Call the Midwife

Drama

2012 50m TV-PG 7.6

Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

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Episodes

E1

Episode 1

50m

Jenny Lee start her midwife career at Nonnatus House in London. She is surprised to find that it is a nursing convent and not a hospital. Her first case is a woman pregnant for the 25th time!

Jan 15, 2012

E2

Episode 2

46m

A new girl arrives Nonnatus House and finds it hard to earn the respect of Sister Evangelina. Jenny sees an unfamiliar darker side of life following an encounter with a runaway.

Jan 22, 2012

E3

Episode 3

52m

Jenny does some district nursing to extend her community practice experience and befriends an old soldier with awful leg ulcers. Trixie and Cynthia enrol Winnie Lawson as a new patient.

Jan 29, 2012

E4

Episode 4

50m

A baby girl is snatched from her pram and the local community unites for the search. Cynthia sees another sort of loss as she tends to soon-to-be parents David and Margaret.

Feb 5, 2012

E5

Episode 5

49m

When Peggy’s brother is diagnosed with cancer, Jenny and the nuns are called upon to care for him. Jenny gets to know the siblings better. The Nonnatus House residents get involved in Fred’s latest money-making scheme which involves a pig called Evie.

Feb 12, 2012

E6

Episode 6

51m

When Chummy's imperious mother visits and disapproves of Peter Noakes, Chummy defies her mother and has her wedding on her own terms. Senile Sister Monica Joan is arrested for shoplifting.

Feb 19, 2012

Cast

Vanessa Redgrave

Jennifer Worth (voice)

Jenny Agutter

Sister Julienne

Judy Parfitt

Sister Monica Joan

Stephen McGann

Dr Patrick Turner

Cliff Parisi

Fred Buckle, Fred Burkle

Helen George

Nurse Trixie Aylward, Trixie Franklin

Laura Main

Shelagh 'Sister Bernadette' Turner, Nurse Shelagh Turner

Linda Bassett

Phyllis Crane, Nurse Phyllis Crane

Alice Brown

Angela Turner

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