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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.
00:51This is the moment to wrap up in ribbons. A time to savour without sowing seeds of doubt.
01:10Whoa! 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 Kevill. Miss.
01:32Very well. We shall do the tests again.
01:36The level of disregard for the comfort and convenience of an elderly patient is unforgivable.
01:44Oh, I don't know what that ice cream van's doing.
01:48Mrs. 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.
02:27What do you want me to do with these, then?
02:30Okay.
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?
02:39Even 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.
02:48And I haven't the time to be stuffing them with mince and making a white 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.
03:01Your 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.
03:23You'll see if.
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 Nunnata'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.
04:00Keeping you waiting because you kept them waiting.
04:03One would hope they were above such pettiness when there is so much at stake.
04:10Come on, let's go, Mateo.
04:14Come on, this way.
04:17Idiot.
04:18You took her in too early.
04:19Hey, bro.
04:20You coming to football tonight?
04:22I 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.
04:38I do not have unlimited quantities of corpucular matter in my veins.
04:44Sister, 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.
04:54We 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 rounds.
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,
05:28the doors to tonight's wrestling in the main hall will open in five minutes.
05:32Oh, my God.
05:34Oh, my God.
05:39Did you turn up to Satchel?
05:40Did you give up?
05:41No!
05:42Oh, my God.
05:44Oh, my God.
05:46Oh, my God.
05:47Oh, my God.
05:48Oh, my God.
05:49Oh, my God.
05:50Oh, my God.
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.
06:12Because what if tomorrow never comes?
06:17I've been postponing a decision for a long time now.
06:23Come on!
06:24Come on!
06:31In, one!
06:32In, two!
06:33In, three!
06:34Out.
06:35Winger burn!
06:37Come on!
06:38Right, love?
06:41Harmony?
06:43it's not a decision about drink it's a decision about work and work is my other addiction
06:53is there a doctor in here anyone i'm a nurse that'll do it's a concussion
07:01you're staging sporting events you're legally obliged to have medical help on the premises
07:05don't know nothing about no legal obligations um this is her harmony savage
07:11hello harmony i'm a nurse i'm sorry you've been hurt occupationalisered did you lose consciousness
07:18or did you remain aware of your surroundings i never went out i was just putting on a bit
07:23of a show punters like i've got to go back out finish your job whoa you were out cold
07:31i did the count but it's over brenda the butcher won fair and square
07:39they'll have gone to give out the prize money if you can't be absolutely sure
07:45that you weren't knocked out i really think you ought to go to the casualty department
07:50i'm gonna go home to bed
07:54oh hello sweetie
07:58who's this cole my boy he comes to all my fights
08:04come on let's pack up and get you in the van you really must not drive after blacking out
08:10however briefly any better ideas
08:15i know it was false alarm to that heap but
08:20made me think how real all this is
08:25how we've made a proper grown-up life
08:29you do go on it's like being the baby of the family gave you a great big chip on your
08:35shoulder
08:36oh 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
08:48besides i'd rather have a bit of soft scoop than a hundred yards of mosaic flooring
08:54come on lights up what's that oh nothing tony there's blood on your singlet
09:02what 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
09:31out with kit
09:36wrestling was all i knew even as a little girl
09:39my dad 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 there's a whole lady circuit up north just as legitimate
09:52as the men's but in london we're outlaws i really would like you to be seen by a doctor
09:58if at all possible harmony oh my real name's gwen thanks for seeing us home come a little in
10:18i've given up doing sports and everything
10:22so unsightly
10:26i'll probably just banged it oh it 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 got a baby to any day all the more reason to get it out of the way i'll
10:46call saint cuthberts
10:56myself
10:57now that is a bird song i can easily identify
11:02the lesser spotted buckle
11:05oh sister how you keeping i'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 would they cheer you up a bit are they jam filled
11:28no they're the ones with the holes in then i will forego them do you detect
11:33a chill in the breeze today i reckon i felt the first nip
11:39i like it when the seasons start to turn though
11:43that time of year the maced in me behold when yellow leaves or none or few
11:50do do hang upon those boughs that shake with cold
11:56bare ruined choirs
12:00where late the sweet birds sang
12:04in me
12:06now seest the twilight of such day
12:09as after sunset fadeth in the west
12:12which by and by like night doth take away their second self
12:21that seals up all in rest
12:40sister monica chone
12:42what's brought this on
12:47time mr buckle
12:50its passage and its sheer
12:54weary accumulation
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 cutes 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
13:33imagine it's quite physically taxing
13:35i call over sometimes fight or no fight
13:49i think i know what this is
13:51it's a skin virus called herpes gladiatorum
13:55gladiator like in spartacus
13:57i love a bit of kirk douglas
13:59don't we always
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
14:10and 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 uh 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 mine 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 throwing my hormones out of whack i mean it can do that can't it
15:13child the whole point of the bill 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
15:27and 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 out?
