0:00:32 > 0:00:36JENNY: 'Christmas is the celebration of a baby's birth.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38'It is the story of a mother's love,
0:00:38 > 0:00:40'her fear, her faith
0:00:40 > 0:00:43'and her determination.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46'It tells of promises fulfilled,
0:00:46 > 0:00:48'a cradle rocked,
0:00:48 > 0:00:52'a journey both concluded and begun.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55'It is the story of all that is cherished,
0:00:55 > 0:00:57'in a world where too little is known.'
0:00:59 > 0:01:00..and of the Holy Ghost.
0:01:01 > 0:01:03Amen.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08We seek it here, we seek it there.
0:01:08 > 0:01:09SHE COUGHS
0:01:09 > 0:01:13Indeed, one is obliged to ask oneself
0:01:13 > 0:01:17if one is in pursuit of a comestible item,
0:01:17 > 0:01:21- or the Scarlet Pimpernel.- Sister Monica Joan, never mind that now.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24Would you just carry on cutting out the grease-proof circles?
0:01:24 > 0:01:26The mincemeat will be ready for the jar soon.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28Are we going to get that tea in the clinical room or aren't we?!
0:01:28 > 0:01:31Urgh, sorry, I had a problem with the desiccated coconut.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33If we have to wait much longer,
0:01:33 > 0:01:35you'll have a problem with a desiccated corpse - mine!
0:01:36 > 0:01:38And lo, the angel Gabriel appeared
0:01:38 > 0:01:41carrying the first tin of Quality Street of the season.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43- PHONE RINGS - I'll get it.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47Nonnatus House. Midwife speaking.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51- It's our twins case.- Oh!
0:01:51 > 0:01:52Yes. Yes, of course.
0:01:54 > 0:01:56Yes.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00SHE SIGHS
0:02:03 > 0:02:05See?
0:02:05 > 0:02:08You all thought me a fool to persist in my endeavours,
0:02:08 > 0:02:12but behold - I have located the brandy.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14SHE SPLUTTERS
0:02:14 > 0:02:18Now's the time to souse the Christmas pudding.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20Just don't go sousing yourself into the bargain.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23You give us enough gyp when you're stone-cold sober.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26Tea, now! Then you and I are off on the ulcer rounds.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28SISTER MONICA JOAN COUGHS
0:02:28 > 0:02:30Good afternoon, everyone...
0:02:30 > 0:02:31GENERAL CHATTER ..and, uh,
0:02:31 > 0:02:35- thank you...- Sh!- ..boys and girls... - Quiet!- ..for being nice and quiet
0:02:35 > 0:02:38whilst the babies were being christened.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40The Cradle Roll service is a very special one...
0:02:40 > 0:02:44- Take one and pass it down.- ..because it's one of the few days of the year
0:02:44 > 0:02:46when all the children in the parish get to come together
0:02:46 > 0:02:50to celebrate being part of our big church family.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55Nurse Gilbert, our Sunday school teacher,
0:02:55 > 0:02:57is going to bring the children's choir to the front,
0:02:57 > 0:02:59where they'll sing Silent Night
0:02:59 > 0:03:02to help us start our journey towards Christmas.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09- BICYCLE BELL PINGS - Merry Christmas!
0:03:25 > 0:03:29- THEY SING DISCORDANTLY: - # Silent night
0:03:29 > 0:03:32# Holy night
0:03:32 > 0:03:35# All is calm
0:03:35 > 0:03:39# All is bright
0:03:39 > 0:03:42- BABY WAILS LOUDLY - # Round yon virgin
0:03:42 > 0:03:45- # Mother and child... # - Rosemary McConlough, Doctor.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48# Holy infant
0:03:48 > 0:03:52# So tender and mild... #
0:03:52 > 0:03:54GAS HISSES
0:04:02 > 0:04:03Oh...
0:04:08 > 0:04:10Never heard such a racket!
0:04:10 > 0:04:13They were flat, they weren't singing together,
0:04:13 > 0:04:16and one of them was picking his nose!
0:04:16 > 0:04:19But they had nobody to follow - why didn't you sing with them?
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Cos I'm practically a baritone since my voice broke.
0:04:21 > 0:04:22Excuse me, Mrs Turner?
0:04:22 > 0:04:25Oh, Mrs Willens, wasn't that a lovely service?
0:04:25 > 0:04:28And the church looked immaculate - you keep it so spick and span.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Oh, it's just elbow grease, anyone could do it.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34Begging your pardon, Mrs Turner - when the nurse came for the doctor,
0:04:34 > 0:04:37- were they called out to my niece? - I shouldn't say, really.
0:04:37 > 0:04:38But I believe they were.
0:04:41 > 0:04:42WATER BUBBLES
0:04:47 > 0:04:50Hard luck, sweetie. We've fired the starter's pistol a bit too soon.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52Nothing's on the move just yet.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54I've had enough - I want them out now!
0:04:54 > 0:04:56No cheeking the nurse, young madam.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58She came into this world shouting the odds
0:04:58 > 0:05:00and she's not stopped since.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03Come along, Rosemary, let's see if we can get you a bit more comfortable.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05The main thing is to get some rest
0:05:05 > 0:05:07and remember that both babies are doing well.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09KNOCK AT DOOR
0:05:09 > 0:05:11How's she getting on, Eileen?
0:05:11 > 0:05:14- Stay nice and warm. - Walter sent some satsumas
0:05:14 > 0:05:18- from his barrow. - No, it was a false alarm.
