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00:00New things are always hard.
00:06Nurse Crane's been held up at the maternity home.
00:08She's asked me to give out morning orders.
00:10Sister Catherine, are you happy to be on first call this afternoon?
00:13Of course.
00:14I was top of the call board myself, but I know I'm meeting halfway across London.
00:19Good morning, all.
00:20Rosalind Ladadette Ice. She's just sodding out a fresh beer.
00:23Well, I hope she's eaten a hearty breakfast.
00:26She's going to be cycling all over Poplar today.
00:35See you later.
00:36Six o'clock, and don't be late.
00:43Come in.
00:52And it is wakey, wakey, rise and shine
00:57for my favourite slugger bed.
01:00I bring grapefruit tea and French toast chaser.
01:06Oh, I overslept again.
01:07You're keeping not dissimilar hours to Princess Margaret.
01:11Although, I am told, her cooling tray has nothing on it but black coffee and an orange juice.
01:15She probably wakes up with a hangover.
01:18I've never had a hangover.
01:19Mm.
01:21Are you getting a bad back sleeping on the sofa?
01:24I did think of sending for an osteopath.
01:26Then I remembered I am one.
01:29Well, I've slept like a log every night since I came here.
01:32It's like I'm getting over an illness.
01:34You look to me as though you are recuperating nicely.
01:38Apart from the faintest suggestion of a few split ends,
01:41dare I make you a little appointmentette at the salon on the corner?
01:44The hairdressers.
01:45Oh, no, I really don't think I can go to the hairdressers.
01:49Not with my hair in this state.
01:54In a moment, we'll be inviting the ladies and gentlemen of the press inside
01:58to view the magnificent Ground Four extension
02:01funded by the Bathroom Grant scheme.
02:04But first, I'd like to ask Mrs. Rhoda Mullocks,
02:08who's here today with her daughter Susan and son Paddy,
02:12to say a few words about how she and her family have benefited
02:16from this council initiative.
02:19This has been a really fortunate development for us.
02:23As many of you know, Susan was affected by thalidomide.
02:27And we were struggling a bit more than most
02:29with the old outside toilet and tin bath.
02:33Hello, Mum.
02:34For those of you who don't know, this is my second eldest, Perry.
02:38He's at Technical College.
02:41My grandma was actually born in this house.
02:45And the addition of the bathroom has brought us
02:47bang into the middle of the 20th century.
02:51And what do you have to say, Susan?
02:52It's fantastic.
02:54That's the thing.
02:56In you go, members of the press,
02:59straight through to the back of the house.
03:01Oh, and Mrs. Mullick's sanitary wear
03:03is in a new colour called Pampers Beige.
03:05So you might want to caption your photographs accordingly.
03:12Come on, love.
03:14Let's bump you up.
03:17Come on.
03:23I can't believe we're under notice of closure,
03:26yet we've still got a cohort of junior doctors
03:29coming in for district obstetrics.
03:31And all the more unsettling,
03:33because my own son's one of the doctors.
03:35Oh, he was such a little boy when he came into my life.
03:39You were younger than he is now when your path first crossed with mine.
03:43And look at us now.
03:45Shutting up shop to all intents and purposes.
03:48Where do you think we'll be this time next year?
03:52Possibly in a better place than this.
03:55Possibly in a worse one.
03:58But not here?
04:00Sheila,
04:01the council are not going to give
04:04Nunata's house any more money.
04:07We'll have to see what God thinks
04:10and what the order proposes.
04:13Hurry up, please, gentlemen.
04:16The mother is feeling the urge to push,
04:18and Mr. Parry wants all junior doctors to be in guns.
04:24I'm sorry, Dr. Turner,
04:25but I have begged for an extraordinary meeting
04:28of the Board of Health,
04:29and Dr. Threepwood says we have to wait
04:32until the next one's scheduled on Friday.
04:35They might announce more closures at that one.
04:37There are half a dozen other maternity homes
04:40just waiting for the axe to fall.
04:42Which doesn't give the board the right
04:43to treat you or Nunata's house
04:45like a canary down the mine.
04:48Meanwhile,
04:49I fear the fact that our GP practice
04:51is remaining open
04:52has confused matters.
04:54I had expected some degree of local uproar,
04:57but no one has so much as started a petition.
04:59The system we're heading into
05:01is going to be so big
05:02it dwarfs people's comprehension.
05:05Then, by the time they realise what's afoot,
05:08their voices will seem too tiny to be heard.
05:11Well,
05:13my voice isn't too tiny to be heard.
05:22Now, Mother,
05:24let's concentrate on the task in hand.
05:26Less noise equals more effective bearing down.
05:29I'd do better without a ruddy audience!
05:32Come, come.
05:33Just keep reminding yourself
05:34you're making very satisfactory progress.
05:36Ah!
05:37Now,
05:38once this contraction ends
05:40and Mother has ceased her exertions,
05:42would one of the gentlemen present
05:44like to step up
05:45and describe what he can see.
05:47Ah,
05:48Dr. Turner, Jr.
05:52Rule one of obstetrics.
05:53There is often something liquid on the floor.
06:00The fetal scalp
06:02is not visible at the introitus
06:04during the pause between contractions, sir.
06:07The presenting part is the vertex
06:09in a cephalic presentation.
