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00:00sometimes bacon that continent is the cauldron of all perversities i think it sounds quite
00:08delicious we could experiment with spam and treacle we have both in the cupboard if that
00:14is how you would like to celebrate passing your exams you have only to say it's wonderful news
00:20lass welcome to our profession wonderful work that's wonderful work mancine you forget how much
00:33it already has oh steve steve stevenson oh when you do the solicitor's office they don't like the pine
00:45disinfectant in the toilet you have to use the lemon i'm supposed to be doing her cleaning shift
00:50do you have to leave now mr drummond this baby's about to be born
01:01oh reggie love you've even sliced the lemons aren't you good i thought it would speed things up well
01:08no one ought to be kept waiting on pancake day oh good on you you've been practicing
01:14new money it's easier than old money now that is what the government told us when they said that
01:22we were going decimal although two weeks in i don't think they've convinced a single shopkeeper
01:45you have a little girl maxi another girl we got another girl i thought you wanted a boy what never
01:54never ever
02:10can i kiss her go on i'll kiss you first
02:32i don't know
02:46You were in your slippers.
02:49Good delivery.
02:51Actually, it was inspiring.
02:56Oh, good girls.
02:59Bang on time.
03:00Oh, that's nice, isn't it, Christopher?
03:04Lovely kisses to start the day.
03:08He's getting better from having his kidney removed, isn't he?
03:12Yes.
03:13We'll find out when he starts his chemotherapy soon.
03:17Girls, don't forget the rota.
03:19We're wiping round the sink in the downstairs bathroom.
03:22We need to be extra careful of germs.
03:25All Teddy ever does is feed the rabbit.
03:28That's because chores need to be assigned to people I can trust.
03:33Patrick, are you up yet?
03:35The coffee's on.
03:38I'm on district duty for the rest of the week.
03:41We need a thorough review of all our diabetic patients.
03:44Sister Catherine.
03:45In honour of your first day as a fully qualified midwife, I have assigned you the antenatal round.
03:53Entirely solo, unsupervised and independent.
03:58I hope you've eaten a hearty breakfast, honey.
04:00You'll be riding that bike for miles.
04:03I've just added Thelma Cutler at 8 Loman Street to your list.
04:06That poor lady who was sick on the floor in clinic.
04:09Six months along and her nausea is intractable.
04:12It's rare, but I think the poor lass might be stuck with it for the duration.
04:38District nurse.
04:41Mr Kingsley.
04:42I found this little scamp halfway down the stairs to the street.
04:48Come here.
04:50Oh, Terence.
04:52If you keep doing this, I'm going to get you a collar and lead, huh?
04:56Mr Kingsley, it's February.
04:58It's cold.
04:59He needs more on than one sock and a vest.
05:04What is that child doing up at the window?
05:08Oh, she likes looking down, seeing what's going on.
05:13Edna!
05:14I actually came from Dr Turner's practice to make sure that everything was up to date with
05:20your diabetes medication.
05:22We haven't seen you for a while.
05:24No, I'm under the hospital.
05:26I'm a serious case.
05:27Edna!
05:31Hello, nice.
05:33Mrs Kingsley.
05:34I didn't know you were expecting a gun.
05:37Do you have any clothes for these children?
05:41Loads.
05:42Just need to sort the washing out.
05:56Hello, midwife's calling.
05:59It's on the latch.
06:05Poor love.
06:07It needs nothing to bring up.
06:09It's just bile.
06:10I'm not crying.
06:11It's just...
06:12Oh, it's watering.
06:17I'm not crying.
06:19You don't have to be brave all the time, Thelma.
06:22Sometimes it's all right to say this is hard.
06:25It's hard.
06:27I remember flushing my contraceptive pills down the toilet when we decided to start trying
06:31for a baby.
06:34I feel like I've done nothing but stare down that toilet ever since.
06:39Bed and a washing up bowl are probably better.
06:51I've got another three bags of this.
06:57Lass, you need to attend clinic.
06:59And you need to get your home ready for the new arrival.
07:03Got it ready for the last arrival.
07:05Still got the cotton bottles and everything.
07:09Yeah.
07:11Hairbrushed.
07:12Lippy on.
07:14That better?
07:16Sometimes getting dressed and ready to face the day is half the battle.
07:21Felt like a battle since we lost our oldest.
07:25You've had a lot to come back from, Edna.
07:28What I would advise is...
07:29I don't need advice from someone at the ark.
07:36The father's not doing his daily urine tests.
07:40And that flat reeks to high heaven.
07:42An army of lice on all four kiddies.
07:45And the eldest should have been in school.
07:48Faye Marie.
07:49Born November 1965.
07:51And there was that little boy who died when they were at a different practice.
