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00:43I used to think that night was a time for women.
00:48All day the docks were raucous with the lives of men.
00:52Lightmen and stevedores, dockers and pilots, the sailors and the drivers of the trains.
01:00In the smallest hours, only the river's voice was heard, only women were awake, men slept, mostly.
01:22Are you sure you're a midwife? You're an affluent young.
01:26Don't worry Ingrid, you're quite safe.
01:34I'll kill him. I'll bloody kill him when I'm done.
01:42Short breath.
01:48She wouldn't kill him. No mother ever did. She would only curse his name and say there'd never be a
01:55next time.
01:55And she would mean it. And there always was.
02:00O God, you speak to save us. O Lord, make haste to help us.
02:10Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost.
02:18As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
02:28Praise the Lord.
02:34Praise the Lord.
02:37Praise the Lord.
02:41Have mercy upon me, O God of birth, I make goodness
02:50I'm going to the Lord, turn all thy mercies to the way my love and sense
02:59Wash me away from my weakness
03:04Zakir, I'm with someone
03:27Take him to the crystal room
03:43Oh, she's a bit of all right
03:47I'm going to call her Dawn
03:50It's a beautiful name
03:54Oh, cud cud
03:57Is it nice, there's a baby
04:00Baby
04:02Yeah
04:09Don't you, I change me
04:11There's eight bob, if I bring you inside
04:21Thought he dropped off on the job
04:24Tell you what, some of them last girls, they don't half rub off on you
04:30Mary
04:31You've got one in the oven
04:36Is it any wonder?
04:44There's things you can do, Mayor
04:47Things you'll have to do
04:50And what if I won't?
04:53You can't keep it
04:55I won't, are you?
05:03I've entered a house in the dead of night
05:06And emerged into sunshine, leaving a new life behind
05:10And I wouldn't have changed my job for all the world
05:16Oh, hello, Jenny
05:18I'm full of night again
05:19This is me catching you, the kipper
05:21I'd be quick if I were you or Fred will have it
05:23I heard that
05:25And I hate kippers
05:26I tried smoking them once
05:28It's a much game
05:30Flat tyre
05:31Three advanced delivery packs
05:33One booking in
05:34And two final home visits
05:37How's Mrs. Mason?
05:39How's Mrs. Mason?
05:39Little girl, sister, no complications
05:40Good
05:41You'll have to see to Sister Bernadette's list later
05:44She's been seconded to the hospital today
05:50Notice house, midwife speaking
05:52Short-staffed again
05:53The new trainee is on her way
05:55I can't deny I'm looking forward to an extra pair of hands
05:57Doreen Riley, she's the twins case in Quebec Street
06:00Don't need an extra pair of hands
06:02We need an octopus
06:04When I get back from Mrs. Riley
06:06I'll contact the aquarium
06:07In the meantime, the new girl's details are on here
06:19Camilla Fortescue Chumley Brown?
06:21Yes, come here
06:23I generally answer to chummy
06:26My pa used to say long dogs need short names
06:29Follow me, mind your head
06:32I understand
06:33You qualified by a whisker
06:36Nurse
06:37Fortescue Chumley Brown
06:39I did pass
06:40It was a bit of a scrape
06:41Before that I was nursing for five years
06:43And
06:44What?
06:45Come on
06:46Inside
06:47You need me to go through this piece by piece
06:50No, not remotely
06:51What's that?
06:53It's an enema nozzle
06:55It's made of glass
06:56Do you break things?
06:59No
07:00And are all your dresses pink?
07:02I do have another
07:03In O'Doniel
07:04Bet you'll look a picture in that too
07:06Nurse, Lee!
07:37Uniforms
07:39Standard
07:40Pale blue
07:41Two
07:42I found some in the airing cupboard
07:43All girls together
07:44That's what we used to say at school
07:46I can never bear all that fussing and flapping under dressing capes
07:52I've always been a long shanks
07:54Even as a child, in India, I was always taller than my brothers
07:57Poor old Mater
07:58She used to be in tears
08:00But my ire just sewed flounces at the bottom of my frocks
08:03It would look a bit rum round to the hem of a nurse's outfit
08:09Oh
08:11I can't move my arms
08:13Those are the biggest size
08:17Oh, well
08:17Mil desperandum
08:25The rotating handle is delicately mechanised
08:28The cogs will be deranged if it's pounded out of rhythm
08:31Oh, don't worry
08:32I've got the measure of this little war horse
08:35I was at the Royal School of Needlework before I turned to nursing
08:41Have you thought of French knots to make that jolly fellow's hair?