06:11The head is beginning to distend
06:13the perineum
06:14that the crowning has not yet occurred.
06:17and
06:20boy or girl
06:23it's reassuring to know
06:24your expertise knows its limits.
06:35Now,
06:36Lady Aylward,
06:38matron of the Lady Emily Clinic
06:40for women and babies
06:41does have rather a ring to it.
06:43Yes,
06:43it does.
06:44And I'd like to accept
06:46with caveats.
06:48You know I'll grant you
06:49any caveat you desire.
06:51I can't commence
06:52until the new year.
06:54I have to give him my notice
06:55to Nonata's house.
06:57They're not in the best shape
06:59at the present time.
07:07Had I to feel this bell much longer
07:09I would have been in need
07:11of embrogation from my elbow
07:14as well as assistance
07:15to the lavatory.
07:17This means the diuretics are working
07:22and helping to cleanse your body
07:24of all the excess fluid.
07:27I am not in want
07:29of a biology lesson
07:31merely your age.
07:34It might be more convenient
07:35if we set up a commode for you.
07:37I have always pride,
07:40dignity
07:40above convenience.
07:45I've spent the whole of my career
07:47in the East End
07:49which equates to almost
07:51all of my adult life.
07:53You would have served
07:54less time for murder.
07:55I don't see it that way,
07:57Mr. Scarrisbrick.
07:58It wasn't a sentence.
08:00It was and still is
08:03a privilege.
08:04And now our maternity home
08:06is closing down.
08:07And the domestic delivery
08:09of babies could end up
08:11virtually outlawed.
08:12Thank you, Peel Report.
08:14I don't want to work
08:15in hospitals.
08:17I want to get to know
08:18the women I'm caring for.
08:20I want them to feel safe
08:21as though Barth is a miraculous
08:24but normal part of life.
08:26Soon I won't be able
08:27to provide that
08:28and in my view
08:30that's a terrible loss.
08:33I'm simply grateful
08:35we're able to offer
08:36an alternative.
08:38To those who can afford
08:39to pay.
08:41Nevertheless,
08:42we have new adventures
08:43to look forward to.
08:45In due course,
08:46I'll have something else
08:47to put to you
08:48but not today.
08:50We have quite enough
08:51to celebrate.
08:52Perhaps you'll allow me
08:53to take you out to dinner.
08:55Perhaps.
08:56In a week or two.
09:01Oh, good evening.
09:02Is that the Gazette?
09:03Oh, Miss Leverett.
09:05Glad I caught you.
09:07Could you put me through
09:08to Mr Reynolds
09:08on features?
09:10Paddy, what noise?
09:12Oh, a sheet make.
09:17I'm going to have to take Susan
09:19to the surgery tomorrow, Bernie.
09:20That blister looks like
09:21it's become infected.
09:23We can't have that, can we?
09:24Eh?
09:25What's the matter
09:26of our beautiful eye?
09:28It hurts when I put
09:29the legs on.
09:31Does it?
09:32If I take her first thing,
09:33can you drop Paddy
09:34at nursery?
09:35Oh, no, I can't.
09:36I've got a funeral
09:37at ten o'clock
09:38out in East Ham.
09:39Mr Albion wants us
09:40lined up at the hearse
09:41by nine.
09:42Sometime through the day
09:43you took that undertaking job.
09:45Well, it's a steady line of work.
09:48You're drinking more
09:49of that milk and magnesia
09:50than you ever did
09:50when you were pregnant.
09:52You're not trying to tell me
09:52we've got some news, are you?
09:54Chance would be a fine thing.
09:57God, our almighty Father,
10:00we ask today for a blessing
10:01to add to all the blessings
10:03you have given us.
10:04And as we thank you
10:05for leading us to one another
10:07and for letting us love one another
10:10and fold us as my hands
10:12and fold hers
10:13and protect us
10:14as her body protects our child.
10:16Amen.
10:18Amen.
10:26Oh, gosh.
10:28It is beautiful, isn't it?
10:32I've always loved pearls.
10:35The idea that inside all that sheen
10:37there's a tiny speck of sand.
10:45The heart of a pearl
10:46is so much stronger
10:48than we think.
10:51I didn't even know
10:52we kept Sherry on the premises.
10:54When a house is a home
10:56to a lot of young women,
10:57it's always wise
10:58to be prepared
10:59for a celebration.
11:00I managed to grab some twiglets
11:02and smoky bacon crisps
11:03while Fred sends his congratulations.
11:06This is turning
11:07into quite the shindig.
11:10Have you given
11:11any consideration
11:12to a date yet?
11:13I went to the
11:15register office this morning
11:16and filled in all the forms.
11:18It's going to be
11:19in three weeks' time.
11:22Three weeks?
11:27And what of your parents?
11:29Are they as delighted as we?
11:31They don't know yet.
11:33They've been away
11:34on the school trip to Bruges,
11:35so I'm going to call
11:37them tomorrow night.
11:40They are educated
11:41and they are inhabitants
11:43of the modern world.
11:47Congratulations.
11:48Congratulations.
11:56I've stopped short
11:57of going the full
11:58bit out so soon
12:00and giving you
12:01a geometric bob,
12:02but
12:04I think that's
12:05taken the curse off.
12:06Farewell, Splatoon.
