0:00:30 > 0:00:33We unwrap so much at Christmas.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39We uncover and expose such a great deal to the light.
0:00:39 > 0:00:43We examine our heart's desires.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46We unfold the year gone by,
0:00:46 > 0:00:49seeking all that is perfect,
0:00:49 > 0:00:53striving to offer up a bright, clean sheet.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02The festival brings sparkle
0:01:02 > 0:01:06to our ordinary days,
0:01:06 > 0:01:09peeling away each layer of experience,
0:01:09 > 0:01:13revealing the heart of all that counts,
0:01:13 > 0:01:17year by year by year.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22I'm never quite sure about Jack And The Beanstalk as a pantomime
0:01:22 > 0:01:25cos I think the kiddies get scared of the giant.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28Still, you've certainly got the legs for Principal Boy.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31That's what my Aunt Edie said when the other girl dropped out.
0:01:31 > 0:01:35I remember you in Madam Edith's shows when you were a little girl.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39Always tapping away in the back row, cos you were tall even then.
0:01:40 > 0:01:42Where've you been?
0:01:42 > 0:01:46Helping out Father Christmas on his busiest night of the year.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48Well, you're in the wrong costume.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50Right, Dame Buckle!
0:01:50 > 0:01:52I've done your high heels in Lady Esquire -
0:01:52 > 0:01:54they're drying by the bread bin.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58I can't see you getting much wear out of these bronze patent
0:01:58 > 0:02:00slingbacks in Switzerland.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04Are you sure you don't want me to lend you my thermal-lined galoshes?
0:02:04 > 0:02:07Christopher and I aren't just going skiing, Phyllis!
0:02:07 > 0:02:09We're going apres-skiing too!
0:02:09 > 0:02:11And what does that entail?
0:02:11 > 0:02:13My accessories coming under quite a lot of scrutiny.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16Besides, Christopher likes me in those slingbacks -
0:02:16 > 0:02:18I was going to wear them on the aeroplane!
0:02:18 > 0:02:22And would that be with the mink hat, the musquash capelet,
0:02:22 > 0:02:23or the jacket with the fox fur trim?
0:02:23 > 0:02:25You won't be wearing them with anything,
0:02:25 > 0:02:28if the weather forecast for Boxing Day turns out to be correct.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31They don't just close airports because of an inch of snow, Barbara!
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Let's hope not!
0:02:33 > 0:02:36Or quite a lot of blameless animals will have died in vain.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40CHRISTMAS MUSIC PLAYS
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Oh, thank you!
0:02:44 > 0:02:46What's in there?
0:02:49 > 0:02:50Oh!
0:02:50 > 0:02:53BABY CRIES
0:02:53 > 0:02:56# That's how it goes Whenever it snows
0:02:56 > 0:02:59# The world is your snowball
0:02:59 > 0:03:01# Just for a song
0:03:01 > 0:03:04# Get out and roll it along
0:03:04 > 0:03:09# It's a yum-yummy world made for sweethearts
0:03:09 > 0:03:13# Take a walk with your favourite girl
0:03:13 > 0:03:15# It's a sugar date
0:03:15 > 0:03:17# What if spring is late?
0:03:17 > 0:03:20# In winter it's a marshmallow world... #
0:03:20 > 0:03:24Everybody, there's a surprise in the parlour. Come on!
0:03:26 > 0:03:28Ta-daaa!
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Ah!!!
0:03:31 > 0:03:36The Seaman's Mission were offered a new and rather superior model,
0:03:36 > 0:03:38so I seized the chance to reclaim this.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42Unless my perusal of the Radio Times deceives me,
0:03:42 > 0:03:46Bronco will be broadcast at half past noon.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49THEY EXCLAIM
0:04:04 > 0:04:07Hurry up, lass! You nearly missed the line-up!
0:04:07 > 0:04:08Sorry!
0:04:08 > 0:04:11I've just had my third turkey dinner in two days,
0:04:11 > 0:04:13round at my Auntie Edie's!
0:04:13 > 0:04:16Careful! The paint's wet! Angela and I only just finished it!
0:04:19 > 0:04:20Thank you.
0:04:20 > 0:04:21Timer's on!
0:04:21 > 0:04:23CAMERA WHIRS
0:04:54 > 0:04:56Good grief!
0:04:56 > 0:04:58Ooh!
0:04:58 > 0:05:02Fred! It's a long time since we've seen anything like this!
0:05:02 > 0:05:03Morning, Nurse Crane!
0:05:03 > 0:05:07Or should I say, er, Baby, It's Cold Outside!
0:05:07 > 0:05:08It's minus five degrees.
0:05:08 > 0:05:12That's right. Minus five. Two foot of snow.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15And three quarters of the country at a standstill.
0:05:18 > 0:05:19Oh!
0:05:19 > 0:05:21No milk!
0:05:28 > 0:05:31A tincture apiece for your tea, and that's your lot.
0:05:31 > 0:05:35The deliverers of milk are not formed of the substance that
0:05:35 > 0:05:36once they were.
0:05:36 > 0:05:40One saw them struggling with their crates through smoking rubble,
0:05:40 > 0:05:42in the Blitz.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44You've got a long face this morning, Reggie?
0:05:44 > 0:05:48I don't like this hat. Violet made me wear it.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Fred's in the same sort of get-up.
0:05:50 > 0:05:51I know he is.
0:05:51 > 0:05:52Morning!
0:05:52 > 0:05:54I like her hat.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56Thank you, Reggie. My sister knitted it.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59Nurse Hereward, is that a new addition to the uniform?
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Oh, no, I only put it on to cross over the road.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05I'm afraid Tom's had a call about the community centre.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07There's been a burst pipe, flooding,
0:06:07 > 0:06:09and terrible damage to the electrics.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11Will Clinic have to be postponed?
0:06:11 > 0:06:13It can't possibly be postponed!
0:06:13 > 0:06:16It's already two days late because of the Christmas holidays!
0:06:16 > 0:06:18The Fire Brigade were called out to the flood,
0:06:18 > 0:06:20and they think the building will have to close completely.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23But...what's going to happen to the pantomime?
0:06:23 > 0:06:25May I second that sentiment?
0:06:25 > 0:06:28I've got three stripy frocks, size 11 stilettos,
0:06:28 > 0:06:31and a great big wig going to waste if that has to be cancelled!
0:06:31 > 0:06:34Fred, the beanstalk is floating in a foot of water.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37And the children from the dancing school will be so disappointed.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39I am going to my office
0:06:39 > 0:06:42to locate an alternative venue for our clinic this afternoon.
0:06:42 > 0:06:46The fate of Jack And The Beanstalk, I entrust to the Almighty.
0:06:47 > 0:06:51We were always led to understand that the Iris Knight Institute hall
0:06:51 > 0:06:54would be on offer to Clinic in the event of an emergency.
0:06:54 > 0:06:58But others have first call on it during natural or other disasters.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00Bit of snow isn't a disaster!
0:07:00 > 0:07:04The boxes of abandoned medical equipment in a flooded hall are!
0:07:04 > 0:07:07And so are improperly monitored mothers.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09Leave everything to us, Shelagh.
0:07:09 > 0:07:13You've waited a long time for Baby Teddy. Enjoy him.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16Oh, I'm not quite ready to get back in my girdle yet!
0:07:29 > 0:07:30Oh, begging your pardon,
0:07:30 > 0:07:33but I don't suppose I'm in with a chance of a consultation?
0:07:33 > 0:07:36I'm afraid surgery's finished for this morning.
0:07:36 > 0:07:37I was off to a clinic.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40Only I've had a bit of an argument with a paraffin heater.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42I might have burned my leg.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53It will be the first time I've ever conducted Clinic in a public house.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55It's rather irregular.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58- I'm just grateful Nurse Dyer's aunt was so accommodating.- Hm.
0:08:12 > 0:08:13Afternoon, ladies.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16Good afternoon, Sergeant. Are we impeding the flow of the traffic?
0:08:16 > 0:08:20We're advising non-essential vehicles to avoid turning left
0:08:20 > 0:08:22and heading down toward the wharf.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25Conditions are considered to be unsafe for vehicles
0:08:25 > 0:08:30of a domestic nature, and the less skilled driver.
0:08:32 > 0:08:36In which case you may move to one side with confidence,
0:08:36 > 0:08:38and kindly permit us to pass.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41I am a member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists,
0:08:41 > 0:08:43and the wheels of this car have been fully winterised,
0:08:43 > 0:08:46thanks to the timely application of a set of snow chains.
