0:00:28 > 0:00:32'Health is the greatest of God's gifts.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34'But we take it for granted.
0:00:34 > 0:00:38'It hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40'And the smallest thing can make it snap,
0:00:40 > 0:00:44'leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.
0:00:44 > 0:00:50'And in that instant, hope is our protector,
0:00:50 > 0:00:52'and love, our panacea.'
0:01:01 > 0:01:03What can I get you today?
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Hello, dear.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18WOMAN: Frank? Frank!
0:01:20 > 0:01:22Frank!
0:01:22 > 0:01:25I swear, you'd forget your head!
0:01:25 > 0:01:27- Try and get something down you, yeah?- Right.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31- Right, Tip, look after him. - All right, Peggy.
0:01:33 > 0:01:38If you want to be a fish man, Tip, you've got to learn how to buy.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43- I wouldn't give that to my dog!- Oi!
0:01:43 > 0:01:45One and ninepence? You're havin' a laugh!
0:01:45 > 0:01:48Go on! Have a pint of oysters.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51Looking fresh as a daisy, Elsie. Unlike your fish.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55- Oh, here's trouble. - Poison, pure poison!
0:01:56 > 0:02:01Disappointed again, Frank? I wonder quite why you bother coming...
0:02:01 > 0:02:03every day.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10The early bird might catch the worm, but he don't pay for it till later.
0:02:10 > 0:02:14Then he gets it half-price.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18Oh, that'll be lovely tonight. There you go.
0:02:18 > 0:02:19Perfect.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23Morning, Peggy.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26Morning, Nurse Lee.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28Ooh, it's hotter than abroad out there.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32Still, can't complain. Flowers are loving it.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34I forgot to ask, how's your brother, Frank?
0:02:34 > 0:02:37Much better, thanks, Miss, he's on the salts.
0:02:37 > 0:02:38Still?!
0:02:38 > 0:02:41Well, oyster poisoning can take an age, they say.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44I'm sure Dr Turner would be more than happy to have a look at him.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47Oh, he's not one for sawbones, Miss.
0:02:47 > 0:02:52No, it's nothing home cooking and a bit of spoiling won't cure.
0:02:52 > 0:02:53GRUNTING
0:03:00 > 0:03:01Catch it, Peg!
0:03:06 > 0:03:10I'm not even going to ask what you're doing with a pig in the middle of Poplar!
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Bacon!
0:03:12 > 0:03:14It's the future!
0:03:14 > 0:03:16PIG SQUEALS
0:03:18 > 0:03:23- Peggy, what's the matter? - The floor's all filthy again, Miss.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26Oh, don't worry about that!
0:03:26 > 0:03:29It's like dust.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Leave it long enough and you stop noticing.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48CAR HORN BEEPS
0:03:48 > 0:03:50Fancy a lift?!
0:03:52 > 0:03:55I think it would be safer to walk!
0:03:55 > 0:03:57What on earth are you doing with that old heap?!
0:03:57 > 0:04:01- Shh! She's terribly sensitive!- She?!
0:04:01 > 0:04:04I'll forgive you, but only because I know you'll grow to love her.
0:04:04 > 0:04:05Will I?
0:04:05 > 0:04:09I expect you to fall more in love with every drive.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27Go on. Be off with yous.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37SHE MUTTERS
0:04:37 > 0:04:38Dabs and sprats.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40Nonnatus daily special.
0:04:40 > 0:04:41Only the best!
0:04:41 > 0:04:45SHE MUTTERS: I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. I tried!
0:04:45 > 0:04:46Peg?
0:04:46 > 0:04:50- Peg, what's up, girl?- I'm sorry.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52The workhouse is long gone for us.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56There's only people here who care about you, Peg.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59About the both of us.
0:04:59 > 0:05:03So, I finished my rounds and I thought we could walk home along the river.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05Get the breeze.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07Really?
0:05:07 > 0:05:09Already?
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Free as a bird.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18Morning, ladies! Are we well?
0:05:18 > 0:05:19ALL: Morning, Doctor.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22It's a bit like a piano scale...
0:05:22 > 0:05:24CHILDREN SHOUT AND LAUGH
0:05:25 > 0:05:29..with little Bertie there. The result of the crescendo.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31I haven't thought of it quite like that,
0:05:31 > 0:05:34but keep it in mind at next week's contraceptive session.
0:05:34 > 0:05:38- A few less crescendos? - A few less results.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41I just feel we should make them aware that they have a choice.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43And that God's place is in the church, not the marital bed.
0:05:46 > 0:05:50Look, it's a bit much for me to say where our Lord should be.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53I'm not expecting you to start a revolution, Nurse Browne.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56But if you did, I wouldn't hold it against you.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00- Can't catch me, I'm the fastest! - Yes, I can!
0:06:07 > 0:06:10Elsie, you really must try and keep these appointments.
0:06:10 > 0:06:14- That's three in a row you've missed. - Tide don't wait for man nor baby.
0:06:14 > 0:06:18While there's fish to catch, me and me old man will catch 'em.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20Sorry, girls.
0:06:20 > 0:06:25Eels. They do tend to linger somewhat.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29Oh! They certainly do. Sorry.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32Always had this thing about fish.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Ever since my brother dropped me in a rock pool.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37Good job my old man don't.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40It's like garlic. As long as you're both on it, you don't notice.
