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00:00Can I interest you in yoga lessons?
00:02Is that how you did it?
00:04My son's running, Joel.
00:06He's inside, putting up a poster,
00:08hot off the plane from a year in India.
00:10Oh, of course, I remember him leaving.
00:13Joel, welcome home.
00:15I've been wondering where your wanderings took you.
00:17Well, I started out in Bombay,
00:18and then I worked my way right up to Ladakh, near Tibet.
00:21And then I went to an ashram in Baranasi for a few months.
00:24Baranasi, on the banks of the Ganges.
00:26And now I'm back on the banks of the Thames.
00:28There's no place like home.
00:30Take a leaflet.
00:31Yoga and meditation.
00:33I'm a very busy woman, but I shall.
00:37I haven't got a clue how this is supposed to work.
00:40The colours have all got to be mixed up for the Easter egg hunt,
00:44but they've got to be all separated out first.
00:48Can I hear one?
00:50Oh, come on.
00:51Better check to see how they've gone stale.
00:53Roast you.
00:57I press ganged Cyril into putting up the bunting.
01:02That isn't very public-spirited.
01:05Taking chocolate out of the mouths of children.
01:08It's outrageous.
01:10Fair days pay for a fair day's work.
01:13Mm.
01:16Right.
01:17Right.
01:17Oh, shit.
01:18Oh, shit.
01:30Mrs. Estelle Glennon?
01:33Mrs. Hope Glennon?
01:41Must be rather fun being pregnant at the same time as your sister-in-law.
01:44Yes. Two more for the clan.
01:46Grandchild 10 and grandchild 11 for the Glennons.
01:49Family in Belfast are laying bets on which is born first and what the weights will be.
01:53Well, it may well be quite a close-run thing.
01:55Two dates, eight days apart.
01:57Do you have family over here as well?
01:59Hope's husband's working as a welder at the Barbican site.
02:02My Michael's doing the same, but on an oil rig.
02:04So they took me in to live with them.
02:07It's just us in London, really.
02:12So, four years since your first baby.
02:14This one's going to be my last.
02:16Unless I get another boy and then I might try again for a wee girl.
02:20We've got a pill to help you choose how many.
02:22We've no control over anything else.
02:24You'd think science would have it all sorted, but now...
02:28..will I have it soon, do you think?
02:30The head's definitely engaged.
02:33With a second baby, that is usually the sign that things are about to get moving.
02:36I was thinking of taking castor oil, or going all-modern and having a curry.
02:41My advice, Mrs Glennon, is to leave well alone.
02:45Chances are all you'll do is upset your tummy.
02:47And if labour gets going anyway, you're in for a dismal combination of events.
02:52Good things come to those who wait, eh?
02:55Well, you come into the maternity home.
02:57As soon as things start moving, we'll look after you.
03:01The shoemaker and his wife never saw the little elves again.
03:07But from that time, good luck was always with them.
03:12They were rich and happy for the rest of their lives.
03:21That is the end of the story.
03:25I could listen to you read all day.
03:28You've got ever such a nice voice.
03:30I have to try to tell him the story through my tone of voice.
03:34But we're still not sure how much English he understands.
03:38Well, kiddies are kiddies, aren't they?
03:41All they really understand is how much they're loved.
03:45And in here, if someone's coming at him with a needle.
03:49I keep telling myself cancer treatment would bewilder him if he spoke fluent English.
03:55But perhaps the more he could comprehend, the more frightening it would be.
03:59You have to hand it to the National Health, though.
04:01All the nurses keep saying there's a real chance he could be cured.
04:04Yes, they do.
04:06The new chemotherapy is such a huge advance on what went before.
04:10Fingers crossed, eh?
04:24I always loved a community event, even as a child.
04:27Every day was a community event when I was growing up.
04:30My parents were in a boarding school for boys.
04:32Rosalind, your mother's on her telephone.
04:35Speak of the devil.
04:38You must take in as much fluid as you can, Harry.
04:42Once the head goes on, you won't be able to drink for hours.
04:45I won't be able to visit the bathroom either.
04:48Oh, this is also true.
04:50Grandma, please explain to me again about the Easter Bunny.
04:53It's a mythical creature of pagan origin, which goes from house to house, delivering sweet treats to children.
04:59So it's not Christian, then?
05:03It's best we don't quiz the connection too closely.
05:06Think I prefer Christmas.
05:20Welcome, everyone, to the Easter Egg Hunt!
05:26The rules are very simple.
05:29Everyone taking part will be given a basket, and there are more than 200 chocolate eggs hidden nearby, each wrapped
05:37in different coloured foil.
05:38The aim is to find six eggs, one pink, one blue, one green, one yellow, one purple, and one orange.
05:48And the winners are the first child in each age group to find all six.
05:55You can search anywhere within the boundaries marked by the carrot bunting.
05:59And if you're little and need a helper, then look out for the people wearing an Easter Egg batch.