0:05:18 > 0:05:19We'll have them anyway.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21Plenty more where they came from.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30WATER BUBBLES AND POT RATTLES
0:05:31 > 0:05:33Oh, it's bitter!
0:05:33 > 0:05:35A nice cup of tea, I think. COUGHING
0:05:43 > 0:05:45Oh, no!
0:05:47 > 0:05:48Sister!
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Sister?
0:05:52 > 0:05:54Can you answer me?
0:05:54 > 0:05:56HIGH-PITCHED WHISTLING
0:05:56 > 0:05:58What on earth's that noise?
0:06:03 > 0:06:06Poor Eileen looked worn to a thread.
0:06:07 > 0:06:09Rosemary's always been a madam.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12Once she's had those twins, it's going to be all hands on deck.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15The family will rally round to help 'em.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17- We always do.- Not sure I'm wanted.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20Eat your grapes.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24- Good for your kidney stones.- Kidney stones don't bother me any more.
0:06:26 > 0:06:27Oh, love.
0:06:29 > 0:06:33I don't know why you go to that bloomin' Cradle Roll service.
0:06:33 > 0:06:37- You end up in shreds every year. - How can I stay away?
0:06:37 > 0:06:39And Lorna's name still on the list of members?
0:06:39 > 0:06:42They don't rub it out, Walter, just cos she's not with us any more.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44I know, love, I know.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48Rosemary's got...
0:06:48 > 0:06:52two lovely matching cots for these new twins.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55On the never-never, probably!
0:06:55 > 0:06:56But, aw, they do look smart.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04I'm glad now I never offered her Lorna's cradle.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07I'd have liked it to have had a new home.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11A little life inside.
0:07:16 > 0:07:17Yeah, maybe not.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23Sister Monica Joan is in bed with a fever and dosed up on aspirin.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26Doctor's going to call tomorrow.
0:07:26 > 0:07:30- She sounded quite delirious when I went past her room.- Poor old thing.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33Would it be frightfully callous to enquire about the pudding?
0:07:33 > 0:07:34According to Sister Evangelina,
0:07:34 > 0:07:37we'll be having Swiss roll with custard for dessert on Christmas Day.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40- Oh...- She's in a perfectly savage mood. Purple cellophane?
0:07:40 > 0:07:43- I think this one has Nurse Mount's name on it.- Marvellous.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45The perfect accompaniment to a whisky nightcap.
0:07:45 > 0:07:46You won't tempt me, I'm afraid.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49Alcohol's perfectly beastly on the complexion.
0:07:49 > 0:07:50Are there any coffee creams?
0:07:50 > 0:07:52I need them to take away the taste of the glue.
0:07:52 > 0:07:5518 down, 24 to go.
0:07:55 > 0:07:56If you lick my stamps,
0:07:56 > 0:08:00I'll give you what appears to be the only coffee cream in the tin.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03NURSE MOUNT CHUCKLES
0:08:03 > 0:08:06One for Delia - how is she?
0:08:06 > 0:08:08- VOICE CATCHING:- Well, I believe.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10Her mother hasn't written in a while.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13Head injury can be a ghastly thing to recover from.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16And she was in quite a bad way when they took her home to Wales.
0:08:16 > 0:08:17I guess she was.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Now, where's that coffee cream?
0:08:21 > 0:08:22- Oh.- Mmm!
0:08:22 > 0:08:24TRIXIE CHUCKLES
0:08:24 > 0:08:25Thank you.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35I'm so glad you're here. I almost called you again.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39Not I, nor He who commands us all...
0:08:39 > 0:08:42Get back into bed before the hot water bottle goes cold!
0:08:42 > 0:08:43KNOCK AT DOOR
0:08:43 > 0:08:45Come in, any time you like.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48..Nelly put a hot brick to my feet.
0:08:48 > 0:08:49I knew it was winter then,
0:08:49 > 0:08:53when it leached the smell of starch out of the sheets.
0:08:53 > 0:08:54Sit down!
0:08:54 > 0:08:59Temperature of 102, coughing like a drain and dotty as a two-bob watch.
0:08:59 > 0:09:00I can see that.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03SHE COUGHS
0:09:07 > 0:09:08Oww!
0:09:08 > 0:09:11You're going to have to lay off the mince pies, Fred Buckle,
0:09:11 > 0:09:14or never mind splitting your trousers -
0:09:14 > 0:09:16you're not going to fit in this Santa suit at all!
0:09:16 > 0:09:18Well, the kiddies leave them out for me.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20They'd be disappointed if they didn't disappear.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23Yeah, but you're not the real Father Christmas, remember.
0:09:23 > 0:09:24You're just one of his helpers.
0:09:24 > 0:09:28Yeah, but I'd look shocking in an elf suit.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31I could do with an elf or two to help me in the shop this afternoon.
0:09:31 > 0:09:35I've got the entire Christmas raffle display to put in my window,
0:09:35 > 0:09:38or I'll have half the Poplar shopkeepers baying for my blood.
0:09:39 > 0:09:42I wish I'd never said I'd take the responsibility.
0:09:42 > 0:09:43Be good for trade, though, won't it?
0:09:43 > 0:09:47I've only donated a couple of balls of wool and some nappy pins.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50The rest of the space is all taken up with other people's stuff.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53Tins of powdered milk and I don't know what.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55Well, that's not very season of goodwill.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57Oww!