15:48Show up!
16:00Referee, she can't do that!
16:04Hey! Hey! It's our close best!
16:18I'm jumping!
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.
16:52Morning, Miss Higgins.
16:53Have the samples gone off to the laboratory, yeah?
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.
17:18Nurse?
17:19Good 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.
17:38New schooled stay old chap.
17:40I overslept again.
17:42I 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 and me and I was slacking.
17:55I'm a stepmother to a little boy of Carl's age.
17:58It 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,
18:10but I should be making you one.
18:15I'm sorry, I'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 this is where I know my money is.
18:54I think I won't have got none.
18:57Sorry, I've gone all dizzy.
19:02Mr. Bianchi, I'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.
19:26Could just drain this, but I'm leaning on the side of getting the whole thing out.
19:36Your bloods may come back perfectly normal, but I strongly suspect that if you'd have almost passed out in front
19:42of Dr. Turner, he'd want to check your 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.
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 fight invisible ones and all.
20:12And I've no doubt you're extremely good at it.
20:15But you need someone more than a wrestling promoter in your corner.
20:19Let us help find out what's causing your malaise.
20:24Nurse Clifford's gone out to the cinema, but 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, we 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?
20:47What 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.
21:08I would settle for her.
21:37Oh, my God.
21:38it was something that could be treated but chronic kidney disease is just something that
21:45takes old people gently but kindly but it takes them how long has she been ill with this
21:52i suspect not long how long does she have the same
22:02unless we can persuade her to accept what treatment there is
22:06she'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 but a bit more carefully
22:25you look happy today is a happy day
22:31i got a letter from the solicitor the decree absolute i'm officially a single man
22:39everything we do now is ours our choice to make the board of health requested a meeting i told
22:47them your diary was full but they were most insistent it's in your diary for friday thank
22:52you i anticipate the usual fun and games i need to see anthony bianchi i've just had his histopathology
23:02results through from the hospital should i make an appointment for him no i'll i'll call in on him
23:08today we told you the truth sister veronica is on retreat you told us she had gone on retreat to
23:16the
23:16mother house she would need her cross in the mother house she would need her shoes our sister needed
23:22our discretion and i gave that willingly and with love i'm sorry if you feel that you should have been
23:27informed
23:31i'm sorry if i have been arrogant in thinking i deserved an explanation
23:38i can't tell you everything too much of it is personal to her but i can say she is struggling
23:43with her vows and has been given leave of absence for a while she's staying at the oliver christian
23:51retreat center at gravesend alone without anyone she knows or any friends to support her sister
24:04out of all of us sister veronica emits the most love she needs the most love she does not know
24:12what she needs or wants and that is why she has had to go away
24:23morning have you come to see tina mr bianchi we've come to see you
24:32i can't have breast cancer
24:36it's a women's disease we know all about that because his mum died of it
24:42i know she was a lovely lady and even in the five years since she passed away we've learned so
24:52much
24:53about it i can't have it i'm a man it is rare in men especially for someone of your age
25:03but it's not unheard of everyone has breast tissue tony men and women we have less of it but
25:12it only takes a couple of cells to go rogue and the tumor can start to develop i have had
25:20some
25:21specialist training and there are new treatments and new approaches to surgery
25:35should i have done something sooner when i first felt the lump we are going to focus on the future
25:40now tony and we are going to be with you every step of the way
25:49i don't care whereabouts in your body it is you've got the big seat we have to face up to
25:54it
25:55we can face up to it together without telling people what is that going to achieve tony you need help
26:05you need love tina i need dignity i need to feel like a man
26:19there's a bike for sale
26:25maybe for your birthday hey if you're in your next fight
26:39yes doctor gwen savage's records arrive from her previous practice she's been suffering with tiredness