06:07The bell, if you would, please, Reggie.
06:14You may begin!
06:17And meanwhile, there is tea and signal cake for the grown-ups.
06:21And if you'd like a hot crust bun, just ask the Easter Bunny.
06:25I couldn't believe it when my mother said she and my father were coming to visit.
06:29I've lived here for two years, and they haven't been once.
06:32Better late than never, I suppose.
06:33They talk about being progressive and voting for the Liberal Party.
06:37But I always have to go to Leicestershire to visit them.
06:39Or meet them in a smart tea room in London if they happen to be in town.
06:43So if they're now going to go to the trouble of trekking all the way to Poplar,
06:47all the more reason to make them welcome.
06:49Oh, gosh.
06:51I'm not being very honoured thy father and thy mother, am I?
06:55You should ask Violet if we can leave the bunting up.
07:00I'm going to welcome them with open arms.
07:03I've told them so much about you, and they do seem keen to meet.
07:06Have they never said anything about where I'm from?
07:10They've said you must be very enterprising to have come all the way from British Guyana.
07:24It seems like five minutes since you was in the cups.
07:28Oh, we're doing very well.
07:31We've got a pink one, a blue one, and a green one already.
07:35What other colours do we need, Donna?
07:37Yellow.
07:37That's right.
07:40And look, there's one over there on top of the dustbin.
07:44What a funny place to put it.
07:53I'll lift you up, but you must try not to touch the bin lid.
08:03Harry!
08:05Harry!
08:05What is the matter?
08:07Well, I think that there's a dog in its death throes.
08:12There's form round his mouth.
08:14I've seen dogs like this in the street in Delhi.
08:16Stay there.
08:17I'm going for assistance.
08:22Police, ambulance or fire?
08:24Police, urgently to St. Wilbur's School, Hendy Street.
08:30WHISTLE BLOWS
08:32WHISTLE BLOWS
08:32WHISTLE BLOWS
08:34WHISTLE BLOWS
08:35WHISTLE BLOWS
08:35Everybody back!
08:37Everybody back!
08:43The Easter egg hunt is suspended.
08:46That means stopped, Mandy.
08:47I know.
08:49Come over with me.
08:55Nobody crosses this line.
08:58First rule of civil defence,
09:00establish and control the crisis area.
09:05Heaven's a murder tribe with enough to contend with
09:08without children getting knocked down.
09:12What would they say?
09:17If we had to come our way,
09:18how can it be safe for Daddy?
09:20Let's go inside, Annie.
09:23Vet reports for a rabid dog, sir.
09:26It's a dead dog now.
09:28Dr. Turner,
09:29I'm on the police surgeon road to it.
09:30Sir,
09:32it'll have to be taken for a post-mortem,
09:34and this whole area needs to be cleansed.
09:36It has to be dealt with according to the rabies protocol.
09:41Mandy Psegn.
09:44Kevin Rendergast.
09:46Teddy Turner.
09:55Everton Wheatley.
09:56Yes.
09:58John Muscatelli.
10:00As soon as the police give us permission,
10:03Ballou and I will walk with you to St. Oswald's Hall
10:05where you can be collected by your parents.
10:09Should I be serving butterfly cakes or kennel meat?
10:19This feels awfully close to home, Dr. Turner.
10:23You read about rabies happening in places like Germany
10:26that the squirrels get it there.
10:28But it can spread.
10:30From Germany to France to England.
10:33There was that case in Surrey last year.
10:35The rabid dog that ran amok
10:37days after it came out of quarantine.
10:39I'll never forget seeing the news,
10:41watching them rounding up people's pets.
10:44The result of the tests on the body
10:46won't be through for at least two days.
10:48We have to find a way of keeping people calm.
10:55Cushions all ready.
10:57If you turn around, you can reverse into the chair
11:00like the occupational therapist showed you.
11:01I do not need instructions,
11:03and I do not need a cushion.
11:06The only good thing about your mother not being with us anymore
11:09is that I am able to jettison
11:11her excessive soft furnishings.
11:15She liked keeping things cosy, Dad.
11:17She liked a lot of things.
11:20She liked Easter, as it happened, and kiddies.
11:23It would have broken her heart seeing that party stopped.
11:26It needed to be stopped.
11:27Have you any idea how much damage a rabid dog can do?
11:30I've seen that man foaming up the mouth
11:32on the public information films.
11:34That upset you'll never know it.
11:38You're missing that, aren't you, Dad?
11:45What do you think?
11:55Shall I make a cup of tea?
12:05Chai, if you walk out with a man for nigh on five months
12:09without introducing him to your parents,
12:11you're going to get nervous when that day rolls wrong.
12:15I knew my relationship with Cyril was going to be serious
12:18right from the very start.
12:20Didn't we all?
12:21I've known all my life that they are people with opinions.
12:26I had opinions too, to begin with.
12:29If that made you scared of theirs, then I'm sorry.
12:33Have you changed your mind, Joyce?
