0:00:29 > 0:00:31CHATTER IN STREET
0:00:33 > 0:00:35MAN CALLS OUT
0:00:37 > 0:00:40It's on!
0:00:40 > 0:00:41RATTLING
0:00:41 > 0:00:43It's on! RATTLING
0:00:43 > 0:00:44It's on!
0:00:54 > 0:00:56CHILDREN LAUGH
0:00:56 > 0:00:59VENDORS SHOUT THEIR WARES
0:00:59 > 0:01:01Hurry up, you lot!
0:01:01 > 0:01:03- Roast chestnuts!- Come on!
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Come and get 'em.
0:01:05 > 0:01:06Decorations!
0:01:09 > 0:01:11What's all this about?
0:01:11 > 0:01:12I can't see!
0:01:15 > 0:01:16I can't see through!
0:01:19 > 0:01:21THEY LAUGH
0:01:28 > 0:01:30SISTER MONICA JOAN LAUGHS
0:01:30 > 0:01:31GIRL: What's that?
0:01:42 > 0:01:47'My first Christmas in Poplar was unlike any other I had known.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50'The streets, like all streets,
0:01:50 > 0:01:52'were strung with coloured lights,
0:01:52 > 0:01:56'and children drew up lists, like children everywhere.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58'As the days ticked down,
0:01:58 > 0:02:01'it seemed as though the district was fizzing with delight.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05'But at Nonnatus House,
0:02:05 > 0:02:07'a different magic was at work.
0:02:11 > 0:02:17'The Sisters spent Advent in prayer and meditation,
0:02:17 > 0:02:20'and the atmosphere was not one of excitement
0:02:20 > 0:02:24'but of expectant, joyous calm.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35'I wasn't entirely sure what I should make of it.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39'I was young, and faith was still a mystery to me.'
0:02:48 > 0:02:51TELEPHONE RINGS
0:02:58 > 0:02:59Nonnatus House. Midwife speaking.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02It's me neighbour, she's started having pains.
0:03:02 > 0:03:03Name, please.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06Hilda Levons, Lisbon Buildings.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08You're meant to be sending her down the hospital.
0:03:08 > 0:03:09She's already crying her eyes out.
0:03:09 > 0:03:10BABY CRIES
0:03:10 > 0:03:13'First one, she was in labour for three days.'
0:03:13 > 0:03:14I'll come out and assess her.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16Keep her tucked up and warm until I get there.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20It's all right, baby. It's all right. Come here.
0:03:22 > 0:03:23It's all right.
0:03:25 > 0:03:28Mrs Levons was very anxious at the last appointment.
0:03:28 > 0:03:32I'll come with you to reassure her and then go on to the mastitis case.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34Oh, straw for the crib!
0:03:34 > 0:03:36Well done, Sister Monica Joan.
0:03:36 > 0:03:41I availed myself of the kindness of some costers in the market.
0:03:41 > 0:03:45The...spirit of the season... would appear to be amongst us.
0:03:47 > 0:03:48BICYCLE BELL RINGS
0:03:51 > 0:03:53BABY CRIES IN DISTANCE
0:03:59 > 0:04:00Nurse!
0:04:01 > 0:04:04You've got to come quick, Nurse!
0:04:04 > 0:04:05Please, quickly, she's in 'ere.
0:04:05 > 0:04:07Come on.
0:04:07 > 0:04:08She's through 'ere.
0:04:10 > 0:04:11Please hurry up.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20- Take that.- Follow me.
0:04:20 > 0:04:21Please. Hurry up.
0:04:21 > 0:04:25WOMAN CRIES OUT IN PAIN
0:04:27 > 0:04:30Hilda, it's all right. The Nonnatuns have come!
0:04:30 > 0:04:32- You can stop pushing.- I can't stop!
0:04:32 > 0:04:35- Yes, you can.- Let me through, please. I'm a midwife.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39I need to go to the hospital!
0:04:39 > 0:04:41I had to have forceps with the last one.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43Second stage, Sister.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46Don't distress yourself, Hilda. All is well.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48HILDA MOANS
0:04:48 > 0:04:51Please, will everybody stand right back so we can assist Mrs Levons?
0:04:51 > 0:04:54It might help if you were dispersed elsewhere.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56Begging your pardon, this is a communal toilet,
0:04:56 > 0:04:57and I was in the queue!
0:04:57 > 0:05:00Get yourself down the other bloody landing!
0:05:00 > 0:05:03I can't do this on my own.
0:05:03 > 0:05:04Yes, you can.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07I want you to take nice, steady breaths in between each contraction.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10It will help you to feel a lot calmer.
0:05:10 > 0:05:11Good.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13SIREN OUTSIDE Oh, thank God!
0:05:13 > 0:05:15Thank God!
0:05:15 > 0:05:16HILDA MOANS
0:05:16 > 0:05:18Who sent for an ambulance?
0:05:18 > 0:05:21It wasn't necessary at all.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23If you really want to be of help, you will boil a kettle,
0:05:23 > 0:05:28fill some hot-water bottles, fetch clean, dry towels, a basin
0:05:28 > 0:05:30and...a blanket.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33I'm going to need forceps again!
0:05:33 > 0:05:35Thank you, gentlemen, for your attendance.
0:05:35 > 0:05:40- All is in order, for the meanwhile. - All right, Sister.
0:05:40 > 0:05:45I want you to inch forward for me, Hilda. That's it. Good girl.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48- Bit more.- I can't have it 'ere!
0:05:48 > 0:05:49I haven't had my enema!
0:05:49 > 0:05:51Vertex is visible, Sister.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54Shall I tell you something, Hilda?
0:05:54 > 0:05:56You're doing splendidly.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Nurse Lee and I aren't going to leave your side.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03Now, on this next contraction,
0:06:03 > 0:06:06I want you to make as little noise as possible.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09I want you to put all that energy
0:06:09 > 0:06:11- inwards as you bear down. - Thank you.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13Hot-water bottles are on their way.
0:06:13 > 0:06:14That's right.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16That's wonderful. Well done.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18- Well done. - HILDA MOANS
0:06:18 > 0:06:20Keep going.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23Now, on this next contraction...
0:06:23 > 0:06:25I think we're going to have the baby's head.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28HILDA MOANS
0:06:43 > 0:06:45Really good.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47Really good!
0:06:47 > 0:06:49- There!- Really good.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Well done.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53BABY CRIES
0:06:53 > 0:06:55Oh, there!
0:06:55 > 0:06:57There!
0:06:57 > 0:07:01- Lovely girl, Hilda. Well done. - I can't believe it!
0:07:02 > 0:07:05I always cry when a baby's born!
0:07:05 > 0:07:07I can't believe it.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11I can't believe it.
0:07:11 > 0:07:15'There were days and deliveries where I couldn't believe it either.
0:07:15 > 0:07:21'Birth was and will always be the most commonplace of miracles,
0:07:21 > 0:07:26'an event at once familiar and phenomenal, timeless and immediate,
0:07:26 > 0:07:28'briefly making angels of us all.'
0:07:28 > 0:07:30BABIES GRIZZLE
0:07:34 > 0:07:36Over 18 pounds, bravo!
0:07:36 > 0:07:38About the same size as a turkey.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41All the children for vaccinations over this way, please.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43And anyone who doesn't line up nicely
0:07:43 > 0:07:46- will be reported to Father Christmas!- Trixie!
0:07:46 > 0:07:49And you needn't think I don't know where to find him!
0:07:49 > 0:07:52Oh! Last year, he left his number in my stocking.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57Lynette, take the boys over for their needles.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Mum, don't say "needles" in front of 'em.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01You know they'll kick off!
0:08:01 > 0:08:03If they're frightfully brave and well-behaved,
0:08:03 > 0:08:06they'll get a jelly baby afterwards. You'd better hurry up,
0:08:06 > 0:08:08otherwise all the black ones will be gone.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15Ah! Watch out!
0:08:15 > 0:08:16Come on, mind out me way!
0:08:16 > 0:08:19I want a star on top of this, not somebody's eyeball.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21Season's greetings to you too(!)