26:47and joint pain for five years did the blood test we did show anything nothing at all conclusive
26:55just markers for minor inflammation slightly low white blood count could the pain relate to the
27:02wrestling i saw in the ring and it's incredibly physical but an impact injury would be on one side
27:08not both it's as though we're missing something i never liked that they said those braxton hicks
27:18pains was my body tuning up for the baby to be born i got used to them but they've got
27:24worse
27:24since i found out tony isn't well you've an immense amount to contend with at the moment
27:29but baby's head is engaged tina i really don't think you'll have very long to wait
27:36oh this reading is just a little bit higher than i'd like we can't have anything else go wrong
27:43nothing is going to go wrong but 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 i've an elderly friend might like a bit of a pickney up what's the matter
28:11pal
28:16brian
28:20you ain't put me down for a single match
28:24i can't afford to promote wrestlers who keep losing but i can raise my game
28:28my dad used to say aim up things will look up your dad was one of the best who ever
28:33was the lamb of
28:35panther was revered look all i can offer you right now is the adult fixtures oh no
28:42adult fixtures is one step away from stripping brian i keep it clean
28:46it's a place down deptford where they roll about in jelly
28:50girls earn 30 quid about 30 quid i pay 20.
28:57bring your own bikini
29:08usually tina reads stuff for me but i don't want to worry all this there's going to be further
29:14for surgery
29:16and a radiography assessment
29:24i'm gonna have to stop working
29:27won't be for long
29:29you'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 i've got a woman's disease
29:39i can't provide
29:43i'm telling him nothing
29:51jeffrey franklin mr franklin it's sister catherine from nanata's house
29:58it's about sister veronica
30:00and i'm calling you in confidence
30:05i see
30:07i don't like leaving you on your own tony
30:10don't be daft
30:12i'm fine
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
30:28all right
30:30just promise me
30:32you'll tell your brothers
30:36i promise
30:43you'll need to take these diuretics first thing in the morning
30:46as you don't want to be up all hours of the night
30:48we can bring the commode into your room
30:51the commode will not be entertained
30:53you may come to revise that opinion
30:57your tone is brisk
30:59given that my days are numbered
31:04everybody's days are numbered sister
31:07mine as well as yours 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
31:30quite a long time
31:32let's see how we do shall we
31:35with these diuretics
31:53car
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
32:27and
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 mom is here because if he's not a car savage
33:02i've just checked every member of his class for headlace including him oh thank god
33:07do you want to go in and speak with him
33:10gwen what's happened i 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
33:21i cover it with pan stick usually
33:41you waiting for your wife my 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
33:59and 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
34:11that herpes gladiatorum on your back was a complete red herring
34:15this is what leads us to your diagnosis
34:18have you ever heard of a condition called lupus
34:22nobody in your family's ever had it or mentioned it
34:25no
34:26do you think that's what i've got
34:28this rash is so distinctive
34:31i'd put money on it as a diagnosis
34:32how long will it take to get rid of it
34:35it's going to be about management rather than cure
34:39but i promise you we can get you feeling better
34:43can't be cured
34:45but i need to win matches again
34:46gwen you are too unwell to fight
34:53tony thank god i've been worried sick
34:56how'd it go at the hospital he was all fine
35:00your doctor's very pleased with me oh really so um what happens next what treatment are they
35:07giving you so many pills i'll be rattling
35:12the important thing is that you are getting some rest not worrying yourself silly i'm not now
35:18i've heard your voice i love your voice i only ever get to talk on the phone
35:26because we're together all the time
35:29and we'll be together again soon
35:48tony
35:51tony we're going down the pub coming
35:53tony
36:16tony
36:16beryl burrows as i live and breathe
36:24do you tell me you're on route to a harvest festival with that dreary swag
36:29because at the very least it would provoke a degree of fellow feeling in me i'm on potato
36:33peeling duty there's a rotor in the retreat stop stop before you completely break my heart
36:41i come here almost every day sometimes i have an eclair when the fancy takes me i have a queen