0:08:55 > 0:08:59I wouldn't've troubled you, only I couldn't get to the hospital.
0:08:59 > 0:09:00All the buses are off.
0:09:00 > 0:09:04The trouble with this is that the leg of your trousers has melted
0:09:04 > 0:09:06and made the blisters worse.
0:09:06 > 0:09:07Are they Crimplene?
0:09:07 > 0:09:10I don't know, Doctor. My wife buys all my clothes.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12So does mine. Fortunately.
0:09:12 > 0:09:16My Mabel, she, erm, don't get down the shops much.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18Been lame since she was a girl.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21But she's been turning me out like Burlington Bertie
0:09:21 > 0:09:24since she discovered those, er, small advertisements.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26You'll need regular dressing changes.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28We'll a send a nurse out to you.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31Oh, no, no. I'll come to the surgery.
0:09:31 > 0:09:32You've all got enough to do.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37I tell you what - I take my hat off to these stay-pressed slacks.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40Still got a lovely sharp crease above the knee.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42If we set this table here,
0:09:42 > 0:09:45we can put the scales over there under the dartboard.
0:09:45 > 0:09:49Auntie Florrie! I'm going through to the back to clear some space for the urine testing.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51Well, I hope it's clean urine.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53I've got a gross of pies arriving.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55All my regulars are back at work today.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57You'll have to feed them through the tap room window.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Women and children first.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01They said that on the Titanic.
0:10:02 > 0:10:06Good afternoon, ladies! Please take a seat.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09I'm afraid we don't have any magazines for you to read today,
0:10:09 > 0:10:11but we do have shove ha'penny and dominoes.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23Is this is where we're supposed to come, Nurse?
0:10:23 > 0:10:26Only my wife's not been seen by a London doctor yet.
0:10:26 > 0:10:27Oh!
0:10:27 > 0:10:29Gangway!
0:10:32 > 0:10:35Time and the weighing queue wait for no man.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37Believe me, you're in highly expert hands.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40Might even get a packet of pork scratchings.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45How long have you been in these parts, Mrs Openshaw?
0:10:45 > 0:10:46Only a week.
0:10:48 > 0:10:51My bloke's a roofer, and we came down because of his job.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53And can I have your maiden name?
0:10:56 > 0:10:58I'm not married.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00Oh. Your fella said you were his wife!
0:11:00 > 0:11:03He keeps asking me to be.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07But he's not the baby's father.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16Here.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19I keep this one for show and sharing.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21I haven't blown my nose in it or anything.
0:11:24 > 0:11:28Listen, it's bedlam in here today, and you're as likely to get
0:11:28 > 0:11:31a pickled egg and a pint of mild as a urine test.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33Why don't I come out and see you at home?
0:11:34 > 0:11:36We live in a caravan.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38We haven't been able to find a flat yet.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42So, where are you parked?
0:11:46 > 0:11:48THEY GROAN
0:11:48 > 0:11:52Wait! Let me help you, Nurse Crane!
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Such a very personable young man.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57I thought you two would be making merry in the land of goats
0:11:57 > 0:11:59and superior milk chocolate by now!
0:11:59 > 0:12:01London Airport's closed!
0:12:01 > 0:12:04- There's no flights to Zurich until further notice.- Oh.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08I'm not sure I can even get back to my flat.
0:12:08 > 0:12:10You're very welcome to avail yourself of our guest room,
0:12:10 > 0:12:13if conditions remain trying, Mr Dockerill.
0:12:13 > 0:12:14WHISTLE
0:12:14 > 0:12:17I want that car off the road now,
0:12:17 > 0:12:19where it's not causing an obstruction,
0:12:19 > 0:12:23winterised tyres or no winterised tyres!
0:12:33 > 0:12:35MUSIC PLAYS
0:12:41 > 0:12:45It is as well we had not yet packed away the accoutrements
0:12:45 > 0:12:47required for revelry.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50For, as St Paul advised the Hebrews,
0:12:50 > 0:12:54be not forgetful of hospitality,
0:12:54 > 0:12:58for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
0:12:58 > 0:13:01There are 12 days of Christmas, after all.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03- MUSIC STOPS - Ah!
0:13:04 > 0:13:06Why is it always me?
0:13:06 > 0:13:08Bad luck, Val.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Right, let me get this out the way.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12MUSIC STARTS
0:13:12 > 0:13:16Have we prepared the end room for our guest, Nurse Crane?
0:13:16 > 0:13:18I've treated him to the electric blanket.
0:13:18 > 0:13:23I had thought that Sister Evangelina's old dressing gown would be appropriately masculine,
0:13:23 > 0:13:25but it would seem it's been donated to the poor.
0:13:26 > 0:13:31I am poised to offer Mr Dockerill a slice of sherry log
0:13:31 > 0:13:34when his exertions are completed.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39Look out.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42Help me!
0:14:09 > 0:14:10Oh, your feet!
0:14:10 > 0:14:12Sorry!
0:14:12 > 0:14:16Oh. Have you been with that poor sailor all day?
0:14:16 > 0:14:18No-one should have to die alone,
0:14:18 > 0:14:22especially not in the back room of a Seamen's Mission.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24It's not often the corpse is the warmest thing in the room.
0:14:24 > 0:14:25Tom!
0:14:26 > 0:14:29I've had some news.
0:14:29 > 0:14:30What sort of news?
0:14:30 > 0:14:32I've been asked to go to Birmingham,
0:14:32 > 0:14:35to take over a church called St Dionysus.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37As vicar?
0:14:37 > 0:14:41As curate, while the vicar takes a leave of absence due to illness.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44But that's exactly what you've been doing here for the past two years.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47Quite. And I love this parish.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50If I'm going to struggle and starve, I want to do that here.
0:14:50 > 0:14:54That's the second mildly distasteful thing you've said since you got into bed.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56We don't struggle much,
0:14:56 > 0:14:59and we can't begin to know the meaning of starvation.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02Especially when I have a Penguin biscuit underneath my pillow.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Has it melted?
0:15:04 > 0:15:06Strangely enough, no.
0:15:08 > 0:15:09HE SIGHS
0:15:12 > 0:15:14I know I'm supposed to go where God calls me.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17I just don't know why he would call me away from here.
0:15:17 > 0:15:23And if I don't know why, how can I be sure I'm being called at all?
0:15:39 > 0:15:41Please tell me it's melted.
0:15:41 > 0:15:45The reverse. We've even got ice on the inside of the windows.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50I'm not surprised. I was shivering all night.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52Serves you right for not wearing a vest.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54I don't possess a vest!
0:15:54 > 0:15:58I had to hope that two satin camisoles had the same effect.
0:16:04 > 0:16:05Good morning.
0:16:05 > 0:16:06Oh!
0:16:10 > 0:16:13Christopher just saw me in my rollers!
0:16:13 > 0:16:15Dentists have scientific training, Trixie.
0:16:15 > 0:16:18He can't think your hair looks the way it does naturally.
0:16:23 > 0:16:28Stop! Mr Dockerill, stop! Whatever you do, please don't go in there!
0:16:28 > 0:16:30Why? What's happened?
0:16:30 > 0:16:34Erm... The, er, the drop in temperature has led to unforeseen
0:16:34 > 0:16:36circumstances involving the facilities.
0:16:36 > 0:16:38I see.
0:16:38 > 0:16:42The lavatory is frozen. Emergency measures are required.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Is there anything I can do to help?
0:16:52 > 0:16:53No!
0:16:55 > 0:16:56SHATTERING
0:16:56 > 0:16:59Oh! Not now! Oh!
0:17:09 > 0:17:12TOILET FLUSHES
0:17:12 > 0:17:14All now appears to be in order!
0:17:14 > 0:17:17I recommend the application of boiling water hourly, to the
0:17:17 > 0:17:19cistern and to the S bend.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22Your ministrations are appreciated, Mr Dockerill.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24I will make sure it is taken care of.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Does anyone mind if I go in first? I'm absolutely bursting!
0:17:34 > 0:17:37Shelagh, you don't need to make us Scotch pancakes for breakfast.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40We'd be perfectly happy with toast and jam.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Teddy's been as good as gold!
0:17:42 > 0:17:45I'm glad I stuck with the Truby King method of feeding
0:17:45 > 0:17:47and wasn't seduced by that American Spock.