0:08:23 > 0:08:26Do I have to undress him? It's on the nippy side in 'ere.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28Down to his napkin, if you would, Mrs Duncan.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30Hand-knits weigh rather heavy on the scales.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32- Get off!- Christmas tree!
0:08:32 > 0:08:34- Get off!- Got it!
0:08:34 > 0:08:35Get off!
0:08:35 > 0:08:38I'll see you at tea time. Better hurry.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40BICYCLE BELL RINGS
0:08:42 > 0:08:44There's a baby been born.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48- Yes. There has.- Is it thriving?
0:08:48 > 0:08:50- Yes.- Is it?
0:08:51 > 0:08:53- Yes.- And the mother?
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Is she thriving too?
0:08:57 > 0:08:58Mother and baby are both doing well.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02I'm afraid you must let me pass, because I'm expected elsewhere.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04Both doing well.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Thank God, Nurse.
0:09:11 > 0:09:12Thank God.
0:09:15 > 0:09:19Hmm. There's a bulb loose somewhere, I reckon.
0:09:19 > 0:09:20Or a wire.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22Go on, sonny.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25Go and wiggle that plug for me.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29The electric always slows down in the cold weather.
0:09:29 > 0:09:31It's what you call atmospherics.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35Don't tickle it! Clump it one!
0:09:35 > 0:09:37All sat in the bloomin' dark at this rate.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40And then how's the reindeers going to find their way, eh?
0:09:40 > 0:09:41Ah!
0:09:41 > 0:09:43- ELECTRICAL CRACKLE - Ow!
0:09:43 > 0:09:45THEY LAUGH
0:09:45 > 0:09:49You won't be laughing come Cubs' Nativity.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52How's Bethlehem going to look without a tree and lights, eh?
0:09:53 > 0:09:55What-ho, Lynette!
0:09:55 > 0:09:57Looking for the pamphlet on three-month colic.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Oh! Something caught your eye?
0:09:59 > 0:10:00Not really.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02Are you interested in coming into nursing?
0:10:02 > 0:10:04You must be finishing school soon.
0:10:04 > 0:10:08Easter. Then I start as a filing clerk down at Cousen's Wool.
0:10:08 > 0:10:09My dad's their warehouse foreman.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Gosh.
0:10:11 > 0:10:12Nothing like connections.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17Must be rather jolly, seeing doors begin to open.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19Big, wide world, all of that.
0:10:19 > 0:10:20I s'pose.
0:10:22 > 0:10:23Happy reading.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28Stop mucking about with that plug now.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Ain't no-one told you plugs are dangerous?
0:10:32 > 0:10:35You'd have had more success pulling her teeth out one by one.
0:10:37 > 0:10:41One can't help having a sort of spasm of fellow-feeling.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43Don't you remember what it felt like?
0:10:43 > 0:10:45Feeling as though you'd never stop growing,
0:10:45 > 0:10:48like Alice in Wonderland when she ate the cake.
0:10:48 > 0:10:51Dreading being noticed...
0:10:51 > 0:10:53and fearing you aren't visible at all.
0:10:55 > 0:10:56Can't say I do.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14Never seen anyone so decrepit.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16I have to say, I've got a jolly robust nose,
0:11:16 > 0:11:19but a meths drinker asked me for small change the other day.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22It was all I could do to keep my bran flakes down.
0:11:22 > 0:11:23I don't think she was a drinker.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26And there was actually mildew on her coat.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29- She was asking after the baby, you say?- Yes.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32Sounds like someone we used to see a lot of up Stepney borders.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35Used to call her Mrs Jenkins. I don't think that was her real name.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38Not quite the full picnic, if you ask me.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41But she always knew if a birth was taking place.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44Do you know, I wouldn't have thought Lisbon Buildings
0:11:44 > 0:11:45would've been her stamping ground.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Do you know, I think I saw her the other day.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49I'm sorry to say it,
0:11:49 > 0:11:52but the poor old thing was widdling in the gutter.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Oh, well, that's definitely her, then.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56Been a lot of demolition up Stepney way.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59She may have moved her lodgings or lost 'em.
0:11:59 > 0:12:00Righty-ho.
0:12:00 > 0:12:04For the next two hours, I only answer to Akela.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07The things you see when you haven't got a gun.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11RAUCOUS SHOUTING
0:12:15 > 0:12:18CHILDREN WHOOP
0:12:21 > 0:12:23Pack! Pack! Pack!
0:12:23 > 0:12:27SHOUTING AND WHOOPING CONTINUES
0:12:28 > 0:12:31- Pack! Pack! Pack! - Come here!
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Shut up!
0:12:34 > 0:12:36Thank you, Jack.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39- BOY IMITATES AN AEROPLANE - Stop pushing me!
0:12:39 > 0:12:41Neil and Kenneth, we do not need any flags.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44We're putting our semaphore to one side this week
0:12:44 > 0:12:46and concentrating on our Nativity play.
0:12:46 > 0:12:49- CHEERING - Now, as you know,
0:12:49 > 0:12:51we're going to perform it for our mothers and fathers
0:12:51 > 0:12:53on the last Thursday before Christmas.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56Everyone taking part will get their Entertainer badge,
0:12:56 > 0:13:00apart from...Timothy Turner, who'll be getting his Musician badge
0:13:00 > 0:13:01for playing the violin.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04Now, calling all shepherds!
0:13:04 > 0:13:07Jack, what about you? Aren't you supposed to be a shepherd?
0:13:07 > 0:13:10- "O, what blazing light is this?" - I've grown out me dressing gown.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12You said we had to have dressing gowns.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14CROOKS THWACK TOGETHER
0:13:14 > 0:13:17- "SILENT NIGHT" PLAYS ON VIOLIN - Well, why doesn't Gary take your part?
0:13:17 > 0:13:19He can be a shepherd, you can play Balthazar.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21Can I still have a crook?
0:13:21 > 0:13:22- TOOTS WHISTLE - Stop it, please.
0:13:22 > 0:13:23- TOOTS WHISTLE - Timothy.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27Ooh, donkey's ears!
0:13:27 > 0:13:29- BOY:- Eee-aww!
0:13:29 > 0:13:31Now, the Alice band has already perished,
0:13:31 > 0:13:34so I want you to treat those as though they're made of porcelain.
0:13:36 > 0:13:37What's porcelain?
0:13:37 > 0:13:41- Not 'im again! - Oh, bravo! Reinforcements!
0:13:41 > 0:13:42Excuse my tardiness.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46I've been making enquiries about a manger.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49- ..Christmas tree! - Look, look!
0:13:49 > 0:13:53Gosh! Move over, Prince Rainier of Monaco!
0:13:53 > 0:13:56Do you suppose your mother will run you up a cape?
0:13:56 > 0:13:59- Put those donkey's ears down. That's it.- Yes, Akela.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02Now, come on, boys. We haven't finished yet.
0:14:02 > 0:14:03BOY: ..I don't know.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07ANIMATED CHATTER CONTINUES BEHIND DOOR
0:14:07 > 0:14:08You all right there?
0:14:10 > 0:14:11I'm picking my brothers up.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14My mum and dad don't like 'em running round unsupervised.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17Good for them, that's what I say.
0:14:19 > 0:14:20< Now, in a horseshoe, please.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24ALL: Akela!
0:14:24 > 0:14:26Cubs! Do your best!
0:14:26 > 0:14:29ALL: We'll do our best!
0:14:34 > 0:14:36(Letter for you, from the vicar.)
0:14:43 > 0:14:45Get into bed, Camilla, and calm down.
0:14:45 > 0:14:49Calm down? The vicar's invited the mayor of Poplar to the Nativity.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53Oh, I know one shouldn't speak ill of a man of the cloth,
0:14:53 > 0:14:56but it was bally cowardly of him to put it in a letter!
0:14:56 > 0:14:58- It's only a bit of fun. - It WAS only a bit of fun.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01But if the mayor's intending to descend,
0:15:01 > 0:15:04that's a different kettle of plaice entirely.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06I can't just have a few Cubs in their nightwear
0:15:06 > 0:15:09and Tiny Tears in swaddling!
0:15:09 > 0:15:10Camilla, why are you getting so upset?