12:38I think the world at large is starting to change,
12:43if only a little bit.
12:45And you two are happy.
12:47I really, really want my parents to see that.
12:50I don't think anyone could miss it.
13:07Goodbye.
13:12I thought I'd come in early,
13:14but I had no idea how close to us that dog was until just now.
13:18Have there been any developments overnight?
13:19The Ministry of Agriculture seems to be in charge of the response.
13:23Agriculture.
13:24And I'm a health visitor, not a farmer.
13:26They say everyone has to sit tight
13:28until we know for certain that the animal was rabid.
13:31But what do they mean by sit tight?
13:33Are we all supposed to stay indoors?
13:34The school's been closed.
13:36The children were meant to be going back today.
13:38Meanwhile, Mrs Buckle has called a public meeting
13:41in an attempt to quell panic.
13:43She won't be told it's as likely
13:44to fan the flames of hysteria as it is to damp them down.
13:51Now, Natas, how's midwife speaking?
13:54This is Estelle Glennon?
13:55Is that an Ursula word?
13:56It is.
13:57Are you in labour, Estelle?
13:59No.
13:59But I think it's Hope's turn.
14:07Well, there you go, now.
14:12No, Mrs Kelly, we do not offer the rabies vaccine at this surgery.
14:17Yes, I can make a note of the fact
14:18that your children were at the Easter egg hunt.
14:20Thank you for calling.
14:23How may I help you, ladies?
14:24I think I'm in labour.
14:25Their stalwart said she'd meet us here.
14:27Don't come near her.
14:29Don't come near her.
14:29She's been scratched by a cat.
14:36I am beginning to resent the success
14:38of the government anti-rabies campaign.
14:41It's made everyone think they're going to die
14:43from infected animal saliva.
14:45If it carries on like this,
14:46you're going to have to appeal for calm
14:48through a megaphone.
14:49I'll take one to the public meeting.
14:52In the meantime, we've just ascended my 12 o'clock.
14:56You'll be pleased to hear
14:57it's a simple case of bunions.
15:08Dad, I can do that.
15:10You're interrupting my method.
15:11You've got collapsed vertebra.
15:13I haven't got collapsed dignity.
15:15I'm trying to help Dad.
15:16The best way you can help me
15:18is to get out of the house
15:20and find a way to make a living.
15:21Nobody wants yoga or meditation classes.
15:24I'm not that keen on them myself.
15:28Your mum would cry her eyes out
15:30if she saw the way you drifted.
15:33Good afternoon, district nurse.
15:36You come to give me my rabies, jab?
15:38Have you got any symptoms?
15:39Because if you have,
15:40it's too late for the vaccine.
15:51Things are starting to get going.
15:56Not very much in the way of dilation,
15:58but there is a little bit of water leaking,
16:00so I think we'll be keeping you in.
16:01I'll be back in two shakes of lamb's tail.
16:05I can't see any gas.
16:08They said there'd be gas.
16:09It'll be in the delivery room, won't it?
16:12I only needed one whiff of it last time,
16:14and they say the second one's easier.
16:19Which isn't to say the first is terrible.
16:22If it was, I wouldn't be doing it again, would I?
16:26That was a nasty old precious saw you had there.
16:29Quite deep.
16:30They said I was way too long
16:32laying on my back in hospital.
16:34I think this new soreness is because
16:36the belt on your trousers is pressing down on it.
16:39I caught him rubbing it with disinfectant,
16:40saying that it stings.
16:41Out!
16:45He will not stop fussing over me.
16:50Yeah, Rich.
16:52Well, I feel sorry for the dog, too.
16:55But the police didn't kill him.
16:57He was poorly, and he passed away.
17:00But it's sad to die by the bends.
17:05Fred?
17:06Have you got any disinfectant?
17:08I saw a nasty little mongrel
17:11sniffing around my laundry at steps.
17:13Well, from that shelf there,
17:15and ten pence off
17:17if you buy the bleach as well.
17:19...to further notice.
17:20Repeat.
17:21All dogs must be kept on leaves.
17:24All cats must be kept indoors.
17:25It's going to get worse than this
17:27if they build that channel tunnel.
17:38Oh, Mrs. Turner, you do look tired.
17:42How's the little man doing?
17:44The first cycle of treatment is now underway.
17:47No vomiting or diarrhea so far,
17:50but he's not quite himself.
17:54It's young, hi, holy.
17:58I have permission from Sister Julianne
18:01to come in the evenings,
18:02if that would help you
18:03to get back to your own children.
18:04Oh, it would.
18:06He needs so much love.
18:09And there are so few people that he trusts.
18:15I don't want any more gas.
18:17It's made me sick twice now.
18:22I can see what's happening.
18:25This cheeky monkey's decided to lie on its back,
18:28so its spine's pressing against yours.
18:29Is that bad?
18:31Well, it's a little easier
18:32when they're lying face down
18:34with their head correctly tucked in,
18:35but you've got a bit of a non-conformist here.