0:17:47 > 0:17:5215 minutes on each breast every four hours is absolutely the only way.
0:17:52 > 0:17:53Excuse me.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56I'm going out to the patio to have a look at the thermometer.
0:18:03 > 0:18:07Good morning, ladies. Two points of note before we commence.
0:18:07 > 0:18:11Firstly, the London Meteorological Office are of the view
0:18:11 > 0:18:16that these conditions will persist for the next ten days at least.
0:18:16 > 0:18:20Secondly, with the continued closure of London Aerodrome,
0:18:20 > 0:18:25Nurse Franklin has kindly offered to postpone her sporting holiday
0:18:25 > 0:18:26until further notice.
0:18:26 > 0:18:31Oh! Would you like a pair of thermal drawers, Nurse Franklin?
0:18:31 > 0:18:34Sister Julienne ordered a job lot from Damart.
0:18:34 > 0:18:38There's a choice of buff or navy blue.
0:18:38 > 0:18:43Thank you, Sister Winifred, but I think I've sacrificed enough.
0:19:08 > 0:19:10I had a proper boyfriend for a while,
0:19:10 > 0:19:13but it never came to anything.
0:19:13 > 0:19:14Apart from this.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19I had to move lodgings once I couldn't hide it any more,
0:19:19 > 0:19:21and my new place was as good as falling down.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26Selwyn was one of the builders that came to fix some slates.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30And there he was...smiling.
0:19:33 > 0:19:38It felt like such a long time since anyone had smiled at me.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40Perfect.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43Not if I don't love him.
0:19:43 > 0:19:47No - I was talking about your blood pressure.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53Selwyn says he doesn't care if it isn't his,
0:19:53 > 0:19:55that he wants to take care of us both,
0:19:55 > 0:19:59that he'll love the baby regardless, no questions asked.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01But how can he?
0:20:01 > 0:20:02I don't know, Linda.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06But he thinks he can.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09And sometimes if you think you can, you're halfway there.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Sister Monica Joan? I have a task for you.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24I have a task assigned to me already,
0:20:24 > 0:20:27by Nurse Franklin's Titian-haired suitor.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31I am charged with preventing the lavatory from freezing.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34You can be knitting young Reggie a bobble hat while you're at it.
0:20:34 > 0:20:37He'll look a lot more a la mode than he does with that cap
0:20:37 > 0:20:40and scarf combination on his head.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42Well, you have commenced its manufacture already.
0:20:42 > 0:20:47I thought it might help if I got the ribbing off the starting blocks.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50I will attend to it when matters are less pressing.
0:21:00 > 0:21:01First blade going in.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03Just breathe in some air now, Dilys.
0:21:03 > 0:21:06What a way to spend a New Year's bloody Eve!
0:21:06 > 0:21:09I'm sure we'd all rather be dancing the bossa nova and eating vol au
0:21:09 > 0:21:13vents, but Mother Nature has scant regard for the social calendar.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15Don't take the gas away! Please, please don't take it away.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18It's all right, sweetie. This gas is going nowhere.
0:21:18 > 0:21:23And neither am I, until we've got this little rascal into the world.
0:21:23 > 0:21:27Which is going to be 1962, and not 1963, I promise you.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29Ooh!
0:21:30 > 0:21:34Come on, Dilys! Push!
0:21:34 > 0:21:36Don't waste a moment of this contraction!
0:21:36 > 0:21:39You can do it! Keep pushing!
0:21:39 > 0:21:41Come on, Dilys!
0:21:52 > 0:21:55- BABY CRIES - Well done!
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Look, Dilys! You did it.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02A gorgeous little girl.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05Who will always have a party to go to on her birthday.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13BELLS CHIME
0:22:13 > 0:22:16Do you reckon them bells are Big Ben?
0:22:16 > 0:22:19I don't know. But they've woken the baby up.
0:22:19 > 0:22:20It's kicking like mad.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Can I feel it?
0:22:28 > 0:22:30It's like he's wishing us a happy new year!
0:22:32 > 0:22:36# We'll take a cup of kindness yet
0:22:36 > 0:22:40# For the sake of Auld Lang Syne. #
0:23:05 > 0:23:08- RADIO:- 11 people are now known to have died as a direct
0:23:08 > 0:23:11result of Arctic conditions engulfing Great Britain.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14Looks like we'll be drinking our breakfast tea black this morning.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17I'm sure it will have arrived in time for our elevenses!
0:23:17 > 0:23:20I expect the milkman's been detained by grateful housewives
0:23:20 > 0:23:21strewing roses at his feet.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23It's like the liberation of Paris every time
0:23:23 > 0:23:25he gets through with the gold-top.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28- RADIO:- Meanwhile, the Milk Marketing Board has announced that after
0:23:28 > 0:23:31almost two weeks of battling to deliver the nations' milk,
0:23:31 > 0:23:34a large proportion of its operators are suffering from exhaustion.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37All milkman are therefore to be given a day's holiday,
0:23:37 > 0:23:38with immediate effect.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41Oh!
0:23:58 > 0:24:01It looks like half of Poplar's without water.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03Your mother was right.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05Maybe you should've stayed at home today.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10What's the trouble, Fred?
0:24:10 > 0:24:12Burst sewer, Dr Turner.
0:24:12 > 0:24:16There's all sorts bubbling up through this tarmac!
0:24:16 > 0:24:18I'd better take a look.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27I need to telephone Environmental Health.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29We'll also have to get that standpipe shut down -
0:24:29 > 0:24:31it's too close to the burst.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34Leave it to me, Doc. There's a phone box just up there.
0:24:36 > 0:24:37Let me poke it.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40Ere, lads - what you doing?
0:24:40 > 0:24:43All the schools are open today. You've no excuse for running wild!
0:24:43 > 0:24:46Oh, my gosh! It looks like a hand.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48It's all right. No-one's in trouble.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54Run!
0:25:16 > 0:25:19I think your ministrations are required in the outhouse, Sister.
0:25:20 > 0:25:27I have been distracted from vital work by this pettifogging
0:25:27 > 0:25:30and inessential task.
0:25:30 > 0:25:35Go and put the kettle on. You leave that to me.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45There's no sign of any injury or trauma.
0:25:47 > 0:25:50He'll have become disoriented in the blizzard, sought shelter.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55Hypothermia will have eased seamlessly into rigor mortis.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06Tillerson, Percival.
0:26:18 > 0:26:23He's one of my patients. I treated him for leg burns.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29PHONE RINGS
0:26:34 > 0:26:36Turner residence?
0:26:36 > 0:26:38That woman hasn't come in to work again!
0:26:38 > 0:26:40Do you mean Miss Plympton?
0:26:40 > 0:26:42The one with the glasses you put in charge.
0:26:42 > 0:26:46The poor woman might feel more inclined to put in an appearance
0:26:46 > 0:26:47if you remembered her name.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49I've got enough to do, Shelagh.
0:26:49 > 0:26:53Especially today. Th... There's been a fatality.
0:26:53 > 0:26:55Oh, no.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58I've found the records... I've found the records of his next of kin,
0:26:58 > 0:27:03but I have got a full list in the surgery - mainly bronchial cases.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07And I never like sending the police to break bad news.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09You need someone there to take care of these things.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11Oh, I'll manage.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13Oh. Sister Julienne's arrived.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16And I shouldn't have bothered you.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18I'm sorry.
0:27:20 > 0:27:24Sister, may I beg a kindness from you?
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Ooh!
0:27:38 > 0:27:40Potty, Mummy!
0:27:40 > 0:27:43Potty, Mummy, now!
0:27:44 > 0:27:47Poor Linda Openshaw. She's only just eight months.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49Sounds more like a reassurance visit than anything.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51And pound to a penny,
0:27:51 > 0:27:54the father needs more reassurance than she does.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56Ooh!
0:27:56 > 0:27:59That'll teach you to snub complimentary thermals.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14Do you happen to know where Mrs Tillerson might be?
0:28:14 > 0:28:15Mrs Tillerson?
0:28:15 > 0:28:17I was told she was housebound.
0:28:17 > 0:28:18I ain't never seen them since they moved in.
0:28:22 > 0:28:26I'm afraid we need to break the door down.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29SCREAMING
0:28:29 > 0:28:31KNOCKING
0:28:31 > 0:28:32Midwife!
0:28:33 > 0:28:35Oh! What's going on, Linda?