08:45I intend to furnish it with a berry
08:48The scalp will not be visible to view
08:50Oh
08:53Thank you
08:54Embrace me
08:58Embrace me
09:05Embrace me
09:07My sweet embrace
09:19Embrace me
09:21My embrace
09:32Just want to look at you
09:37My heart will go
09:40Just give me
09:47And you
09:50Bring a chance
09:55Just give me
10:01My love
10:03Just give me
10:30I love you all
10:38I wish I could make my own patterns
10:40Save a bomb on clothes
10:42Yes, I've loved clothes ever since the new look
10:45New look's old hat, darling
10:47Aren't you bored of ironing all those layers?
10:50I'm only wearing four tomorrow night
10:52No one for six in the Royal Festival Hall
10:54Another concert?
10:55On your own?
10:57Yes
10:57Brack Manon off
10:59Oh, I've chopped Princess Margaret's head off
11:02I was cutting out the sleeve
11:04She'll be giving me one of her hard cold stares
11:06I'm sure she'll forgive you
11:08You know, I always think she looks like fun
11:10Oh, she's frightfully vivacious when she's had a gin and id
11:17Oh, not that I know her well
11:18No, I haven't really seen her since Pa's investiture
11:22Investiture?
11:23Yes, he was just
11:25Well, he was knighted for, er, services to the Viceroy
11:29I'd keep that from Sister Evangelina
11:31Why?
11:33Oh, well, by all accounts she grew up drinking out of jam jars
11:36It's made her a bit of an inverted snob
11:39Right, young madam
11:42Bicycles
11:43I've got a very nice rival of Norwich with a lightweight frame
11:46Or a Rover Imperial which I reckon's come off the Ark
11:49The choice is yours
11:50Oh, I don't need a bicycle
11:52Thanks awfully
11:53Shanks Pony will suffice for me
11:55Darling
11:56You won't last five minutes on Shanks Pony
11:59We cover eight square miles
12:01You can't ride a bike
12:03I can ride a horse?
12:05That can't be so very different, surely?
12:08The thing you have to remember
12:10Is that once somebody's learned to ride a bicycle
12:12They never, ever forget
12:14Absolutely
12:15So you're only going to have to do this once
12:17It's like learning to smoke or having your ears pierced
12:20Quite
12:21Ready?
12:22Oh, oh, gosh
12:23I'll go down
12:25Alright, yes, feet on
12:26And go
12:30Keep going
12:31You want to turn to a guy clock?
12:33You want to button your lip?
12:34I'm sure he means well
12:35Yeah
12:37There we go
12:39What?
12:40Feet
12:40Feet
12:41Feet
12:41What are your feet?
12:43And my feet
12:44Yes?
12:45Oh!
12:46Down
12:47Down
12:49Down
12:50Down
12:50Oh, no, sorry, sorry
12:52It's just this alternate body parts business
12:55Feet, you know, doing different things
12:59One fears there is something in her that is misaligned
13:04One suspects a planetary influence
13:09Feast and Lita for breakfast
13:11And he stayed
13:12Is there another to run them?
13:13Down
13:14Down
13:14Run
13:17You
13:18Down
13:25Up
13:30Due
13:31Gibda
13:31%
13:39R
13:40Per
13:43Miss?
13:45Miss?
13:46Could you change a £5 note for me?
13:48A £5 note? No, I'm sorry, I can't.
13:52What about in that cafe over there?
13:54Oh, no, I daren't.
13:55They'll think I stole it.
13:57Would you go in and change it for me?
13:59I'm sorry.
14:01Please!
14:03I've not eaten today.
14:05Not yesterday.
14:11Well, I suppose we could go in together.
14:13We could get you something to eat.
14:16I could pay using the banknotes.
14:18So if anyone sees, they'll think it's mine.
14:32First dinner I ever had in England was like this.
14:35That pie was in silver paper, too.
14:38It was in the transport cafe.
14:40That's near Liverpool.
14:41You're not from Liverpool, though.
14:44County Mayo.
14:46Then Dublin.
14:47After Dad had died.
14:50That was where her luck ran out.
14:53And Mum fell in love with the drink.
14:57I don't like it when people pry.
14:59I shouldn't pry myself, I'm sorry.
15:01I should be on the cold tea in Metzby now.
15:04She used to tell me the story of Dick Whittington and his cat.
15:08And how they came to London and he heard the bells.