07:55I'm afraid we've missed St.Cuthbert's Diabetic Clinic for this week, Doctor.
07:59Would you like to assess Mr. Kingsley yourself?
08:01Yes, as soon as possible.
08:02Well, I haven't seen Faye or Nicky for two years.
08:06And there were gaps in their record before that.
08:10We'd better tell social services.
08:12Go on through.
08:13They're all in there.
08:15Oh, come on in, nurse.
08:17We're just having a women's lib meeting.
08:18You don't mind me getting on with things while I'm feeding, do you?
08:21Oh, no, not at all.
08:22But once baby's finished on the breast, I will need to examine you.
08:25Fair enough.
08:26Take a pew.
08:28Go on.
08:28You can join us.
08:30It doesn't matter if we're supported or derided on the Women's March through London.
08:34The most important thing is that we are seen and we are heard.
08:39Does derided mean made fun of?
08:40Yes.
08:41But it can also mean dismissed or belittled.
08:44Women have been put down since time immemorial and we aren't going to put up with it anymore.
08:48Oh, we want to get that on a placard.
08:50You might have to make it a bit shorter.
08:53And the point me and all the other women on the Cleaners Association want to make, placards or no placards,
08:59is that we want equal rights, equal status and equal pay.
09:03Which is why we are all going to be marching shoulder to shoulder through London.
09:08Mm-hmm.
09:11Thelma seems to be living on bits of toast and boiled sweets, Doctor.
09:16And she can scarcely keep those down.
09:18If she ends up clinically dehydrated, we'll send her to St Cuthbert's.
09:23I've not seen many cases of true hyperemesis.
09:26But every time, it's the lowest I've ever seen a pregnant woman brought.
09:32Mentally as well as physically.
09:34There's not really any medication for it, is there?
09:36Not after thalidomide.
09:38There will never be any medication for it after thalidomide.
09:43A political meeting at the bedside of a newly delivered mother.
09:47I'm amazed she had the energy.
09:50It was as though all the women were getting energy from each other.
09:53I've never seen anything like it.
09:55They even gave her some homework.
09:57Show them your book, Gile.
09:59The Female Eunuch by Germaine Brier.
10:02What a very striking cover.
10:05What I want to know is, where do they come from?
10:08All these educated ladies campaigning side by side with cleaners from the East End.
10:14I think mostly hamstered.
10:16Although there's no doubt the movement's spreading.
10:18Women of all classes have always been involved in women's advancement.
10:22My granny used to finish a factory shift in Paisley
10:25and go out campaigning.
10:28Will you come on the march with Joyce and I, Phyllis?
10:34Perhaps I should come to the meeting?
10:37I've no objection to finding out more.
10:39I think that's extremely public-spirited.
10:42The sisters and I look forward to hearing all about it.
10:59You forgot the knit lotion.
11:01I'm sorry.
11:02I must have got distracted putting a new diabetes kit together for Mr Kingsley.
11:06I deal with him myself, but I've tooled new cases of Venus also.
11:10And I think the family as a whole might respond better to a younger person.
11:19So, the projected budget details are in the blue folder,
11:23but we're still missing the sign returns from the Board of Health.
11:26I'm afraid you've drawn a dreadfully short straw.
11:29I've assigned myself nursery duties in the maternity home
11:32for delicious little newborns, including twins.
11:36I'll be down at feeding time,
11:38and we agreed that secular staff make better inroads with the council.
11:42Go.
11:43Leave me to get on.
11:46Asking you to fill in the 1971 census.
11:50An army of men and women with light blue statues...
11:52Honey, I'm the nurse.
11:55Are your mum and dad at home?
11:56The form is secret.
11:57There is nothing to fear from completing it.
12:01What are you doing with those pills?
12:16Is that all you have to eat?
12:28Your daughter should be at school,
12:30and all of your children are hungry.
12:31They need to be deloused, but first, they need to be fed.
12:35Who gave you leave to come in here and start shouting odds, eh?
12:38My wife has been diagnosed with depression.
12:41I'm going to go to the corner shop and buy a loaf,
12:44some margarine and some jam.
12:46And when I get back, we're going to discuss a plan of action.
12:53I'm calling on behalf of Nunata's house, Hendy Street,
12:56with regard to our projected budget from June of this year.
12:59Please hold for a moment.
13:00Of course.
13:03Would that be my friend, Lady Aylward?
13:06Yes.
13:08I wasn't expecting to be put through to you, Dr Threpwood.
13:11I asked to be connected directly, should you call.
13:14I feel I should forewarn you of certain developments.
13:18Now?
13:18It would be expedient to meet within the week.
13:25Come on.
13:26Nurse Highland?