0:09:58 > 0:09:59Pass me the scissors.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02I'm not biting this, it's too close to your backside.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06A high temperature and a nasty cough.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09But what we don't want at her age is pneumonia.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11We've been more worried about her confusion
0:10:11 > 0:10:13- than her physical health lately. - Exactly.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15If she goes any further down Doolally Hill,
0:10:15 > 0:10:17we won't be able to look after her.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19I've prescribed Distoval as a sedative.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22It'll calm her down and perhaps make her behaviour less erratic.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25Distoval won't bring our Christmas pudding back from the dead.
0:10:25 > 0:10:26Or from the ceiling!
0:10:43 > 0:10:45DOOR OPENS
0:10:46 > 0:10:48We're about to go into compline.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52I'll look in again afterwards.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54Very well, but there's no need for you to linger.
0:10:54 > 0:10:58Sister Monica Joan and I have established the rules of play
0:10:58 > 0:11:00and thus far, she is abiding by them.
0:11:03 > 0:11:07My mother's hands were cold, like yours.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10Mother's been looming rather large this evening, I'm afraid.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13That's often the way when she's unwell.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16- These...sometimes help.- Hmm?
0:11:16 > 0:11:18They're family heirlooms
0:11:18 > 0:11:19and she cherishes them.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32HE SHIVERS
0:11:46 > 0:11:48Oh!
0:11:48 > 0:11:50I can't consume that!
0:11:52 > 0:11:56The tang of urine assaults me even from the plate!
0:11:56 > 0:11:59It isn't kidney, Sister Monica Joan, it's liver.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01And it's terribly good for you.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04And if you eat quickly, we can listen to Desert Island Discs
0:12:04 > 0:12:06while you eat your semolina.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08I have tired of the wireless.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11There are too many jumbled voices.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13I like television better.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16There isn't a television at Nonnatus House.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19There's one in the window of the new shop by the tunnel.
0:12:20 > 0:12:21- Have you seen it?- No.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26We have one. At home.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29But I won't be seeing that for quite some time.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32- Why is that, child? - Don't encourage her.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34There'll be ample salt in that gravy already.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37You don't need tears in it as well!
0:12:37 > 0:12:40I can't go home for Christmas, Sister Monica Joan.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42We're going to be too busy.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44Sister Julienne told me this morning.
0:12:49 > 0:12:56But...the very purpose of Christmas is to revisit where one's roots lie!
0:12:56 > 0:12:59Was Christ himself not born in Bethlehem
0:12:59 > 0:13:02because his father and mother
0:13:02 > 0:13:05were called to their birthplace for the census?
0:13:08 > 0:13:09All should head homeward.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13If their natal home still stands.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18My natal home was razed to the ground
0:13:18 > 0:13:23when they made "improvements" to the Kirkstall Road in Leeds.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25I'm rather looking forward to filling the mead cup
0:13:25 > 0:13:29and draining the barrel in Nonnatus House.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32Figuratively speaking, of course.
0:13:32 > 0:13:34We'll have a splendid time!
0:13:35 > 0:13:37PLATE SCRAPES
0:13:39 > 0:13:42And so, the bishop said that BBC Television
0:13:42 > 0:13:46want to film a carol service in an ordinary London church
0:13:46 > 0:13:48and broadcast it on Christmas Day.
0:13:51 > 0:13:52How nice.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55Well, I think it will be more than nice.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57I think it will be wonderful,
0:13:57 > 0:13:59for the whole of the parish.
0:13:59 > 0:14:00Our parish?
0:14:00 > 0:14:02I'm sorry, I should have made that clear.
0:14:02 > 0:14:03Oh.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Well, I think it sounds tremendously jolly.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08And the children will certainly enjoy it.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10But filming, Mr Hereward,
0:14:10 > 0:14:14- in a church?- My sentiments exactly!
0:14:14 > 0:14:18- Is nothing sacred?! - To my mind, Sister Evangelina,
0:14:18 > 0:14:20Christmas is the most sacred festival of all.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23And sharing a religious service with millions of people
0:14:23 > 0:14:25is a really good way to remind them of that.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27Not to mention frightfully glamorous!
0:14:27 > 0:14:29I rest my case.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31People have forgotten what Christmas is all about.
0:14:32 > 0:14:36Mrs Turner has kindly agreed to take the children's choir in hand
0:14:36 > 0:14:39and I was thinking we could create a crib scene
0:14:39 > 0:14:42and place a real newborn baby in the manger.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47SHE EXHALES GRUMPILY
0:14:47 > 0:14:50- One of OUR newborn babies?- Yes.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55I was rather hoping to see Nurse Gilbert.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58The producer of the television broadcast, Barrington Swann,
0:14:58 > 0:15:00- is coming to inspect the church tomorrow and...- Mr Hereward.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Tomorrow is a very busy day.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07And Ms Gilbert will be fully occupied.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12BICYCLE BELL PINGS
0:15:19 > 0:15:23I was led to expect more in the way of ornamental plasterwork.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26It always photographs so well.
0:15:26 > 0:15:31Still, I see your Mrs Mop is working wonders with the elbow grease.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34A shiny bit of brass will always catch the arc lights.
0:15:35 > 0:15:40Our cleaning lady is called Mrs Willens, not Mrs Mop.
0:15:40 > 0:15:44Whatever she's called, we'll have to add to the artistic presentation.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47Seasonal floral arrangements, of course,
0:15:47 > 0:15:50and the children's pageant is completely essential.