18:38I'm telling you, nurse,
18:39the one thing this baby isn't is a Protestant.
18:41Oh!
18:53Thank you, Sister Veronica.
18:54That concludes the first part of our presentation.
18:58Yes, this is right.
18:59Thank you for the slideshow.
19:02Why didn't it mention
19:04the improperly regulated pet shops?
19:06You can't buy monkeys on the commercial road.
19:11Uh, because we are here tonight
19:14to try to allay your fears.
19:18I used to be a steeplejack.
19:20I was always running into bats.
19:22Can you get it from bats?
19:24Bats can carry various diseases,
19:27including rabies,
19:29even in this country.
19:31You must always seek medical help
19:33if you've been bitten by a bat.
19:41The body is ready to push now, Hope,
19:44but we need you to slow everything down.
19:46Slow it down.
19:48Down.
19:49Down.
19:50Hope.
19:52Hope, all is well.
19:54We're going to use this pain now,
19:56and we're going to make it work for us.
20:09Allow me to remind you all of the facts.
20:14We currently do not have
20:15any confirmed cases of rabies in Poplar,
20:19nor do we have anyone presenting
20:21with symptoms of rabies.
20:23The slides didn't make it clear
20:25what the symptoms are.
20:26Yeah, he's right.
20:36They're not his house.
20:38Sister Julianne speaking.
20:39Hello, sister.
20:40Could you possibly send reinforcements
20:42over to the maternity home?
20:43Early symptoms can look a bit like ordinary flu,
20:47with fever, nausea, aches and pains.
20:51All very easy to dismiss.
20:53But once the virus starts affecting
20:56the nervous system,
20:58things become more distinct.
21:00Muscle spasms,
21:02anxiety,
21:03confusion,
21:05paralysis,
21:06seizures
21:07and thirst
21:09coupled with a violent fear
21:13of drinking fluids.
21:14Even water.
21:18It's horrible.
21:20I know.
21:22But that's why we have to take such care.
21:51Hope, with the next contraction,
21:52we need one long, strong, brave push.
21:55That could well give us baby's head
21:57and the worst will be over.
22:05Success.
22:07We have the top of baby's head with us
22:09and I can see the most perfect little pair of eyebrows.
22:16Well done, Hope.
22:18See how strong you are.
22:20When I finally get a light,
22:23I will know whether to kiss it
22:24or give it a piece of my mind.
22:27Bear down, Hope.
22:29Bear down.
22:30Down.
22:31Come on, Hope.
22:32You can do it.
22:33Come on.
22:39That was the most magnificent push, Hope.
22:42But baby doesn't seem to have read the rule book.
22:47What's wrong?
22:49All will be well.
22:50But we need to work on getting baby's shoulder out.
22:54Dr. Tanner is only around the corner.
22:57We will work on the next massive push
23:01while Nurse Aylward nips to the telephone.
23:13What's happened?
23:15There's nothing to be alarmed about.
23:17What?
23:23We can only remind you
23:26that analysis of the dog's remains
23:29is still ongoing.
23:31We simply have to be vigilant
23:33until the results come in.
23:42Don't wait for the pain this time, Hope.
23:45Just keep pushing.
23:52Sister Julianne's going to work internally
23:54to dislodge your baby's shoulder.
23:57We're going to get baby out.
23:58Just breathe deeply
24:00and push whenever we ask.
24:04Now.
24:05Now!
24:13Baby's arm is lateral
24:15to its body.
24:30Push now.
24:31Push.
24:32Help.
24:35Keep pushing.
24:37Push as hard as you can.
24:39Don't stop.
24:40Please.
24:41Please.
24:41Please.
24:42Please.
24:43Please.
24:43Please.
24:43Please.
24:44Please.
24:45Please.
24:45Please.
24:47Please.
24:49Please.
24:50Well done.
24:52It's out.
25:03It's out.
25:11Oh.
25:12Oh.
25:22Large baby, shoulder dystocia.
25:41Well done.
25:42I may have broken his collarbone.
25:45You've saved his life.
26:16I may have broken his collarbone.
26:17I may have broken his collarbone.
26:26Good morning, Nanata's house.
26:28My sister's been regaling me with tales of slavering hounds.
26:32Are you still alive?
26:33When I last looked, yes.
26:36I haven't forgotten our conversation in the park.
26:41Nor have I.
26:42I just want you to know that the offer of a listening ear still stands.
26:46The offer of my friendship still stands.
26:48You sound like Humphrey Bogart.
26:50All you have to do is whistle.
26:54It was actually Lauren Bacall who said that to Humphrey Bogart, but I shall take it as a compliment.
27:00I do appreciate the things you said.
27:03You're really very kind.
27:12Will his arm be hurting him?
27:13I broke my toe once and it was agony.
27:16The baby's bones are very soft and Doctor will be keeping an eye on him.