15:13I used to think, what sort of an EJ?
15:15Because I have to make his fortune and takes his cat with him.
15:20When she took a man to live with us, I knew I'd have to leave.
15:24I thought, I'll take a leaf out of Dick Whittington's book.
15:27I'm just not taking any pets.
15:30I thought the boat went from Dublin straight to London.
15:34I didn't know there was any other city.
15:36And I hitched a ride from Liverpool docks.
15:39It was the driver who bought me the pie.
15:42Did he take advantage of you?
15:47I like your scarf.
15:50It's from Paris.
15:52Is that what the writing on it says?
15:55Did the lorry driver take advantage of you?
15:59No.
16:01He was the last good English man I met.
16:05It's just...
16:08I can see you're expecting a baby.
16:10Can you?
16:12I've been trained that I am a midwife.
16:13You're not old enough.
16:15I'm older than you.
16:17Sorry, girls.
16:17I'm closing my till.
16:19That's some two and nine, please.
16:22I can't change that.
16:24Haven't you got anything smaller?
16:26If you can't change this banknote, we can't pay for the meal.
16:29Which, of course, has now been eaten.
16:41£4.17.
16:49Is there somewhere you can go?
16:52There's a place I used to work.
16:57But if I go there, they'll hurt me.
17:03People like you are supposed to help people like me.
17:14Come on.
17:21I can't wake Sister Julianne now.
17:24It's the middle of the night and the nuns get up to pray at half past four.
17:27I hate half past four.
17:29It's cold, even in the summer.
17:32Will she let me stay?
17:35She'll know where you can stay.
17:37I thought you were one of my sort.
17:40Only of the grand kind.
17:43It was your lovely coat.
17:45And the way you let it swing when you were walking.
17:48There's a girl called Charmaine in the place where I was living with Secure.
17:52She said she was going to go up west and wear white gloves and a touch-me-not expression.
17:59She probably thought you could look like you.
18:05Mary, is Zicca the father of your child?
18:08I don't think so.
18:11Such a long time since he wanted me.
18:15And some nights I've been with three men.
18:17Even four.
18:21God love your innocence, Nurse Jenny Lee.
18:25Which of us is the oldest now.
18:49You're not still up?
18:52Bit of an argument with the bustards.
18:56Night.
18:57Night.
18:59Night.
19:13Night.
19:26Pedal.
19:28Pedal.
19:29Down.
19:30Pedal up.
19:32Pedal.
19:34Pedal.
19:34Down.
19:35Getting it.
19:35Bravo Shani.
19:37Yes.
19:40I'm so proud of you Shani.
19:42Like a student's like a party from the side.
19:45Like a swimming pool.
19:47I'm waiting for the house.
19:48Well done, Johnny.
19:50I'm not going to see you.
19:54Ah!
19:55Oh!
19:55Oh!
19:56Oh!
19:56Oh!
19:58Oh!
20:00Oh!
20:03Oh!
20:08Oh!
20:08I'm not going out with that door.
20:10I'm safe here.
20:13You'll be safe with Father Joe at Wellclose Square.
20:16He set up a refuge for girls like you.
20:18I'm not going out.
20:19Someone will see me.
20:22You're very afraid of something, aren't you, Mary?
20:28If you can tell us what it is, you may be able to help us help you.
20:38There was a girl with a baby in her, and they sent for a woman to come.
20:45She had a hook, like the one you knit with.
20:50I had to help to hold her down, and there was blood.
20:56Like in a butcher's.
20:59I had to help her.
21:00Did the girl lose the baby?
21:04There was a chamber pot in the corner of our room.
21:09I have violets printed on the china.
21:13And I saw the baby in there, no bigger than my hand.
21:17My baby's bigger than my hand now.
21:20I can feel it underneath my heart.
21:24Mary, we're not a nursing home or a clinic.
21:29This is where the midwives live.
21:32We look after women in the community.
21:35When you go to Father Joe's, you'll be in the community,
21:40and we'll look after you.
21:50I'll go if Jenny comes.
21:58Fred's mending the dent on your mud guard.
22:01You've got gravel in that.
22:03Bothering.
22:05You are going to have to get cycling under your belt.
22:08You'll have to find time for it,
22:10just like you've got to find time for your extra study.
22:13I know, sister.
22:14I know I barely scratched apart my exams, but I won't give up.
22:17Well, if you can't serve your patients,
22:20you're a hindrance not to help, and you'll have to be replaced.
22:23But I need district experience.