0:15:50 > 0:15:54- Do you mean the Nativity play? - Oh, N-Nativity scene, I think.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57Don't you? We mustn't overface the viewing public.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59But children are essential.
0:15:59 > 0:16:04I was a kiddie performer myself. I know how they add to the sparkle.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07- And they must sing! - I have all that in hand.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10- And they must be in costume. - Mrs Turner has that in hand, too.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14The aesthetics are vital.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17We can't have anybody looking poor.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20How dare he?!
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Poplar may not be the richest parish in the country,
0:16:22 > 0:16:24but not one mother would turn her children out
0:16:24 > 0:16:26looking less than the very best she could.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28I almost gave him his marching orders there and then.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31Begging your pardon, Mr Hereward, but I'm glad you didn't.
0:16:31 > 0:16:32Why, Mrs Willens?
0:16:32 > 0:16:35He was almost as rude about the church as he was about the children.
0:16:35 > 0:16:36Whom he hasn't even seen.
0:16:36 > 0:16:38I'm not convinced he has any faith in us at all.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41It's not about his faith, is it?
0:16:41 > 0:16:42Have a pink wafer.
0:16:44 > 0:16:45I got them in for Mr High-And-Mighty,
0:16:45 > 0:16:47but I decided they were stopping in the packet.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49You should have one yourself.
0:16:49 > 0:16:50You'll need to build your strength up
0:16:50 > 0:16:53- if you're going to be helping us out.- Helping you out?
0:16:53 > 0:16:57Mrs Willens, this carol service needs all the help it can get.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00And with the number of children involved, so do I.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05I want you to ask the headmaster's permission
0:17:05 > 0:17:07to put one on the notice board.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09There are some lovely singers at the grammar school.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11Yes, and they're mostly baritones and tenors.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14I've put treble and boy soprano on the poster.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17We need quality voices, male and female,
0:17:17 > 0:17:20if we're not going to embarrass ourselves in front of the BBC.
0:17:20 > 0:17:21Not to mention the entire nation.
0:17:21 > 0:17:23Which is why we are going to have auditions
0:17:23 > 0:17:25and why we are going to advertise.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28Good morning, Mrs Willens, Mr Willens.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30- Morning, Mrs Turner. - We've a busy day ahead.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33By the way, the parish manger's gone missing
0:17:33 > 0:17:34and we'll need to find an orange box.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37Perhaps Mr Willens can oblige.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39Now, run and catch your bus.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42MUSIC: (Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With The Bag by Kay Starr
0:17:42 > 0:17:44Can you go a bit higher, Violet?
0:17:44 > 0:17:46Yeah, a bit...bit higher.
0:17:46 > 0:17:47Yeah, perfect. Yeah.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50Thanks, Violet.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54# Everybody's waitin' for the man with the bag
0:17:54 > 0:17:58# Cos Christmas is coming again
0:17:58 > 0:18:02# He's got a sleighful It's not going to stay full
0:18:02 > 0:18:05# He's got stuff to drop at every stop of the way
0:18:05 > 0:18:08# Everybody's waitin'
0:18:08 > 0:18:12# They're all congregatin'
0:18:12 > 0:18:19# Waitin' for the man with the bag. #
0:18:22 > 0:18:24What do you think you are doing?!
0:18:24 > 0:18:26Preparing for Christmas.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28With a joyful heart.
0:18:29 > 0:18:33I shall need all of this when our tree is purchased.
0:18:33 > 0:18:38- However tardy its arrival proves.- No tree until the week before Christmas.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42You know how we do things and it does not involve tinsel.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45Auntie Iris!
0:18:45 > 0:18:48Rosemary, what are you doing out of doors?
0:18:48 > 0:18:50I can't settle, I can't sit.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52All I can do is clean.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54I thought I was turning into you.
0:18:54 > 0:18:58Do you fancy coming with me to the clinic?
0:18:58 > 0:18:59Aren't you going with your mum?
0:18:59 > 0:19:02- She's gone up west to pick out the pram set.- Oh.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04- Nothing but the best for these two. - Yeah...
0:19:04 > 0:19:06Oh, come on, you'll enjoy it.
0:19:08 > 0:19:10CHILDREN CHATTER AND YELL, BABIES WAIL
0:19:10 > 0:19:14Mrs Turner said the rash has developed since this morning.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17I only came in to bring the baby for his needles.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20I never saw the rash. I thought he was just a bit off-colour.
0:19:20 > 0:19:24I'm afraid it's a bit more serious than that.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26We can postpone the baby's vaccinations,
0:19:26 > 0:19:28but I want you to go straight home.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33Measles. That's the fourth case in a week.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36I'll notify the medical officer.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38- Other practices are having the same thing.- I know.
0:19:38 > 0:19:42And the last thing we need is an epidemic.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44Look, I just wish there was a vaccine.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47I know they're testing one, but it takes so long.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50Oh, I can't get on that bed, it's too high.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52ROSEMARY BREATHES HEAVILY
0:19:52 > 0:19:54I can't lie down in any case,
0:19:54 > 0:19:56cos it makes me feel as though I'm suffocating.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58You don't have to lie down until Doctor comes in,
0:19:58 > 0:20:00but if we can just get your bottom onto the bed...
0:20:00 > 0:20:03You'd have more luck with the hoists and winch from down the dockyard!
0:20:03 > 0:20:04THEY CHUCKLE
0:20:04 > 0:20:07LIQUID SPLASHES, ROSEMARY GASPS
0:20:07 > 0:20:09- Oh, no!- Oh, yes!- Have I wet myself?