13:29Mr. Kingsley refused to cooperate with their diabetes protocols,
13:33and I'm taking the children to the cleansing station.
13:36There's no way of heating water in that flat,
13:38and I think the youngest has scabies, as well as lice.
13:41I'd better take a look at them.
13:44Come on.
13:44Oh, yeah.
13:46I know.
13:52This belly aches worse than the sickness, sister.
13:55If I could just go.
13:56Go properly.
13:58You know what I mean.
14:00If you're dehydrated, that might well lead to constipation.
14:03But I'll have a feel of your tummy,
14:04just to make sure things are as they should be.
14:07I'll be back.
14:15I am putting in a complaint as soon as I get back to the surgery.
14:18That cleansing station needs to be open at all times,
14:21not on request or by appointment.
14:23I've never seen a family in a worse state than this.
14:26I've thought that so many times.
14:32May I come in?
14:33Yeah.
14:39Have your bowels moved at all, Thelma?
14:47I'm going to get you back to bed with a hot water bottle,
14:50then I'm calling Dr Turner.
14:53There's nothing you can give me.
14:55Don't waste his time.
14:57The surgery's three minutes walk away,
14:59and we won't be wasting his time
15:01if we ask him to pop round and rule out early labour.
15:05We need to take care of you, Thelma.
15:07And your baby.
15:12I wish there was no baby sometimes.
15:28We're going to have to get them taken into care.
15:31It may take a few days to implement,
15:34but this is a clear case of neglect.
15:37I think it's worse than neglect.
15:39There's bruises on the backs of the children.
15:42And I need you to look between Nicky's toes.
15:45I think there's a cigarette burn there.
16:03Something's moving it to the toilet.
16:05Can I see?
16:10What's the baby?
16:11Was the baby?
16:12Yes, sweetheart, it was.
16:21Don't look.
16:27Sweetheart, we need to get you up.
16:38It's all right, Thelma.
16:40I'm with you.
16:43I'm going to leave you, but only for a moment.
16:46I need to fetch my bag.
17:13I'm afraid I always fear the worst when Dr. Threepwood starts taking an interest in our fortune.
17:17All I could do was arrange to meet him at his office next week.
17:21Baby, 28 weeks gestation delivered into the toilet.
17:25Still breathing.
17:26Dr. Turner.
17:27Dr. Turner.
17:28He was breathing.
17:30What's happened?
17:31Premature baby, six months gestation.
17:34Get the flying squad.
17:35Sweetie, whose baby is it?
17:37Thelma Cutler, 8 Lombard Street.
17:41Can I was row?
17:42Yes.
17:42The infant is still showing signs of life.
17:47The infant is still judged.
17:50The skin.
17:51The skin is like tissue paper.
17:55We've lost respiration.
17:58Come on.
18:00Come on, little warrior.
18:08It's all right, Thelma.
18:09Everything's going to be all right.
18:11Where does his recovery go?
18:13She took your baby to the maternity home, Thelma.
18:17Because he was dead.
18:19No.
18:20Because it's alive.
18:24Was it a boy or a girl?
18:26I don't know.
18:29We're taking it to Imperial Hospital.
18:32It's the only place in London with any expertise when they're this early.
18:35And this small.
18:36We haven't weighed him.
18:39Weight was the least of our concerns.
18:40Fingers crossed it survives the journey across town.
18:43Blue lights all the way.
18:46It is a little boy.
18:58Three, four.
18:59Oh, yeah.
19:00Ready to knock?
19:01Turn the lock.
19:02Oh.
19:03Play school.
19:06I wouldn't generally advise taking the bull by the horns in such a way in Earth's Highland.
19:11But in this case, it's as well you did.
19:14It's the indifference that angers me.
19:16The indifference and the laziness.
19:19As well as the cruelty.
19:21Life is more of a struggle for some people than it is for others.
19:25We're fortunate.
19:26Our struggle is only with our feelings.
19:41Good afternoon, Mr. Kingsley.
19:43Have you got my kids?
19:44Your children are all here.
19:46They have been receiving hygiene treatment.
19:48We're taking them home.
19:49I suggest you come inside and speak to Sister Veronica.
19:52As a health visitor, she is the best person to advise.
19:55As their father, I'm best placed to advise the lot of you.
19:59Edna, you do not have the right to enter private premises in this manner.
20:02And you do not have the right to abduct my children.
20:07Edna.
20:08Edna.
20:10Nurse Highland brought your children here because they were in desperate need of bathing.
20:14And now we have found bruises that will have to be explained.
20:18You'll have to prove they weren't inflicted here.
20:20Huh?
20:21I know the way your sort operate and we know our rights.
20:25Edna.