22:25Without it, I can't go to Africa.
22:27What do you want to go there for?
22:29Aren't we good enough for you?
22:31I feel I've been called to work in Africa.
22:34By God.
22:35Do you feel called to the religious life?
22:38Oh, gosh, no.
22:39One always hopes there might be some sort of a chap along the way.
22:42I'm quite happy just to be a missionary.
22:44But when I close my eyes to pray,
22:46I see all these little black faces.
22:49Don't have to up sticks to Africa to see them.
22:52Just need to go a bit nearer the docks.
22:54It's not that far.
22:56By bicycle.
23:12Where are you?
23:14That's the place I used to work.
23:16It's all right.
23:17I'm not taking you anywhere near me.
23:18Yes!
23:19You are!
23:20No!
23:21You are!
23:21No!
23:22No!
23:22Oh, no!
23:32Do you know him?
23:35No.
23:52Two for three.
24:07I hope you have no objection to fig rolls.
24:10I never had one.
24:11Are you foreign?
24:13Probably.
24:13I never reckon they were up to much.
24:18It tastes like treacle wrapped in a doormat.
24:32I'm not a fallen woman.
24:35No.
24:38I had a boyfriend.
24:40His name was Secure.
24:43He took me in.
24:45When he found me eating bread left for the birds.
24:51But he worked for his uncle.
24:54And I had to work for his uncle too.
24:57We understand that you're a forest.
25:02There's no shame in us.
25:04There isn't for the men.
25:09It's a pimp's trick.
25:11Old as the hills.
25:12A young man finds a vulnerable girl,
25:14lures her to bed with a kiss and kind words.
25:18By the time he's finished with her,
25:22she'd do anything for him.
25:24Don't the girls have any sense of danger?
25:26They've usually been in danger all their lives,
25:28if not from violence, not from hunger and disease.
25:32It's hard to imagine, I grant you,
25:34if you've never lived like that.
25:35I work in the East End, Father.
25:37I know about poverty.
25:38Nurse, I don't think you do.
25:42Poverty isn't bad housing, dirty clothing,
25:44families at ten.
25:45It's never having been loved, or even respected.
25:49Not knowing the difference between love and abuse.
25:51It's just a kiss that wasn't down payment and a blow.
25:59I'm sorry.
26:02You must think me very ignorant.
26:06I think you're very fortunate.
26:09And there's no need to apologise for that.
26:11Oh God make speed to save us.
26:16Oh Lord make haste to help us.
26:21Praise ye the Lord.
26:27The Lord's name be praised.
26:33Have mercy upon thee, O God,
26:37and after thy great goodness.
26:43According to the water,
26:45shall thou thy mercies
26:47and love me, O God.
26:52Watch all the freedom of thy living,
26:56and sit away, and let me know my sin.
27:13What happened to the wanderer?
27:16Will you put a sock in it?
27:17You've got a voice like you swallowed a thug on.
27:19Good afternoon, nurse.
27:21Afternoon.
27:22Excuse me.
27:25The size of her.
27:27She can pull her bras dry.
27:37I hope everyone's bought their sample today.
27:41Oh, not the syrup tin again, Mrs Tiemann.
27:44Then place havoc with the sugar test.
27:56Good afternoon.
27:57Or is it good evening?
28:00You with Dr Turner?
28:02Cubicle on the out.
28:06Hello, Brenda.
28:08Never thought I'd be bumping into you here.
28:10I've been married two years ago.
28:12Well, that's a poke in the eye for Adolf, innit?
28:13Oh.
28:19How did you lose your first husband again?
28:21In the Blitz.
28:22When the sugar works caught fire.
28:24Oh, will I ever forget it?
28:25The gutters were running with fudge for a week.
28:28You're happy, I presume?
28:30Delighted, aren't you?
28:32I've come round to the idea.
28:34I was disgusted at first.
28:36I mean, it don't seem right, does it?
28:37The mother of the bride being in the family way.
28:40Her wedding's in a fortnight.
28:42I've had to buy one of those trapeze-line coats.
28:45Mrs Brenta McKinty to see Dr Turner.
28:50Good luck, love.
28:58Bowels be normal and regular?
29:00Yeah.
29:02Any vomiting or nausea?
29:03No, that's stopped.
29:05Any swelling of the ankles?
29:07Any fainting or dizziness?
29:09No.
29:10Then we'll examine your tummy.
29:12Mrs McKinty had rickets as a child,
29:14and has a skeletal malformation as a result,
29:17including what's known as a ricketic pelvis.