12:09I've never had eggs
12:10rubbed in my hair before.
12:11It felt quite nice.
12:12Trixie put me
12:13on to the protein rinse
12:14when I decided
12:15to go long.
12:16But, Beryl,
12:18now that you've had a rest,
12:20we need to talk
12:21about the future.
12:23The Order
12:24want my answer
12:25in three weeks.
12:26And what are you going
12:27to do
12:27with those three weeks?
12:29Are you just going
12:30to sit them out
12:30indoors
12:31in the hope that
12:32clarity will come
12:33floating through
12:34the window?
12:35Or are you going
12:36to try to live a little?
12:37I think I'm living
12:39quite a lot
12:40just being here.
12:42Beryl,
12:42you know that's not true.
12:46Today,
12:48whilst I'm out
12:50manipulating
12:51the vertebrae
12:53of London's jet set,
12:55I want you
12:56to make a list
12:57of every single thing
12:59you wish to do
12:59before you tell
13:00the sisters
13:01whether you're going
13:01to leave or stay.
13:04To what end, Geoffrey?
13:05It may help you decide
13:08which sacrifice
13:10is bearable.
13:15What do you mean
13:16Mayor turns midwife?
13:18You can't deliver
13:19babies,
13:20Mrs. Buckle.
13:21You're not qualified.
13:22I'm not intending
13:24to deliver them.
13:25The idea is
13:27that I follow you
13:28and the other ladies
13:29round Poplar
13:30as you go about
13:31your work,
13:32lending a hand,
13:33you know,
13:33as and when appropriate.
13:35I'm getting photographed
13:37by the Gazette.
13:38The Gazette feels
13:39that it will draw
13:39attention to the
13:41destruction of
13:42midwifery services
13:43as we know it.
13:45That I can't deny.
13:49But so far
13:50we've left the news
13:51to seep out slowly
13:53so we don't
13:54cause alarm.
13:55Nurse Crane,
13:56in my opinion,
13:58we need to cause alarm
14:00to save the maternity home.
14:02If people protest
14:04it might make a difference.
14:12How often do you wear
14:13the artificial legs?
14:14Every day.
14:15They make them wear them
14:16at school.
14:17There's three other
14:17Thalidomide kids
14:18and the teacher says
14:19they all have to set
14:20an example to each other.
14:22What do you think
14:22about it all, Susan?
14:24I don't really like
14:25them very much.
14:26The other kids?
14:28The legs.
14:29They're heavy
14:30and they hurt
14:31and they don't look
14:32like proper legs.
14:33You're probably ready
14:34for a bigger set.
14:35She's growing like a weed.
14:37And while I'm here,
14:39Dr Turner,
14:40I want mine some more
14:41milk of magnesia.
14:43Rhoda,
14:44you really need
14:45to get that gallbladder
14:46removed.
14:47You've been at the top
14:48of the waiting list twice
14:49and cancelled the operation
14:50both times.
14:51I'm too busy, Doctor.
14:53Belinda's away at university
14:55and I'm busier than ever
14:57with Paddy and Susan
14:59to look after.
15:00I can look after myself.
15:02Susan, you know
15:03that's not true.
15:04And the campaign
15:05for compensations
15:06had so many ups and downs.
15:07I'll write you
15:08a prescription.
15:10It's cheaper than
15:10buying it over the counter
15:11but promise me
15:12the next time
15:14your name comes up
15:14you'll get the operation done.
15:18They don't complain
15:19like this in male surgical.
15:24He's hungry.
15:26Oh, sorry mate.
15:28We don't run to bar snacks.
15:31The infant stomach
15:33is a small
15:35fusiform organ
15:36situated in the upper abdomen
15:39with the capacity
15:41of approximately
15:4230 millilitres.
15:46anatomically
15:47it's comprised
15:48of the cardia
15:50the fundus
15:52the body
15:53and the pilarus
15:55and the gastrum acuso
15:57is capable
15:58of submitting
15:59hydrochloric acid.
16:00What do you think
16:01you are doing
16:01with that infant?
16:03I was comforting him.
16:05His cry was quite
16:06high pitched
16:07so we might have colic.
16:09And he stopped
16:10the moment
16:11you picked him up?
16:12Yes sister.
16:14He just didn't
16:15seem very happy.
16:16A well-managed baby
16:17is a contented baby.
16:20Doctors do not
16:21care for babies.
16:23They diagnose them
16:24and they treat them.
16:27And junior doctors
16:28are on this ward
16:29to learn.
16:32Sorry sister.
16:34Oh!
16:35I don't know
16:36what's gone on here.
16:37This one's covered
16:38in lipstick
16:39and there's a whiff
16:40of whiskey.
16:41Oh!
16:41Oh!
16:45Now, you don't get
16:46a belt or badges
16:47because you're not
16:48a nurse.
16:48Your hair must be
16:50off your collar,
16:51there's to be
16:51no coloured eyeshadow
16:53and I shall be
16:54inspecting your
16:55fingernails.
16:56Not that we'd let you
16:57too near the business end.
17:00I'm just so used to
17:01seeing you do everything.
17:03The caring
17:04and the medicine
17:05were mixed up.
17:07In a perfect world
17:08the caring
17:09and the medicine
17:10would always be
17:11mixed up.