0:06:40 > 0:06:45Let's hope that baby likes it too, because he or she is most certainly not far off.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47You need to rest, Elsie.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53I don't want that filthy thing anywhere near me!
0:06:53 > 0:06:56Well, you needn't worry, she's very particular about her company.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59What a team we're going to make, eh?
0:06:59 > 0:07:03Your beauty and my brains and the price of bacon sky-high!
0:07:03 > 0:07:06Oh, you know, bacon isn't popped out like an egg, Fred.
0:07:06 > 0:07:10This IS the bacon, so don't be getting sentimental now.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13Me?! Strictly business and no mistake!
0:07:13 > 0:07:16Well, there's no mistake about one thing. You've got a lot more pig
0:07:16 > 0:07:18than you bargained for! She's pregnant.
0:07:18 > 0:07:22Oh, give me strength, O Lord! Not more of those things!
0:07:22 > 0:07:25Oh! Cloth, Frederick, now!
0:07:25 > 0:07:29Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31Pigs treat us as equals!
0:07:44 > 0:07:46Oh.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50I should get on.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52That oven's crying out for a clean.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56And here's me lying back like Gloria Swanson all afternoon!
0:07:56 > 0:07:58We're on our holidays, Peg, just for the day.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00Think of this as Paris.
0:08:00 > 0:08:05And that river over there, well, that's the Seine, ain't it?
0:08:06 > 0:08:11How is it you always know just how to make everything better?
0:08:11 > 0:08:13To Frank.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15Nicest fellow I know!
0:08:15 > 0:08:17And the one with the biggest head.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22I've known you longer than anyone else in the world.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26Maybe that's got something to do with it.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36It's the sitting down. Don't suit you.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39I need to get those vines in.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47We shall have our own wine next year, Peggy, my dear.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49That's a promise now?
0:08:51 > 0:08:53HE GRUNTS
0:08:56 > 0:08:57Frank?
0:08:57 > 0:08:59Frank?
0:09:01 > 0:09:02Frank!
0:09:12 > 0:09:14Sorry, it's an emergency!
0:09:17 > 0:09:20'Nonnatus House, Sister Bernadette speaking.'
0:09:20 > 0:09:22It's my Frank! He's took bad!
0:09:22 > 0:09:25Please, Sister, please come quick!
0:09:27 > 0:09:30Dr Turner is making arrangements for Frank to be seen at the London.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34You do understand, Peggy, Frank must be seen as soon as possible?
0:09:36 > 0:09:38Thank you.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41I won't go in no institution.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44It's a hospital. Not a mortuary!
0:09:44 > 0:09:46You'll have to drag me there.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50Work your magic, please, Peggy.
0:09:50 > 0:09:55If there's a choice, I'd rather not drag him there, but if needs must.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58There's nothing wrong with a bit of gut pain, it's nothing wrong with me!
0:09:58 > 0:10:01- I'm telling you!- Good.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04Then we won't have to worry about the results, will we,
0:10:04 > 0:10:07when you go in?
0:10:09 > 0:10:13Dr Turner has asked me to take the contraceptive clinic. But nobody's here.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15We must have got in a muddle over our days.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18Never mind. No point in carrying coals to Newcastle!
0:10:18 > 0:10:21I suppose onward with the antenatal!
0:10:21 > 0:10:25CHATTER AND LAUGHTER
0:10:37 > 0:10:41The Yanks reckon they got a pill stops you getting in the family way.
0:10:41 > 0:10:46That's Hollywood for you. Full of happy endings.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49Give us a pill that makes fellas do the washing up!
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Or something useful like drowning!
0:10:51 > 0:10:54I hope they're not expecting juggling. No balls, you see.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56Metaphorically, of course!
0:10:56 > 0:11:00- Chummy, let me take the session. - No, wouldn't dream of it.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Dr Turner's tasked me for a reason.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10And they say there's no such thing as average.
0:11:14 > 0:11:15Good morning, ladies.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18My old man wouldn't know whether to smoke it, eat it
0:11:18 > 0:11:21- or shine his shoes with it! - LAUGHTER
0:11:23 > 0:11:25Today is about understanding your prophylactic.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29Do you mean johnnies?! LAUGHTER
0:11:29 > 0:11:33- Prophy...what?! - Didn't know we was learning Latin!
0:11:34 > 0:11:37There's me thinking you'd be making ME money!
0:11:37 > 0:11:40I'll be spending more on feed than I'll be making!
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Here. Here!
0:11:44 > 0:11:47Only the best for you, girl. Don't let on, eh!
0:11:57 > 0:11:59If it helps you to get your husband to wear one
0:11:59 > 0:12:03and reduce the number of unexpected little miracles then johnnies it is.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06Have you even seen one, lovey?
0:12:06 > 0:12:09Maybe I should go over there.
0:12:10 > 0:12:14I have seen...I have seen many things, Mrs Leonard!
0:12:14 > 0:12:18I have seen the horrors of eclampsia with convulsions so violent, bones broke.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20Standing on the toes, was you?!
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Button it! Let her talk!
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Aww!
0:12:26 > 0:12:30I have seen breech births where one wrong move, one moment's delay,
0:12:30 > 0:12:33would cut off baby's oxygen.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36I have drawn mucus from the lungs of newborns
0:12:36 > 0:12:38who would otherwise have choked to death.