29:19Have you come across it before?
29:21No, I haven't.
29:23Mrs McKinty is a rare bird.
29:25She was deprived of sunlight, malnourished as a child.
29:29Ricketts was a disease of poverty.
29:32Now we have the welfare state,
29:33it's become a disease of the past.
29:36As are the problems of pregnancy she experienced in the past.
29:43Come along, Mrs McKinty.
29:45I've been coming along.
29:47I've been trying to be brave, but...
29:50I had the quickening this week.
29:52I felt it move, like the others moved.
29:57And I lost every one of them.
30:00Mrs McKinty had four obstructed labours many years ago.
30:04Her babies were stillborn.
30:06But we can refer her for surgery now.
30:09All free of charge.
30:11There's no need to attempt a natural childbirth.
30:15Oh!
30:21I'm sorry.
30:22It's just that things come back, you know.
30:27Did you hear, Dr Brenda?
30:29This is a brand new baby.
30:31And a splendid chance for you.
30:34We're all here to help, and Doctor's going to help most of all.
30:38I'm not...
30:40Am I going to show it meself?
30:42Not at all.
30:44Now, let's start by letting him look at that old tummy.
30:49Let's start by letting him look at that old tummy.
31:06I hope you take greater care of the babies.
31:09Not quite so easily replaced.
31:24Well done.
31:26You made Brenda McKinty feel safe.
31:29Magic handkerchief.
31:31Never named Phil.
31:31Oh.
31:31No.
31:32You made her feel safe.
31:34It's the mark of a good nurse.
31:36A midwife too.
31:39Everything else is just mechanics.
31:42You'll soon get the hang of it.
31:44Do you think so?
31:45Yes, I do.
31:48Yes, I do.
32:04See the pyramids along the Nile.
32:11See the pyramids along the Nile.
32:13Watch the sun rise on a tropic isle.
32:19Just remember, darling.
32:24Just remember, darling, all the while, you belong to me.
32:33See the market place in old Algiers.
32:41Send me photographs and souvenirs.
32:48But remember, when a dream appears, you belong to me.
33:03I'll be so alone.
33:08Some complications come up only rarely, and it's as well to stay on top of all the theory.
33:13Now, approximately three to four percent of babies arriving at term are born breech.
33:19That is to say, the buttocks and not the head will be the presenting part.
33:24Didn't Shakespeare describe Richard III as being breech?
33:27Something about him coming into the world with his legs forward.
33:31In Poplar, they call it arriving ass first.
33:35Did anyone see any breech births during training?
33:38I saw two.
33:39I saw one and second of a set of twins.
33:43I saw one with Nurse Brown.
33:43Oh, erm, I did and I didn't.
33:46Oh?
33:47All tickety-boo to start with.
33:48Then after the legs descended, the midwife wrapped the baby in a towel and let its body hang there.
33:54It was dangling, still with its head inside the birth canal.
33:58Yes, that is done to increase the flexion of the head.
34:01It increases the risk of asphyxiation.
34:03It is a showman's trick in my view.
34:06How long was it allowed to hang?
34:07I don't know.
34:08I suddenly fell to Peely Wally and passed out.
34:10Came to face down on the lino in the corridor.
34:14Nurse Fortescue Chumley Brown.
34:17According to the duty log, you were late for your first three appointments and missed the last two altogether.
34:24Sister Evangelina, Chumley wrote those entries in the log herself.
34:27Oh, as if it's something to be proud of.
34:29Chumley has to walk everywhere.
34:30Then why isn't she doing something about it?
34:33Blow winds and crack your cheeks.
34:36Rage.
34:36Blow, ye cataracts and hurricanes.
34:39Spout.
34:40Sister Monica, Jill.
34:41I refer to the fact that her nose is running.
34:49You need to have more respect for your patients.
34:51If you can't be trusted to turn up on time, you can't be trusted to do your own deliveries, no
34:56matter how much studying you do.
35:17I love it every time it kicks.
35:20All I can think is, please, that'll be born strong.
35:25Everything else can wait till later.
35:26Quite right, too.
35:27You just need to keep resting and eating as much as you can.
35:31That's it.
35:33Perfect.
35:35But get used to perfect.
35:37Can't get used to them fig rolls.
35:39They'll do you good they've got fruit in.
35:42The night I met Zakir, he gave me chocolate cake with fruit in.
35:47He'd given me wine to drink and I hadn't liked it.
35:51The cake was supposed to make the wine taste sweeter, but it only made it taste more sour.