0:28:35 > 0:28:37There's no room in here for a piggy back race.
0:28:37 > 0:28:38This bed's soaking wet.
0:28:38 > 0:28:41Oh, look at you, you poor chick.
0:28:42 > 0:28:45Have you got a couple of towels we can put over the damp bit?
0:28:45 > 0:28:48Then we'll get you comfy, have a look at you.
0:29:02 > 0:29:04Mrs Tillerson? Mrs Tillerson?
0:29:07 > 0:29:08Mabel?
0:29:12 > 0:29:14I did what you said!
0:29:15 > 0:29:17Don't be afraid, Mrs Tillerson.
0:29:17 > 0:29:22I'll light the heater, and make you tea, and you'll soon be warm.
0:29:25 > 0:29:26Close the door!
0:29:27 > 0:29:29You have to go.
0:29:29 > 0:29:31Percy won't have it.
0:29:32 > 0:29:33Won't have what?
0:29:33 > 0:29:36People coming in.
0:29:42 > 0:29:44It's all right, it's all right.
0:29:44 > 0:29:48Just let it wash over you, like a wave at the seaside.
0:29:48 > 0:29:49The seaside?
0:29:51 > 0:29:53I could have phrased it better, I grant you.
0:29:53 > 0:29:57Not much chance of a 99 and a kiss me quick hat in this weather.
0:29:58 > 0:30:00Linda...
0:30:00 > 0:30:04it does look as though you're going to be having this baby very soon.
0:30:04 > 0:30:07It's four weeks early, but nothing we can't handle.
0:30:17 > 0:30:20Sip this, Mrs Tillerson. It will warm you.
0:30:23 > 0:30:26You really were very, very cold.
0:30:26 > 0:30:30But I felt warm. That's the last thing I remember thinking,
0:30:30 > 0:30:32how warm it was.
0:30:32 > 0:30:35Hypothermia has that effect when it takes hold.
0:30:37 > 0:30:42I think perhaps you became confused and took your cardigan off.
0:30:42 > 0:30:45Percy doesn't like me showing my arms.
0:30:45 > 0:30:49He doesn't like any women showing flesh.
0:30:50 > 0:30:52When's he coming back?
0:30:53 > 0:30:56He's been a long time fetching the paraffin.
0:31:00 > 0:31:03SHE MOANS
0:31:03 > 0:31:06Warmth always eases pain.
0:31:06 > 0:31:10I'm going to tuck one on each side of your back and see if that helps.
0:31:11 > 0:31:14Right, you! Fill that kettle again, and put some towels to warm.
0:31:14 > 0:31:16That'll free me up to stay down the business end.
0:31:16 > 0:31:19Do you want me to go and phone for help?
0:31:19 > 0:31:22Selwyn! I am the help.
0:31:22 > 0:31:24And so are you.
0:31:35 > 0:31:36I'm sorry.
0:31:38 > 0:31:41I know the news is a great deal to take in, Mrs Tillerson.
0:31:42 > 0:31:43I have taken it in.
0:31:46 > 0:31:50Percy liked to be the one who said what happened when,
0:31:50 > 0:31:53what was what, who did what...
0:31:54 > 0:31:58Sounds like he had no say at all in how he met his end.
0:32:01 > 0:32:03And I'm glad.
0:32:18 > 0:32:19FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
0:32:21 > 0:32:24Shelagh? Uh, where are the children?
0:32:24 > 0:32:26Teddy's asleep in his pram in the corridor
0:32:26 > 0:32:29and the nursery took Angela for an extra afternoon.
0:32:29 > 0:32:32I left her drinking Ribena and doing Plasticine.
0:32:32 > 0:32:34Show me that pie.
0:32:37 > 0:32:39I bought it fresh today.
0:32:39 > 0:32:42From a shop that was under a contamination warning
0:32:42 > 0:32:44from the meat inspectors last October!
0:32:44 > 0:32:45Oh, Patrick!
0:32:45 > 0:32:48We'll be bringing sandwiches in with us every morning
0:32:48 > 0:32:50until further notice.
0:32:50 > 0:32:52What do you mean, every morning until further notice?
0:32:52 > 0:32:55We've a practice to run, and a crisis to survive.
0:32:55 > 0:32:58I can't pretend this girdle isn't pinching,
0:32:58 > 0:33:01but - for now - I'm back at work.
0:33:03 > 0:33:04MOANING
0:33:08 > 0:33:12I want it out. I WANT IT OUT.
0:33:12 > 0:33:14That's just your body telling you to push, Linda.
0:33:14 > 0:33:16Baby's quite small, it's going to come quickly.
0:33:16 > 0:33:18You hold on. Dig your nails in if you need to.
0:33:18 > 0:33:20I'm scared I'll hurt your hand.
0:33:20 > 0:33:22Only thing that can ever hurt me is what hurts you.
0:33:28 > 0:33:31SHE SHOUTS OUT
0:33:42 > 0:33:45The children will need to be told what has happened, Mrs Tillerson.
0:33:48 > 0:33:52Edwin joined up as a boy soldier, when he was 16.
0:33:54 > 0:33:57Percy had given him one black eye too many.
0:33:59 > 0:34:01In the war, when he was took
0:34:01 > 0:34:03prisoner by the Japanese, I thought...
0:34:06 > 0:34:08"..Nah...
0:34:10 > 0:34:13"..he'll be able to bear it."
0:34:21 > 0:34:25After VE day, the Red Cross wrote to me
0:34:25 > 0:34:28and said Edwin had died of cholera.
0:34:28 > 0:34:31I hadn't thought disease might get him,
0:34:31 > 0:34:37I just thought how good he was at standing up to blows.
0:34:42 > 0:34:45He was hard-faced.
0:34:46 > 0:34:48Hard-nosed.
0:34:50 > 0:34:52Just hard, really.
0:35:01 > 0:35:03I was never brave.
0:35:04 > 0:35:07I just learned to do what Percy said.
0:35:08 > 0:35:16He used to say, "You can't argue with what God wants."
0:35:17 > 0:35:20Your husband wasn't God, Mrs Tillerson.
0:35:22 > 0:35:23Maybe not.
0:35:25 > 0:35:27But they was as thick as thieves.
0:35:29 > 0:35:31Is this your daughter?
0:35:32 > 0:35:34A pretty little thing.
0:35:34 > 0:35:35Anthea?
0:35:37 > 0:35:38I wish she wasn't.
0:35:40 > 0:35:43I used to think, if she was plain...
0:35:45 > 0:35:48..would Percy have done what he did to her?
0:35:51 > 0:35:56I don't expect you to answer that, Sister.
0:35:56 > 0:36:00I never could, in all the years of asking myself.
0:36:02 > 0:36:04Even after she ran away.
0:36:12 > 0:36:17Would you like me to tell your daughter - Anthea - the news?
0:36:19 > 0:36:23Anthea ran away...
0:36:23 > 0:36:26..and I was glad.
0:36:53 > 0:36:56- Ooh!- Ten dozen mince pies.
0:36:56 > 0:36:59Puff or shortcrust, Reverend?
0:36:59 > 0:37:02I'm afraid I don't know.
0:37:02 > 0:37:06They're also factory seconds, and I worry it might be a bit
0:37:06 > 0:37:09unlucky eating them now that all the Christmas trees are down.
0:37:09 > 0:37:12They'll fall on them like wolves, Mr Hereward.
0:37:12 > 0:37:14Half these old folk didn't even get a Christmas dinner.
0:37:14 > 0:37:17They were just sat there staring at four walls!
0:37:17 > 0:37:19They're still just sat there, really.
0:37:19 > 0:37:21Well, at least they're not alone.
0:37:22 > 0:37:27You wonder how it happens, families breaking up,
0:37:27 > 0:37:30people cut adrift from their neighbours.
0:37:30 > 0:37:35I see it all the time. Perhaps a feud, an unresolved quarrel,
0:37:35 > 0:37:40a death. Ties fray so quickly, and once they fray, they snap.
0:37:42 > 0:37:43People just stop belonging.
0:37:46 > 0:37:50I think people get carried away with notions of belonging.
0:37:50 > 0:37:53It shouldn't matter where you're from, or where you're headed.
0:37:53 > 0:37:55What it boils down to in my book is,
0:37:55 > 0:37:58do we all look out for each other, or not?
0:38:02 > 0:38:04Ooh, shortcrust.