0:15:12 > 0:15:15This is our district, Peter. All Saints is our church.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17I feel proud of it.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20I don't want anyone to feel as though we're somehow...lacking.
0:15:20 > 0:15:24Into bed now, before you get pneumonia off the lino.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35Whatever happened to "nil desperandum", eh?
0:15:37 > 0:15:41You forget what you're capable of sometimes.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43I know exactly what I'm capable of.
0:15:43 > 0:15:44That's the problem.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53BABIES GRIZZLE
0:15:58 > 0:16:01Oh...
0:16:04 > 0:16:06Oh!
0:16:06 > 0:16:09Who's a lovely 'un, then?
0:16:09 > 0:16:11Who's a lovely 'un?
0:16:14 > 0:16:17Two little dickie birds, sitting on a wall.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20One named Peter, one named Paul.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Fly away, Peter...
0:16:22 > 0:16:24- Get away from my baby! - ..fly away, Paul...
0:16:24 > 0:16:26D'you hear me? Get away!
0:16:26 > 0:16:28I'd never take him.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30I'm not accusing you of taking 'im.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32I'm accusing you of touching 'im.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34Mrs Jones, whatever's happening?
0:16:34 > 0:16:36It's her, the filthy old crone.
0:16:36 > 0:16:38I only nipped in to pick up me orange juice.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40Shh.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43- Get off!- Mrs Jones, that's enough.
0:16:43 > 0:16:47Now, go back in the clinic and ask them to replace your juice.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50Nurse Lee, would you clear up this mess?
0:16:50 > 0:16:52It's all right, my darling. Shh.
0:17:09 > 0:17:15No-one can resist a baby, Mrs Jenkins.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19But mothers can be fierce when they think their child is threatened.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22- It was only dickie birds.- I know.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25Dickie birds.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27Just little 'uns.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32It's a hard time of year to spend too much time alone.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35Can you tell me where you live?
0:17:35 > 0:17:37We can send someone to look in on you, to make sure
0:17:37 > 0:17:39you're being properly taken care of.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50She doesn't look well.
0:17:50 > 0:17:51Old age. Poverty.
0:17:52 > 0:17:56Chronic malnourishment. And exhaustion, I suppose.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58Why doesn't she accept help?
0:18:00 > 0:18:04Who knows what brutality she knew when she was young?
0:18:04 > 0:18:07Help then didn't mean what help means now.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14Once more unto the breach and all of that!
0:18:14 > 0:18:16It's simply a matter of scaling things up.
0:18:16 > 0:18:20I just waylaid Brown Owl at the bus stop, and we're combining forces now.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23So there'll be, um, eight angels, a female Mary,
0:18:23 > 0:18:25a full complement of cattle and quite a sizeable flock of sheep.
0:18:27 > 0:18:28Chummy...
0:18:28 > 0:18:31it's the parish hall, not the London Palladium.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33Well, that sort of attitude will get us nowhere.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35CHUMMY SIGHS
0:18:35 > 0:18:37TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS
0:18:59 > 0:19:00SHE SIGHS SOFTLY
0:19:27 > 0:19:29- BICYCLE BELL RINGS - Lynette!- Oh, hello, Nurse Noakes.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31By all means tell me I'm a frightful bore,
0:19:31 > 0:19:33but would you consider doing me a kindness?
0:19:33 > 0:19:34I'd be glad to, if my mum don't mind.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36It's all connected to church affairs.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38The Nativity play, to be precise.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40We need a sort of capable senior angel,
0:19:40 > 0:19:43to rule the little Brownies with a rod of iron.
0:19:43 > 0:19:44I don't know, Nurse.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46I might be needed at home. I might let you down.
0:19:46 > 0:19:47And I'd hate to let you down.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49I always think it best to travel hopefully.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51- But, Nurse...- We're not at home to Miss Pessimistic.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54Now, we'll rig you out in the best crepe paper.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56Shame. I haven't got my tape measure in my pocket.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58You don't need it.
0:19:58 > 0:19:59I'm a 40-inch hip.
0:19:59 > 0:20:00Oh, bravo!
0:20:00 > 0:20:02Splendid.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06- MAN:- Elsie in? - WOMAN: Yeah, first door on the right.
0:20:11 > 0:20:12- Excuse me.- It's the first door.
0:20:14 > 0:20:15LABOURED BREATHING
0:20:15 > 0:20:17- Ta-ta, then!- See you on pay day.
0:20:17 > 0:20:18Yeah.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20BREATHES WHEEZILY
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Better check she's all right.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40Greetings, Doctor.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42I just called in to collect those instruments.
0:20:42 > 0:20:46Of course. Nearly done.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48No sign of that new autoclave?
0:20:49 > 0:20:51The department said it would come this week,
0:20:51 > 0:20:54but there's been no joy so far.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Are you staying for tea, Dr Turner?
0:20:56 > 0:20:59Mrs B has made an absolute piece de resistance of yule log.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01Thanks, but I've got Timothy outside in the car.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03Oh, dear. Housekeeper's day off?
0:21:03 > 0:21:06Well, I'm sure we can pop you something into a paper bag.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08TELEPHONE RINGS
0:21:08 > 0:21:10How is Timothy getting on?
0:21:10 > 0:21:13- HE SIGHS - It's been almost a year.
0:21:13 > 0:21:14Nonnatus House. Midwife speaking.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16- He's doing well enough. - How may I help?
0:21:16 > 0:21:19But it'll be our first Christmas since his mother died,
0:21:19 > 0:21:21and I'm worried it might...
0:21:21 > 0:21:23undo things.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26- I see.- I lost my mother when I was very young.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30Children are more resilient than you think.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32- He's here.- Well...
0:21:32 > 0:21:36he's made his opinion of my cooking rather clear.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38Fish and chips for us tonight, I reckon.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40Sorry, Doctor. There's been a message from the surgery.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43Urgent home visit requested.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45Lady called Mrs Jenkins.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03I'm meant to be at a rehearsal now.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05Stay there and don't talk to anyone.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07You'll make me late!
0:22:10 > 0:22:12Like you're always late.
0:22:27 > 0:22:28Hello?
0:22:32 > 0:22:33DOOR CREAKS
0:22:33 > 0:22:34Mrs Jenkins?
0:22:37 > 0:22:40I'm a doctor...here to help.
0:22:40 > 0:22:41Don't you come near me!
0:22:42 > 0:22:45SHE SCREAMS
0:22:57 > 0:23:01- I won't be a moment. - What? That's my dinner!
0:23:01 > 0:23:03Who are you giving my dinner to?
0:23:19 > 0:23:22It's a classic case of angina pectoris.
0:23:22 > 0:23:23I've prescribed amyl nitrite,
0:23:23 > 0:23:27for use in the event of any new collapse, and penicillin,
0:23:27 > 0:23:29because there was evidence of urinary incontinence
0:23:29 > 0:23:31- all over the place.- Gangway!
0:23:31 > 0:23:34Mrs Jenkins may very well have an infection,
0:23:34 > 0:23:36which would contribute to her confusion.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38It might be worth trying to collect a urine sample.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41That shouldn't prove too challenging.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Just stick a gallipot in a convenient gutter. Huh!
0:23:43 > 0:23:46She is also hard of hearing, jumping with fleas,
0:23:46 > 0:23:49and her living conditions are calamitous.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51If you could speak to the social services,
0:23:51 > 0:23:54I'll put her on the list for daily visits in the meanwhile.
0:24:25 > 0:24:26Hello?
0:24:28 > 0:24:29Mrs Jenkins?
0:24:32 > 0:24:34I'm Nurse Lee.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37The doctor sent me to come and have a look at you.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39I don't need no bleedin' looking at!
0:24:43 > 0:24:44There's nothing to be afraid of.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50We just want to see if we can make you a bit more comfortable.
0:24:55 > 0:24:56Oh!
0:24:58 > 0:25:01CAT MIAOWS
0:25:08 > 0:25:11I thought you was Rosie for a minute.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15She's got a face like yours.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18Like Carnation milk, when you open up a tin.
0:25:20 > 0:25:24Who's Rosie, Mrs Jenkins? Is she a relation?