17:12And in obstetrics
17:13most of all.
17:14Obstetrics and hospital
17:16just seems like
17:16another branch of surgery.
17:18There's so many rules
17:19and protocols.
17:20You'll be doing your
17:21rotation on the district
17:22soon enough.
17:23You'll probably wish
17:24there were more rules
17:25then.
17:26I just wish
17:27the maternity home
17:27wasn't closing.
17:29The maternity home
17:30was an innovation
17:31once.
17:32Practice evolves
17:33all the time.
17:34And as a doctor
17:35you have to lean
17:37into it
17:37or medicine
17:38won't grow.
17:41Sometimes change
17:42is for the better.
17:44I mean look at us
17:45tonight.
17:46Putting on fireworks
17:47for the children
17:48just like we always have.
17:49But timing them
17:51so Angela and May
17:52don't miss their
17:52pop music programme.
17:54If you're talking
17:55about the Partridge family
17:56that is not
17:56change for the better.
18:04Looks like
18:05the Sunday Times
18:06is coming out
18:06on our side again.
18:08Let the manufacturers
18:09latest compensation
18:10offer.
18:11The manufacturers
18:12they want the book
18:13thrown out.
18:14Three million
18:15quid for four hundred
18:16children.
18:17Arms missing,
18:17legs missing,
18:18some deaf,
18:19blind.
18:20I've heard the
18:20campaign leaders
18:21say the kids
18:22deserve twenty.
18:23Million?
18:24I've never seen
18:25numbers that big
18:26until we started
18:27this campaign.
18:28And they'll never
18:28be big enough.
18:29Money can't buy
18:30what that girl
18:30will never have.
18:34Susan what's the
18:35matter?
18:37She's screaming
18:38at David Cassidy.
18:39He's a pop star.
18:40You have to scream
18:42when you see his
18:42picture.
18:49David Cassidy.
18:51I want to scream
18:52all the time I see
18:53his hair cut.
18:54It's better than
18:54that T-Rex fella
18:56Belinda likes.
19:02Susan's going to grow
19:03up soon.
19:04Isn't she?
19:06I think it's
19:07happening already.
19:13Right, Nurse Clifford,
19:14I'm assigning you to
19:15juice and milk tokens.
19:17That way you can show
19:18off your engagement ring.
19:19Thank you, Nurse Crane.
19:21Are you ready with the
19:22petitions, Miss Higgins?
19:24I have personally typed
19:25up four copies to be
19:28presented to the board
19:29and they will be
19:30circulated while
19:31clinic is in progress.
19:32Well, it's the future.
19:34Mrs Buckle and a gentleman
19:37of the press,
19:38unless I'm mistaken,
19:39you are most welcome.
19:47I've drawn up a list
19:48of suitable poses,
19:50but first you'll need
19:52to help me with the hat.
19:55I'm telling you now,
19:57you'll not last long
19:58in a slingback
19:59corkshaw.
20:06You may enter.
20:10I brought you
20:10some crescent, sister.
20:13They're still coming up
20:14lovely on the allotment.
20:19There was an earwig
20:20in the last bouquet.
20:22I watched him.
20:23climb from
20:24petal to petal
20:25for an hour.
20:27It was so like
20:28being out in nature
20:29that I almost fancied
20:31I felt sunlight
20:33on my face.
20:35Would you like us
20:36to get you
20:36into the garden, sister?
20:38I could light the brazier.
20:39You could have a blanket
20:40on your knees.
20:40I think you mistake me
20:42for one elderly
20:44and frail.
20:46Never.
20:51I'm sorry to confess it.
20:57But I do not think
20:58my feet will carry me.
21:03Sit with me
21:04for a while.
21:10That's right.
21:11Give me the joy.
21:13Give me the excitement.
21:17Trouble with this is
21:20we do our most
21:21important work
21:22when people
21:23aren't smiling.
21:32do you reckon
21:33sister Monica
21:34turns for you
21:35didn't sister?
21:36She's certainly weakening.
21:38And the worst thing is
21:40she knows it.
21:43She must be getting scared.
21:44not of death
21:47but
21:48letting go of life
21:51and
21:53life
21:54means so much more
21:55than
21:55breath
21:56and
21:57a heartbeat.
21:59It's
22:00independence
22:02and
22:02company
22:03and joy.
22:07even nuns
22:08take pleasure
22:08in things
22:09and
22:10with every day
22:11that passes
22:11she's
22:12denied a little more.
22:18Maybe
22:19it's time
22:19to move
22:20the telly
22:20to a bedroom.
22:22That said
22:23I don't even think
22:24the TV
22:24will perk her up.
22:27There's only
22:27the test card
22:28after time.
22:31We need to get
22:31her outside.
22:35Why aren't you
22:36and Sarah
22:36making this call
22:37together?
22:38Because
22:39in case you've
22:40forgotten
22:40my parents
22:41haven't spoken
22:42to him
22:42since the day
22:43I introduced
22:43them
22:44which was also
22:45the day
22:45they said
22:46he wasn't
22:46the man
22:47for me.
22:48I think
22:49I need
22:49to break
22:50the ice.
22:51Honey
22:51you're going
22:52to need
22:52a pickaxe.