0:38:09 > 0:38:12These are the records for patients who are on the old books
0:38:12 > 0:38:14prior to National Health reorganisation,
0:38:14 > 0:38:17but never registered under the new system.
0:38:17 > 0:38:20I found Anthea Tillerson quite easily,
0:38:20 > 0:38:25but we last saw her in 1941, when she was only 15.
0:38:25 > 0:38:27Do you know where she is now?
0:38:27 > 0:38:33There's a letter with an address dating from 1954.
0:38:33 > 0:38:35It relates to references required
0:38:35 > 0:38:38when she applied to be a council foster parent.
0:38:38 > 0:38:42She's now known as Anthea Sweeting, so she must have married.
0:38:42 > 0:38:46At the very least, she needs to be informed that her father has died.
0:38:48 > 0:38:54At her last appointment, Anthea had contusions across her back
0:38:54 > 0:38:59and upper arms that were indicative of being thrashed by a belt
0:38:59 > 0:39:01with a metal buckle.
0:39:02 > 0:39:05She was also three months pregnant.
0:39:06 > 0:39:08Aged 15?
0:39:08 > 0:39:12And the notes say, "Mother present at examination."
0:39:13 > 0:39:16Mrs Tillerson made no reference to that at all!
0:39:16 > 0:39:19And I may be surmising,
0:39:19 > 0:39:22but I cross-checked Mabel Tillerson's notes.
0:39:24 > 0:39:28The very day after that consultation,
0:39:28 > 0:39:31the doctor was summoned by a neighbour from the same tenement
0:39:31 > 0:39:36block, who had seen Mrs Tillerson crawling to the communal lavatory.
0:39:36 > 0:39:40He found her to have a black eye, and several broken ribs.
0:39:41 > 0:39:43From a fall downstairs?
0:39:44 > 0:39:46It's always "a fall downstairs"
0:39:46 > 0:39:49when the ribs are broken, or the spleen is damaged.
0:39:49 > 0:39:50And they say, "I walked into a door"
0:39:50 > 0:39:52when the bruises are just to their face.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57Anthea was never seen by this practice again.
0:40:03 > 0:40:05That's it, Linda! That is absolutely fantastic!
0:40:05 > 0:40:07Come on, you can do it!
0:40:07 > 0:40:11I wish all my first-timers were like you. Baby's almost here!
0:40:21 > 0:40:23You did it, Linda!
0:40:23 > 0:40:24You did it!
0:40:24 > 0:40:26What is it?
0:40:26 > 0:40:29A little boy! Little, but absolutely gorgeous!
0:40:35 > 0:40:36Come on, dozy drawers.
0:40:36 > 0:40:39You're keeping your mummy waiting for her cuddle.
0:40:44 > 0:40:47Can I see him? Can I hold him?
0:40:47 > 0:40:48Just give us two ticks!
0:40:48 > 0:40:51Come on, little 'un, come on.
0:40:51 > 0:40:52Show us what you can do.
0:40:59 > 0:41:01Please!
0:41:01 > 0:41:02Well, can't you slap him or something?
0:41:02 > 0:41:04Will that not make him cry?
0:41:27 > 0:41:29Come on, little man!
0:42:00 > 0:42:03- Could you pass me a towel, please? - Yeah.
0:42:12 > 0:42:13No!
0:42:17 > 0:42:19Don't cover his face.
0:42:37 > 0:42:39He's beautiful, Linda.
0:42:39 > 0:42:40Do you want to see him?
0:42:40 > 0:42:43No! No! No, I don't!
0:43:00 > 0:43:02Will you take it away?
0:43:04 > 0:43:07I'll take care of everything. It's what midwives do.
0:43:10 > 0:43:12Come on, back to your post.
0:43:12 > 0:43:15In a few minutes, you can go and make a phone call for me.
0:43:34 > 0:43:36Argh!
0:43:48 > 0:43:49KNOCKING
0:43:58 > 0:44:02I decided you were gone too long for this to be a visit of reassurance.
0:44:20 > 0:44:21Placenta's delivered.
0:44:26 > 0:44:27Do you want a cigarette?
0:44:27 > 0:44:30It's too cold out here, too small in there.
0:44:32 > 0:44:33A hug?
0:44:33 > 0:44:35No.
0:44:35 > 0:44:38If you say so much as one kind word to me, I'll go to pieces.
0:44:38 > 0:44:43Valerie, this is the worst thing that could happen to a midwife.
0:44:43 > 0:44:47It hasn't happened to me. It's happened to them.
0:45:10 > 0:45:12What happens now?
0:45:12 > 0:45:14To the little one?
0:45:16 > 0:45:20We have an arrangement with a family firm of undertakers.
0:45:20 > 0:45:22We'll talk to you about the details tomorrow.
0:45:25 > 0:45:27Put that in with him.
0:45:27 > 0:45:33It doesn't seem right, sending a baby out into the cold.
0:46:28 > 0:46:31If you want me to arrange a transfer to hospital
0:46:31 > 0:46:36or our maternity home, you only have to say.
0:46:36 > 0:46:39I don't want to be anywhere I might see other babies.
0:46:39 > 0:46:41That's probably wise.
0:46:41 > 0:46:43I didn't even want to see him.
0:46:45 > 0:46:47I was too scared.
0:46:47 > 0:46:50And it's like it makes me not his mother.
0:47:00 > 0:47:02Selwyn looked at him.
0:47:04 > 0:47:06He looked at him, and he saw his face.
0:47:06 > 0:47:09And you knew your baby when he was inside of you, Linda.
0:47:11 > 0:47:17You knew his smallest movements, every single, little kick...
0:47:18 > 0:47:21..and he knew every beat of your heart.
0:47:24 > 0:47:26But we both loved him.
0:47:26 > 0:47:27Selwyn and me.
0:47:29 > 0:47:31Yes. You did.
0:48:09 > 0:48:11SHE SIGHS
0:48:13 > 0:48:17CRYING
0:48:33 > 0:48:37Help! Help! Quickly!
0:48:37 > 0:48:41He's alive! I thought he was stillborn!
0:48:41 > 0:48:44You really are going to have to give the Birmingham parish an answer,
0:48:44 > 0:48:46- Tom.- I know.
0:48:46 > 0:48:50If you don't grab this chance, I don't know when you'll get another.
0:48:50 > 0:48:53- KNOCKING - Mr Hereward, come quickly, please!
0:49:02 > 0:49:06Oh, Valerie! What happened?
0:49:06 > 0:49:09I don't know. I don't know!
0:49:09 > 0:49:11Is he still crying?
0:49:11 > 0:49:13Yes, Valerie. Yes, he is.
0:49:13 > 0:49:15BABY CRYING
0:49:24 > 0:49:26His breathing must have been very shallow
0:49:26 > 0:49:29and his heartbeat slow and hard to detect.
0:49:31 > 0:49:35That hot water bottle did the trick. Temperature's normal.
0:49:38 > 0:49:40Thank you, Mr Hereward.
0:49:40 > 0:49:42There is no need for you to baptise this baby.
0:49:42 > 0:49:45The parents can have the joy of deciding when
0:49:45 > 0:49:48and by whom the christening is performed.
0:49:48 > 0:49:51First, we must give them the news.
0:49:51 > 0:49:54And we must talk to Nurse Dyer.
0:49:54 > 0:49:57She must have expanded his lungs. She simply didn't realise.
0:50:26 > 0:50:27Linda. And Selwyn.
0:50:29 > 0:50:31I know you're grieving.
0:50:31 > 0:50:35And I know you're grieving because a-a terrible thing has happened.
0:50:36 > 0:50:41But sometimes, when a terrible thing happens, and we survive it,
0:50:41 > 0:50:46we find something beautiful waiting for us on the other side.
0:51:03 > 0:51:04Here's your baby, Linda.
0:51:04 > 0:51:09He's warm, and he's pink, and he's breathing beautifully.
0:51:09 > 0:51:11He's yours.
0:51:12 > 0:51:14He's alive.
0:51:33 > 0:51:36The trouble is Tom simply won't say yes!
0:51:36 > 0:51:40I never had him down as the prevaricating sort.
0:51:40 > 0:51:42Give that handle a waggle for me, Barbara.
0:51:42 > 0:51:45The shank looks slightly suspect.
0:51:45 > 0:51:48You could just try repeating yourself, over and over.
0:51:48 > 0:51:52Persistent drops of water can pit solid rock in the end.
0:51:53 > 0:51:55Hello, Reggie! Nice hat.