27:20In case he's restless and needs something for the pain.
27:25Wait till I tell him what he put us all through.
27:29It'll make a good tale once he's old enough to listen.
27:33Now, I need to take a look at your stitches.
27:36But if they're playing the game, we'll treat you to a little session with the heat lamp.
27:40What happened here, Stel?
27:42Your sister-in-law, I believe she popped off home when she heard the good news.
27:47To give you time to rest?
27:49No.
27:50That's not what we agreed.
27:52She was going to be the first to hold him.
27:54Something's wrong if she didn't do that.
28:00It's rather delightful that your journey to matrimony started here.
28:05I ought to put up a plaque.
28:07There was a lot of sadness at the beginning, Mr. Scarisbrick.
28:10Even though there was happiness in the end.
28:12Yes, of course.
28:14Now, Lady Elwood, to what do I owe the pleasure of your visit?
28:17You are looking really remarkably well.
28:20I'm not expecting a baby as it happens.
28:23I'm hoping for professional insight into maternity care in Britain in 1971.
28:27Oh, are you tired of the medical landscape in Poplar?
28:31I'm as impressed as ever by what's accomplished at Nunata's house.
28:36But my eyes have been opened by living in New York.
28:39Yeah, well, I've made more than one study over there myself.
28:41It's like a different world.
28:43Suddenly a different country.
28:44I learned a great deal by simply visiting American hospitals.
28:47And now I want to see if I might apply that knowledge within a British context.
28:52Well, you are, of course, most welcome to spend some time here observing.
28:58A little bird tells me you're planning on retiring very soon.
29:02Ah, yes.
29:03The golf club beckons.
29:06And selling the clinic.
29:36It's nice to see
29:37the balloons up, one down, and one to go.
29:41They're for Anthony, really.
29:44Are you sure Hope's going to be all right?
29:47She's doing very nicely.
29:49And the paediatrician from St. Cuthbert's is going to call in and check on baby's collarbone.
29:55Did you know they'd chosen the name Niall?
29:58But Hope's all right.
30:00Her main concern at the moment is you.
30:05And I think I share it.
30:11It will be a relief to be out of the surgery for an hour, even if we barely have time
30:15for
30:15a sandwich.
30:16The public meeting did no good whatsoever.
30:19The phone is still ringing continually.
30:25What was that?
30:27Stay back, stay back.
30:28Come on.
30:30You need dog biscuits, not custard creams.
30:34They're getting her in the shed, aren't they?
30:35That's what matters.
30:36Be careful, Fred.
30:37Fred?
30:38Have you sent for the police?
30:39They're supposed to be on their way.
30:41Shall I go and ring them again?
31:00It's in the shed, Sergeant.
31:02Tottering on its pins a bit and drooling.
31:05Well, take a look.
31:06But toxicology came back on the one that died on Easter Monday.
31:09Well, may I ask, what was the conclusion?
31:10It was negative for rabies.
31:12Looks like it ate rat poison.
31:14So the crisis is over?
31:16Indeed it is, madam.
31:17Must have been drooling over the custard creams.
31:22Well, all's well that ends.
31:24Well...
31:24And there you have it.
31:26An object lesson in anti-climax and a British understatement.
31:30It would have been different in India.
31:32At home, the fear is always real.
31:35Yes.
31:45Me and Hope, we were terrified that somehow our men would get mixed up with the Republican army.
31:51That we wouldn't know if they'd be in danger or causing danger.
31:56But they wanted to get out from early on.
31:58Is that why you all left Belfast?
32:02They lost their jobs in the shipyard anyway.
32:04Catholics did.
32:06And men need to work.
32:07But women need family.
32:09So we stuck together.
32:10And it's a wonderful thing to see, Estelle.
32:12A bond like yours is something to be envied.
32:16I thought at first that it wouldn't touch us.
32:18There was so much talk for so long.
32:21There were demonstrations and they turned into riots.
32:25But you can keep away from them.
32:29But you can't keep away from bombs.
32:31They hide them.
32:33And then they set them off in places where they'll do most damage.
32:37Pleased us like banks.
32:39Estelle, were you caught up in a bomb blast?
32:43In a bank.
32:44In a bank.
32:46Estelle.
32:47Estelle.
32:49Try to stay calm.
32:51You're safe here.
32:53You're safe now.
33:03When this is over, I'm going to walk you to the surgery to see the doctor.
33:21Afternoon.
33:23What's all this about a whiffing sink?
33:26I'll have that with the in-laws coming round.
33:28Thanks, Fred.
33:29I was up till midnight repainting all the scurting boards.
33:32I don't know what's got into me.
33:34Love, Grant, here.
33:37I brought you some pot plants.
33:39And I brought my plunger.
33:42I heard my mother giving birth more than once.
33:45But it was the last one where she screamed and screamed.
33:51There were no more babies after that because it killed her.
34:00Nobody ever told me why she died.
34:03I just remember the mattress being burned because it was covered in blood.