20:34Come on!
20:38Come on!
20:40Come.
20:42Come on!
20:43Come on!
20:46Come on!
20:48Come on!
20:49And thank you, Eleanor, for reminding us
20:52that women are not just discriminated against in the professional field,
20:56they are also discriminated against at home.
21:00The time has come for us to declare our self-respect
21:03and to claim a full identity and to get equal pay for equal work!
21:09Yeah!
21:10Equal work!
21:14Before we move on to discussing the logistics of the march,
21:17Maxine will highlight the things we're going to do to publicise it.
21:20Namely, the one-day strike on Saturday and the exhibition of bra burning.
21:25First, I'd like to open the meeting to the floor, in case anyone has anything to say.
21:28I would like to say two things.
21:31Thank you very much to the Women's Liberation Movement and it's high time!
21:41I would like to say thank you, too, to the women who welcomed me around this table tonight,
21:46to the women who showed me that this fight is necessary,
21:50and to the women who I will stand with when we shout this from the rooftops!
21:54Yes, Eleanor!
21:55Thank you!
22:08Enter!
22:11You need not concern yourself with your attire.
22:14The Lord gave you those tresses, and if they are his delight, they do not offend me.
22:35I have prepared you a beverage out of concern for the day you have endured but I find I have
22:45left it in the kitchen. I'm happy just to have your company. It was a terrible day. I have seen
22:55it's like many times an infant lost or maimed or not shaped well. I keep turning it over and over
23:10again in my mind. Did I do all I should have done? Did I do anything to make things worse?
23:20I recall that unabating voice.
23:25The doubt that pursues you home and seeks to be your bedfiller. But say this to yourself. Tonight a child
23:38breathes. Tonight a mother lives.
23:45Tomorrow you will resume your tasks. But what is my task now?
23:51Look, the child is born. It has arrived. But the mother is still on the journey. And you must bring
24:03her home.
24:07I've never once doubted the importance of female solidarity. But for women of my age it went unspoken. If we'd
24:16had a motto it would have been deeds not words. But we had a war to be getting on with.
24:21But even in the war too many women were forced into limiting roles because of damaging stereotypes. That's why burning
24:29bras is so important. It's about the rejection of frivolity.
24:32A good bra is a good bra is a very practical item and not frivolous at all. Trixie tell me
24:40you're not going to be joining in with all that carry on.
24:42Well perhaps not with my current bras. I bought them at a New York lingerie department. But definitely something from
24:48my back catalogue.
24:52You were quite quiet in the meeting, Joyce. Didn't you enjoy it?
24:56I go quiet when I think. And I was doing a lot of thinking.
25:00So was I. I kept thinking, my husband had the power to run our finances into the ground without telling
25:07me.
25:08My husband beat me so badly, I left him without telling him. But what I learned tonight is that it's
25:15not what men have done to us that matters. It's what we do as women going forward.
25:21Left a calm to argue with.
25:32And that's it. We're ready for your outing.
25:35Shoes on. Coats at the ready. And I've got your washing up bowl.
25:40I don't need it, Kev. I haven't been sick since yesterday.
25:43I keep trying to picture the baby. I never even saw his face.
25:48What? The sooner we get you to the hospital, the sooner you can have a proper look. You'll feel better
25:54then, I promise you.
26:01I can't believe the ideas women's liver coming up with. A one day strike.
26:06We'll draw attention to the march at a local level and give women who can't attend the chance to demonstrate
26:11their views.
26:12They tried it last year in America. Women withdrew their labour right across the country.
26:16No cooking, no ironing, no childcare.
26:19And there are no reports of any deaths.
26:23Prescriptions. Signed by Dr. Turner. All present and correct.
26:27Oh, thank you. We're very low on pethidine.
26:29And Mrs. Kumar's penicillin was becoming urgent. It's good of you when you're so busy.
26:35Well, I might be a lady of leisure tomorrow if I join him with this strike.
26:39Will you be participating?
26:41No, Mrs. Turner. I've decided to forego the pleasure.
26:44Why is that?
26:46Because I come from a generation of women that got on with it.
26:50No histrionics, no sloganeering, and our foundation garments stayed intact.
27:02Baby weighed in at exactly two pounds and a half an hour. We've had a couple of two pounds do
27:07very well this past year.
27:09The doctors here are very skilled, learning all the time.
27:13What's with the blade paint?
27:14I think those are the transistorised monitors. There's one attached to every incubator.
27:20If a baby stops breathing or there's a problem with the heartbeat, an alarm goes off.
27:25That's correct.
27:26Here he is, Baby Cutler. We can update the labels once you've picked a Christian name.
27:33We liked James, didn't we? James Kevin or James Paul.