0:12:40 > 0:12:44And I have seen the utter joy that only childbirth can bring.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48So, please. Please don't doubt
0:12:48 > 0:12:53that I have seen enough to have earned the right to speak to you today.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56I'm just saying, it goes against God.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58It's stopping what's natural.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02If God hadn't wanted their use, he wouldn't have created rubber.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05It too is entirely natural.
0:13:07 > 0:13:11Now...taking your penis, or rather your husband's...!
0:13:11 > 0:13:14LAUGHTER
0:13:15 > 0:13:17Of course, we wouldn't expect you to maintain
0:13:17 > 0:13:21this level of audience whilst experimenting with your prophylactic.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25The reservoir goes at the top. This is where the semen will be held.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27Looks like a tiny sombrero, really!
0:13:27 > 0:13:29Ole!
0:14:04 > 0:14:05Constable.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13Camilla.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16Peter. How lovely.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19I was passing, so I thought I'd drop in.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22There's been some thefts in the area.
0:14:22 > 0:14:26- I thought you should be alert with regard to security.- Thefts?
0:14:26 > 0:14:29Well, a few shopkeepers have had some losses.
0:14:29 > 0:14:33It looks like the work of a chancer, but best be on guard.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36Tell the girls not to leave their handbags and the like lying around.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45And my mother would very much like you to come for tea.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48I should like that very much.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53I'll telephone you with a date.
0:14:53 > 0:14:57(And, um...I'd be very grateful if you didn't bring that thing.)
0:15:01 > 0:15:04Oh! Quite!
0:15:11 > 0:15:12SHE SQUEALS
0:15:12 > 0:15:15RADIO: 'Go to the industrial towns.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17'Go to the farms.
0:15:17 > 0:15:24'And you will see a state of prosperity such as we have never had in my lifetime.
0:15:24 > 0:15:29'Or, indeed, in the history of this country.
0:15:29 > 0:15:36'Indeed, let us be frank about it. Most of our people have never had it so good.'
0:15:38 > 0:15:41Nurse Lee. Good morning. Is Peggy in?
0:15:41 > 0:15:43She's just inside.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45Are you in a terrible hurry?
0:15:56 > 0:16:00He feels terrible about bothering you all. Everyone being so kind and concerned.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03Strong as an ox, my Frank. Don't you worry about that.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06Peggy.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09Frank's suffering cancer of the pancreas.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14Pancreas, you said?
0:16:14 > 0:16:18We'd like to begin a series of radium treatments.
0:16:18 > 0:16:22Well, it's not like his stomach or his liver, is it?
0:16:22 > 0:16:24More like an appendix.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28Well, you hear about people doing without their appendix every day.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31Ain't that right, Nurse Lee?
0:16:31 > 0:16:34Dr Turner hopes the radium treatment will stem the cancer.
0:16:34 > 0:16:36Hopes?
0:16:36 > 0:16:39The quicker we move on this, the better your brother's chances.
0:16:40 > 0:16:44I'd like him to stay in the London during the treatment.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47It just makes things easier and better for Frank.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49No. He won't stay in there. He don't like institutions.
0:16:49 > 0:16:51We'd have to carry him in, feet first.
0:16:51 > 0:16:55You must try and persuade him, Peggy. As an inpatient,
0:16:55 > 0:16:58Frank can be assured the very best care.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00- He will need it.- I'm telling you.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03He won't stay anywhere, except his home.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11- PEGGY:- You're doing it for me, Frank. You've got no choice.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34Mr Hobson. Would you like to come through?
0:17:48 > 0:17:52THEY SING HYMNS
0:17:58 > 0:18:00Life everlasting.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04PHONE RINGS
0:18:04 > 0:18:06Nonnatus House, Nurse Lee speaking.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09MAN: 'Jenny? Is that Jenny Lee?
0:18:11 > 0:18:15'I've tried not to call, but I needed to hear your voice.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17'Jenny...'
0:18:19 > 0:18:21- MATURE JENNY:- 'His name was Gerald.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24'He said he wanted to hear my voice.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26'I did not want to hear his.
0:18:26 > 0:18:30'It stirred too many memories. Too much pain.
0:18:31 > 0:18:35'His voice came from a place of broken rules,
0:18:35 > 0:18:39'a time of love cut short.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42'It was easier to silence it.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44'Easier to hide.
0:18:44 > 0:18:48'To fill my life with other people's stories.'
0:19:13 > 0:19:17Keep on with the cod. We can't get rid of it fast enough.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20But from next month, don't be having nothing to do with oysters.
0:19:20 > 0:19:23No matter how hard old Billy tries to push 'em.
0:19:25 > 0:19:27You'll be back on the stall by then.
0:19:29 > 0:19:30That's right.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35Enjoy your moment, Tip.
0:19:35 > 0:19:39I'll have you back fetching and carrying before you know it!
0:19:42 > 0:19:46Frank's dying, Peggy. Are you quite sure he shouldn't know?
0:19:47 > 0:19:50Been through that ruddy treatment for weeks.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52Body's done in.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55Cancer's still there.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58He can't know that, Sister. It would destroy him quicker.
0:19:58 > 0:20:03Only thing that keeps him going is the thought he's beating it.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05Frank's taken a turn.
0:20:05 > 0:20:06I don't know what to do.