0:20:09 > 0:20:12I hope not - this is a good pair of nylons.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14I'll be right back. ROSEMARY GROANS
0:20:15 > 0:20:19Whoever cleaned up after that explosion wants horse-whipping.
0:20:19 > 0:20:23It's insanitary, having Christmas pudding clinging to the walls!
0:20:23 > 0:20:25I suspect you're right.
0:20:25 > 0:20:26It may well attract mould
0:20:26 > 0:20:29and we don't want spores falling into the food.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32Are you sure you don't want me to get up on the table, Sister?
0:20:32 > 0:20:34No, no, you save your strength
0:20:34 > 0:20:36for your trip to see the Christmas lights.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39I should very much relish the chance to see the lights myself.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42The Sunday school children would love that.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44And there'll be plenty of room on the bus.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47I'm sorry, I'm going to exercise my power of veto.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50You know my views on dicky chests and cold winds.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52And we need you at compline, Sister.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55Sister Mary Cynthia is at the twin birth.
0:20:55 > 0:20:56She won't be back tonight.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02You speak to me and of me as though I am a child.
0:21:02 > 0:21:07No, we speak to you and of you as though you have been ill.
0:21:07 > 0:21:12And you can explain this...space-age monstrosity whenever you like!
0:21:12 > 0:21:14It's a wreath for the front door.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16Sister Monica Joan designed it herself.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19- When are you planning to put it up? - Sister,
0:21:19 > 0:21:22we have all agreed there will be no tree or decorations
0:21:22 > 0:21:27in Nonnatus House until December 18th, as is our custom.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30Advent will take precedence in the meanwhile.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33But we are out of kilter with the world!
0:21:33 > 0:21:36Every other window is brilliant with light.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39Every other home bedecked and splendid!
0:21:40 > 0:21:42Only we await our tree
0:21:42 > 0:21:44and we will never know the joy of television.
0:21:44 > 0:21:49- Television?!- It is the portal to much happiness.
0:21:49 > 0:21:53I have seen it work its magic on 100 children's faces!
0:21:53 > 0:21:55There are plenty of children round here
0:21:55 > 0:21:57who don't need that sort of magic.
0:21:57 > 0:22:02They need a square meal and clean clothes and a loving hand!
0:22:02 > 0:22:07Not spending money hand over fist on television sets and tinsel.
0:22:07 > 0:22:11Children incline to happiness.
0:22:11 > 0:22:15Even I knew delight and transportation as a child.
0:22:15 > 0:22:18- And my youth was not a happy one! - Not happy?!
0:22:18 > 0:22:22- You never knew what hardship meant! - Sister, please!- I did!
0:22:22 > 0:22:24I did know!
0:22:28 > 0:22:34But perhaps my mind is too misshapen to recall it now.
0:22:34 > 0:22:38Well, all I can say is, if the cap fits, wear it!
0:22:53 > 0:22:55SISTER EVANGELINA SIGHS AND TUTS
0:22:57 > 0:23:01And I don't want to see any more of this until the 18th of the month.
0:23:04 > 0:23:05All aboard! BELL RINGS
0:23:05 > 0:23:08All aboard the Christmas bus
0:23:08 > 0:23:11Ho-ho-ho! Come ride with us
0:23:11 > 0:23:14Lights and shops and fun we'll see
0:23:14 > 0:23:17Ho-ho-ho, come ride with me.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19Merry Christmas, merry Christmas.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22- Really, Fred, it's worthy of the poet laureate.- Ha-ha!
0:23:22 > 0:23:25- What have you got in your bucket, reindeer food?- No, sawdust.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27I have two famous vomiters
0:23:27 > 0:23:29and one who can't be trusted with the waterworks.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32Oh, dear. Come on, then, you stragglers.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34You're married to the lady in the sewing shop.
0:23:34 > 0:23:40- Uh, no. Uh, that fella is a cousin of mine. Same-shaped face.- Hmm.
0:23:42 > 0:23:43Well caught.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45Are you coming, Mum and Dad? No? Right, on you get.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50Ho-ho-ho! Come ride the bus.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54ROSEMARY GROANS
0:23:54 > 0:23:57I see you're still using the old newspaper trick.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01Sister Julienne did that when I had my daughter.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04We've saved many a mattress this way, Mrs Willens.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08Still doing the enemas too?
0:24:08 > 0:24:12Do I have to? I thought only the old ones did that.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14We're older than we look, Rosemary.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17- Practically ready for our pensions. - THEY CHUCKLE
0:24:19 > 0:24:21SHE SIGHS
0:24:28 > 0:24:30SHE COUGHS
0:24:37 > 0:24:39THEY SING: # If you're happy and you know it
0:24:39 > 0:24:40# And you really want to show it
0:24:40 > 0:24:43# If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands
0:24:43 > 0:24:46# If you're happy and you know it, stomp your feet
0:24:46 > 0:24:49# If you're happy and you know it, stomp your feet... #
0:24:49 > 0:24:51Anyone for a sherbet lolly?
0:24:51 > 0:24:55- No takers, I'm afraid. Tina's not feeling very well.- Oh, dear.
0:24:55 > 0:24:59- Will we be needing the sawdust?- No, she says she just has a headache.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01She's quite hot, too.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04Well, you can have one, if you like.
0:25:05 > 0:25:06Thank you.
0:25:09 > 0:25:10Yellow and pink.