36:48split
36:49you get a cherry on a cream split and there's this little burst of flavor when you bite it
36:56tell me you've eaten fish and chips in the street too in broad daylight
36:59twice although sometimes it feels as though it's the things i don't do that tell me more about where
37:07i am now or where i might go next what don't you do i don't pray i came here to
37:16pray or at least to
37:18decide what i ought to be praying for but i can't and do you know why it's not different enough
37:26to the
37:26convent beryl and all the snatched patisserie in the world can't disguise the fact that you are
37:32still living the same sort of half-life trapped underneath a similar godly bell jar and how do you
37:40propose i change that come and stay with me geoffrey i am still technically a nun i can't live with
37:50a
37:50man you could lodge with a kindly confirmed bachelor you've missed two appointments at the hospital tony
38:05do you have anyone to talk to your brothers perhaps i can't not have it been you know breast cancer
38:17it's so humiliating i can hear them now your typical tony
38:26dr turner and i delivered a baby at the maternity home last week
38:31and the mother asked if the older brother could come in and meet him we placed the baby in his
38:37little
38:37arms and he was awestruck this was his brother he promised right then and there to teach him
38:49everything he knew all the best fighting moves a cat gun was mentioned and something about
38:56which jelly babies tasted best green ones according to enzo they always gave me the green ones
39:07brothers look after each other tony i've seen it with my own boys
39:14right now i shouldn't be moaning about me
39:18should be looking after tana dr turner says she can come home if you're feeling up to it
39:24of course i'm feeling up to it
39:31something tells me something's gonna happen tonight
39:38i read in the papers that jim and our people will make it tonight
39:45stars will be shining my signs aligning with love
39:52so come on and make it let's take everything that we've been dreaming of
39:58something tells me something's gonna happen
40:26you stay in the dressing room tonight promise promise and if i win
40:32you'll get that bike my precious boy
40:59you're keeping up with us peppermints child
41:01i'm first on call tonight and i still feel quite queasy but 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
41:23oh i can't seem to get comfortable
41:27my back is killing me
41:32right tiny the sheets are wet
41:38do you think your walls are broken
41:40it's all i think more of a whoosh
41:44oh i don't feel right tony
41:52joyce what am i going to do the pill was supposed to be foolproof
41:56honey 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 i approve of cyril
42:13he's 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
42:28that's why i'm going to get the sack
42:30talk to cyril
42:32you've got time before you have to tell anybody else
42:35and i will cover for you in any way i can
42:41thank you
42:43do you have enough peppermint and wash your fears
42:53gentlemen please take your seats for tonight's team
42:55you may be happy bikini extravaganza of a fight
43:04nanata's house midwife speaking i'm ringing up about tina bianchi we think she got into labor
43:10i've been timing them for two minutes apart
43:15rosalyn
43:17rosalyn come quickly 15 20 as 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 please
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
43:46if you're not going to fight you can hand that money back
43:49right now
44:17a midwife is
44:18on her way and 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 tell her to blow as if she is blowing out candles
44:32see that don't push like blow blow blow
44:38yeah that's it do it with me
44:41oh
44:47wait wait wait wait wait
44:50are you punch her i've said no punch
45:04do you want to tap do you want to give up
45:06yes i love you
45:09tony i need you to describe exactly what you can see
45:12i don't know what i can see
45:17oh i think it might be the baby's head
45:29no
45:30no
45:32no
45:34no
45:34no
45:34no
45:34no
45:35no
45:51can you hear me
45:55gwen
45:56gwen
45:58call for an ambulance
46:00quickly
46:04mr bianchi you need to get ready to deliver this baby yourself
46:08but you must not hang up do you hear me
46:21oh i can see i can see the egg
46:25it's it's sort of moving around
46:28i can see its face good
46:30now very gently place your hands under its head
46:33wait for the next big contraction and guide the body out
46:37don't pull
46:38uh there's something blue wrapped around its neck
46:40is that supposed to be there it'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
47:00no
47:14it's a boy tia
47:20We can't do it, 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.