35:57You can open the curtains now, Mary. I've finished examining you.
36:01It was after that.
36:03They took me to the crystal room.
36:10I knew what men did to women.
36:13That had it done to me.
36:17And...
36:19I didn't think it could be beautiful.
36:22Or that it could happen on a bed with golden sheets.
36:25Mary.
36:27He said afterwards.
36:28Did you think anything like that could ever come to you?
36:32As if he knew I'd never known it could.
36:35Mary.
36:37What Zakir did to you was obscene, not beautiful.
36:41You shouldn't speak of him. You shouldn't think of him.
36:44And help it.
36:48He's standing in the street.
36:54He comes and stands there every afternoon.
37:01I don't care how many calls they have to make.
37:04Or how far we have to send her.
37:05But I am going to get her out of Stephanie.
37:09She's younger than most.
37:10She's not sharp in the head.
37:12And she's valuable to them on both those counts.
37:18Right.
37:21A place was found for Mary at a Catholic mother and baby home in Kent.
37:26She would be cared for there.
37:29With her child delivered in the cottage hospital.
37:32Thank you for being my friend, Jenny Lee.
37:52Well done, Chummy.
37:55We're going to go straight ahead and then turn right into Lisbon Street.
37:59Don't forget your hand signals.
38:01I just stick out my arm, don't I?
38:03Medal for that woman.
38:05Slow down now, chum.
38:08How?
38:10Lean in as you turn.
38:12I didn't have to turn.
38:14You have to turn.
38:16No!
38:18Break!
38:21Hey, what happened? They're going too fast.
38:26You all right, nurse?
38:31I think so.
38:32Oh, take a piece. Come out of there.
38:35Dear, I'm such a fool. Sorry.
38:39Just take a minute.
38:50First, I'm glad that none of you are more seriously injured.
38:53And second, that you aren't all up before the magistrates.
38:58How did you persuade the policeman not to charge you?
39:01Assaulting an officer is a criminal offence?
39:04I can't remember what I said.
39:05I just tried to say it as nicely as I could.
39:08Sweet voice.
39:09Sweet lips.
39:11Sweet lips.
39:11Soft hand and softer breast.
39:14Warm breath.
39:15Light whisper.
39:18Tender semitone.
39:21Not even the softness of the breast, or any other portion of the form,
39:25helped to turn away the policeman's wrath.
39:27Don't care if they did.
39:29Nurse Fortescue Chumley Brown has got off scot-free.
39:33We're short-staffed and our patients will suffer.
39:36Nurse Plough is diagnosed with shock and mild concussion.
39:40After bed rest, she will recover.
39:42And then she will be attending deliveries by herself.
39:46She's not competent.
39:48Cycling aside, she's competent enough.
39:51She is a qualified midwife and a highly experienced nurse.
39:55This experience is an experience.
39:57What experience has she got of ordinary people?
40:00What experience have they got of her?
40:02They like her.
40:03They laugh at her.
40:05And they've every right that she's no better than a tourist.
40:10She's using them for her own ends.
40:12These ends nothing but a stepping stone to her.
40:15What if it's the stepping stone to her life's work?
40:18This is our life's work.
40:20We don't need Madame la-dee-da looking down on us from her great height.
40:28Yes, Brown.
40:31What are you doing out of bed?
40:32I've been to the off-licence to buy some whisky for the policeman.
40:38I asked if they had the Glenlivet.
40:40They'd never heard of it.
40:41I asked her a good last night.
40:49They asked if they had the店 and they're happy.
40:52I asked if they had one foot.
40:52When you had to leave, you should know.
40:52It's never one foot.
40:54It's every one foot.
40:54It's never one foot.
40:57It's only one foot.
40:59It's never one foot.
41:01It's never one foot.
41:04It's never one foot.
41:05This is a dream.
41:10I call her Kathleen.
41:14It means pure.
41:26It's a shame you gave that scotch to that bobby.
41:28You could have done with a nip tonight.
41:34Do you suppose this is how fighter pilots felt,
41:36waiting for the call to fly?
41:38I don't know. I was an army man myself.
41:41Pioneer Corps.
41:42Gosh, one of the glamour boys?
41:44I specialised in lavatories.
41:47It's a myth that an army marches on its stomach.
41:49What your fighting man needs is a top-notch carzy.
41:53And not to panic.
41:55Like Monty said, El Alamein.
41:58It can be done.
41:59And it will be done.
42:08Nenata's house, midwife speaking.
