they're 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, were 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
44:21on the end of this phone until she gets there.
44:25She keeps saying she wants to push.
44:28Tell her to blow.
44:29Tell her to blow as if she is blowing out candles.
44:32Tina, don't push.
44:33Blow.
44:34Blow.
44:36Blow.
44:38Yeah, that's it.
44:39Do it with me.
44:46Wait, wait, wait, wait.
44:50You punch her.
44:51I said no punch.
45:04Do you want to tap?
45:06Do you want to give up?
45:09Tony, I need you to describe exactly what you can see.
45:12I don't know what I can see.
45:17I think it might be the baby's head.
45:19Oh, my God!
45:29No!
45:32Do you want to stay?
45:38No!
45:46No!
45:47No!
45:53Can you hear me? Gwen? Gwen? Call for an ambulance. Quickly!
46:04Mr. Bianchi, you need to get ready to deliver this baby yourself, but you must not hang up. Do you
46:10hear me?
46:22Oh, I can see. I can see the egg. It's sort of moving around. I can see its face.
46:29Good. Now, very gently, place your hands under its head.
46:33Wait for the next big contraction and guide the body out.
46:37Don't pull.
46:38There's something blue wrapped around its neck. Is that supposed to be there?
46:41It's the cord. All you have to do is slip your finger underneath it and lift it over the baby's
46:47head.
46:47It should slide off quite easily.
46:55Have you managed to move it?
46:57It works. It's off.
47:14It's a boy's here.
47:39You did it, Tony. You 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's...
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.
48:38Just 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.
49:07Mrs. Turner's just helping Tina to freshen up.
49:10And then Master Bianchi needs to have his lunch.
49:13The Neo-Papa did a good job on his own then, Doctor.
49:16Not many people could deliver their own son single-handed.
49:20But Tony did.
49:21Yeah.
49:23This man, hmm?
49:25He's a proper man.
49:27He certainly is.
49:29And I salute him.
49:33Bravo!
49:41Let's...
49:44Something's come up...
49:46that I'm...
49:49not going to be able to do single-handed.
49:55I've got cancer.
50:14Brisk cancer.
50:15Brisk cancer.
50:15Oh.
50:16Tony.
50:19I wish Mama was here.
50:36You are the best of us, little brother.
50:37And we...
50:41will not let you go.
51:00Hi.
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 peddling all the way to Blackpool?
51:28Thanks, Nurse.
51:33And thanks for the advice.
51:36It's like a bold move, taking a job in a gym.
51:38Training other women.
51:41But it's legal in Lancashire, Gwen.
51:44And you won't be exploited.
51:45It will give your body time to recover.
51:48And my dad would like it.
51:50Good old Lamb of Panther and his contacts.
51:51It really sucks.
52:20Oh, I 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.
52:58And I know I can't look after my patients properly if I don't adapt.
53:02A very good attitude to have.
53:05Which is why we're placing you front and centre of our plans.
53:10And closing you down.
53:16Closing us down?
53:17Not as a GP, although you'll probably want to join forces with someone else now.
53:22There are real incentives for group practices.
53:26But the council are not going to renew the licence for the maternity home.
53:32But the licence runs out in a matter of weeks.
53:37It's always been renewed as a formality.
53:40This is the brave new world, Turner.
53:42There is no always anymore.
53:44There isn't even an always for me.
53:47The council will have to hand everything over to the National Health.
53:49But while you still have power, you're doing this.
53:53To us and to Nanata's house.
53:57Nanata's house.
53:59They were forever outliers and eccentric.
54:04Threatwood, what is the logic in all of this?
54:08How is it going to benefit the patients?
54:11I knew you'd say that.
54:12And it's why we chose to put you at the vanguard.
54:17No matter what goes on somewhere far away in the offices of Whitehall,
54:20there will always be patients.
54:25And you say that as though it's a problem.
54:32I'm so sorry, Cyril.
54:35You wanted to take responsibility,
54:37but I was absolutely certain that nothing could be better
54:41than this magnificent wonder drug that gave me control over my own body.
54:45We both agreed it was what we wanted.
54:48That it would let us have other things we wanted.
54:52And wanted very much.
54:55We just didn't want this, did we?
54:59I think that it's something that has happened a little out of order.
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.
55:13And build a life with you.
55:15And building a life with you means more than just rings and mortgages
55:22and 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...
55:44We 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 our distinguishing characteristic.
56:07And now it doesn't have to be.
56:15There is no good harvest if there's been no rain.
56:19The earth requires it and so do we.
56:23For how else does the heart grow?
56:27Not through relentless sunshine.
56:31Nor under a cloudless sky.
56:33Life expands not in spite of weather but because of it.
56:40Thus, we are nourished.
56:43We 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.
57:00There are times when we know nothing.
57:04Nothing at all.
57:05Not 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?
57:33A present.
57:34It seems not.
57:38Sometimes change is for the better.
57:40What do you mean, mair to midwife?
57:42We need to cause alarm.
57:44And now our maternity home is closing down.
57:46Susan was affected by thalidomide.
57:48The council are not going to give Lenata's house any more money.
57:52But the treatment is working.
57:53It is not treatment.
57:54It is merely postponing all that is to come.
57:58Thank you very much.
58:08Thank you very much.
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