34:09Even 20 years ago, death in childbirth was very, very rare.
34:15Now it's rarer still.
34:16So, one thing I can promise you is that your mother didn't die of pain.
34:22And we are going to make sure that you feel as little pain as possible.
34:27I can't do it.
34:29Yes, you can.
34:31And we will help you.
34:35Sister Juniang is one of the most soothing and resourceful midwives I know.
34:40But in New York, Estelle would have been simply booked in for an epidural.
34:44And a calm, controlled and completely painless birth would follow.
34:48I've read about epidural anaesthesia.
34:51I've been to lectures.
34:53I've never seen one performed because they don't offer it at St Cuthbert's.
34:57Which is extremely backward in my view.
34:59At the Lady Emily, you can have one for £20.
35:02£20?
35:04If you saw the difference it makes, you'd think it was cheap at the price.
35:09Have you been to the Lady Emily recently?
35:12Yes.
35:15I can connect you to Mr. Scarrowsbrick if you'd like.
35:19Not such a good day today.
35:21He's needed some antiemetics.
35:30A parcel with a wee hat arrived from his mother in Hong Kong this morning.
35:35But you wouldn't even let me try it on him.
35:37I'll settle down.
35:39He's a lucky little fellow in some ways.
35:43So many mothers looking after him.
35:48You go, Mrs. Turner.
35:50Back to your other children.
35:52I'll hold the fort.
36:00I'm heading down the black sail.
36:03Do you want to come?
36:05No, thanks.
36:06I'm not feeling great.
36:07And I'm writing letters for a couple of factory jobs.
36:11Factory jobs?
36:13And I'm also planning a haircut.
36:18I've had enough adventures to last me a lifetime, Dad.
36:22Just let me come home.
36:25Children are having a picnic tea upstairs.
36:28Sausage rolls and crisps.
36:30I'm assuming that's because the grown-ups are discussing...
36:35Odyssey.
36:36Yes.
36:39Sister, I am trying to move things on with regard to epidural provision at St Cuthbert's.
36:45Do you think that's wise?
36:46We'd never be able to offer it for home births and even at the maternity home.
36:51It requires an anaesthetist.
36:53It does.
36:54But we can refer patients to deliver in hospital in the GP unit.
37:00Some mothers, like Gastel Glennon, would really benefit.
37:05So, I have arranged to see an epidural block being performed tomorrow at the Lady Emily clinic.
37:14We do know the Order's dealings with them to an abrupt end.
37:18They were performing abortions there when such a thing was still illegal.
37:22But I have something I need to tell you, too.
37:28Also about policy.
37:31For the animal you love and couldn't leave behind, and for you or someone like you, death in a manner
37:37that is beyond description.
37:39Whichever way you look at it, rabies means death.
37:54Sister Julianne, this is terrible.
37:57Why didn't you tell us sooner?
38:00I needed time to consider the Order's position.
38:04And I still do.
38:05Does it make it easier or harder that the National Health have made their intentions so clear?
38:11But there must be a chance that they'll keep funding the Nartas House when they take control from the Council.
38:16Not if we insist on retaining our religious clothing.
38:21Sister, if you close down in Potlars, so must we.
38:26Our practice is enmeshed with yours.
38:29I know.
38:33And there's so much work to do.
38:38If we don't agree to the new terms,
38:41we will receive no more funds from the end of this year.
38:45I've told them I will give my decision at the end of August.
38:48On the feast of St. Raymond Nartas?
38:51Yes.
38:53And in the meantime,
38:55we go on.
39:05Ah, Lady Awe with Dr. Turner.
39:07Glad you could join us.
39:09Mrs. Duchenne is a most delightful lady.
39:12And so very accommodating.
39:18How are we feeling, Mrs. Duchenne?
39:20Fine.
39:21Yes?
39:27Where's Joel today?
39:28Is he out looking for work?
39:29No, he's not.
39:31He's off colour and lying down.
39:33It's like he's lost all his sparks since he's come home.
39:36I don't know why he doesn't want to keep on adventuring.
39:38Do you think maybe he's just a homebody?
39:41He doesn't have to be.
39:42Not in the modern world.
39:43I had to be a steeplejet because my uncle was.
39:46I spent my life mending chimneys.
39:49Once.
39:49Just once.
39:51I was at the top of this church spire.
39:53Pulling up my weather vane.
39:56You could see for miles.
39:58And all I saw was all the places I would never go.
40:02Joel certainly grabbed the opportunities he had with both hands.
40:06No one else around here had a kid who went to an ashram.
40:09It's the kind of thing the Beatles did.
40:12And I was proud of him.
40:14Did you tell him that?
40:16What?
40:16Did you tell him you were proud?
40:18Oh, no.
40:20We're not soft like that.
40:23It's one thing to read about it.
40:26It's quite another to see it in action.
40:30It shouldn't just be for people who can afford to pay, should it?
40:34No.