22:54My mother
22:54and father
22:55aren't bad
22:55people Joyce
22:56they're just
22:57very blinkered
22:59and my marriage
23:00is their chance
23:01to see things
23:02a different way.
23:03You're a good
23:04child
23:05child.
23:17My name's Bernie
23:18I'm an alcoholic
23:21I used to be
23:21a warehouse man
23:23before they
23:24closed the
23:25docks
23:25I was good
23:26at it
23:27things
23:29on shelves
23:30things in
23:30boxes
23:32lists
23:33to take
23:35I was in
23:36control
23:37and then
23:38I lost
23:38my job
23:40and I
23:41have to have
23:41a reason
23:42to get up
23:42every morning
23:43to get dressed
23:44go out
23:45or else
23:46or else
23:46the drink
23:46comes creeping
23:47in.
23:48So when
23:49Mr Albion
23:49offered me
23:50a job
23:52I thought
23:53yeah
23:54things in
23:54boxes
23:57that feels
23:57familiar
23:59I didn't know
24:00that I would
24:00find my calling
24:03that it would
24:04make me more
24:05human
24:05that it could
24:06make me feel
24:06so much
24:07and you don't
24:08feel much
24:09of anything
24:09at all
24:10apart from
24:11safe
24:12in a warehouse
24:19Rosalyn
24:24a little
24:25while back
24:28we had to
24:29take care of
24:30a family
24:31who'd come
24:31to grief
24:31in their
24:32own home
24:33carbon
24:34monoxide
24:37it took
24:38a mum
24:38it took
24:39a dad
24:39it took
24:39a little
24:40girl
24:43and the
24:44little girl
24:45was the
24:45same age
24:46as my
24:46youngest
24:46daughter
24:49even
24:50their names
24:50were nearly
24:51the same
24:51Suzanne
24:52instead of
24:52Susan
24:57and her
24:58hair
25:01I had to
25:02wash
25:02and brush
25:05her hair
25:12but it
25:12was when
25:12I was
25:13washing
25:13her feet
25:14that I
25:15thought
25:15these
25:19perfect
25:21little feet
25:23will never
25:24go dancing
25:29we all
25:30found out
25:30it wasn't
25:30hard
25:33it was
25:33a hard
25:34job
25:35but I
25:36can't
25:37put
25:38those
25:39feelings
25:39on the
25:39shelf
25:42that
25:42keeps
25:43things
25:43safe
25:46because
25:47my
25:47Susan's
25:48feet
25:49they'll
25:50never
25:50go
25:50dancing
25:51either
25:51her
25:54hands
25:56never
25:56wear a
25:57wedding ring
25:57never
25:58hold
25:59a
25:59child
26:04and I
26:04love her
26:05so much
26:07every
26:08imperfection
26:09she has
26:09is beautiful
26:10to me
26:12there are
26:12days I think
26:13I just
26:14live to see
26:14her laughing
26:17and sometimes
26:21sometimes
26:22when
26:24when I stop
26:25to look
26:26at her
26:30I'll stop
26:39but I know
26:41I am not
26:42at ease
26:49with what was
26:51done
26:51to her
26:56because
26:57sometimes
26:59I
27:02sometimes
27:03I compare
27:04her
27:04to the
27:05dead
27:11Rosalind
27:14a
27:15telephone
27:15call
27:15he could
27:16have
27:16made
27:16together
27:17telling
27:18news
27:18we couldn't
27:18deliver
27:19in person
27:19was never
27:20going to
27:20end in
27:21happiness
27:21for anyone
27:22involved
27:22I suppose
27:24I just
27:24thought
27:25that
27:26the
27:27niceness
27:27I'd always
27:28seen in
27:29them
27:30the general
27:31decency
27:32they'd always
27:33shown
27:33would
27:34somehow
27:35come out
27:35on top
27:38but it
27:39didn't
27:41what did
27:41they say
27:42about the
27:42baby
27:44nothing
27:46because
27:47I didn't
27:48tell them
27:50Rosalind
27:50the baby
27:52is more
27:52important
27:52than the
27:53wedding
27:53I know
27:53that
27:54I just
27:56it's
27:57agony
27:57enough
27:58having them
27:58reject
27:59the man
27:59I love
28:01I'm not
28:01going to
28:02give them
28:02the chance
28:02to reject
28:03our
28:03child
28:09world
28:10one
28:11buy a new
28:12dress
28:12oh
28:13barrel
28:14well that's a bit
28:15basic
28:16I have put
28:17not in navy blue in brackets
28:20I'll add
28:21mustn't go with a wimple
28:23and lace ups
28:24I could see you
28:26in tiger print
28:27chiffon
28:27no I don't think animal print ever really works
28:30if you're bigger than the actual animal
28:32the only member of the feline species you outrank in the size department is tabby cat
28:38the door is wide open
28:40the tiger print
28:41and indeed
28:43leopard
28:44two
28:45drink wine
28:46while making crepes
28:48we de mer
28:49like the galloping gourmet
28:51well I can put a line through that one after tonight
28:52and we'll get the scorch marks off the frying pan eventually
28:56three
28:58earn some money
29:01how am I going to earn money
29:04sing hymns in the street and put a hat down
29:07I need a secretary
29:09you could be the miss higgins of harley street
29:12I don't have a felt hat
29:14or a petrifying manor
29:15no no no
29:15it makes perfect sense
29:16I hire space in three sets of consulting rooms
29:19and I'm always missing calls
29:21but do say yes
29:23only if you forgive me for the frying pan
29:26I'll do more than forgive you
29:27I will buy you a felt hat
29:29and an ocelot two piece
29:37oh
29:38oh
29:38oh
29:39oh
29:39oh
29:40oh
29:41oh
29:42oh
29:42oh
29:42oh
29:42oh
29:43oh
29:43oh
29:47what's the matter
29:49the pain
29:50what
29:51the pain
29:52I can't stop being sick
29:54oh
29:58oh
29:59oh
30:01oh
30:02oh
30:03oh
30:03oh
30:03oh
30:05thank you for attending this seminar today gentlemen
30:08this practice was established in 1947
30:12under the auspices of the then new national health service
30:16and the maternity home was opened in 1958
30:20Is it true that it's due to close down?