42:09Me daughter's waters went all over the carpet
42:11when they cut the wedding cake.
42:13And is the lady in labour the bride?
42:15Bride's mother.
42:16I'd hurry up if I was you.
42:18This is her fifth and she do not have a farce.
42:22I looked in the book.
42:23She's two weeks before her due date.
42:25So nothing's been sent in my head.
42:37You put a nip or something in it.
42:39Army trick.
42:40Before going into battle?
42:41Before going into the other wrecks of trains.
42:57Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
43:01Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
43:04Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
43:08Knees, bend, arms, stretch, go, go, go, put your leg leg in, put your leg leg out, in-house, in
43:17-house, shake it all about, you know you can't turn around, and that's what it's all about.
43:38I will not have you giving chink, especially to the nurse who's come to help your mum.
43:44Here, what's your wallet clinging for?
43:46Disrespect.
43:47Come here.
43:50I'm out of your wallops. You're too soft on him.
43:56The midwife had a moustache.
44:00She kept bending down between me knees and looking where I don't like being looked at.
44:07I yelled a little bit.
44:10She kept on saying, nearly over. Nearly over.
44:17All I kept thinking was, it's nearly starting.
44:21I'm nearly a mum.
44:25What was it like when you saw her face?
44:30Like if I'm missing her my whole life?
44:40That's the well. Let it rip.
44:43They're singing on MacDonald now, so no one can meet you.
44:46Now, after your contraction, I'll carry out an examination, and we'll see how close to delivery you are.
44:52I hope it's born before the party ends. Be a right lark making an announcement.
44:57I don't want no attention being drawn to this, ma'am. I'm 42. Makes me look loose.
45:02It makes him indoors look loose. You should have made him take up dominoes.
45:08Hey, that tortoise is under that bed.
45:10When he tore the open nation.
45:12Well, he won't wake up. All tortoises are deaf.
45:15Now, come on.
45:16Shoot, come on. Out to go.
45:17There you go.
45:19Here.
45:21This is happening too fast.
45:22I haven't even had me head on me head.
45:37Everything in order, nurse?
45:41It would seem, Betty, as though your baby is presenting in the breech position.
45:46You what?
45:48It's coming out arse first.
45:51That's bad.
45:53She's not quite fully dilated, so there's time to transfer her to hospital,
45:56where she might feel a little more secure.
45:59I feel secure here? I want to serve me on a bed.
46:02And it's not like you're one of them slips of girls.
46:06Betty's had all hers delivered by Nonnaton's, just like I had mine.
46:10Mum, quick at the boat.
46:16She's moving on, nurse. She's getting ready to want it out.
46:19I shall be back in precisely one moment.
46:22Oh, Jesus.
46:39Stop!
46:52I want all the children to go downstairs.
46:56Apart from Jack.
46:57Jack, I need you to go to the telephone and ring the Nartis' house.
47:00That's Poplar 459.
47:02Tell them the baby is breech.
47:04What does that mean?
47:05Just say breech to whoever answers the telephone.
47:08It's like the beach, the seaside, but it's got an R in it.
47:11Tell them we need additional support.
47:14Go.
47:20Betty.
47:21Betty, listen to me.
47:22I need you to change position.
47:24What?
47:25I need you with your bottom, right at the edge of the bed.
47:27I can't...
47:28I can't move.
47:29I'm sorry.
47:31I know it's a rotten business.
47:33But I do know the form.
47:51You're in a Nartis' house.
47:54Well done.
47:55I can feel your hand. It's shaking.
47:59It's excitement. I'm always the same.
48:10Can I sit with you?
48:13I'll tell them to keep on dancing.
48:15I'll tell them your mum says the noise is a help.
48:20Now, Betty, I'm sure you want to push like Billy-o.
48:23But I need this baby to come very, very slowly.
48:29So, pant, pant, pant, little push, little push, stop.
48:43Bravo.
48:45Little push, little push, little push, stop.
48:54Bravo, Betty.
48:56Your baby's bottom is now delivered.
49:01Now, I need you to stay very still, breathe very calmly,
49:09as I hook my fingers over her legs,
49:16and bring them into the world.
49:26Have you done it yet?
49:28We're doing this together.
49:29Here.
49:31Oh!
49:39Here.
49:40Your hand's not shaking no more.
49:47Now, Betty,
49:49I'm going to wrap the baby in a towel.
49:54Her head is still inside the birth canal,
49:56and if she becomes cold, she may gasp,
49:59which would be unfortunate.