47:56Wait till we tell all your uncles about this.
48:03There's you.
48:05There's my boy.
48:10You were lucky you didn't cause any more damage to your body.
48:13At least I got the rent money out of it.
48:16Gwen, the hospital are asking who will be looking after Carl whilst you're in here.
48:20They're willing to talk to social services.
48:21I bet they are.
48:23Social services will take him off me.
48:25I'm sure that isn't the case.
48:27But, Gwen, you're treading a dangerous path in London,
48:32even if your health allowed you to keep on fighting.
48:36There are alternatives, just as there's alternatives to keeping your money in a cushion cover.
48:42And you've got to tell me what they are.
48:45Because I'd listen to you.
48:48You've told me you know what it is to find things hard.
48:57Another one for the footy team.
48:59A striker.
49:00My turn now.
49:01My turn.
49:02Oh, careful.
49:07And Mrs. 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, he's a proper man.
49:27He certainly is.
49:29And I salute him.
49:33Bravo!
49:40Legs.
49:44Something's come up
49:47that I'm
49:49not going to be able to do single-handed.
49:55I've got cancer.
50:14Breast cancer.
50:15Oh.
50:16Tony.
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?
51:28Thanks, Nurse.
51:33And thanks for the advice.
51:36It was like a bold move, taking a job in a gym, training other women.
51:41But it's legal in Lancashire, Gwen.
51:44And you won't be exploited.
51:45It will give your body time to recover.
51:48And my dad would like it.
51:50Good old lamb of pamphering his contacts.
51:51Thanks.
51:52I know.
52:05I know.
52:08What?
52:08I know.
52:20Wow.
52:21Oh.
52:21Yeah.
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 queue.
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.
53:39This 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 do you still have power here doing this?
53:54To 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?
54:09How 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.
54:32I'm so sorry, Cyril.
54:35You wanted to take responsibility, but I was absolutely certain that nothing could be better than this
54:42magnificent wonder drug that gave me control over my own body.
54:45We both agreed it was what we wanted. That it would let us have other things we wanted.
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 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 popular or swinging on a swing down at the wreck.
55:42And I think we could have a little boy like that one.
55:48Or 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.
56:23But how else does the heart grow?
56:28Not through relentless sunshine, nor under a cloudless sky.
56:34Life expands, not in spite of the weather, but because of it.
56:40Thus we are nourished, we take root, we are taught how to endure.
56:49But 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, nothing at all, not yet.
57:08And so it seems that if we go down, we all go down together.
57:15The council had 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, mayor to midwife?
57:43We need to cause alarm.
57:44And now our maternity home is closing down.
57:46Susan was affected by thalidomide.
57:49The 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.
57:58Don Duong &
58:06Two
58:26Three
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