30:24Yes, in a word.
30:27Do you have any questions relating to your training?
30:31Do we have to ride bikes?
30:33Proficiency in cycling is considered an advantage.
30:40Evolution gave you two hands, Dr Drinkwater.
30:44Can we see one on each handlebar, please?
30:46Now, gentlemen, if you would all oblige me by signalling as if you were turning left.
30:56That's the other left, Dr Turner, Junior.
31:01Oh, sorry.
31:04He was like that as a little lad. I had him in cubs.
31:11Any oil left in that can, Fred?
31:15They're gonna operate tomorrow. Take the whole thing out.
31:19I know.
31:20And the nurse says that it's worse because it's an emergency.
31:24Dr Turner's not getting on at you for the good of his health.
31:27It's for yours. And you ignored him.
31:29I've got too much to do.
31:31Now you've got too much to do.
31:34I'll cope.
31:35Your sister's gonna come and pick up Paddy.
31:38Are you this?
31:39I'll have to give her a list.
31:42What about Susan?
31:50It's not the most luxurious mode of transport, but with a couple of cushions,
31:56it'll be just the job for taking you out in the fresh air.
32:01By fresh air, do you mean in public?
32:07Sister, you need stimulation and you're capable of embracing it.
32:13Why then did you bring that infernal television into my chamber?
32:18It is the equivalent of putting straw down in the street
32:23so a moribund patient will not be disturbed by the carriage wheels.
32:27You make all these gestures because you think I am not long for this world.
32:34Can you not see that all of these gestures are because we love you?
32:39I have neither the time or the temper to engage in violent sentiment.
32:46Love is not violent, sister.
32:49Love is patient and love is kind.
32:53And sometimes love pushes us to places where we do not wish to go.
32:57I thereby refer you to my feelings regarding that conveyance.
33:08She was as mulish as I have ever seen her
33:11and I came as close to losing patience as I ever have.
33:15When I was in formation, Mother Albert used to say
33:19that our greatest trials would always come from within our family circle.
33:23I've had flesh and blood sisters as well as sisters in Christ.
33:28The thing is, you don't have to forgive the flesh and blood ones.
33:31You can just roll around on the floor and smack each other and forget.
33:36That sounds quite appealing.
33:43Sister Catherine, I'm afraid I have to increase your nursing duties.
33:48Mother Mildred has asked me to go to the Mother House
33:51to discuss plans for our missionary work.
33:54You've always said we are missionaries here.
33:57And there's a whole world in need of healing.
34:01Let us see what is proposed.
34:12BELINDA
34:14Hello, love.
34:15Yeah, we need you to come home.
34:18Help look after Susan.
34:20Did Mum say that's what she wants?
34:22No. She wants you to prioritise your studies.
34:24It's me, I'm asking you.
34:26Then I'm doing what Mum wants.
34:27I wouldn't be at university if she hadn't worked so hard to help me.
34:31I owe it to her.
34:31To work hard and make the most of the opportunity.
34:34But what about Susan?
34:35I can't, Dad.
34:37I just can't.
34:40You don't have to stay here for this, Roslin.
34:44From now on, we share all the hard things.
34:51So, Pastor Robinson, Roslin.
34:56What's all this?
34:57We wanted to talk to you about the engagement.
35:00And the wedding.
35:01This is the wedding that's taking place in three weeks' time.
35:04Less than three weeks now.
35:08And you think I don't have eyes in my head?
35:10There's a look to young mothers.
35:13Even before their bodies tell the tale.
35:17Have you guessed, Mrs. Wallace?
35:19I have.
35:21I must have said some terrifying things in your imagination.
35:26Yes.
35:28Then let that be your punishment.
35:31Now make me a cup of tea.
35:39I beg your pardon.
35:43I never promised you a rose garden.
35:47Along with the sunshine.
35:50There's gotta be a little rain sometimes.
35:55But when you take, you gotta give.
35:58So live, not live, or let go.
36:00Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I beg your pardon.
36:05I never promised you a rose garden.
36:10I could promise you things like big diamond rings.
36:13But you don't find roses growing on stocks so close.
36:19So you better think it over.
36:24Well, it's sweet talk and you could make it come true.
36:28I will give you the world right now on a silver platter.
36:34But what would it matter?
36:39This newspaper story certainly made a splash.
36:42Will it make any difference, do you suppose?
36:45My dad went along with it, but I don't think he's very optimistic.