0:51:55 > 0:51:57Nurse Crane knitted it.
0:51:57 > 0:51:58Ooh.
0:51:58 > 0:51:59Two more!
0:51:59 > 0:52:01What are you doing with those?
0:52:01 > 0:52:02Collecting them.
0:52:02 > 0:52:05Well, they're a rare enough sight at the moment, I grant you.
0:52:05 > 0:52:07Put them in the corner of the porch for now,
0:52:07 > 0:52:11and then let's concentrate on rounding up these Cubs.
0:52:12 > 0:52:15BLOWS WHISTLE
0:52:15 > 0:52:17Pack, pack, pack!
0:52:21 > 0:52:24I want everybody to take a shovel,
0:52:24 > 0:52:28or a spade or a World War I entrenching tool.
0:52:29 > 0:52:31This is an exciting enterprise
0:52:31 > 0:52:34that's going to help you towards your second star.
0:52:34 > 0:52:36This is Reggie...
0:52:36 > 0:52:38- Hello.- ..who's our designated helper for the day.
0:52:38 > 0:52:40Reggie's a gardener,
0:52:40 > 0:52:45so he knows a lot about the kind of implements we're going to be using.
0:52:45 > 0:52:49And Reggie is going to be in charge of the entrenching tool.
0:52:49 > 0:52:52So anyone who doesn't make him welcome isn't going to get a go.
0:52:53 > 0:52:56So who wants a go?
0:52:56 > 0:52:57- Me!- Me!- Me!- Me!
0:53:03 > 0:53:04Excuse the knife!
0:53:04 > 0:53:07I've got ten pounds of spuds to peel by tea-time.
0:53:10 > 0:53:12Is this to do with one of the children?
0:53:12 > 0:53:14No. It's to do with your parents.
0:53:19 > 0:53:21Save!
0:53:24 > 0:53:28How many children have you fostered now, Mrs Sweeting?
0:53:28 > 0:53:29The one I'm having is my fourth.
0:53:29 > 0:53:32And I've looked after more than 30.
0:53:32 > 0:53:34Every time the council have approached me, I've said yes.
0:53:34 > 0:53:36LOUD MUSIC
0:53:36 > 0:53:38I'm sorry. They're having a discotheque!
0:53:40 > 0:53:44Lyle! Anthony! Turn that down!
0:53:44 > 0:53:46Sorry, Ma!
0:53:46 > 0:53:49I've never ever had to raise a hand to a single one of them.
0:53:49 > 0:53:50Only my voice.
0:53:50 > 0:53:53You should be very proud of that.
0:53:53 > 0:53:57I am. And I'm not proud of much.
0:53:57 > 0:54:02Everything I did, for years, I did because I hated him.
0:54:02 > 0:54:07I know from your mother that your father's attachment to you
0:54:07 > 0:54:09was...unnatural.
0:54:09 > 0:54:14If beyond that I can only speculate, I ask you to forgive me.
0:54:14 > 0:54:16Me forgive you?
0:54:17 > 0:54:20I didn't ask you to come here.
0:54:20 > 0:54:22And I don't like what you stand for.
0:54:22 > 0:54:27But as far as I'm aware, you never raped me once a week
0:54:27 > 0:54:29while my mother went to Evensong.
0:54:32 > 0:54:34Did she tell you I ran away?
0:54:34 > 0:54:36Yes, she did.
0:54:37 > 0:54:39She was lying.
0:54:40 > 0:54:44He threw me out, after we came home from the doctors.
0:54:44 > 0:54:48He threw me out, and she didn't stop him.
0:54:48 > 0:54:51I ran back and banged on the door.
0:54:52 > 0:54:54And nobody came to open it.
0:55:01 > 0:55:04Keep it tight! Keep it tight! That's it!
0:55:04 > 0:55:07Now the important thing to remember is that the
0:55:07 > 0:55:12top layers of snow are dry and powdery. They won't be
0:55:12 > 0:55:16strong enough to support the walls or the dome of our igloo.
0:55:16 > 0:55:20Eskimos always compress the snow into hard, square bricks,
0:55:20 > 0:55:22and we need to follow their example.
0:55:22 > 0:55:25We're going to be like Eskimos.
0:55:25 > 0:55:29Thank you, Clinton. That's not what we do with our shovels!
0:55:30 > 0:55:33Oh! Splendid, Reggie! That's perfect!
0:55:35 > 0:55:38I know you wanted your mother to protect you.
0:55:38 > 0:55:42I know you wanted her to fight for you.
0:55:42 > 0:55:48But your father's treatment of her beat her - froze her - into submission.
0:55:48 > 0:55:52And it is now in your gift to break that ice.
0:55:53 > 0:55:56To let her into your life again.
0:55:59 > 0:56:00Go behind the clock.
0:56:02 > 0:56:04Go on.
0:56:14 > 0:56:15Look inside.
0:56:22 > 0:56:26I found it in my pocket when I was banging on the door.
0:56:26 > 0:56:29My mother must've put it there without him seeing.
0:56:29 > 0:56:31But you never spent it.
0:56:31 > 0:56:33Not even when I got rid of that baby.
0:56:34 > 0:56:36I'm not proud of that.
0:56:37 > 0:56:40But I am proud I kept the one thing that she gave me.
0:56:42 > 0:56:45Because somewhere inside,
0:56:45 > 0:56:48somewhere where I never go,
0:56:48 > 0:56:51I might not be as angry as I think.
0:56:52 > 0:56:55It really would mean the most enormous amount to her...
0:56:55 > 0:56:56If I went to the funeral?
0:56:59 > 0:57:04Put it back. Those notes aren't even legal tender any more.
0:57:21 > 0:57:23I want to call him after you.
0:57:24 > 0:57:25Selwyn?
0:57:25 > 0:57:29It's not ideal, is it? Do you have a middle name?
0:57:29 > 0:57:33In all these months, I've never asked you that.
0:57:33 > 0:57:34John.
0:57:35 > 0:57:37John.
0:57:38 > 0:57:41We like that, don't we, John?
0:57:53 > 0:57:56I was told you'd like to see me.
0:57:56 > 0:57:59Is the little chap doing well?
0:57:59 > 0:58:01We don't need him christened or nothing. Not yet.
0:58:01 > 0:58:03But we would like him blessed.
0:58:03 > 0:58:08Because if you bless him, you bless the three of us.
0:58:13 > 0:58:15Smile!
0:58:15 > 0:58:16Yay!
0:58:16 > 0:58:18Ooh, in a bit please, Jasvinder.
0:58:20 > 0:58:25And can we have two hands on the entrenching tool, Aidan. We want
0:58:25 > 0:58:29it brandished aloft in triumph, not accidently buried in someone's head.
0:58:29 > 0:58:35Evacuate that treacherous edifice this minute, the lot of you!
0:58:35 > 0:58:37And when I say this minute, I mean now!
0:58:37 > 0:58:38Oh!
0:58:39 > 0:58:41Good morning, Sergeant.
0:58:41 > 0:58:43I think you'd have found a simple, "Get out of the igloo!"
0:58:43 > 0:58:45more effective.
0:58:45 > 0:58:47Small boys respond better to instructions
0:58:47 > 0:58:48when they're given in plain English.
0:58:48 > 0:58:51And in plain English the instructions
0:58:51 > 0:58:55continue as follows - knock that thing down.
0:58:55 > 0:58:57I shall do no such thing.
0:58:57 > 0:59:00The boys have spent several hours constructing it,
0:59:00 > 0:59:05and it forms a principal component of their Second Star badge.
0:59:05 > 0:59:09Namely, the manufacture of a "satisfactory model or article
0:59:09 > 0:59:14"in wood, metal, cardboard, clay, Plasticine or similar substance."
0:59:14 > 0:59:19But it's not made of wood, metal, cardboard, clay or Plasticine!
0:59:19 > 0:59:20It's made of snow.
0:59:20 > 0:59:25Which in my book - namely, Tracks And Tracking by H Mortimer Batten -
0:59:25 > 0:59:29comes under the heading of "similar substance".
0:59:29 > 0:59:32You needn't think you can blind me with Scouting science.
0:59:33 > 0:59:37I was Baloo to the 19th Stepney for 14 years.
0:59:37 > 0:59:43And that is a death trap! Knock it down.
0:59:43 > 0:59:44Boooooo!
0:59:45 > 0:59:46Pack!