27:40Look at him, Thelma. He's beautiful. He's gorgeous.
27:45Baby Smith has collapsed.
27:50She needs a chair.
27:54I can't look at him. I'm sorry.
27:56It's all right, Thelma.
27:58You only gave birth yesterday.
28:00When did I give birth?
28:02It was nothing that felt like a contraction.
28:05I didn't even realise that I pushed.
28:08My body just...
28:12That government...
28:14I failed.
28:16You didn't fail.
28:18You were valiant throughout your whole pregnancy.
28:21I wasn't even a whole pregnancy.
28:25I didn't even look like a baby.
28:29It's my fault.
28:32It's my fault because I said that I wish that there was one.
28:36But baby James is doing well.
28:42Oh, Lady Aylwood. What an unexpected pleasure.
28:47Are you looking for anything in particular?
28:49Yes. Support for the Women's Liberation March on March the 6th.
28:53Oh, women's lib.
28:55Would you want me as Violet Buckle haberdasher or me in my mayoral robes?
29:01Either or both.
29:02Violet Buckle haberdasher is a highly successful businesswoman.
29:06And the mayor of Tower Hamlets is a trailblazing female politician.
29:12But I never thought of myself as liberated.
29:16Probably because you've been too busy.
29:18It's not necessarily men holding women back, Violet.
29:21But if we don't stand shoulder to shoulder with each other,
29:24we're never going to realise just how strong we are.
29:27I'll come, but only as myself.
29:30The Alderman might object if I wear the mayoral chain.
29:41What happened to your moped?
29:43It fell foul of budgetary cuts.
29:46Do you need to brief me on anything before we head in?
29:50The gap in their records is because they were out of the area when their son died.
29:54I've telephoned Gwynedge, but we still don't know what happened.
30:00It's nice to see the children eating a cooked meal at lunchtime, Edna.
30:03Well, Faye gets a hot dinner at school and I want you to see I'm not incompetent.
30:07Social services are not your enemy. We're here to help, especially with the children.
30:13You were meant to help when Martin died.
30:16Hmm?
30:17Fat lot of you she were then.
30:19Ian, do you want to tell us what happened to Martin?
30:22He had a fit. That's all. Babies have fits all the time.
30:26Martin wasn't a baby. He was four and a half. You're just setting a trap.
30:31Nobody's setting a trap, but we do need to understand why there are injuries on your children.
30:36Then look at how we can help you get back on your feet as a family.
30:38We've heard that before.
30:40When they took the kids away from us after Martin died.
30:43It took us six months to get them back.
30:47You are not having them this time.
31:08Blessed are the huddled hikers staring out of falling rain.
31:18Wondering at the retribution and their personal acquaintance with pain.
31:32Blessed are the blood relations of the young ones who have died.
31:41Who had not the time or patience to carry on this earthly life.
31:55Rain will come and winds will blow, while deer die in the mountains snow.
32:04Birds will beaded heaven's love.
32:09Ticking away like a little clock. Just the way I like to hear it.
32:13You have obviously been doing everything right.
32:16Not many people say that sort of thing to me.
32:19Edna, the doctor and I were wondering if you'd like to come and have a look at the ward and
32:23deliver your own work.
32:24Oh, we thought you'd like to mull over having the baby with us instead of at St Cuthbert's.
32:28I've decided against St Cuthbert's now. I'm having a home birth.
32:33This is your sixth pregnancy, Edna.
32:35And you just tell me I've been doing everything right.
32:37I'm not spending one night away from our kids.
32:40This will be a home birth, so you best get that in your reds.
32:51I used to work as a paediatric nurse, sister.
32:54And I know the quest to heal can cause terrible suffering.
32:59Baby James was born at 28 weeks. He is considered viable.
33:03But what does viable mean?
33:05Does it mean he'll go home as a happy, healthy baby?
33:09Or could he be brain damaged and blind?
33:12We're working to regulate the amount of oxygen these babies receive.
33:15Now we know too much can affect their eyesight.
33:18Sister Wilmot, do you share that information with the parents?
33:23We tell the parents what they need to know when they have to make decisions.
33:28James' mother is in no fit state to make any decision.
33:32She struggles to even believe he is her child.
33:35And without that bond, how can she choose what's right?
33:40Sometimes the parents don't choose.
33:43Sometimes the problems overwhelm the babies and they simply declare themselves.
33:47We can't help them all. But you can help the mothers.
33:52Or at least you could help me to help this one.
33:57I'm sorry, Mr. Robinson. Sister Veronica has left for her district visits.
34:02The Kingsley family's case notes have come through.
34:05I have more details on the death of Martin.
34:07Good. I don't like having a child merely marked as deceased in our records.