0:20:06 > 0:20:10That's all right, Tip. We'll look after him.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12You go on, love.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15Frank needs you on the stall.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26HE COUGHS
0:20:26 > 0:20:27Radium treatment is never pleasant,
0:20:27 > 0:20:30but we're going to help you with the pain, Frank.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32Morphia? So soon?
0:20:32 > 0:20:34It's a very low dose, Peggy.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36But Dr Turner felt it was necessary.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47How long do you reckon before I'm back?
0:20:51 > 0:20:54Not very long now, Frank.
0:21:31 > 0:21:35I'd have done that, love.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37It's quite all right, Peggy. It's my job.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02I happened to see the rest of the house today, Sister.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04Extraordinary, isn't it?
0:22:05 > 0:22:07It was a shock.
0:22:07 > 0:22:11Those prefabs are only ever expected to last four or five years.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15I'm not talking about the prefab.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21They share a bed.
0:22:21 > 0:22:25Yet Peggy and Frank wouldn't trade theirs for a palace,
0:22:25 > 0:22:28everything just as they need it for their little bit of peace.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30And Lord knows, they need it at the moment.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33You know, don't you?
0:22:34 > 0:22:36That Frank is dying?
0:22:36 > 0:22:39That his sister will lose him?
0:22:39 > 0:22:42Or that love couldn't save either of them?
0:22:44 > 0:22:46But it has made them richer.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58- CHUMMY:- Every time I feel exhausted,
0:22:58 > 0:23:02I stop and imagine what a sad little porker's feeling.
0:23:02 > 0:23:07Really, Chummy, you mustn't talk about Sister Evangelina like that!
0:23:07 > 0:23:09So, go on, Jen.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12- They're at it? - All I know is they share a bed.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14It's the quiet ones.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16What did Sister Julienne say?
0:23:16 > 0:23:18She didn't.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21She discussed the merits of prefabricated housing.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24I wish my mother was that unshockable.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27Well, I for one think Peggy's a spiffing girl
0:23:27 > 0:23:29and Frank had some of the finest dabs I've ever tasted.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32Darling, no-one's doubting him on a marine level.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34Just a moral one. He's her brother!
0:23:35 > 0:23:37Oh!
0:23:39 > 0:23:43I imagine none of you girls has ever been inside a workhouse.
0:23:43 > 0:23:47Actually, my grandpapa set up a holiday fund for children of the workhouse.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51Fascinating, I'm sure.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54They were designed to break the spirit.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57Worse than dying. That's what anyone who'd been in one said.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59And Frank and Peggy would tell you the same.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02They went in there when they were just little 'uns.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05Mother and father dead, no-one to look after them,
0:24:05 > 0:24:08but Frank, only seven, he swore he could look after Peggy.
0:24:08 > 0:24:13He fought everyone to keep them together,
0:24:13 > 0:24:16but the minute they went through those gates, they were torn apart.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20Now, she cried every night, didn't know how to survive without him,
0:24:20 > 0:24:23and Frank, he never stopped looking for her.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26So when he finally found her years later,
0:24:26 > 0:24:29it's not surprising they clung together for dear life.
0:24:29 > 0:24:33Their love was the only good thing that ever came out of that place.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36But, Sister, it's incest.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38SHE EXHALES
0:24:38 > 0:24:42There was nothing left of family, the minute they walked through those gates.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44Now, if you've got no work to do...
0:24:50 > 0:24:52You go on, I'd better check the phone.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06I'm hoping perhaps I may receive a call of a personal nature.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11I'm meeting Peter's ma.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Date of execution yet to be set.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17If Peter thinks enough of you to meet his mother, I'm sure she'll love you too.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20One little thing has been on the old mind a bit.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22What does one wear in a mother-meeting situation?
0:25:22 > 0:25:25Nothing - not until you've checked with us first.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28I do have rather a nice frock Mother's dressmaker made for me.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30- It would be a bit tight now, but... - Nothing!
0:25:30 > 0:25:32Not until we've approved it.
0:25:32 > 0:25:33CAR HORN BEEPS
0:25:41 > 0:25:42SHE LAUGHS
0:25:44 > 0:25:45It's absolutely wonderful!
0:25:45 > 0:25:47JIMMY: She!
0:25:48 > 0:25:52So, fancy getting out of the East End for a bit?
0:25:52 > 0:25:54I know a lovely little place in the country.
0:25:56 > 0:25:57Yes. Yes, I do.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00I told you you'd fall more in love each time.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02Ladies.
0:26:02 > 0:26:03ALL: Hey!
0:26:03 > 0:26:05- Oh, hello!- Hello!
0:26:06 > 0:26:08No, no, you're with me, I'm afraid.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10Chauffeur's perk.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13# We'll be in heaven if you meet
0:26:13 > 0:26:18# Me on the corner tonight... #
0:26:30 > 0:26:32You look worn out.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37I thought workhouses were the stuff of Dickens,
0:26:37 > 0:26:39but one of my patients grew up in one.
0:26:40 > 0:26:45And he's never left it. Not really.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48It puts a roof over people's heads.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50They didn't starve.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53It's fate of birth, though, isn't it?
0:26:53 > 0:26:55We've been so lucky, Jimmy.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58It's about being good people.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01Frank and Peggy are good people.