50:05Now, with the next contraction,
50:08you will feel the baby move
50:09as I turn her just a quarter circle,
50:13and that will help ease the shoulders out.
50:30Well done.
50:47She should have called you direct.
50:49Doctor is always called for in the case of a breach.
50:52You called for me?
50:53Now we're both here.
50:54Now, Betty,
50:56I don't want you to move a muscle.
51:01I'm going to loosen my hand on baby
51:05and let her body hang.
51:11Oh!
51:18Oh!
51:22Not a muscle, Betty.
51:23Ah!
51:24Can we have quiet for the mother, please?
51:26While you're holding back.
51:27Good luck's to me as the nurse
51:28is managing things beautifully.
51:33Now, old thing.
51:35Push.
51:41Keep it coming.
51:44Keep it coming.
51:48That's it.
51:50Keep it coming.
51:52Keep it coming.
52:16Come, big ghost, Blaz.
52:20Tell me your baby's been born.
52:35You're all right.
52:44Yes.
52:46Yes.
52:47Yes.
52:47Yes.
52:52Yes.
52:54Yes.
52:55Yes.
52:55Yes.
52:58Yes.
53:00Yes.
53:02Yes.
53:03Yes.
53:04Yes.
53:05Yes.
53:06Yes.
53:07Yes.
53:07Yes.
53:08Yes.
53:10Yes.
53:10Yes.
53:10Yes.
53:10Yes.
53:11Yes.
53:16Yes.
53:35Kelly!
53:40Kelly!
53:44Kelly!
53:50Kelly!
53:54Kelly!
53:57Jenny Lee.
54:02Do you know where my baby is?
54:08She needs me to feed her.
54:18She has abscesses in both breasts. Isn't her mental agony enough for them?
54:24Babies are always placed for adoption in these cases. It's thought to be in the child's best interests.
54:29What about Mary's best interests? She is that child's mother and she did not consent!
54:34Nurse Lee!
54:37She can't consent.
54:39She's only 15.
54:42Still legally a child herself. It was a case of which child should we choose?
54:47How can a girl of 15 with no home, no education, no trade other than that of prostitution bring up
54:55a baby?
54:55She gave up prostitution.
54:57She doesn't have that choice! And you're not the only one who's angry!
55:08But you're young. You can be angry in the abstract and our Lord will love you for your righteous indignation.
55:16Even while Mary's condemned as a sinner.
55:18God forgives. The church forgives.
55:22The church took her baby. I think it will kill her.
55:25Without a baby, Mary is employable. She could find love. She could have another child.
55:34And you think that will console her?
55:36It consoles me.
55:48Your milk ducts have become blocked, Mary. That's the cause of the infection.
55:54It hurts.
55:56Hurts like I never knew hurt could hurt.
56:02Reverend Mother has sent for the doctor. He'll prescribe you antibiotics.
56:08In the meantime, I'm going to bind your breasts so we can help stop the flow of milk.
56:13I don't want it stopped.
56:15It's Kathleen's.
56:24Can I use this?
56:27Can I use this?
56:45Mary was never reunited with her child.
56:49She might look for her.
56:51But her name would not be Kathleen anymore.
57:02Love is a man's splendor thing.
57:12Jack became Chummy's devoted guardian.
57:15Never taunted again by any passer-by, she finally mastered the art of the bike.
57:24No other's nature's way of giving.
57:29No other's nature's way of giving.
57:30Unused to such kindness, Chummy bought him a bicycle.
57:34From her generous private funds.
57:37From her generous private funds.
57:41Brenda McEntee delivered a daughter by the Caesarean section that could have saved each of her stillborn children.
57:51The National Health Service gave her the gift of motherhood.
57:56She called her child Grace Miracle.
58:01And she was perfect.
58:07Jimmy.
58:08What are you doing here?
58:09I'm in a bit of a tight spot, Jenny.
58:11Don't worry, Nurse Leah.
58:12I shan't go telling any tales.
58:14Since you no doubt courtside a few overnight guests of me own.
58:18You look well.
58:19And you.
58:19Very well.
58:20As do you.
58:23It's not right, Mr. Collet.
58:25They can't make you leave your own home.
58:27Cry over an old codger like myself.
58:31We're going to take good care of you.
58:33Don't worry.
58:34Don't understand.
58:36What are you so afraid of, Mrs. Lewis?
58:50In the morning mist.
58:55Two lovers kissed.
58:58And the world stood still.
59:03Then your fingers...