0:25:24 > 0:25:25She's sweet.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29Sweet as a little flower, she is.
0:25:35 > 0:25:40The doctor wanted me to do a few routine checks each time I visit.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42I'll start by taking your pulse,
0:25:42 > 0:25:44and then we'll move on to your temperature.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47- Don't you touch me! - Please, Mrs Jenkins...- No!
0:25:53 > 0:25:56Oh! And when do you see your patient again, Nurse Can't-Take-A-Pulse?
0:25:56 > 0:25:58Look, it wasn't that I couldn't, Sister!
0:25:58 > 0:26:00It was that she wouldn't let me.
0:26:00 > 0:26:01Oh, no. It was because she didn't trust you.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04And if you can't make your patients trust you,
0:26:04 > 0:26:06you are no good as a nurse!
0:26:06 > 0:26:07Now, answer my question.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12She's on the list for this evening's rounds, Sister.
0:26:12 > 0:26:16Oh. And shall I tell you what else is on this evening's rounds?
0:26:16 > 0:26:2121 injections, 16 insulin, four penicillin,
0:26:21 > 0:26:24an ear to syringe, a cannula to drain
0:26:24 > 0:26:26- and three sets of haemorrhoids to compress!- I'm sorry, Sister,
0:26:26 > 0:26:29- but the problem was...- No, no, I'll tell you what the problem is!
0:26:29 > 0:26:32You young girls do too much book learning.
0:26:32 > 0:26:33You sit for months in classrooms,
0:26:33 > 0:26:36filling your heads with loads of codswallop,
0:26:36 > 0:26:39when simple, practical tasks are beyond you.
0:26:39 > 0:26:40INKWELL SMASHES
0:26:40 > 0:26:43Now look what you've made me do!
0:26:43 > 0:26:44SHE SIGHS
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Oh...
0:26:46 > 0:26:48Cynthia?
0:26:48 > 0:26:49I'm modelling for Chummy.
0:26:49 > 0:26:53She ended up with more children taking part than parts,
0:26:53 > 0:26:56so she decided to personify the Wise Men's gifts.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58And what's that supposed to be?
0:26:58 > 0:27:01Myrrh. It's quite straightforward, compared to frankincense.
0:27:20 > 0:27:21KNOCKING ON DOOR Nurses!
0:27:23 > 0:27:27Well, now. Well, now, madam.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29What's all this fuss about?
0:27:30 > 0:27:33Doctor says you've got a problem with your ticker,
0:27:33 > 0:27:37but I would lay bets that it's as hale as mine.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41Hmm. Right.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46Let's have a check of this pulse.
0:27:46 > 0:27:47Oh!
0:27:48 > 0:27:49Oh...
0:27:52 > 0:27:54Pulse attempted.
0:27:56 > 0:27:57SHE SIGHS
0:27:57 > 0:27:59Patient...
0:28:00 > 0:28:04..demonstrated strong right hook.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10Right...
0:28:11 > 0:28:14..you awkward old biddy,
0:28:14 > 0:28:15let's see what you make of this.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19SHE BREAKS WIND LOUDLY
0:28:23 > 0:28:26And if that doesn't impress you, I can do it again,
0:28:26 > 0:28:27in a different key.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31SHE BREAKS WIND IN A LOWER KEY
0:28:32 > 0:28:35Catch it, Nurse Lee. It's heading for the door.
0:28:35 > 0:28:39Cat's got it now. It's underneath the chair.
0:28:39 > 0:28:43Where'er you be, let your wind go free!
0:28:43 > 0:28:47In church and chapel, let it rattle!
0:28:47 > 0:28:50Good thing there's no naked flames about!
0:28:52 > 0:28:55BOTH GIGGLE
0:28:59 > 0:29:01Right...
0:29:06 > 0:29:09Off on the insulin round,
0:29:09 > 0:29:12and I'm under no illusions that it will be straightforward.
0:29:12 > 0:29:15They'll all have been at the Quality Street,
0:29:15 > 0:29:16every man jack of them.
0:29:16 > 0:29:19If I was the Prime Minister, I would shut that factory down.
0:29:19 > 0:29:22PLAINTIVE WAILING
0:29:30 > 0:29:33WAILING
0:29:41 > 0:29:43Is that Mrs Jenkins?
0:29:43 > 0:29:45Yes.
0:29:47 > 0:29:49I've never heard anything like it.
0:29:49 > 0:29:51I have.
0:29:51 > 0:29:53WAILING
0:29:55 > 0:29:57SHE EXHALES
0:29:59 > 0:30:02We used to call it "the workhouse howl".
0:30:03 > 0:30:06What?
0:30:06 > 0:30:09It's the sound of someone who's been at the bottom of the heap.
0:30:11 > 0:30:15I would call it a cry of protest, except there's no fight left in it.
0:30:15 > 0:30:16And no hope either.
0:30:16 > 0:30:18WAILING
0:30:18 > 0:30:20Should we go back?
0:30:21 > 0:30:22Not now.
0:30:24 > 0:30:26We couldn't reach her if we did.
0:30:26 > 0:30:29WAILING GETS LOUDER
0:30:34 > 0:30:37# Silent night
0:30:37 > 0:30:40# Holy night
0:30:40 > 0:30:43# All is calm... #
0:30:43 > 0:30:45And don't forget to smile.
0:30:45 > 0:30:46# ..All is bright... #
0:30:46 > 0:30:48The mayor doesn't want to see a lot of gloomy faces.
0:30:48 > 0:30:54# ..Round yon virgin Mother and child
0:30:54 > 0:30:57# Holy infant
0:30:57 > 0:31:01- # So tender and mild... # - Go on!
0:31:01 > 0:31:05# Sleep in heavenly peace... #
0:31:05 > 0:31:08SINGING FADES
0:31:25 > 0:31:29Sister Monica Joan, why don't you rest until it's time for compline?
0:31:29 > 0:31:30SHE SIGHS
0:31:32 > 0:31:33No.
0:31:37 > 0:31:42I thought bright raiment was stored within this room.
0:31:45 > 0:31:47But it's gone...
0:31:50 > 0:31:53..and we do not know what forces are at work.
0:31:55 > 0:31:59Chummy takes the costumes up to her old bedroom for safekeeping.
0:31:59 > 0:32:01She doesn't want them getting in everybody's way.
0:32:01 > 0:32:05I was accused of taking macaroons to my room by Sister Evangelina,
0:32:05 > 0:32:07but it was not so.
0:32:08 > 0:32:13Almonds are mercurial and likely to be consumed into the ether.
0:32:16 > 0:32:18Would you hold the glue pot for me, Sister?
0:32:18 > 0:32:20FOOTSTEPS IN BACKGROUND
0:32:30 > 0:32:32DOOR OPENS IN BACKGROUND
0:32:32 > 0:32:35Sister Monica Joan, have you heard of the workhouse howl?
0:32:40 > 0:32:42I have heard the workhouse howl...
0:32:43 > 0:32:45..itself.
0:32:48 > 0:32:52One hears it less, now the infirmaries are closed
0:32:52 > 0:32:54and the inmates are slowly...
0:32:55 > 0:32:57..tidied into graves.
0:33:02 > 0:33:05It speaks of an agony beyond all words.
0:33:11 > 0:33:13This wasn't beyond all words.
0:33:15 > 0:33:18Mrs Jenkins was calling someone's name.
0:33:21 > 0:33:22SHE GASPS
0:33:26 > 0:33:28SHE GROANS
0:33:30 > 0:33:32Lynette, have you seen my kitchen scissors?
0:33:32 > 0:33:34No, Mum.
0:33:34 > 0:33:36I was putting the string on the Christmas pudding
0:33:36 > 0:33:37and I couldn't lay hands on 'em.
0:33:37 > 0:33:40What are you doing with your light still on?
0:33:40 > 0:33:42I was just thinking.
0:33:42 > 0:33:44You can think just as well in the dark.
0:33:46 > 0:33:50Come on, you. Another busy day tomorrow.
0:33:50 > 0:33:52Church in the morning...
0:33:52 > 0:33:56and you've got rings round your eyes as black as the ace of spades.
0:33:56 > 0:33:58Reckon my monthly's coming on.