0:27:02 > 0:27:07If I'm not mistaken, you've finished work for the day.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12So, we're officially trespassing?
0:27:12 > 0:27:15You always have to split hairs, don't you?
0:27:21 > 0:27:23JIMMY: What do you think?
0:27:23 > 0:27:25Look at it, it's amazing!
0:27:26 > 0:27:28THEY SQUEAL AND GIGGLE
0:27:34 > 0:27:39It's all getting frightfully hot. And I, for one, want to take a dip.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42Come on, we can always dry our drawers.
0:27:47 > 0:27:50Hello. I'm Chummy, delighted to meet you.
0:27:50 > 0:27:51No. Not Chummy.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55Dignity, poise, presence.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00Hello, I'm Camilla. It's a delight...
0:28:04 > 0:28:06UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYS
0:28:09 > 0:28:11SHOUTING AND LAUGHING
0:28:34 > 0:28:35MUSIC FADES
0:28:47 > 0:28:51- Oh, it's so cold!- I've got another friend who owns a bathhouse.
0:28:54 > 0:28:57You're feeling brighter, aren't you?
0:28:57 > 0:28:58I knew you would.
0:28:58 > 0:29:00I know you better than you think I do.
0:29:10 > 0:29:13I can't, Jimmy.
0:29:31 > 0:29:33SHE CHOKES
0:29:33 > 0:29:34SHE GASPS FOR BREATH
0:29:40 > 0:29:42I've got you, I've got you.
0:29:44 > 0:29:47It's all right, I've got you. I've got you, I've got you.
0:29:50 > 0:29:51SHE COUGHS
0:29:57 > 0:29:58What's the matter?
0:29:58 > 0:30:00- Breathe. Jenny, have some air. - What's wrong?
0:30:00 > 0:30:03Asthma. Cold water must have shocked her lungs.
0:30:03 > 0:30:04Perhaps even the chlorine.
0:30:06 > 0:30:09Get a rug, a jacket, anything that's warm.
0:30:16 > 0:30:17Shh.
0:30:36 > 0:30:38Thank you, Jimmy.
0:30:40 > 0:30:42It's always been you, Jenny.
0:30:42 > 0:30:43Always.
0:31:11 > 0:31:12SHE SIGHS
0:31:20 > 0:31:24The shell must be broken before the bird can fly.
0:31:26 > 0:31:28CLATTERING
0:31:31 > 0:31:33- CHUMMY:- (Fred?)
0:31:35 > 0:31:37It's for little Evie.
0:31:37 > 0:31:38Something with a bit of cheer.
0:31:38 > 0:31:40Only the stale ones, mind.
0:31:42 > 0:31:44I didn't understand a word of that.
0:31:44 > 0:31:46Evie, my pig.
0:31:46 > 0:31:49I should want something other than just peelings if I was expecting.
0:31:49 > 0:31:51The pig's called Evie?
0:31:51 > 0:31:55Fred, isn't that a little near the knuckle?
0:31:55 > 0:31:57No, I prefer to think of it as homage.
0:31:57 > 0:32:00Then in honour of her namesake, I think
0:32:00 > 0:32:03we should set our culinary aims somewhat higher.
0:32:06 > 0:32:08I haven't seen a thing.
0:32:09 > 0:32:13I certainly haven't seen half a freshly baked Victoria sandwich.
0:32:13 > 0:32:16And I certainly know nothing about that little crispy bit at the end
0:32:16 > 0:32:19that's just begging to be eaten.
0:32:19 > 0:32:21I'll leave that bit for you!
0:32:24 > 0:32:26Fred?
0:32:28 > 0:32:31Am I the sort of girl a chap's mother would like?
0:32:31 > 0:32:34Well, if she didn't, she wouldn't be worth knowing.
0:32:40 > 0:32:42DOOR OPENS
0:32:52 > 0:32:55You look as if you've had what Sister Evangelina calls
0:32:55 > 0:32:58"a day of trials and tribu-bleedin'-lations".
0:32:59 > 0:33:02Here, poured too much milk.
0:33:06 > 0:33:09I just feel done in by it all.
0:33:18 > 0:33:22I feel quite pointless today.
0:33:24 > 0:33:27Jimmy is handsome, kind.
0:33:27 > 0:33:28And he's mad about you.
0:33:28 > 0:33:32And more importantly, he's in your life, not your past.
0:33:32 > 0:33:35So, please, just forget this man you can't have.
0:33:37 > 0:33:40That's just my trouble, I can't forget him.
0:33:41 > 0:33:44He was everything to me, except mine.
0:33:54 > 0:33:56He must have been amazing.
0:34:02 > 0:34:04SHE SIGHS
0:34:06 > 0:34:09Just in case you're getting too used to being a gentleman of leisure,
0:34:09 > 0:34:11how about you try this?
0:34:13 > 0:34:17We're stuck. Two words -
0:34:17 > 0:34:19"A clock through the air."
0:34:21 > 0:34:23You've got until tomorrow.
0:34:36 > 0:34:38I'm dying...
0:34:38 > 0:34:40ain't I?
0:34:52 > 0:34:56Frank, everyone has tremendous hope for you.
0:34:59 > 0:35:01Don't tell her, love, will you?
0:35:02 > 0:35:05You and me both know what's what.
0:35:05 > 0:35:08But I don't want my Peg knowing.