36:50I keep feeling as though I should be helping you.
36:53You're a junior doctor now, not a student.
36:56No donkey work allowed.
37:01There's some sort of spring sticking out of this saddle
37:03and into my backside, Joyce.
37:06District work is all about determination in the face of challenge.
37:10And if you can't get on board with that, you're not getting your red card again.
37:18I feel for the pair of them, Mrs. Wallace.
37:21Nothing takes a shine of a wedding like parental disapproval.
37:25It was always going to be under our shadow because of Pastor Robinson's divorce.
37:29But he deserves as much happiness as any other man.
37:33Now his mistakes are behind him.
37:35I don't think his marriage to Lucille was a mistake, Mrs. Wallace.
37:39It was never a union without love.
37:42What it was, was a union without luck.
37:45Perhaps matters would have turned out differently if they'd been able to have a child.
37:50A baby is always a blessing.
37:54And now we must look to the future.
37:58Let us say nothing further.
38:04Meanwhile, hastily arranged though it may be,
38:08this is Rosalind's first wedding.
38:10How do we make it special for them?
38:12How do we make up for the fact that her parents have treated them so coldly?
38:18It's simple enough, Nurse Crean.
38:20We show them love.
38:24Nurse.
38:25Nurse, my wife is on the second floor.
38:28I will take you to her.
38:29That's okay, honey.
38:31Let us park these bicycles and we'll head straight out.
38:34This is young Dr. Turner, by the way.
38:37Uh, doctor, yes?
38:38He'll be working under my supervision.
38:51Do you have running water, Mr. Das?
38:53We have only one room.
38:54We use this stack.
39:03Oh, that's Ireland.
39:05It's Mrs. O'Day, isn't it?
39:07Yeah.
39:07I remember you're from the clinic.
39:08You couldn't come and look at my little Barry, could you?
39:11He don't seem right.
39:12I'm on my way to a lady in labour.
39:14What's the matter with him?
39:16It's like a cold and a bit of a cough.
39:18Please.
39:19I can hear crying out.
39:21Have you taken him to the surgery?
39:23I haven't got the bus fare.
39:24I don't get my money to you tomorrow.
39:26Please.
39:28I'll pop down later, honey, when I get a chance.
39:35I'll have to run or the chippy will be closed.
39:38Dunk cod or haddock.
39:40Cod.
39:41And get haddock for Dad.
39:42He's hungry when he comes in from picking up dead bodies.
39:45I'll be back in ten.
39:50Perry!
39:51My Jackie magazine's still in the bedroom!
39:53I'm home!
39:55I'm home!
39:56No!
40:20My husband cannot touch me now, even though he wishes to.
40:27Are you Hindu, Mrs. Daas?
40:29Yes, and we are Bengali.
40:33We could not stay in our own country anymore.
40:35Don't worry about where you've come from.
40:37The only thing that matters tonight is what's going to happen in this room.
40:41I should not be here.
40:43No man should be here unless he is a doctor.
40:47But I have nowhere else to go and I do not want to leave her.
40:51We could rig up a screen.
40:53I can go out onto the landing and requisition a bit of washing line.
40:57You get cracking, but I need you back quickly.
40:59Or this won't come towards your rotation.
41:01Without your rotation, by the way, you can show me.
41:03Oh, oh, Junior.
41:13Let me see your turn.
41:14Oh, the sun is요?
41:48Now, with this next pain, you're going to need a really long, strong push from you, Ranjanae.
41:54I am too tired.
41:55You're stronger than you know, and you've come further than you think already.
41:59This one talks a good talk.
42:01Let's see if we can prove him right.
42:08Help! Help!
42:11It's excellent, Ranjani. It's excellent.
42:15I'll check foot to send it to the head.
42:21It's croning.
42:26The baby's head has been born, Ranjani.
42:30It's resting right here in my hand.
42:34Help! We need the nurse!
42:40Do you mind? A lady is having a baby in here.
42:43I can't stop breathing!
42:57Just rest, Ranjani. Just rest.
43:03And I'll talk you through the next bit.
43:05Help! I'm sorry!
43:09What's all this, young man?
43:11You okay?
43:13What happened?
43:14Did he choke on something?
43:17It was just like he was just choking on the air and then he just stopped.
43:22Why has he gone blue?
43:23What?
43:24Somebody call an ambulance!
43:36This is just your baby turning, Ranjani.
43:39Everything's okay.
43:45Larry, Larry, please, Larry.
43:48Is he breathing?
43:50Is he breathing?
43:51Is he breathing?
43:56He's not working!
43:57He's going public!
43:59He's going public!
44:00Did somebody call an ambulance?
44:01Yes!
44:05You're almost there.
44:07This is it, Ranjani.
44:16And you have a little girl.
44:21No!
44:34I'm not going to stop until the ambulance gets here.
44:49Where is the midwife?
45:08Ranjani, I'm going to have to give you an injection.
45:35I need to go to the hospital and be checked.
45:38I need to go to the hospital and be checked.
45:53I can't.
45:58I suppose many house calls end up with two ambulances arriving.
46:02No.
46:03The baby seems to have that croup.
46:06And they do bounce back from that.
46:08And Ranjani will be alright after a blood transfusion.
46:11I froze for a moment.
46:14But then it was like my heart rate shot up.