0:25:10 > 0:25:14The thing that fascinates me most about these is that they're so pale,
0:25:14 > 0:25:17until you lick them, and then their colour changes completely.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19I love them.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22Most people look on lollies like they're a childhood thing.
0:25:22 > 0:25:23I don't.
0:25:23 > 0:25:27I've no pride and no shame when it comes to confectionery.
0:25:27 > 0:25:28You should try one.
0:25:33 > 0:25:37- Yellow and green.- See? You don't know what you've been missing.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41Take a deep breath, Rosemary.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43SHE INHALES And another, that's it.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46SHE EXHALES Just take in some air.
0:25:46 > 0:25:47Now, push, Rosemary!
0:25:47 > 0:25:50SHE GROANS LOUDLY
0:25:50 > 0:25:51Well done!
0:25:51 > 0:25:54Well done!
0:25:56 > 0:25:58BABY WAILS
0:26:01 > 0:26:03Oh, what is it?
0:26:03 > 0:26:04It's a girl.
0:26:04 > 0:26:08- And she's beautiful.- Oh, a girl.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10I wanted a girl!
0:26:10 > 0:26:12You might have two soon.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14BABY GRIZZLES
0:26:17 > 0:26:21Perhaps Auntie Iris can look after this one in the meantime.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25Sweet pea!
0:26:25 > 0:26:27I'm glad I stayed.
0:26:27 > 0:26:28The next one's breech.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36They drive us...every year.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39INDISTINCT CHATTER
0:26:56 > 0:26:57What are you staring at, cariad?
0:26:57 > 0:26:59That bus.
0:26:59 > 0:27:00I'm...
0:27:00 > 0:27:02not used to being back in London.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04I thought you were having one of your spells.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06I don't have them any more.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08Well, you haven't for a while,
0:27:08 > 0:27:09praise the Lord.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13We'll have a very happy Christmas.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15And then say goodbye to this city for good.
0:27:22 > 0:27:26CHILDREN SING: # If you're happy and you know it, touch your nose
0:27:26 > 0:27:29# If you're happy and you know it... #
0:27:29 > 0:27:31Urgh, can't the doctor just pull it out?!
0:27:31 > 0:27:33Oh, you can do this on your own.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36Doctor's more than happy standing there twiddling his thumbs.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39Lean back into me if it helps you to concentrate.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42Keep your bottom on the edge of the bed.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45That's it, sweetie, gather your strength.
0:27:45 > 0:27:46That's it!
0:27:46 > 0:27:47That's it!
0:27:47 > 0:27:49That's...!
0:27:49 > 0:27:50That's it, keep it coming!
0:27:50 > 0:27:53Keep it coming! We have a leg!
0:27:53 > 0:27:55That's it!
0:27:55 > 0:27:58And another leg!
0:27:58 > 0:28:01Doctor, could you possibly pass me the towel, please?
0:28:01 > 0:28:03ROSEMARY WHIMPERS SOFTLY
0:28:03 > 0:28:04This one's a boy, Rosemary.
0:28:04 > 0:28:08Nurse Franklin's just wrapping baby in the towel, Rosemary,
0:28:08 > 0:28:09just to keep him warm and calm.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11Where's its head?
0:28:11 > 0:28:13The head will be born soon.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16Oh, you're doing so well!
0:28:16 > 0:28:18Rosemary, you're going to gently feel me
0:28:18 > 0:28:21turning baby a quarter of a circle.
0:28:21 > 0:28:23SHE GROANS
0:28:23 > 0:28:25That's it, that's it.
0:28:25 > 0:28:26Just breathe.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30ROSEMARY BREATHES HEAVILY
0:28:30 > 0:28:33We're going to let baby's feet hang, just for a moment,
0:28:33 > 0:28:35so that his own body weight helps him in the right direction.
0:28:41 > 0:28:42FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
0:28:42 > 0:28:44Oh, God, have I missed it?!
0:28:44 > 0:28:47- That's it! That's it! - ROSEMARY CRIES OUT
0:28:47 > 0:28:49That's it!
0:28:49 > 0:28:51ROSEMARY GROANS LOUDLY
0:28:51 > 0:28:54You clever girl!
0:28:54 > 0:28:57- ROSEMARY LAUGHS - Top work!
0:28:57 > 0:29:00Beautiful boy, Rosemary.
0:29:00 > 0:29:04- You have one of each!- One of each?! - IRIS:- Little girl came first.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07- And she's gorgeous. - Aww, hand her over!
0:29:09 > 0:29:11BABY GRIZZLES
0:29:11 > 0:29:13Oh!
0:29:13 > 0:29:15I'm a grandma!
0:29:15 > 0:29:17A grandma! How about that?
0:29:17 > 0:29:21- How about me being a mum? - That as well, obviously!
0:29:22 > 0:29:26Oh, we're going to be quite the double act, you and me.
0:29:32 > 0:29:35CHILDREN YELL AND CHATTER
0:29:41 > 0:29:45- I'm sorry, Mrs Lewis. Poor Tina isn't feeling very well.- She's burning up!
0:29:45 > 0:29:47If I'd have known, I'd have brought the pushchair.
0:29:47 > 0:29:50Don't worry, Nurse Gilbert. I'll take Tina home.
0:29:52 > 0:29:55I'd give her an aspirin and do call the doctor if you're worried -
0:29:55 > 0:29:56I'm sure he'll come out.