0:35:08 > 0:35:10Not until she really has to.
0:35:10 > 0:35:14For the moment, we can still have our times.
0:35:14 > 0:35:16Peg can still read to me.
0:35:18 > 0:35:20Little pleasures, love.
0:35:20 > 0:35:24But they mean the world to both of us.
0:35:28 > 0:35:33So let her keep that world, just as long as she can.
0:35:42 > 0:35:44What do I do, Sister?
0:35:46 > 0:35:49How do I be without him?
0:35:54 > 0:35:59You draw strength from knowing that one day, you will meet him again.
0:36:25 > 0:36:29If you will spare a moment, I would see it infinitely well spent.
0:36:32 > 0:36:38"The sea green of the emerald - shining together in incredible union."
0:36:38 > 0:36:43- Where in heaven did you find silk like this? - It needs a thread or two,
0:36:43 > 0:36:49but not beyond your hands that fly like birds in spring.
0:36:49 > 0:36:51It's absolutely perfect.
0:36:51 > 0:36:53And it'll be you I have to thank.
0:36:53 > 0:36:57Now, they said there would be gold and there would be silver
0:36:57 > 0:37:01and I should never have cause to wor...
0:37:04 > 0:37:07Shouldn't you be with your mother?
0:37:08 > 0:37:12I'm here with you. Just as I should be.
0:37:15 > 0:37:17PIG GRUNTS
0:37:19 > 0:37:21Fred, can I ask you a favour?
0:37:21 > 0:37:25Well, I won't lend money.
0:37:25 > 0:37:29And I won't dance for your entertainment. Other than that, ask away.
0:37:29 > 0:37:33Could you give me some of your wonderful pig shit?
0:37:34 > 0:37:36I thought you'd never ask!
0:37:46 > 0:37:50For the vine. It does wonders, apparently.
0:37:52 > 0:37:55Oh! Let's have a look.
0:37:57 > 0:37:59Oof!
0:37:59 > 0:38:01You can't buy that sort of quality.
0:38:01 > 0:38:03Oh, you are kind.
0:38:03 > 0:38:07Maybe we'll make wine after all, eh? There's a thought to keep us going.
0:38:08 > 0:38:12Big and strong, that's how you'll grow. My little vine.
0:38:14 > 0:38:16I want first taste of anything half decent.
0:38:22 > 0:38:24You look wonderful, Chummy.
0:38:24 > 0:38:26Damn Peter's mother -
0:38:26 > 0:38:28I approve!
0:38:32 > 0:38:34Always brings me luck.
0:38:53 > 0:38:55SHE SNIFFS
0:39:17 > 0:39:18Oh!
0:39:18 > 0:39:21I might have guessed. You and that flaming pig!
0:39:21 > 0:39:24She's started to drop. Only this poor little fella didn't make it.
0:39:26 > 0:39:28PIG GRUNTS
0:39:28 > 0:39:31We'll do what we can, Fred.
0:39:31 > 0:39:34We're going to need hot water and clean towels.
0:39:35 > 0:39:38Fred, now!
0:39:41 > 0:39:43TELEPHONE RINGS
0:39:44 > 0:39:47Come quickly, Chum. It's Evie.
0:39:47 > 0:39:48- Fred, but... - No, quick as you can.
0:39:50 > 0:39:52Nonnatus House, midwife speaking.
0:39:55 > 0:39:57FRED: Mind the steps.
0:39:57 > 0:39:59- Thought you were meeting your chap. - So did I.
0:39:59 > 0:40:02You will save her, won't you?
0:40:02 > 0:40:06She's my responsibility, see? She's the only thing I've got what really needs me.
0:40:06 > 0:40:09Daft old bugger! We've delivered half the babies in the parish.
0:40:09 > 0:40:11We're not going to let a pig beat us.
0:40:13 > 0:40:15Oh!
0:40:16 > 0:40:18It could be a very long night.
0:40:18 > 0:40:20Then the more the merrier.
0:40:20 > 0:40:22All hands on deck.
0:40:22 > 0:40:25No. No, we'll manage, Chummy, you go.
0:40:25 > 0:40:26Not to worry.
0:40:26 > 0:40:30I'm afraid my dress and I are already very much involved in this operation.
0:40:37 > 0:40:40BELL RINGS
0:40:40 > 0:40:42CLEARS THROAT
0:40:48 > 0:40:50BELL RINGS
0:41:13 > 0:41:14Midwife, we're here!
0:41:18 > 0:41:20Please hurry.
0:41:22 > 0:41:26I didn't like to move her. She's sort of where she dropped, so to speak.
0:41:26 > 0:41:28Are you all right, Miss?
0:41:28 > 0:41:32I can offer you tea - kippers, whelks even, if you haven't eaten.
0:41:32 > 0:41:34As much hot water as you can manage. And some towels.
0:41:39 > 0:41:42WOMAN GROANS
0:41:44 > 0:41:46PANTING
0:41:53 > 0:41:55I'll fetch some more water.
0:42:00 > 0:42:03Oh, Peter. I'm so dreadfully sorry.
0:42:03 > 0:42:07It's Fred's pig. He's in an awful state and every time I think I can leave,
0:42:07 > 0:42:11we have another little sadness. Seven so far.
0:42:11 > 0:42:14I'm hoping I can sponge the worst of this off.