40:36I'm going to talk to St. Cuthbert's.
40:52I'm going to talk to St. Cuthbert's.
41:10St. Cuthbert's.
41:11When you are a king.
41:19Shoot black on your face.
41:21You're really a disgrace.
41:24Mommy smiles all the while because she loves you, she will worry so.
41:30And if you're good, you know that when you grow, you'll be a king.
41:35Never do a thing.
41:38Four and twenty blackbirds sing along
41:41Royal gifts they all will bring
41:45When you are a king
41:47Everywhere you go
41:50People bowing low
41:53Carriages to take you anywhere
41:55Feet won't ever touch a thing
42:00When you are a king
42:05When you are a king
42:08Never do a thing
42:10Four and twenty blackbirds sing along
42:14Royal gifts they all will bring
42:18When you are a king
42:20Everywhere you go
42:23People bowing low
42:25When you are a king
42:30I appreciate Mrs. Glennon is a special case.
42:33You could always persuade her to switch entirely into our care.
42:38I am not convinced that that would do her any good at all.
42:42She needs a lot of care and a lot of attention.
42:44Epidural anaesthesia requires the same, which is why we have yet to introduce the practice.
42:49Philip, St. Cuthbert is a good hospital.
42:53It's even an innovative hospital.
42:56I have respect for innovative things.
43:00I am saying this in the kindest and most respectful way possible Patrick, but you are a dying breed.
43:07I know I am.
43:10And I don't know if my way of delivering babies has much time left at all.
43:15Do you think the national health is going to close you down?
43:17There is a big shake-up coming, and when it does, I want to know that the women who would
43:23otherwise have been in my care are going to be looked after properly, that they are going to trade what
43:29we can give them for something that might just might be even better.
43:33The net starts with us, doesn't it?
43:35It will end with you two.
43:38Joel, I thought you said you'd come down for something to eat.
43:43Have I got a tin of ox tail?
43:56Greetings, Mr. Bagnall.
43:57I have come from the surgery with a new prescription for your ointment.
44:00Dad!
44:01I can't move my legs.
44:05He's at a temperature.
44:06Dog!
44:07I don't know what's wrong.
44:15It's all right, my friend.
44:16I will fetch help for you.
44:18First, let me get you some water.
44:27Then, Mr. Parry called this morning, and it's a yes.
44:30He had two anaesthetists already raring to go and applying pressure from their end.
44:35And he's content to have Estelle Lennon have epidural pain relief in the GP supervised unit.
44:43Yes.
44:43Mr. Parry will be there too.
44:45In fact, it's going to be a fairly crowded room.
44:48Estelle is one of the most anxious and distressed women I've ever seen.
44:53And if it helps her, I have no reservations.
44:57But what are the implications for you and for our practice?
45:02It might put me out of business.
45:04But it might give this place a fighting chance of working in tandem with the National Health.
45:09By delivering more babies in hospital, regardless of what they ask.
45:12That might be the way ahead.
45:14For all sorts of reasons.
45:17Dr. Turner, I'm afraid a very urgent call has just come on.
45:24Hello, darling.
45:26Lovely to see you.
45:28Mummy!
45:28How do you do?
45:29Lovely to meet you.
45:30Hello, Daddy.
45:31Good afternoon, Mrs Clifford.
45:32It's terribly good for you to come and meet us.
45:35Josephine has far more of our faith in this A to Z book than I do.
45:39Well, the underground was quite challenging enough.
45:42Three tube lines.
45:44We're staying with friends in Hampstead.
45:46Hampstead is a tricky journey from popular.
45:49Cyril comes to pick me up from women's liberation meetings if they finish late.
45:53I'm very gallant of you.
45:54Although I expect you to intervene if she starts wearing dungarees.
46:08And you've no memory of being bitten or scratched by anything while you were an idiot?
46:12Bitten and scratched.
46:15By a cat and a shrimp.
46:18But I've been fine.
46:19How long ago did this happen, Jill?
46:22Weeks.
46:23Well, must be something else then.
46:29It can take up to three months for rabies symptoms to appear, Joe.
46:35Have you been worrying about this?
46:38We are going to call an ambulance to take you directly to the London Hospital of Tropical Medicine.
46:45They'll know what to do.
46:52Tell me, in this social work line, do you do any work with maladjusted boys?
46:59It's increasing all the time.
47:01The council have just opened a special educational unit for them, which we're really hoping will pave the way for
47:06change.
47:07We've taken a few of the odder types into our own school.
47:11But we seem to have sorted them all out with plenty of fresh air and a bit of discipline.
47:19Well, this is a first-class Madeira.
47:24Cyril made it.
47:27Full marks, dear.
47:29And now Rosalind tells us that she's getting confirmed.
47:33Did you have a hand in that?
47:35We're different denominations, but it gives us a common interest.
47:40I'll show you the chaplain in the Nata's house when I take you over to meet my colleagues.