34:13It seems to speak of want of care.
34:16Martin died of oxygen deprivation from a seizure that was only witnessed by his parents.
34:23The post-mortem noted old bruises on his upper arms and back.
34:28And a cigarette burn was found between his toes.
34:31Were the parents ever charged?
34:33No, they were not. There was thought to be insufficient evidence of child battery or neglect.
34:38And the police fell back on a compassionate approach.
34:41Will surveillance of the family increase now?
34:44It's ten past five on a Friday. But yes, it will.
34:50Hands through the portholes. Like that. Excellent.
34:55And then just clean this little face with the damp cotton wool.
34:59What if you're sore with that big plaster on it?
35:03I swear he's smiling. It's like his lips just turned up a little bit at the corners.
35:09Stand back. You stop breathing.
35:20That's the three of us, often ready for our big adventure.
35:24Sister Veronica will collect Christopher.
35:27She's going to read to him from some Cantonese story books.
35:30Oh, that's great. Teddy and me are going to do an air fix model.
35:33But we're on strike, Patrick. In preparation for the Women's March next Saturday.
35:38Well, I'm all for it. Some of the newspaper coverage has been really thought-provoking.
35:44But, Daddy, you need to do the ironing and washing.
35:47I was in the army. Ironing holds no fears.
35:52Have you left us a casserole or something?
35:54That's not how women's strike works.
36:02What's this fire? It's a list.
36:05It's a list of everything that I usually do on a Saturday and Sunday in order to keep this household
36:09on the straight and narrow.
36:10But it starts with, run a haberdasher shop.
36:14And then it says, batch bake.
36:16And then it says, clean all the shoes.
36:19And then it says, and my handbags.
36:21I mean, how do you fit all this in an afternoon?
36:23You've got more handbags than the Queen Mum.
36:26I do your shoes. Then I do my shoes and my bags while the batch bakes in the oven.
36:33Why do you think I close the shop at four o'clock at weekends?
36:37A home and a family do not run themselves, Fred Buckle.
36:41But I can't run the haberdasheries. I don't know the names of all the different types of elastic.
36:46And people come in and ask for, um, female things.
36:51I'll stick with the paper shop.
36:54Cyril's running the paper shop.
36:55He's strongly in support of feminist ideals.
37:06I'm sorry we're having to do this here.
37:08I do need to ask you a few questions about bleeding and what goes on in the bathroom.
37:14But we can do that before Kevin gets back with the tea.
37:20Kevin keeps pushing me to agree to give James a tracheotomy.
37:24I have the consultant said it's for the best.
37:28They've said it's best for his chance of survival.
37:31How do we know it's the best thing for him?
37:34A tracheotomy will prevent James from suffering so many collapses, Thilma.
37:40They'll cut into his throat from the outside and stick a plastic nozzle in.
37:46He'll have to breathe through his neck.
37:49How's that better?
37:51Why is it better to just keep him surviving?
37:55Even if he may never see, even if his brain is going to be damaged.
37:59We don't know any of those things are going to happen, Thilma.
38:02And we don't know that they won't.
38:06You know more than me, Sister Catherine.
38:09But when it comes to a baby like James, nobody knows anything.
38:20Hey, keep it up.
38:26There's probably a cub badge for potato peeling.
38:30It's taking you an hour to do two shirts.
38:43Trixie, you made it.
38:45Yes.
38:46John's nanny said she'd go on strike next week instead.
38:49We worked out between us.
38:50Compromise is power.
38:51Are you sure that's right?
38:53When I have arguments, I like to win them.
38:55Oh, Mrs Turner, you are quite the dark horse.
39:02Who ever invented new pence once hanging?
39:06I've had to charge people in decimal for things that I'm measuring in yards.
39:10And that's before you start talking about two-ply wool and press studs.
39:15Oh, flaming Nora.
39:24Flaming scones.
39:25Flaming scones.
39:26Being a man is terrible.
39:40What happened?
39:41She fell out the window.
39:44Where are parents?
39:45I don't know.
39:47Do you know the child, sir?
39:48Yes.
39:49I'm a social worker.
39:54Excuse me, love.
39:56You haven't got such a thing as a compact mirror, have you?
39:59I'm sorry.
40:00It's not a thing I generally carry around.
40:03I suppose not.
40:04I've got five minutes before a photographer arrives.
40:07Me and my Nina are going to be in the papers.
40:10We're taking her home.
40:1114 months we've been in here.
40:1414 months?
40:15She must have been in the wars.
40:17Not half.
40:18Born at 28 weeks, bowel surgery, tracheotomy.
40:22They thought she had a brain bleed.
40:24Now all we're waiting for is a set of ankle splints and we're off.