0:42:17 > 0:42:19You look beautiful.
0:42:22 > 0:42:25Now, tell me what you need from me.
0:42:28 > 0:42:29Just you.
0:42:45 > 0:42:47She'll be all right, Fred.
0:42:47 > 0:42:50PIG GRUNTS
0:42:58 > 0:43:00Oh.
0:43:00 > 0:43:02Baby's fine.
0:43:06 > 0:43:09Oh, here. Here.
0:43:12 > 0:43:15Have some water.
0:43:16 > 0:43:18You must think me an absolute fool.
0:43:18 > 0:43:20Oh, I'm the same with chickens.
0:43:20 > 0:43:22LAUGHS NERVOUSLY
0:43:22 > 0:43:24ELSIE GROANS
0:43:24 > 0:43:27Come on now, Elsie, one big push for me.
0:43:30 > 0:43:32GROANS LOUDLY
0:43:34 > 0:43:37FRED CHUCKLES
0:43:37 > 0:43:39Oh!
0:44:12 > 0:44:18- MATURE JENNY:- 'A dying person needs to have someone with them to hold their hand,
0:44:18 > 0:44:21'stroke their forehead,
0:44:21 > 0:44:24'whisper a few words.'
0:44:26 > 0:44:28PEGGY: I'm here, Frank.
0:44:29 > 0:44:31It's all right, my love.
0:44:31 > 0:44:33I'm here.
0:45:16 > 0:45:18(He's gone.)
0:45:27 > 0:45:29SOBS GENTLY
0:45:37 > 0:45:38BABY CRIES
0:45:39 > 0:45:44Hey...are you hungry?
0:45:50 > 0:45:51Catch of the day.
0:45:51 > 0:45:54Ain't he just?
0:45:54 > 0:45:56- BABY CRIES - Oh, dear.
0:45:56 > 0:45:58You are welcome here any day,
0:45:58 > 0:46:02and you can have the best of our fish with our love and our thanks.
0:46:02 > 0:46:05Oh, I couldn't possibly deprive you of your living.
0:46:05 > 0:46:07Not with another mouth to feed.
0:46:18 > 0:46:21It's a beautiful shroud, Peggy.
0:46:21 > 0:46:23You knew, didn't you?
0:46:29 > 0:46:32We were more than brother and sister.
0:46:34 > 0:46:36More than husband and wife even.
0:46:38 > 0:46:41He come back for me.
0:46:43 > 0:46:47He worked day and night to get the money to free me from that workhouse.
0:46:49 > 0:46:51Said I'd never have to scrub again.
0:46:53 > 0:46:56Course, by then, it's got its hold on you.
0:46:56 > 0:46:59Got inside your head.
0:47:00 > 0:47:02Having each other, though.
0:47:04 > 0:47:06It was our little bit of perfect.
0:47:13 > 0:47:15Don't call the undertakers before the morning.
0:47:21 > 0:47:23If you want me to stay...
0:47:23 > 0:47:25I...
0:47:25 > 0:47:27I just want it to be him and me tonight.
0:47:31 > 0:47:35Tip should have this. Frank would want him to have it.
0:47:35 > 0:47:38He's been like a son to us.
0:47:46 > 0:47:48Good night, Peggy.
0:47:53 > 0:47:56You will telephone us, won't you?
0:47:56 > 0:47:58If there's anything at all you need.
0:48:29 > 0:48:32- FRANK:- Don't think of me as gone, my love.
0:48:32 > 0:48:34I will always watch over you.
0:48:34 > 0:48:38I will always keep you safe.
0:48:43 > 0:48:48Evie - I can't think of a more wonderful name.
0:48:48 > 0:48:52Don't think this means I've forgotten about the cake.
0:48:52 > 0:48:55- Well, I'll bake you one myself.- Oh!
0:48:55 > 0:48:58I would rather you went to the baker's.
0:49:00 > 0:49:02And you're wrong, you know?
0:49:02 > 0:49:07What you said before, about that pig being the only one that needs you.
0:49:13 > 0:49:15I've given up bacon, just so you know.
0:49:15 > 0:49:17Oh, what, in case I decide to cook you breakfast?
0:49:17 > 0:49:20PETER: Do you have any other dresses?
0:49:20 > 0:49:22Don't you like this one?
0:49:23 > 0:49:24I think it's wonderful.
0:49:24 > 0:49:27But I don't think you'll get it clean tonight.
0:49:27 > 0:49:32And my mother insists on meeting the woman I can't stop talking about.
0:49:37 > 0:49:40FRED: She's bowled him over for a second time.
0:49:40 > 0:49:43But this time without the bruises.
0:49:43 > 0:49:44Don't count on it!
0:49:46 > 0:49:50"The only friend I ever had," cried Rose, clinging to her.
0:49:50 > 0:49:53"The kindest, best of friends.
0:49:54 > 0:49:56"My heart will burst.
0:49:56 > 0:50:00"I cannot...cannot bear all this."
0:50:47 > 0:50:50CHILDREN LAUGH AND ARGUE
0:50:55 > 0:50:57Under the, er, flowerpot.
0:51:08 > 0:51:10Peggy?
0:51:14 > 0:51:16Peggy?
0:51:22 > 0:51:24Hello?
0:51:31 > 0:51:33Oh, Lord!