46:17And my brain kicked in.
46:19That would be the adrenaline.
46:22I wonder if anyone's ever done blood tests on doctors immediately after a crisis situation.
46:26That might make an interesting research paper.
46:29Yes.
46:35Belinda.
46:36I can't show you the bruises your sister has all down her back.
46:40But I'm telling you, you have to come home.
46:43You said I was to throw everything I've got at university.
46:46You said it was something you never had.
46:47This isn't about you.
46:49And it isn't about me.
46:51This is about Susan.
46:52Rola, this will be a shame really necessary.
46:55Everything is always about Susan.
46:58And I know you love her as much as us.
47:02There are essentially two ways of approaching makeup.
47:05One can purely use it to disguise nature's shortcomings or push things a little further and deploy it as a
47:11sort of costume.
47:12You mean like a disguise?
47:13No.
47:14People hide behind disguises.
47:16Bold lips and defined eyes can bring out our inner confidence.
47:21Try putting this on by yourself this time.
47:26And then I'll show you how to blot.
47:39Do you ever have to bring out your inner confidence?
47:42More frequently than you might imagine.
47:48It's jolly hot in here.
47:50Bear with me a moment.
47:52It's the excitement of seeing yourself transformed perhaps.
47:55No, I suspect it's something else.
47:59It's past now.
48:01Let's get on with your nails.
48:06And before we turn our attention to the riveting recent investigation into unlicensed butchery operations, we have item five on
48:16the agenda.
48:17The closure of Kenilworth Row maternity home.
48:20Which counts as unlicensed butchery all on its own.
48:24Thank you, Turner.
48:26Any comments from the wider committee?
48:28Yes, from me, Dr Threadfield.
48:35This is what midwifery looks like in your district.
48:39And this is what local people think about your proposal.
48:44The women of Poplar know how vital and how valuable the sisters are.
48:50And you're closing them down too.
48:52This is the direction of travel dictated by the National Health.
48:58Meanwhile, Turner, rest assured that even as you progress to this next phase, we continue to learn from you.
49:05Will you be watching to see what goes wrong?
49:08Because there'll be plenty.
49:11May we move on now to item six.
49:20I will pray for you when I say the offices.
49:22You will not be as alone in the chapel as you imagine.
49:26Oh, keep the home fires burning and all of that.
49:30I will telephone from the mother house if there is anything to report.
49:37Mother phone!
49:39Mother phone!
49:44I'm ready, I'm ready!
49:49Mother phone!
49:50Mother phone!
49:55Mother phone!
49:56Mother phone!
49:58Mother phone!
50:01Mother phone!
50:02Mother phone!
50:02Are you happy to take your diuretics with just water?
50:05Or would you like me to make some hot blackcurrant?
50:09Mother phone!
50:10I require no beverages.
50:12For I will take no pills.
50:20But the treatment is working.
50:23It is not treatment.
50:25It is merely postponing all that is to come.
50:30You would have me out in nature.
50:34But I would sooner admit nature into this room.
50:39And let it take its course.
50:46Sister, I'm speaking to you nurse to nurse now.
50:51If you refuse your medication,
50:53you will progress from chronic kidney disease
50:57to end-stage renal failure very rapidly.
51:03And what if that is what the Lord intends?
51:24Sister Catherine, what's this?
51:30I chose this life because I wanted certainty.
51:35There was work and a rule of life
51:39and there was faith to knit all together.
51:45But now nobody is where they ought to be
51:48and we don't know what's coming next.
51:53Sister, are you doubting your vocation?
51:56No.
51:58I have made my vows
52:00and those vows are indivisible from my soul.
52:05But if I felt I could leave, I would leave.
52:12Because right now it would be easier.
52:14It would not.
52:16I can promise you that.
52:18No.
52:20I'm sorry.
52:23But just now.
52:25Just today.
52:28I feel so alone.
52:33I'm almost at the end of Harry's new jumper.
52:36I suppose I'll be casting on for Rosalind's baby after this.
52:40There is going to be a baby, isn't there?
52:42Of course there is.
52:43Yes.
52:44The girl's been locked in the bathroom every morning.
52:50Oh.
52:53There's so much change afoot.
53:00Phyllis, I often find people speak of change as if they're speaking about rats.
53:07As if change is something hiding underneath the house.
53:12Attempting to get in and gnaw at all that we hold precious.
53:17Perhaps we would be better to compare change to the birds.
53:24Enlighten me.
53:25Well, birds do what birds will.
53:28They carry twigs in their beaks and seeds.
53:32So they build nests and sow flowers.
53:36However accidentally.
53:39Maybe you should put that in the poem.
53:48Good things can come from birds.
53:52And it's the same with change.
53:56Oh.
53:58It's Mrs Turner.
54:04Is that Linda?
54:05Oh, hello darling.
54:07Hello.
54:09Hi.
54:10Oh, come home, love.
54:18Is that what I think he is?
54:22I'm eight months gone.
54:24I managed to hide it over the summer holidays.
54:27And then once I went back, I thought I'd be safe.
54:29I thought I wouldn't have to tell you.
54:32And then I had to come home because of Susan.
54:33Susan.
54:38I love the ongoing.
54:40Susan.
54:41I love the story.
54:42Susan.
54:42I love the story.
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