0:30:13 > 0:30:16IN SING-SONG VOICE: Wakey-wakey, campers!
0:30:19 > 0:30:22CHILDREN LAUGH AND CHATTER
0:30:25 > 0:30:26BELL RINGS
0:30:26 > 0:30:28Hello, Iris!
0:30:28 > 0:30:30I heard Rosemary had the twins.
0:30:30 > 0:30:33- What a lovely Christmas you'll all have.- Yeah, won't we?
0:30:33 > 0:30:36There, nappy pins. One blue set and one pink.
0:30:36 > 0:30:38You give those to that clever niece of yours
0:30:38 > 0:30:40with my congratulations.
0:30:40 > 0:30:42That's kind of you, Violet. She'll be thrilled.
0:30:42 > 0:30:43She'll be even more thrilled
0:30:43 > 0:30:46if she wins that layette I'm displaying in my window.
0:30:46 > 0:30:48It's got everything in it that a new mum could ask for
0:30:48 > 0:30:51and it's all in aid of the maternity home.
0:30:51 > 0:30:53Yeah, go on, then!
0:30:53 > 0:30:55Best have two, seeing as it's twins.
0:30:59 > 0:31:0184 and 85.
0:31:02 > 0:31:04Nothing like babies for making people smile.
0:31:04 > 0:31:05Some people, maybe.
0:31:07 > 0:31:09Oh, Iris.
0:31:09 > 0:31:11Me and my walloping, thoughtless mouth. I'm sorry.
0:31:11 > 0:31:14No, I didn't mean to snap, Violet. It's just...
0:31:14 > 0:31:17- It's Christmas, it's a tricky time of year.- Oh, it would be.
0:31:17 > 0:31:20Poor little Lorna and poor you.
0:31:20 > 0:31:22- You remembered her name. - I couldn't forget it.
0:31:22 > 0:31:26Any more than I could forget that smile she had.
0:31:26 > 0:31:28I look at her photograph sometimes
0:31:28 > 0:31:32and I think, "Oh, I wish I'd called her something happier."
0:31:32 > 0:31:34Lorna.
0:31:34 > 0:31:36It seems a sad name, somehow.
0:31:36 > 0:31:39There is nothing sad about your little girl, Iris.
0:31:39 > 0:31:41- Even at just three months. - Four months.
0:31:48 > 0:31:50IRIS EXHALES
0:31:50 > 0:31:53I'll have a triple-hook...
0:31:53 > 0:31:56brassiere expander, if you would, please, Violet.
0:31:59 > 0:32:02White, buff, or tea rose?
0:32:03 > 0:32:07Hot water bottle stone-cold and exactly where I left it.
0:32:07 > 0:32:09This bed hasn't been slept in.
0:32:09 > 0:32:10We should have checked.
0:32:13 > 0:32:16The necklace has gone, and so's the sapphire ring.
0:32:17 > 0:32:19I must telephone the motherhouse.
0:32:19 > 0:32:22Sister Julienne, you must telephone the police.
0:32:25 > 0:32:27I thought it might be scarlet fever.
0:32:27 > 0:32:30- You know, she seems poorly enough. - No, it's measles.
0:32:30 > 0:32:33You'll need to dose her with aspirin every four hours.
0:32:33 > 0:32:36Start her with these. I'll write you a prescription for the rest.
0:32:36 > 0:32:39- Can't she have antibiotics? - They won't work.
0:32:46 > 0:32:49There's no need to look flustered, Iris.
0:32:49 > 0:32:52All you have to do is ask each child their name, age and address,
0:32:52 > 0:32:55write it down, then tell them to sit on a chair and wait their turn.
0:32:55 > 0:32:57And what about the juice and biscuits?
0:32:57 > 0:32:59They can have them when they've auditioned and not before.
0:32:59 > 0:33:02- CHILDREN SING "WHY ARE WE WAITING?" - Can I have a biscuit now?
0:33:02 > 0:33:03Don't think I can get through this
0:33:03 > 0:33:05without a boost to my kinetic energy.
0:33:05 > 0:33:08No, you can't. We don't want crumbs on the keys.
0:33:08 > 0:33:10Quick, grab yourself a gypsy cream.
0:33:12 > 0:33:15Everybody must go to the lady at the desk
0:33:15 > 0:33:20and give their name, age and address before they sit down,
0:33:20 > 0:33:23and wait until they're called!
0:33:23 > 0:33:25- And no dogs.- It's a singing dog.
0:33:25 > 0:33:28If it can't sing Silent Night, I'm not interested.
0:33:29 > 0:33:30Would you say the necklace
0:33:30 > 0:33:33and the ring were worth a great deal of money, Sister?
0:33:33 > 0:33:34They were family heirlooms.
0:33:34 > 0:33:36POLICEMAN'S PEN SCRIBBLES
0:33:36 > 0:33:38I wish I could say they were of purely sentimental value,
0:33:38 > 0:33:42but Sister Monica Joan was not at all sentimental about her relatives
0:33:42 > 0:33:44and they were extremely rich.
0:33:46 > 0:33:49Sister Julienne, did anything unusual happen yesterday?
0:33:49 > 0:33:52Anything that might have upset her or caused her to change her routine?
0:33:54 > 0:33:58We live in close quarters at Nonnatus House, as you know.
0:33:59 > 0:34:01Very like a family, in fact.
0:34:01 > 0:34:04And like all families, we have our disagreements.
0:34:07 > 0:34:11Congratulations on being chosen for the choir, everyone,
0:34:11 > 0:34:14and well done for getting here on time.