40:28Is my lippy all right?
40:29For the photograph.
40:31It's a bit smudged here.
40:35Tal, I owe you a favor.
40:44I told the consultant you'll need a statement.
40:46But he confirmed that Faye has a fractured femur and collarbone and concussion.
40:52The police need no copy too.
40:55They also found she had catastrophically low blood sugar.
40:58She seems to have swallowed prescription drugs or been fed them.
41:02Why would anyone feed a child prescription drugs?
41:05Because low blood sugar makes a child dozy and compliant.
41:09I don't know, is the honest answer.
41:12Just as I don't know how anyone blessed, blessed with such beautiful children,
41:19could treat them with such hideous contempt.
41:24Hmm.
41:30Millicent, do you think I'm barking up the wrong tree,
41:34resisting all this women's lib talk?
41:37Well, not everyone is in support.
41:40I've heard quite a number of ladies saying I'm not a feminist, but...
41:44I just don't like the gimmicky way it's all been put together.
41:48I would always counsel against objecting to a book because of its cover.
41:54Innocent, you're reading the female eunuch.
41:57The authoress makes a series of very sensible points,
42:01notably regarding female sexuality.
42:06It's a thing I spent much of my life being ashamed of.
42:14I never did, oddly enough.
42:17It's like being a vegetarian, as though I was wired to run counter to the general view.
42:26But why am I being like this?
42:29Why am I picking holes in something the young people are full of fervour for?
42:37Do we, perhaps, fear losing our place in the scheme of things?
42:43Two weeks ago, I was standing outside the Draper's on Inkerman Street,
42:47and there was a blouse in the window with a psychedelic pattern.
42:52Dual tones, but with such a beguiling design.
42:57And I was looking at it, and I thought, I will never wear that blouse.
43:05Why? There's no harm in breaking out a bit, fashion-wise.
43:10Phyllis, there is no harm in breaking out.
43:15And if we don't, we'll be left behind.
43:19You're not wrong. Psychedelic pattern or no psychedelic pattern.
43:29Police?
43:32Don't answer it.
43:35Mr. Kingsley? Mrs. Kingsley?
43:39Because of concerns about the welfare of your children,
43:42a place of safety order has been issued.
43:44We have come to remove them.
43:46Don't let them take them, Ian.
43:48They're our kids.
43:50They're not going anywhere.
43:51They're terrified.
43:52Mr. Kingsley will force entry if you do not cooperate.
43:55As well as the police, I have Sister Veronica with me.
43:57The children will be well taken care of.
44:01Mr. Kingsley?
44:03Mrs. Kingsley?
44:06This is uncultful.
44:07Why are you in, Kingsley?
44:09End of Mary, Kingsley.
44:10I'm arresting you on suspicion of child neglect and cruelty.
44:13This is what they wanted all along.
44:16We've already lost one of our children.
44:20Doesn't that mean anything to you?
44:23It means a very great deal, Mrs. Kingsley.
44:27And I wish that we didn't have to do this.
44:37We are warning you.
44:39Come on.
44:41Leave me.
44:46Mommy.
44:50Mommy.
44:52Mommy.
44:59Mommy.
45:02Honestly, love, you wouldn't have given a tuppence apennie
45:05for her chances in the first few weeks in old money or new money.
45:08She's as bonnie as anything now.
45:10Look at her chubby little cheeks, Phil.
45:13How's she with normal food?
45:15After all those months with the jeep up her nose.
45:17Oh, she's great with chocolate pudding.
45:19Not so good with her greens, though, but as long as it's all mushed up,
45:23she's just like any other baby, really.
45:25Do you ever feel like any other mum, Bernice?
45:29I feel like her mum.
45:31It's not so different from having any other child.
45:34They can't turn your back on them.
45:37Can't work out what they're thinking.
45:39Can't picture the future.
45:41The doctors never gave us any guarantees.
45:45No baby gets a guarantee, really.
45:48Guarantees are the things you buy in shops.
45:50And we're lucky.
45:52We get to call our babies miracles.
46:00Hi!
46:02Yes?
46:03My waters are broken.
46:04And I'm not going to hospital!
46:08Edna Kingsley is in labour, screaming blue murder and refusing to get into the ambulance.
46:15Police said she wants one of us to attend and I'm first on the court board.
46:21Whatever's gone on in the past, or is yet to come, she is still a mother.
46:29Let me know if it's a boy or a girl and I shall add it to my notes.
46:43I'll get my bag.
47:03I'm afraid this isn't good news, Lady Edward. And it can't be countermanded, even with all the womanly wiles at
47:10your disposal.
47:10A simple statement of facts will suffice, Dr Threpwood.