0:59:52 > 0:59:55You should have them doing something useful.
1:00:05 > 1:00:08Tom, what is the beanstalk doing in our kitchen?
1:00:08 > 1:00:12I rescued it from the community centre.
1:00:12 > 1:00:14I'm asking small businesses in Poplar to provide
1:00:14 > 1:00:17the wherewithal for a Christmas dinner for the elderly,
1:00:17 > 1:00:21and Madam Edith has agreed to resurrect the pantomime.
1:00:23 > 1:00:26I think the foliage has gone a bit mouldy.
1:00:27 > 1:00:32Barbara, I saw such an image of love today.
1:00:32 > 1:00:36A hand inside a hand, inside a hand.
1:00:36 > 1:00:41And it was a timely reminder of how it doesn't matter where any
1:00:41 > 1:00:46of us are from, or where we go, as long as we hold on to one another.
1:00:47 > 1:00:51You're going to accept the post in Birmingham, aren't you?
1:00:51 > 1:00:54It's only for six months, and wherever I go,
1:00:54 > 1:00:57the work I do will have the same meaning.
1:00:57 > 1:01:00I just want to leave Poplar with a smile on its face.
1:01:00 > 1:01:01Or possibly anthrax.
1:01:04 > 1:01:06These need oiling.
1:01:06 > 1:01:08Perhaps you can see to them with Fred, tomorrow.
1:01:08 > 1:01:12The policeman said to do something useful.
1:01:12 > 1:01:16And then he made us knock our igloo down.
1:01:16 > 1:01:18Yes.
1:01:36 > 1:01:38I must say when you both asked to see me together,
1:01:38 > 1:01:42I was expecting news of a slightly different kind.
1:01:42 > 1:01:44Oh, no, nothing like that.
1:01:45 > 1:01:48Will you still need me, when I come back?
1:01:48 > 1:01:51Nonnatus House will always need good midwives.
1:01:51 > 1:01:54And we will always need each other.
1:01:54 > 1:01:57Little matters more in such a fractured world.
1:01:57 > 1:02:02Which is why I like your idea of the dinner and the pantomime so much.
1:02:14 > 1:02:16Morning, Sister Monica Joan.
1:02:16 > 1:02:20I surmise you rose long before cock-crow,
1:02:20 > 1:02:26and have since been forced to pass the time in self-examination.
1:02:29 > 1:02:33And the consumption of rapidly cooling tea.
1:02:35 > 1:02:38As you have these several mornings past.
1:02:38 > 1:02:40It's not quite the same without milk in.
1:02:42 > 1:02:48You have witnessed much. And much, I think, beyond your understanding.
1:02:49 > 1:02:52I keep going over and over it in my mind.
1:02:52 > 1:02:54What I did right, what I must have done wrong,
1:02:54 > 1:02:57what I missed... and I can't pin one thing down.
1:02:58 > 1:03:03"And the Lord, it was he that did go before thee, he was with thee,
1:03:03 > 1:03:06"he did not fail thee, neither forsook thee."
1:03:06 > 1:03:09I really don't want you to think I'm being impolite,
1:03:09 > 1:03:13but I don't believe in God, Sister Monica Joan.
1:03:13 > 1:03:18That matters not one mote, nor one iota.
1:03:18 > 1:03:21You carried out your work,
1:03:21 > 1:03:26and one much wiser brought your labours to fruition.
1:03:35 > 1:03:37Where did that come from?
1:03:38 > 1:03:41I should like to say it descended from the heavens,
1:03:41 > 1:03:44like manna in the wilderness.
1:03:44 > 1:03:47But I have had it secreted in the woodshed.
1:03:51 > 1:03:56The hands of the Almighty are so often to be
1:03:56 > 1:04:00found at the ends of our own arms.
1:04:10 > 1:04:14Water. Water on cornflakes! I'm sorry, Reggie.
1:04:15 > 1:04:18They ate better than this in Stalingrad!
1:04:18 > 1:04:22I'm surprised that you can sit there in that uniform, Fred Buckle.
1:04:22 > 1:04:24The Civil Defence Corps is responsible for the
1:04:24 > 1:04:28maintenance of public services and order during the time of crisis,
1:04:28 > 1:04:32not for the provision of groceries.
1:04:34 > 1:04:36Well, I look forward to you maintaining
1:04:36 > 1:04:37order down the rescue centre,
1:04:37 > 1:04:40when we can't even offer those poor people a proper cup of tea!
1:04:40 > 1:04:44And don't keep telling me that the milkmen are still exhausted,
1:04:44 > 1:04:46or that the roads are blocked.
1:04:46 > 1:04:48It might be minus five out there.
1:04:48 > 1:04:50Minus nine last night.
1:04:50 > 1:04:53Well, either way, it hasn't snowed for days,
1:04:53 > 1:04:55and the roads are as clear as they've been for two weeks!
1:04:55 > 1:05:00Milk has to come from the countryside, Vi,
1:05:00 > 1:05:03and-and you know what that's like - it's miles away from anywhere!
1:05:03 > 1:05:06And they've got to get the milk out the cow, into the churns,
1:05:06 > 1:05:08got to get the churns on the train, and then they send the churns
1:05:08 > 1:05:10all over London where they have to be bottled.
1:05:10 > 1:05:12Then where is it?
1:05:13 > 1:05:17I would mind less if I hadn't put the shop on short hours again
1:05:17 > 1:05:20so that I can help down the Institute!
1:05:20 > 1:05:25I reckon this must be the worst-run borough in London.
1:05:26 > 1:05:28That looks most appropriate.
1:05:31 > 1:05:33Thank you for the loan of it.
1:05:35 > 1:05:40Percy was always so careful with money,
1:05:40 > 1:05:45I almost felt like splashing out on a great big black titfer,
1:05:45 > 1:05:47just to show him who's boss now.
1:05:48 > 1:05:51But old habits die hard.
1:05:51 > 1:05:53You can make changes, in time.
1:05:55 > 1:05:59I used to carry a ten bob note inside my corset.
1:06:00 > 1:06:02Just ten bob.
1:06:03 > 1:06:06But it was my escape route.
1:06:06 > 1:06:11My bus fare, or my train ticket. It could've got me out.
1:06:12 > 1:06:16When Anthea went, I put it in her pocket.
1:06:18 > 1:06:21It was everything I was never brave enough to do.
1:06:24 > 1:06:26I think the cortege will be arriving.
1:06:26 > 1:06:28Let's go and wait for the lift.
1:06:31 > 1:06:35You pop round for a cup of tea, once the dust is settled, eh?
1:06:35 > 1:06:36Thank you.
1:06:37 > 1:06:41- I'm so sorry for your loss, love. - Thank you.
1:06:42 > 1:06:44We'll be thinking of you.
1:06:48 > 1:06:51Corned beef, and the last of that Christmas chutney.
1:06:54 > 1:06:56What's all this?
1:06:56 > 1:06:59It's Angela's Magic Bean costume.
1:06:59 > 1:07:02I never finished it, and now the pantomime's back on,
1:07:02 > 1:07:06Madam Edith wants every sequin in apple pie order by dress rehearsal.
1:07:06 > 1:07:09You're doing too much, Shelagh.
1:07:09 > 1:07:11If I don't do too much, not enough gets done.
1:07:17 > 1:07:20Ladies and gentlemen! Ladies, please!
1:07:20 > 1:07:22Mr Bentley is not a criminal,
1:07:22 > 1:07:25he's a hard-pressed citizen trying to do a job of work.
1:07:25 > 1:07:27He's got churns full of milk!
1:07:27 > 1:07:29And you heard his explanation!
1:07:29 > 1:07:32He hasn't got any bottles to put it in!
1:07:32 > 1:07:34They were stolen from abandoned floats,
1:07:34 > 1:07:35they were dumped in rubbish chutes,
1:07:35 > 1:07:38and those are the ones that didn't go AWOL into the snowdrift!
1:07:38 > 1:07:41I've brought two jugs and a billycan.
1:07:41 > 1:07:43And I've brought a bloomin' bucket!
1:07:43 > 1:07:47Those churns are the property of the Milk Marketing Board
1:07:47 > 1:07:50and anyone making an advance on them is liable to charges!
1:07:50 > 1:07:53Charges of what?
1:07:55 > 1:07:58Looting, and riotous behaviour.
1:07:58 > 1:08:00And bodily harm,
1:08:00 > 1:08:03if those ladies come any nearer to Mr Bentley with their prams.