0:33:59 > 0:34:02No medals for that, I'm afraid.
0:34:03 > 0:34:06You know where the aspirins and the you-know-whats are.
0:34:07 > 0:34:09Good night, and God bless you.
0:34:14 > 0:34:17BELL TOLLS IN THE DISTANCE
0:34:31 > 0:34:36# Yea, with thine eyes shalt thou behold
0:34:37 > 0:34:43# And see the reward of the ungodly
0:34:43 > 0:34:48# For thou, Lord, art my hope
0:34:49 > 0:34:56# Thou has set thine house of defence very high
0:34:56 > 0:35:02# There shall no evil happen unto thee
0:35:03 > 0:35:10# Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling
0:35:10 > 0:35:16# For he shall give his angels charge over thee... #
0:35:16 > 0:35:18SHE GASPS
0:35:18 > 0:35:23# To keep thee in all thy ways
0:35:23 > 0:35:28# They shall bear thee in their hands
0:35:30 > 0:35:35# That thou hurt not thy foot against a stone... #
0:35:35 > 0:35:37SHE GASPS AND MOANS
0:35:37 > 0:35:42# Because he hath set his love upon me
0:35:42 > 0:35:46# Therefore will I deliver him
0:35:48 > 0:35:54# I will set him up because he hath known my name
0:35:54 > 0:36:00# With long life will I satisfy him
0:36:02 > 0:36:07# And show him my salvation
0:36:07 > 0:36:11# Glory be to the Father
0:36:11 > 0:36:14# And to the Son
0:36:16 > 0:36:21# And to the Holy Ghost
0:36:21 > 0:36:25# As it was in the beginning
0:36:25 > 0:36:29# Is now and ever shall be
0:36:32 > 0:36:35# World without end
0:36:35 > 0:36:38# Amen. #
0:36:38 > 0:36:40THUNDER CRASHES
0:36:42 > 0:36:44SHE SOBS Help me.
0:36:45 > 0:36:48Baby, help me. SHE SOBS
0:36:48 > 0:36:51SHE SCREAMS
0:36:58 > 0:37:01SHE STRAINS AND SCREAMS
0:37:20 > 0:37:22SHE WHIMPERS
0:37:38 > 0:37:40BABY CRIES
0:38:05 > 0:38:07I'm sorry.
0:38:07 > 0:38:10I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
0:38:21 > 0:38:24SCISSORS SNIP
0:39:12 > 0:39:13Fetch the milk, darling.
0:39:13 > 0:39:16Let's hope it hasn't frozen solid, like the bathroom tap.
0:39:21 > 0:39:23Oh, no.
0:39:24 > 0:39:26No, no.
0:39:29 > 0:39:30Trixie.
0:39:31 > 0:39:33Trixie!
0:39:33 > 0:39:34Whatever's the matter?
0:39:37 > 0:39:38Oh, my goodness.
0:39:38 > 0:39:40Get Sister Julienne.
0:39:42 > 0:39:44It's all right.
0:39:47 > 0:39:49BABY GURGLES
0:39:58 > 0:40:00His breathing's shallow and his pulse is slow.
0:40:00 > 0:40:03He was already turning blue.
0:40:03 > 0:40:05I'll fetch the blanket and the paraffin heater.
0:40:05 > 0:40:07When you've done that, call for the police.
0:40:10 > 0:40:11KNOCK AT DOOR
0:40:11 > 0:40:13< Lynette, time to get up.
0:40:13 > 0:40:15I am up.
0:40:25 > 0:40:27SHE GROANS
0:40:34 > 0:40:37Pillowcase - candy-striped, winceyette material.
0:40:37 > 0:40:41You'll find the same in any one of a hundred homes in Poplar.
0:40:41 > 0:40:43We were able to snip about an inch of the thread
0:40:43 > 0:40:45that was used to tie the cord.
0:40:45 > 0:40:49Sister, it looks like ordinary kitchen string,
0:40:49 > 0:40:52but the cord was cut quite neatly - sharp scissors or a knife.
0:40:52 > 0:40:55Make sure to clean the cord properly.
0:40:55 > 0:40:57Whatever implement was used, it was unlikely to be sterile.
0:40:57 > 0:40:58Yes, Sister.
0:41:01 > 0:41:04Our order has been here for over 60 years.
0:41:04 > 0:41:07We've never had a single case of abandonment until now.
0:41:07 > 0:41:09There's a paper bag here from Liston's,
0:41:09 > 0:41:11that dry-cleaner's that shut down.
0:41:11 > 0:41:15Sister...why d'you think somebody would do a thing like this?
0:41:15 > 0:41:17SHE SIGHS
0:41:17 > 0:41:19I've come to the conclusion there are only two reasons
0:41:19 > 0:41:21for ever doing anything -
0:41:21 > 0:41:23one is love...
0:41:23 > 0:41:25and the other is fear.
0:41:25 > 0:41:28It would appear that both were at work in this case.
0:41:29 > 0:41:31I've put almost a whole layette together
0:41:31 > 0:41:33from the things in the charity box.
0:41:33 > 0:41:35Pink booties for a boy?
0:41:35 > 0:41:37There weren't any blue ones.
0:41:37 > 0:41:40One of the proper hue can be acquired...
0:41:40 > 0:41:41One of the proper hue can be purchased.
0:41:41 > 0:41:44Nurse Lee, take two shillings out of the petty cash
0:41:44 > 0:41:46and see that Sister Monica Joan's properly equipped.
0:41:46 > 0:41:47What are we going to call him, then?
0:41:47 > 0:41:50I worry we should leave that to his mother.
0:41:50 > 0:41:51I mean, she may come back,
0:41:51 > 0:41:53especially if it's reported in the papers.
0:41:53 > 0:41:57It is in fact customary to name an abandoned infant
0:41:57 > 0:42:00after somebody closely connected with its rescue.
0:42:00 > 0:42:04We can hardly call it Cynthia. It would be worse than pink booties.
0:42:04 > 0:42:06Somebody closely connected
0:42:06 > 0:42:08and of the same gender.
0:42:08 > 0:42:10Nobody calls baby boys Fred any more.
0:42:10 > 0:42:12You might as well give him a flat cap and a Woodbine.
0:42:12 > 0:42:15There is surely only one appellation we can choose.
0:42:15 > 0:42:19The child must be baptised in honour of our patron, St Raymond Nonnatus.
0:42:19 > 0:42:21Sounds like a spiv.
0:42:21 > 0:42:22BABY BREAKS WIND
0:42:22 > 0:42:26Ooh, sounds like a digestive system in full working order.
0:42:26 > 0:42:31Now, then, little Raymond, let's see if we've warmed you up.
0:42:43 > 0:42:46It's not what I asked for, but it's a start.
0:42:46 > 0:42:48I can't believe the council won't rehouse her.
0:42:48 > 0:42:50The building's been condemned.
0:42:50 > 0:42:53Elderly single people are supposed to go into nursing homes.
0:42:53 > 0:42:57We can do better than that for Mrs Jenkins, can't we?
0:42:57 > 0:42:59- I don't doubt it. - CRASH
0:42:59 > 0:43:02Call off the search! I've found the bath.
0:43:02 > 0:43:04What's more, it's full of coal.
0:43:09 > 0:43:11Right, I'll fill them up.
0:43:12 > 0:43:13Oh, come on.
0:43:13 > 0:43:15You move any slower, you'll grow moss.
0:43:15 > 0:43:17Don't you take against my Rosie.
0:43:17 > 0:43:19You come over here, dear.
0:43:22 > 0:43:26I don't know who Rosie is, Mrs Jenkins, but she isn't me.
0:43:32 > 0:43:33No...
0:43:35 > 0:43:36She had a little girl's hands.
0:43:39 > 0:43:40Yours are only small.
0:43:48 > 0:43:51I'm not taking them off, I told you! I'm not!
0:43:51 > 0:43:53You thieving besoms.
0:43:53 > 0:43:55Please, Mrs Jenkins, we need you to take them off
0:43:55 > 0:43:57so that we can get you into the bath.
0:43:57 > 0:43:59- You can have them back afterwards. - She'll burn 'em.