47:14Very well. By 1974, all medical service provision across the country will be taken out of council hands and given
47:23direct to the National Health.
47:24But the Order have worked hand in glove with the National Health since its inception.
47:28And this council has been the go-between. Without our future involvement, there can be no more cajolery. No more
47:36persuasion. It is over.
47:38A great deal could happen between now and 1974.
47:41The new rules will be facing from this year. And there is one I know the sisters won't accept.
47:51I know it's Edna, lass. Save your strength.
47:56I want it to be all right, nurse.
47:58You're on the home straight, I promise. There's no reason to suppose anything will be amiss.
48:03I don't mean with the baby, I'm in with everything.
48:07Come on. So come up, Barley Sugar, and concentrate on what's happening here and now.
48:13They can't take a newborn off you, can they?
48:16Edna.
48:21Save your energy for this last big push.
48:25Come on now. Steady push. Steady, steady push.
48:35You have a beautiful little daughter, Edna.
48:41You have a beautiful little daughter, Edna.
49:04You forget when we haven't got a fight with him.
49:08We never had a camera.
49:12I'm gonna give you the best life.
49:16Do you there?
49:18The best life.
49:25Hello, you.
49:30Oh, Mr Franklin.
49:32So good of you to go out of your way.
49:35What sort of friend would I be if I didn't tip up with a cup of Rosie and the chips
49:39are down?
49:42Dr Threpwood is right. We will not accept that diktat.
49:46But it is a diktat, Sister Julianne.
49:49You aren't going to be allowed to wear the habit anymore.
49:51My sisters and I have dressed like this since the inception of the Order.
49:54It is the outward expression of the reason why we do this.
49:59The powers that be don't give two hoots why you do this.
50:03They just want it done.
50:05If Nanata's house is to survive at all, we are all going to be national health employees.
50:10And the new rules state that we will have to dress as such or leave the system.
50:15We have never been a part of the system.
50:18We have rejoiced in that.
50:19Dr Threpwood said he'd like your response by the end of this month.
50:23I think it ties in with the end of the financial year.
50:29Who is this man to lay down the law in this way?
50:36This decision will be driven by prayer, not by the fiscal calendar.
50:40Therefore, I will choose the appropriate date.
50:44We will tell him what we are going to do on August 31st,
50:50which happens to be the feast day of St. Raymond Nanatus.
50:55People think I talk too much.
50:58I don't.
51:00I know.
51:02And I know you listen.
51:04I've never seen Here She Goes Again writ large on your face.
51:09But the thing I think people don't understand about the life I chose
51:19is so much of it is silence.
51:24I understand.
51:26It isn't about when we can't speak.
51:29It's about what we can never say.
51:34What we can never name because that might expose us.
51:41Lay us bare.
51:44Yes.
51:45We can't afford that, can we?
51:48No.
51:49Because really,
51:52who wants the whole wide world to hear them howling?
51:57I don't think I can silence the howling anymore.
52:04What is it you want, Veronica?
52:10If we're going to drop the sister bit,
52:14I think you'd better call me Beryl.
52:16My real name.
52:20You can call me Geoffrey if it's not too much of a stretch.
52:27What is it you want?
52:32I want a child.
52:37I want a child.
52:38I want a child of my own
52:39to hold in my arms
52:43and keep safe
52:47and cherish always.
52:49I want a child
52:51before it becomes impossible.
52:59I feel like he ought to have a special little night even if he's to have an operation.
53:04I feel like his dad should have had the day off work.
53:07James' first year is going to be a long haul, Thelma.
53:11Keeping up a normal routine is going to be good for everyone.
53:14I'm good at routines.
53:16Before I fell pregnant, I used to dream I'd have all the nappies on the line every Monday.
53:22Dreams are a lovely thing to have.
53:25But sometimes we just have to dream for longer than we thought.
53:29He'll be a baby for longer too.
53:31I think I might like that.
53:43Have you come to St. James for his tracheotomy?
53:45I'm his mother.
53:58What's this?
54:03Something to wear on Saturday, perhaps?
54:06Of course.
54:16On your marks.
54:17Get set.
54:18You want a sausage roll?
54:20I'll have one.
54:24I'll tell you what, pal.
54:26I love our lady folk, all of them.
54:29But it's liberation, Mark.
54:32It's hard work.
54:43I went for cotton. I thought it would burn longer.
54:47I bought this one from discounted stock.
54:50Nobody's buying long line these days.
54:52I relented.
54:54Bergdorf Goodman's finest.
54:57Girls! Where did you get that from?
55:01At the charity cupboard.
55:02Provenance?
55:03Uncertain.
55:05Sisterhood takes many forms.
55:07I think we should celebrate them all.
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