0:51:55 > 0:51:57The morphine.
0:51:57 > 0:52:00I shouldn't have left it.
0:52:03 > 0:52:05I never dreamed...
0:52:05 > 0:52:08You could never have predicted this.
0:52:10 > 0:52:12She couldn't live without him.
0:52:12 > 0:52:15I should have thought!
0:52:16 > 0:52:19I should never have left her alone.
0:52:22 > 0:52:24If we had stayed with her for every minute,
0:52:24 > 0:52:27she would have still been alone.
0:52:27 > 0:52:30Without Frank, the world was too much for her.
0:52:30 > 0:52:33Perhaps it always had been.
0:52:33 > 0:52:37He was her safety, her rock to cling to.
0:52:37 > 0:52:40Whatever we feel...
0:52:41 > 0:52:44..she is at peace now.
0:52:45 > 0:52:47Perhaps for the first time.
0:53:08 > 0:53:12- MATURE JENNY:- 'Love permeated every nook and cranny,
0:53:12 > 0:53:15'every corner and crevice of that little house.
0:53:17 > 0:53:20'You could feel it as soon as you entered the front door.
0:53:20 > 0:53:25'A presence so tangible you could reach out and touch it.'
0:53:35 > 0:53:41# I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood... #
0:53:43 > 0:53:45SHE SOBS
0:53:45 > 0:53:50# I know I could always be good
0:53:53 > 0:53:55# To one who'd watch... #
0:53:55 > 0:53:58I'm falling in love with you.
0:53:58 > 0:54:01# ..over you... #
0:54:09 > 0:54:11What else do you want?
0:54:13 > 0:54:19That feeling...like you're drowning under the weight of it -
0:54:19 > 0:54:20love, passion.
0:54:20 > 0:54:22Like you would die for each other.
0:54:24 > 0:54:25That's the stuff of nonsense.
0:54:25 > 0:54:29It's for novels and the pictures. It's not real, Jenny.
0:54:31 > 0:54:33What we can have, that's what's real.
0:54:35 > 0:54:37A home, a family.
0:54:37 > 0:54:38A good life together.
0:54:38 > 0:54:43You think I haven't thought that, tried to make it enough? You are a wonderful man, Jimmy, and I...
0:54:43 > 0:54:47Everything in my brain is telling me that this is the right thing.
0:54:47 > 0:54:49Then what else?
0:54:52 > 0:54:55My heart wants what it had before.
0:54:56 > 0:54:58Before?
0:55:02 > 0:55:05What, this...phantom love?
0:55:08 > 0:55:10How could I not know?
0:55:11 > 0:55:14You look at me and there's someone else you want to see.
0:55:19 > 0:55:21For me, it's just you.
0:55:23 > 0:55:25So that's it?
0:55:26 > 0:55:30You're shutting yourself off to everything else
0:55:30 > 0:55:32because of something you can never have?
0:55:33 > 0:55:36We could have enough, Jenny.
0:55:36 > 0:55:39Well, for a year, perhaps.
0:55:40 > 0:55:45Before you realised you loved me more than I did you. I would hate that.
0:55:48 > 0:55:50My work, Jimmy...
0:55:51 > 0:55:55..that's what I need to give myself to.
0:55:56 > 0:55:59To these people?
0:56:01 > 0:56:05That's why you'll be my friend, but never my soul mate.
0:56:08 > 0:56:10And we both deserve soul mates.
0:56:32 > 0:56:35- MATURE JENNY: - 'Peggy had found her escape
0:56:35 > 0:56:38'from the horrors of her childhood through her work.
0:56:38 > 0:56:42'Everything she touched she made more beautiful.
0:56:42 > 0:56:45'She made perfect.
0:56:45 > 0:56:50'She and Frank kept a world which had brutalised them both at bay,
0:56:50 > 0:56:52'through a love so strong
0:56:52 > 0:56:57'they created a new world, and it was their own.
0:57:32 > 0:57:34'I played such a small part in their story,
0:57:34 > 0:57:39'but their devotion showed me that there were not versions of love,
0:57:39 > 0:57:42'there was only...love.
0:57:42 > 0:57:47'That it had no equal and that it was worth searching for,
0:57:47 > 0:57:50'even if that search took a lifetime.'
0:58:01 > 0:58:06Do you understand the nature of the charges brought against you?
0:58:06 > 0:58:07I do.
0:58:07 > 0:58:12Oh, look, I'm in jail. Hello, Sister Monica Joan!
0:58:12 > 0:58:13I want to meet your mother.
0:58:15 > 0:58:16Hello, Mater.
0:58:19 > 0:58:22- If I may interject, Sister. - Who is this person?
0:58:22 > 0:58:23He is your barrister.
0:58:23 > 0:58:25He's not very good.
0:58:26 > 0:58:31- Chummy, you aren't thinking of taking Holy Orders?- It has presented itself as a solution.
0:58:31 > 0:58:33Cathy?
0:58:35 > 0:58:36I rest my case.
0:58:38 > 0:58:41# I love you more than a lot
0:58:41 > 0:58:48# But, oh, what I've got to go through
0:58:48 > 0:58:51# And so, dear
0:58:51 > 0:58:57# I guess the answer is simply
0:58:57 > 0:59:00# Who needs you?
0:59:00 > 0:59:03# I do. #