0:43:59 > 0:44:00I am burning your clothes
0:44:00 > 0:44:03because they are riddled with little visitors.
0:44:03 > 0:44:05We don't want them infesting the clean, new bed.
0:44:05 > 0:44:08I never takes them off.
0:44:08 > 0:44:09(They won't come off.)
0:44:12 > 0:44:15They're stuck to her skin...Sister.
0:44:15 > 0:44:16You'll have to try Vaseline.
0:44:19 > 0:44:20Here.
0:44:25 > 0:44:27Argh!
0:44:27 > 0:44:29SHE STRAINS
0:44:29 > 0:44:30Mm...
0:44:32 > 0:44:33You're hurting me.
0:44:35 > 0:44:36BOTH STRAIN
0:44:44 > 0:44:46No wonder you were lashing out.
0:44:46 > 0:44:48You must have been in constant pain.
0:44:51 > 0:44:53Well, we'll get you into the chiropodist's,
0:44:53 > 0:44:58but Nurse Lee and I will give you the once-over for today.
0:45:00 > 0:45:02They shame me.
0:45:02 > 0:45:04No...not any more.
0:45:07 > 0:45:15# O come O come, Emmanuel
0:45:15 > 0:45:24# And ransom captive Israel
0:45:24 > 0:45:32# That mourns in lonely exile here
0:45:34 > 0:45:42# Until the Son of God appear
0:45:42 > 0:45:47# Rejoice! Rejoice!
0:45:47 > 0:45:52# Emmanuel
0:45:52 > 0:46:01# Shall come to thee, O Israel. #
0:46:18 > 0:46:21This placenta's less than 24 hours old.
0:46:23 > 0:46:25And there's a piece missing.
0:46:25 > 0:46:27What does that mean?
0:46:27 > 0:46:29If the mother doesn't get medical help,
0:46:29 > 0:46:30she will develop a uterine infection,
0:46:30 > 0:46:33leading to high fever and possible septicaemia.
0:46:33 > 0:46:35If untreated, it may be fatal.
0:46:35 > 0:46:37I see.
0:46:37 > 0:46:39We need to find her.
0:46:39 > 0:46:41We may not have much time.
0:46:43 > 0:46:45I reckon that's squirrel.
0:46:45 > 0:46:47And it's not long dead.
0:46:47 > 0:46:51- I'll keep it for best. - No, you're to put it on now.
0:46:52 > 0:46:54You've a busy day ahead.
0:46:54 > 0:46:57Dentist first, then we're going to the doctor's.
0:47:02 > 0:47:04Did you hear me, Mrs Jenkins?
0:47:04 > 0:47:05I heard the word "dentist".
0:47:05 > 0:47:08I'll go in the spring, when it's warmer.
0:47:08 > 0:47:12If you can eat without discomfort, your general health will benefit.
0:47:12 > 0:47:14My purse won't benefit.
0:47:14 > 0:47:16There'll be no charge, Mrs Jenkins.
0:47:16 > 0:47:19You're also entitled to free glasses and a walking stick,
0:47:19 > 0:47:21should either take your fancy.
0:47:23 > 0:47:26And you haven't eaten your meals on wheels.
0:47:26 > 0:47:28I was saving it for Rosie.
0:47:28 > 0:47:30She'll be hungry when she comes.
0:47:32 > 0:47:34- What's that?- It's a lamb chop.
0:47:34 > 0:47:40# Walk hand in hand with me
0:47:40 > 0:47:45# Through all eternity
0:47:45 > 0:47:48# Have faith, believe in me... #
0:47:48 > 0:47:50Be good now.
0:47:50 > 0:47:54# Give me your hand
0:47:54 > 0:47:59# Love is a symphony
0:47:59 > 0:48:02# Of perfect harmony
0:48:04 > 0:48:08# When lovers such as we
0:48:08 > 0:48:12# Walk hand in hand
0:48:12 > 0:48:16# Be not afraid
0:48:16 > 0:48:21# For I am with you all the while
0:48:21 > 0:48:25# So lift your head up high
0:48:25 > 0:48:31# And look toward the sky
0:48:31 > 0:48:37# Walk hand in hand with me
0:48:37 > 0:48:41# This is our destiny
0:48:41 > 0:48:45# No greater love could be... #
0:48:45 > 0:48:46(Merry Christmas.)
0:48:46 > 0:48:49# Walk hand in hand
0:48:49 > 0:48:53# Walk with me
0:49:08 > 0:49:13# Be not afraid
0:49:13 > 0:49:18# For I am with you all the while
0:49:18 > 0:49:22# So lift your head up high
0:49:23 > 0:49:26# And look up to the sky... #
0:49:27 > 0:49:30What are you doing with my paper, madam?
0:49:30 > 0:49:31Reading about this.
0:49:33 > 0:49:37Someone's been doing something they didn't ought to.
0:49:37 > 0:49:40Police have issued an appeal. Quite right too.
0:49:40 > 0:49:43Whoever she was, she wants horsewhipping.
0:49:45 > 0:49:46Oh, I nearly forgot.
0:49:46 > 0:49:51Friday night is sweetie-money night. Always has been, always will be.
0:49:52 > 0:49:55Used to be a shilling, Dad. This is half a crown.
0:49:55 > 0:49:58That's cos the things you do don't go unnoticed.
0:49:58 > 0:50:00You're a good girl, Lyn.
0:50:13 > 0:50:16You don't have to look after me, Mrs Jenkins.
0:50:16 > 0:50:17I should be looking after you.
0:50:17 > 0:50:21Besides, if I sit too close to the fire, I'll get chilblains.
0:50:21 > 0:50:23Oh, not the chilblains!
0:50:26 > 0:50:28My Rosie got chilblains.
0:50:28 > 0:50:30She cried.
0:50:31 > 0:50:35One night, the wardress, she let her come to me...
0:50:36 > 0:50:39..on account of the others being kept awake.
0:50:40 > 0:50:42I wrapped her in my petticoat.
0:50:45 > 0:50:47Her bones was like birds' bones.
0:50:51 > 0:50:53Was Rosie your daughter, Mrs Jenkins?
0:50:53 > 0:50:55All night, she stayed.
0:50:56 > 0:51:00And when morning come, she was put back with my others.
0:51:00 > 0:51:02There were others?
0:51:02 > 0:51:03How many?
0:51:03 > 0:51:05Too many.
0:51:06 > 0:51:08Did they go into the workhouse with you?
0:51:09 > 0:51:11Yes.
0:51:12 > 0:51:13They didn't thrive.
0:51:19 > 0:51:20What happened to Rosie?
0:51:22 > 0:51:24After the night with the chilblains?
0:51:30 > 0:51:32I never saw her again.
0:51:34 > 0:51:36Never saw none of them.
0:51:37 > 0:51:39Never saw them fly.
0:51:44 > 0:51:47I just knew they wasn't singing any more.
0:52:00 > 0:52:02How could Mrs Jenkins not have been told?
0:52:03 > 0:52:07I believe once you walked into one of those appalling places,
0:52:07 > 0:52:09you gave up everything you were and every right you ever had.
0:52:09 > 0:52:11Even your children?
0:52:11 > 0:52:15Especially the children. The kiddies were kept in separate quarters.
0:52:15 > 0:52:17BABY CRIES
0:52:17 > 0:52:19SHE MURMURS REASSURANCE
0:52:25 > 0:52:27Oh, sweet pea.
0:52:27 > 0:52:30Social worker's going to come for him on Friday.
0:52:30 > 0:52:33Heard Sister Julienne on the telephone.
0:52:33 > 0:52:35First he'll be fostered
0:52:35 > 0:52:38and then adopted and lost to his mother for ever.
0:52:38 > 0:52:40Don't say that!
0:52:40 > 0:52:43All the facts will be filed away in some sort of beastly cabinet.
0:52:44 > 0:52:48We just have to hope that one day, they go looking for each other.
0:52:55 > 0:52:58I'm looking for some information about that baby...
0:52:59 > 0:53:01A baby?
0:53:01 > 0:53:02Around here?