47:44It was joining them for prayers that got me thinking.
47:46Well, we always said that Rosalind could make up her own mind about being confirmed.
47:51And some of our friends were quite shocked.
47:54But we have always been, um, progressive thinkers.
48:04More tea, Mrs Clifford?
48:05Yes, please.
48:07And expect Earl Grey.
48:12As soon as you feel your first contraction, you must contact Narnata's house.
48:16And you and I will travel together by ambulance.
48:19Dr. Turner will meet us at the hospital.
48:23This...epidural.
48:24You say it's brand new?
48:26Newish. It's catching on all over the country.
48:29And I won't feel anything. No pain. None.
48:32Nothing at all. Between your tummy and your toes.
48:35Everything is going to be as calm and controlled and as comfortable as we can make it for you.
48:44Oh, darling.
48:45I'm so proud of you.
48:48We never entirely thought you'd be able to knuckle down to nursing, but, um...
48:52Well, you've proved us all wrong.
48:54Ignore your mother. She's such a wet blanket.
48:56I never had any doubts. At all.
49:00Now, Sister Julienne really was absolutely delightful.
49:05Can you see why I love Narnata's house?
49:07Oh, yes. It's very quaint.
49:10And what about Cyril?
49:14Charming.
49:15Hmm. Yes, he's, um, charming.
49:19Impressive, even.
49:22But really, he's, uh, not the chap for you, is he?
49:29He is the chap for me, actually.
49:31That's why we're going out together.
49:34He is in the middle of a divorce.
49:36This is the modern world.
49:40He is also black, and you're going to have to look beyond that.
49:43We haven't said one word about him being black, and I think that is to our credit.
49:48Frankly.
49:50You don't have to say anything.
49:53I saw it the moment you met.
49:54He is a perfectly decent, respectable man.
49:58We just, uh, don't want you to have any regrets. That is all.
50:04Now, can we have a kiss before we part? Hmm?
50:09Or don't send us back to Hampstead in the doldrums?
50:39Yes?
50:40Yes?
50:43Hmm.
50:46It's early for coffee, isn't it?
50:48Nurse Ailwood telephoned to say Estelle Glennon is en route to St Cuthbert's by ambulance with labour pains.
50:53Can you tell Mr Parry I am on my way?
50:56Of course.
50:57Doctor, I also received a call from the London Hospital of Tropical Medicine.
51:02About Joel Bagnell?
51:03Lysivirus rabies has been confirmed, and the paralysis is spreading very rapidly.
51:16I keep thinking of all the times I've looked at him through windows.
51:20I looked at him through a window on the day that he was born, at the hospital.
51:27And I used to wave at him through the front room window when I was coming home from work, when
51:32he was just a little nipper.
51:35The consultant said you can go inside and sit with him.
51:39And his mum and me, we washed him through the glass at the airport when he flew off on his
51:45big adventure.
51:45Go to him, Mr Bagnell.
51:48The food I have brought you will keep. I will leave it here.
51:50Thanks.
51:53There's things I need to tell him.
51:56While he's still alive to hear.
52:15Well done, Estelle. Well done.
52:18Any moment now you should feel the pain relief starting to take effect.
52:22It's already passing through that tiny tube.
52:26Blood pressure stable.
52:28The fun starts now, Estelle.
52:30I can feel the pain stopping.
52:33It's like everything inside my body is going quiet.
52:36That's what we want.
52:44I know their reaction wasn't what you wanted.
52:47And I hoped it would be better to.
52:49But you didn't expect it to be, did you?
52:54No.
52:55I did not.
52:57To them, I was always going to be too different.
53:04Well, I'm different too now.
53:07And if they can't accept that, if they can't accept you,
53:13they're going to have to accept that their place in my life has now become much smaller.
53:18Please don't cut them off.
53:20Nobody should ever cut their parents off.
53:23However much hurt they have caused, however ignorant they have been.
53:28It's hard.
53:29But Cyril, you've had it harder.
53:34You've had to put up with prejudice ever since you've been here.
53:41Hold my hand.
53:52I want everyone to see.
53:58This is a really strong contraction.
54:01Push now.
54:02Push as hard as you can.
54:04That's beautiful, Estelle.
54:05Keep going.
54:06Keep going.
54:07How are you feeling, Estelle?
54:09I think I'm excited, but peaceful.
54:18Contraction?
54:19Right, Estelle.
54:20We're doing this together now.
54:22I'm pulling.
54:23You're pushing.
54:24Come on.
54:26Come on.
54:27Are we doing it?
54:28Are we doing it?
54:32Yes.
54:33Yes, you are.
54:40Don, Estelle.
54:48It's a girl.
55:02Hello.
55:09It's quite something, isn't it, sister?
55:12It is the future.
55:13And the future's going to hold so many things.
55:17You're beautiful.
55:18It's very weird for a baby.
55:19Yeah.
55:20You're beautiful.
55:21Maggie, no.
55:22No.
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