1:08:03 > 1:08:08Mothers can become quite agitated if their children are deprived.
1:08:08 > 1:08:11Nevertheless, I would counsel against decanting
1:08:11 > 1:08:15milk from farmyard churns into unsterilized receptacles.
1:08:15 > 1:08:18We have hygiene to consider, as well as diet.
1:08:19 > 1:08:22Is there anything you need assistance with, Nurse Crane?
1:08:22 > 1:08:27Always good to have the support of the Civil Defence Corps, Mr Buckle.
1:08:27 > 1:08:28Next stop, the Gurkhas.
1:08:28 > 1:08:32I heard that. If you would follow me, please, Mr Buckle.
1:08:32 > 1:08:36What plan are you hatching now?
1:08:37 > 1:08:41Since you ask, Sergeant Woolf, I'm off to do something useful.
1:08:41 > 1:08:42LAUGHTER
1:08:44 > 1:08:49All right, all right, that's no excuse for you to start up again.
1:08:55 > 1:08:58Now remember, anybody who wants to touch her has to
1:08:58 > 1:08:59wash their hands first!
1:09:01 > 1:09:03KNOCKING
1:09:03 > 1:09:05It's like Battersea Dogs Home in here!
1:09:11 > 1:09:13That's a lovely thought, Sister. Thank you.
1:09:15 > 1:09:18Would you like me to tell your mother about the baby?
1:09:21 > 1:09:25He dragged up too much stuff by dying. I want everything buried.
1:09:25 > 1:09:26Not just him.
1:09:29 > 1:09:32Anthea, if you think it might help to meet your mother in a more
1:09:32 > 1:09:34relaxed setting,
1:09:34 > 1:09:37we're giving a Christmas dinner for the elderly in our neighbourhood.
1:09:37 > 1:09:41I'm sorry, Sister. But I've just given birth to my last baby.
1:09:41 > 1:09:44And it's made me think about my first one.
1:09:44 > 1:09:47And I'm just going to get on with doing what I've been
1:09:47 > 1:09:49doing for as long as I've been able,
1:09:49 > 1:09:52which is making sure nobody ever gets a door shut in their face.
1:09:54 > 1:09:56Can you understand that?
1:09:56 > 1:09:59Yes. Because it's what we do, too.
1:10:05 > 1:10:08I'm going to leave you with your family,
1:10:08 > 1:10:14to enjoy the happiness you made with them, and make for them.
1:10:14 > 1:10:16And which you so richly deserve.
1:10:32 > 1:10:34One, two, three, four.
1:10:37 > 1:10:39- How many are there?- Yes!
1:10:39 > 1:10:42I've got one more, yes!
1:10:42 > 1:10:45I've found another one, I've found another one.
1:10:45 > 1:10:47Yes, one more in the bag.
1:10:47 > 1:10:50Now, be careful with those bottles, lads. Don't break any.
1:10:50 > 1:10:52Give us a hand.
1:10:52 > 1:10:55Unbelievable, there's so many.
1:10:55 > 1:10:58Whoever gets the most is going to get a humbug. What d'ya reckon?
1:11:48 > 1:11:50MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH
1:12:13 > 1:12:15I like a man who gives credit when it's due.
1:12:20 > 1:12:21- Welcome.- Thank you.
1:12:21 > 1:12:23Welcome. Enjoy!
1:12:23 > 1:12:24MURMUR OF CONVERSATION
1:12:29 > 1:12:32- Hello! How are you?- I'm very well, thank you, dear.
1:12:35 > 1:12:37- Hope you enjoy it.- Thank you.
1:12:37 > 1:12:39Thanks.
1:12:39 > 1:12:42Mabel! I'm so glad you're joining us for dinner.
1:12:42 > 1:12:44Let me show you to your seat.
1:12:47 > 1:12:48We're running out of hessian sacks.
1:12:48 > 1:12:52The Beanshoot Babes are going to be in their knickers and vests!
1:12:52 > 1:12:55Make sure you put the dots of lipstick in the corner of their eyes, Valerie.
1:12:55 > 1:12:57Their features simply won't stand out otherwise.
1:12:57 > 1:12:59Well, you might want to do that for me.
1:12:59 > 1:13:01These false eyelashes are a bit of a disappointment.
1:13:01 > 1:13:05Fred, you're supposed to be a poor, widowed subsistence farmer,
1:13:05 > 1:13:06not Sophia Loren!
1:13:06 > 1:13:09When it's my turn I'm putting in a bid for cupid bow lips
1:13:09 > 1:13:11and periwinkle eye shadow.
1:13:11 > 1:13:15Be a bit of a waste on the rear end of a pantomime cow!
1:13:15 > 1:13:17I, meanwhile, will be playing the front end.
1:13:17 > 1:13:21And in case nobody's noticed, I've had a full manicure and a professional shampoo and set.
1:13:21 > 1:13:26Well, there's never any excuse for a lady to look less than her best, as Fred well knows!
1:13:26 > 1:13:28Ah. There's no call for frivolity.
1:13:28 > 1:13:32I bear the weight of an ancient tradition on my shoulders.
1:13:32 > 1:13:35Christopher and I are aware that our combined role is a lowly one,
1:13:35 > 1:13:39and we bear it nobly for the greater good of the community.
1:14:09 > 1:14:12It's perked me up good and proper, this has.
1:14:12 > 1:14:16I hadn't pulled a cracker in 32 years.
1:14:16 > 1:14:19And I'm telling you, the jokes in them don't get any better.
1:14:27 > 1:14:29Hello, Mum.
1:14:32 > 1:14:34Hello, Anthea, love!
1:14:35 > 1:14:39I thought you might like to meet your newest grandchild.
1:14:39 > 1:14:40We've called her Helen.
1:14:41 > 1:14:44The rest of them, some of them are mine,
1:14:44 > 1:14:46and some of them aren't mine for long.
1:14:49 > 1:14:53I'm sure your mother will want to meet all of your children.
1:15:01 > 1:15:03I brought you these.
1:15:04 > 1:15:07I don't know how they managed to survive this weather,
1:15:07 > 1:15:09but they did.
1:15:09 > 1:15:11They must be tough little things.
1:15:20 > 1:15:23I wanted to buy the flowers for you with it,
1:15:23 > 1:15:26but the bank won't accept those notes any more.
1:15:26 > 1:15:28They belong in the past.
1:15:38 > 1:15:41I can't believe you'll be leaving before the end!
1:15:41 > 1:15:45Another blizzard forecast is another blizzard forecast.
1:15:45 > 1:15:48Even if our finale does rival that of The London Palladium!
1:15:48 > 1:15:51There won't be a train to be had in the morning.
1:15:51 > 1:15:52I'll be back before you know it.
1:15:53 > 1:15:55Oh!
1:15:59 > 1:16:03Sorry. One of the Magic Beans has trapped her finger in the door.
1:16:03 > 1:16:04Oh!
1:16:11 > 1:16:13Take care of her.
1:16:17 > 1:16:19MUSIC
1:16:19 > 1:16:21HE MOUTHS
1:16:24 > 1:16:30# Though we gotta say goodbye for the summer
1:16:30 > 1:16:35# Darling I promise you this
1:16:35 > 1:16:38# I'll send you all my love
1:16:38 > 1:16:42# Every day in a letter... #
1:16:42 > 1:16:46Hold each other close. Keep each other safe.
1:16:46 > 1:16:50For there is imperfection everywhere.
1:16:50 > 1:16:53There are always wounds that weep.
1:16:56 > 1:17:02# I'll run to tenderly hold you
1:17:02 > 1:17:06# But darling you won't be there
1:17:06 > 1:17:13# I don't want to say goodbye for the summer
1:17:13 > 1:17:17# Knowing the love we'll miss
1:17:17 > 1:17:25# Oh let us make a pledge to meet in September... #
1:17:25 > 1:17:30Year by year by year, we share the season and move on.
1:17:30 > 1:17:37- Barbara? - # Yes, it's going to be a cold lonely summer
1:17:37 > 1:17:41# But I'll fill the emptiness
1:17:41 > 1:17:44# I'll send you all my love
1:17:44 > 1:17:47# Every day in a letter... #
1:17:47 > 1:17:49There will always be
1:17:49 > 1:17:54another Christmas and all will be well.
1:17:54 > 1:17:56All will be well.
1:17:59 > 1:18:03# Sealed with a kiss. #