0:53:06 > 0:53:07KNOCKING ON DOOR
0:53:07 > 0:53:09SHE GASPS
0:53:14 > 0:53:16KNOCKING ON DOOR
0:53:34 > 0:53:35TELEPHONE RINGS
0:53:38 > 0:53:39Public records office?
0:53:39 > 0:53:41- Just upstairs.- Thank you.
0:53:58 > 0:54:00All Saints Parish - baptismal roll.
0:54:00 > 0:54:01Thank you.
0:54:01 > 0:54:04All Saints Parish - deaths.
0:54:10 > 0:54:13Poplar workhouse, 1888 to 1934.
0:54:14 > 0:54:16'And there it was.
0:54:16 > 0:54:20'In neat, indifferent copperplate.
0:54:20 > 0:54:24'3rd of April 1906, Jenkins, Mary-Ann.
0:54:24 > 0:54:26'Widow.
0:54:26 > 0:54:28'Admitted destitute.
0:54:28 > 0:54:32'And underneath, the desolate roll call of her only possessions.
0:54:32 > 0:54:36'Alice, George, May, Percy -
0:54:36 > 0:54:42'aged five, aged three, aged two, aged seven months.
0:54:42 > 0:54:44'And Rose.
0:54:44 > 0:54:46'There was a Rose.
0:54:46 > 0:54:50'Aged eight upon admittance to the children's ward.
0:54:50 > 0:54:54'The cause of death was given as "failure to thrive".'
0:54:56 > 0:55:00She was in there from 1906 to 1935.
0:55:00 > 0:55:03Put to work in the sewing shed.
0:55:03 > 0:55:06- Enough to drive anyone doolally. - When the workhouse closed,
0:55:06 > 0:55:08she was discharged with the gift of a sewing machine
0:55:08 > 0:55:11so that she could earn her own living.
0:55:11 > 0:55:13And what do you propose to do, Nurse Lee?
0:55:13 > 0:55:17Now you have garnered these unedifying facts.
0:55:18 > 0:55:19I don't know, Sister.
0:55:19 > 0:55:22Then if I may crave my sisters' indulgence
0:55:22 > 0:55:25for a quote from the Apocrypha -
0:55:25 > 0:55:29you have been curious in unnecessary matters.
0:55:30 > 0:55:32The past remains the past.
0:55:32 > 0:55:35The present unamended.
0:55:35 > 0:55:37Sister Monica Joan is right.
0:55:37 > 0:55:40It's what happens in the here and now that counts.
0:55:42 > 0:55:45Will it matter one day where baby Raymond was found,
0:55:45 > 0:55:47blue with cold and wrapped in a pillowcase?
0:55:47 > 0:55:50No, because that will be his past. And his present
0:55:50 > 0:55:52will be safe and filled with love.
0:55:52 > 0:55:56Mrs Jenkins' present isn't safe or filled with love.
0:55:56 > 0:55:58- Nurse Lee.- Forgive me, Sister,
0:55:58 > 0:56:00but her life is completely wretched.
0:56:02 > 0:56:05She waits every day for a child.
0:56:05 > 0:56:08For children that are never coming home.
0:56:08 > 0:56:11Then you should turn your mind to that.
0:56:12 > 0:56:14Pass me a mince pie.
0:56:26 > 0:56:28Public burial ground, Poplar,
0:56:28 > 0:56:311900 to 1910.
0:56:48 > 0:56:51Now, I want Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh
0:56:51 > 0:56:53and the three kings to stand at the back of the line
0:56:53 > 0:56:56for the parade of the shepherds and the sheep. Come on.
0:56:56 > 0:56:57That's it, there we go.
0:57:00 > 0:57:02Sorry!
0:57:02 > 0:57:05We'll be starting that as soon as Nurse Lee takes her gloves off.
0:57:06 > 0:57:09And don't forget to line up nicely down the central aisle.
0:57:09 > 0:57:10You'll be walking past the mayor,
0:57:10 > 0:57:13and I will not have him knocked by any elbows.
0:57:13 > 0:57:15Timothy Turner, where is your tea towel?
0:57:15 > 0:57:17- My dad couldn't find one. - Very well.
0:57:17 > 0:57:20Now, are you ready, sheep?
0:57:20 > 0:57:21ALL: Baa!
0:57:21 > 0:57:23Right, now. Angels.
0:57:23 > 0:57:25I don't want any angels trying to flap their wings.
0:57:25 > 0:57:28Arms outstretched but perfectly still.
0:57:28 > 0:57:30That's it.
0:57:30 > 0:57:31Lynette, you're drooping a little.
0:57:31 > 0:57:33Sorry.
0:57:33 > 0:57:35Bravo. Nurse Lee.
0:57:35 > 0:57:37CHILDREN GIGGLE AND MUSIC STARTS
0:57:37 > 0:57:39CHILDREN BAA
0:57:39 > 0:57:41No baaing. Absolutely no baaing
0:57:41 > 0:57:44until you get to the manger and see the newborn King.
0:57:44 > 0:57:45Gary Schofield!
0:57:45 > 0:57:49Any more poking with that crook and I'll demote you to a bullock.
0:57:51 > 0:57:52Right.
0:57:55 > 0:57:56- BOY:- Lynette! - Lynette!
0:57:58 > 0:58:00- BOY:- Is she all right? - Lynette!
0:58:00 > 0:58:03- I think she's just fainted. - Shall I call Doctor?
0:58:03 > 0:58:04Ambulance.
0:58:11 > 0:58:14Sorry. I'm really sorry.
0:58:14 > 0:58:15What for?
0:58:18 > 0:58:20I haven't told no-one.
0:58:20 > 0:58:22Do you think you can tell me?
0:58:44 > 0:58:48She wants a clip round the ear hole, not chrysanthemums.
0:58:50 > 0:58:51Mrs Duncan.
0:58:51 > 0:58:53Margate.
0:58:55 > 0:58:56Easter week.
0:58:58 > 0:59:01Some lad she met queueing up for the waltzers.
0:59:04 > 0:59:07He was staying in the boarding house across the way from us.
0:59:09 > 0:59:11Should have kept me eye on her.
0:59:12 > 0:59:16But I was three months gone myself, sick as a dog most days.
0:59:20 > 0:59:22I should have noticed.
0:59:22 > 0:59:25- I should have noticed. - I'm her mother.
0:59:28 > 0:59:30If I didn't notice, there's no hope for you,
0:59:30 > 0:59:32and if you didn't, there's no hope for anyone.
0:59:36 > 0:59:38Mr Duncan.
0:59:48 > 0:59:50You know I'm a church warden.
0:59:50 > 0:59:51Of course.
0:59:52 > 0:59:55And she's a pillar of the Mothers' Union.
0:59:55 > 0:59:58Our daughter comes from a respectable home.
0:59:59 > 1:00:01Nobody's doubting that, Mr Duncan.
1:00:03 > 1:00:05- But baby Raymond... - Who called him that?
1:00:06 > 1:00:09We did. It's only temporary.
1:00:12 > 1:00:13He's a bonny little thing.
1:00:15 > 1:00:18- Quite the bruiser, in fact. - When are the adoption people coming?
1:00:20 > 1:00:21Friday.
1:00:21 > 1:00:24Lynette's not signing any papers unless we're there.
1:00:28 > 1:00:29She ain't well.
1:00:31 > 1:00:32No.
1:00:50 > 1:00:52What are you bringing me to a church for?
1:00:53 > 1:00:56I'm not bringing you to a church, Mrs Jenkins.
1:00:56 > 1:00:58I'm bringing you to a churchyard.
1:01:00 > 1:01:03I've no objection to a constitutional.
1:01:07 > 1:01:10Mrs Jenkins, I don't know if you realise this...
1:01:12 > 1:01:15..but we're standing by a public grave.
1:01:19 > 1:01:21Was there many put in 'ere?
1:01:23 > 1:01:24Yes.
1:01:26 > 1:01:29This is where they buried the workhouse inmates.
1:01:32 > 1:01:34I had too many.
1:01:38 > 1:01:40And they're all here.
1:01:50 > 1:01:51Together?
1:01:55 > 1:01:59I was able to get plans of the cemetery and the graves,
1:01:59 > 1:02:02from the public records.
1:02:03 > 1:02:04It's all written down.
1:02:08 > 1:02:14Percy and May are lying next to each other, just over there.
1:02:20 > 1:02:21Alice is to the right.
1:02:26 > 1:02:30I think, in the summer, that tree must cast some shade there.
1:02:33 > 1:02:35And George is by the cross.
1:02:46 > 1:02:48And Rosie?
1:02:52 > 1:02:54She's right here, Mrs Jenkins.
1:02:56 > 1:02:58Almost underneath your feet.
1:03:09 > 1:03:11Will you help me to kneel down?
1:03:12 > 1:03:13Of course.
1:03:41 > 1:03:43I'd have liked her in with me.
1:03:45 > 1:03:46To warm her feet.
1:03:52 > 1:03:55But I can see she's tucked up safe.
1:04:15 > 1:04:18BABY GURGLES
1:04:18 > 1:04:19If Lynette signs the papers...
1:04:21 > 1:04:23..little baby Raymond will just be whisked away.
1:04:23 > 1:04:28Camilla, it's the family's decision and none of our business.
1:04:28 > 1:04:29It's Lynette's decision.
1:04:30 > 1:04:31Or it ought to be.
1:04:34 > 1:04:37I grew up with Pa and Mater on a separate continent,
1:04:37 > 1:04:40brothers at Winchester, which was miles away,
1:04:40 > 1:04:42but one always had an address.
1:04:42 > 1:04:46We were given stamps at the beginning of every term.
1:04:48 > 1:04:52But poor little Raymond won't even have that.
1:04:52 > 1:04:54You've got your all-in look about you now.
1:04:56 > 1:05:00- Are you sure you can't come home? - Peter, I'm on call.
1:05:00 > 1:05:04I'll be quite all right once I've had my Horlicks.
1:05:04 > 1:05:07Besides, I rather enjoy the odd night in my old quarters.
1:05:10 > 1:05:12Young Raymond's rooming in with Cynthia,
1:05:12 > 1:05:15and I'll have an entire crepe-paper menagerie to keep me company.
1:05:16 > 1:05:19I shan't have any problem counting sheep.
1:05:31 > 1:05:32Someone trying to keep you out?
1:05:32 > 1:05:35Possibly. Or been locked in.
1:05:35 > 1:05:37WATER GUSHES
1:05:39 > 1:05:41Oh, my giddy aunt!
1:05:41 > 1:05:43- No!- Pipe must have burst.
1:05:43 > 1:05:47The costumes! Everything's utterly ruined.
1:05:50 > 1:05:53It wouldn't happen in bally Bethlehem.
1:05:57 > 1:05:58Morning.
1:06:05 > 1:06:07DOORBELL RINGS
1:06:07 > 1:06:08I could die of shame.
1:06:14 > 1:06:16Come in.
1:06:18 > 1:06:21The social worker's waiting with Sister Julienne in the dining room,
1:06:21 > 1:06:23so you won't be disturbed.
1:06:30 > 1:06:32BABY GURGLES
1:06:38 > 1:06:39He isn't sleeping.
1:06:46 > 1:06:48You can pick him up, Lynette.
1:06:50 > 1:06:51I'm scared to.
1:06:53 > 1:06:54Why?
1:06:56 > 1:07:00Because they'll make me put him down again, and I've done that once.
1:07:00 > 1:07:01This is cruel.
1:07:04 > 1:07:06She's not old enough to be a mother.
1:07:08 > 1:07:10She's not mature enough to be a mother.
1:07:13 > 1:07:16It's flying in the face of everything God ever wrote.
1:07:16 > 1:07:19It's making milk come out of me.
1:07:23 > 1:07:26I have no quarrel with our Lord in the general way, Mrs Duncan,
1:07:26 > 1:07:30but I think you'll find Mother Nature wrote these rules.
1:07:32 > 1:07:33Pick him up.
1:07:35 > 1:07:37Come on, Ivy.
1:07:37 > 1:07:38You're a mother too.
1:08:19 > 1:08:20I'm sorry.
1:08:22 > 1:08:24I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
1:08:24 > 1:08:26SHE SOBS
1:08:32 > 1:08:34It's a bit late for that now.
1:08:38 > 1:08:40She ain't saying it to us, love.
1:08:41 > 1:08:42She's saying it to him.
1:09:16 > 1:09:17(Thank you.)
1:09:18 > 1:09:21'Like all of the things in life that are truly meaningful,
1:09:21 > 1:09:25'Christmas is never about perfection.
1:09:25 > 1:09:30'In Bethlehem, 2,000 years ago, accommodation was makeshift,
1:09:30 > 1:09:34'the Wise Men followed somewhat confused directions,
1:09:34 > 1:09:38'and the shepherds gave the nearest gifts that came to hand.
1:09:38 > 1:09:42'That year in Poplar, things were similarly compromised.'
1:09:42 > 1:09:45- DOORBELL RINGS - 'But hope prevailed,
1:09:45 > 1:09:48'and help came from unexpected sources.'
1:09:48 > 1:09:50Just the person we wanted to see!
1:10:00 > 1:10:02Reinforcements! How perfectly wizard!
1:10:20 > 1:10:24'Baby Raymond was not lost, nor was his mother.
1:10:24 > 1:10:27'Their family made the best of it
1:10:27 > 1:10:29'and gave their thanks in kind.'
1:10:30 > 1:10:31All right?
1:10:33 > 1:10:34There you go.
1:10:34 > 1:10:35All right, fella?
1:10:35 > 1:10:37Got it?
1:10:42 > 1:10:43Hello, dear.
1:10:43 > 1:10:45Morning.
1:10:45 > 1:10:46(Hi, Dad.)
1:10:50 > 1:10:52HUBBUB
1:10:52 > 1:10:55Anyone who does not line up nicely now
1:10:55 > 1:10:57will not get their Entertainer badge!
1:10:59 > 1:11:01CHILDREN QUIETEN DOWN
1:11:02 > 1:11:03Thank you.
1:11:03 > 1:11:05- Baaa! - Shh!
1:11:05 > 1:11:07Please.
1:11:08 > 1:11:09Right.
1:11:12 > 1:11:15MUSIC BEGINS
1:11:16 > 1:11:20# O holy night
1:11:20 > 1:11:24# O holy night
1:11:24 > 1:11:27# Mmm...
1:11:27 > 1:11:32# O holy night
1:11:32 > 1:11:36# The stars are brightly shining
1:11:36 > 1:11:44# It is the night of the dear Saviour's birth
1:11:44 > 1:11:47# Long lay the world
1:11:47 > 1:11:53# In sin and error pining
1:11:53 > 1:12:01# Till he appeared and the soul felt its worth
1:12:02 > 1:12:06# A thrill of hope
1:12:06 > 1:12:11# The weary world rejoices
1:12:11 > 1:12:14# For yonder breaks
1:12:14 > 1:12:20# A new and glorious morn
1:12:20 > 1:12:24# Fall on your knees... #
1:12:24 > 1:12:26Many years ago in a town named Nazareth,
1:12:26 > 1:12:29there lived a beautiful young lady called Mary.
1:12:29 > 1:12:33God has chosen you to be the mother of a very special child.
1:12:33 > 1:12:37You will have a baby, and his name will be Jesus.
1:12:37 > 1:12:39How can that be? I have no husband.
1:12:39 > 1:12:42It is a miracle from the Holy Spirit,
1:12:42 > 1:12:44and the child will be a Son of God.
1:12:45 > 1:12:49'It was a Christmas as unique as any other,
1:12:49 > 1:12:54'for every year, the mystery unfolds itself anew.
1:12:54 > 1:12:58'In later life, I came to see that faith, like hope,
1:12:58 > 1:13:01'is a rope and anchor in a shifting world.
1:13:01 > 1:13:06'Faith cannot be questioned, only lived.
1:13:06 > 1:13:11'And if I could not grasp it then, I felt its heartbeat,
1:13:11 > 1:13:12'which was love.'
1:13:12 > 1:13:19# ..Divine...
1:13:21 > 1:13:29# O night divine
1:13:29 > 1:13:34# O night
1:13:34 > 1:13:46# O night divine... #