0:34:14 > 0:34:16We're just going to rehearse for half an hour
0:34:16 > 0:34:19before you all set off for school today.
0:34:19 > 0:34:23Mrs Willens will have some hot Ribena ready for you when we finish.
0:34:23 > 0:34:24Thank you, Timothy.
0:34:27 > 0:34:32- THEY SING:- # In a bleak midwinter
0:34:32 > 0:34:37# Frosty wind made moan
0:34:37 > 0:34:41# Earth stood hard as iron... #
0:34:41 > 0:34:45- Where have you gone? - # Water like a stone... #
0:34:45 > 0:34:48It's now been 36 hours since anyone has seen her.
0:34:48 > 0:34:51Her habit and her veil make her distinctive in this area, at least.
0:34:51 > 0:34:54But if she's gone further afield, she may not be recognised.
0:34:54 > 0:34:56She's extremely elderly and she's been ill.
0:34:58 > 0:35:00Sister Monica Joan!
0:35:02 > 0:35:03Sister!
0:35:36 > 0:35:38They're definitely hers.
0:35:38 > 0:35:40Is there anywhere else she could have gone?
0:35:40 > 0:35:43I tried to telephone her nephew, who lives in Richmond,
0:35:43 > 0:35:46but his housekeeper said he's skiing in Switzerland and can't be reached.
0:35:46 > 0:35:48And she isn't at the motherhouse.
0:35:48 > 0:35:50It's as though she's just vanished.
0:35:50 > 0:35:52Nobody just vanishes, Sister Julienne.
0:35:53 > 0:35:55That's very reassuring, Sergeant.
0:35:55 > 0:35:58Sir, I found these in a bin on the Commercial Road.
0:36:01 > 0:36:03Anything could have happened to her.
0:36:03 > 0:36:04It was dark when she left
0:36:04 > 0:36:07and the streets around the docks are deserted after six o'clock.
0:36:07 > 0:36:10She probably thought her habit would keep her safe.
0:36:10 > 0:36:12I don't think she gave safety or danger a second thought.
0:36:12 > 0:36:14I think she was just excited about Christmas
0:36:14 > 0:36:16and upset that she wasn't allowed to be.
0:36:16 > 0:36:19The situation is troubling enough, Nurse Gilbert,
0:36:19 > 0:36:22without speculation, gossip and histrionics thrown into the mix.
0:36:22 > 0:36:24I would thank you to get on with your work!
0:36:31 > 0:36:33SHE EXHALES HEAVILY
0:36:35 > 0:36:38I'll be seeing you later, then!
0:36:38 > 0:36:42Get your Christmas trees here! All shapes and sizes!
0:36:42 > 0:36:44- Come on, then. - I want a Norwegian pine.
0:36:44 > 0:36:47No bigger than seven foot tall and no more than 15 bob.
0:37:17 > 0:37:19Pat! BICYCLE BRAKES SCREECH
0:37:21 > 0:37:23Where on Earth have you been?
0:37:23 > 0:37:25Didn't want to knock on the door.
0:37:25 > 0:37:27Didn't want to be asked in,
0:37:27 > 0:37:30to see you for the first time with everybody watching.
0:37:30 > 0:37:32Wait here.
0:37:32 > 0:37:34I need to change out of my uniform.
0:37:54 > 0:37:57MUSIC ON JUKEBOX: Angel Face by James Darren
0:37:57 > 0:38:00I couldn't write at all to begin with.
0:38:00 > 0:38:02Not for the first month.
0:38:02 > 0:38:04But after that, I sent three letters.
0:38:04 > 0:38:05My mother posted them.
0:38:08 > 0:38:10Or maybe she didn't.
0:38:10 > 0:38:12I would have answered if I'd got them.
0:38:12 > 0:38:14You know I would have answered.
0:38:16 > 0:38:18Does she suspect?
0:38:18 > 0:38:20She thinks you're my friend from training school.
0:38:20 > 0:38:22Oh, yes, the lady she helps at Cubs.
0:38:22 > 0:38:25I promise you, that's all she thinks.
0:38:25 > 0:38:28But she doesn't want me coming back to London to live.
0:38:28 > 0:38:31- Or to nurse.- Why not, if you're well enough?
0:38:31 > 0:38:33In her mind, I'll never be well enough.
0:38:35 > 0:38:40- I've got an appointment at the London to see Mr Hendry.- The neuro chap?
0:38:40 > 0:38:43And then another with the rehabilitation people.
0:38:43 > 0:38:47They'll tell me then when I can go back to work. If I can.
0:38:47 > 0:38:48Maybe months.
0:38:51 > 0:38:53You look tired.
0:38:54 > 0:38:56I...
0:38:56 > 0:38:59lose my train of thought sometimes.
0:38:59 > 0:39:00Better than losing you.
0:39:04 > 0:39:07We're staying with my aunt in Hornsey, did I tell you?
0:39:07 > 0:39:08No.
0:39:11 > 0:39:13Till after Christmas.
0:39:13 > 0:39:15I think Mum's hoping I'll see the "horror"
0:39:15 > 0:39:16of London through fresh eyes,
0:39:16 > 0:39:20but the minute they went off to their Welsh-language carol service,
0:39:20 > 0:39:21I was on the bus to Poplar.
0:39:25 > 0:39:27I'll be on the bus back to Hornsey soon.
0:39:29 > 0:39:31I don't know what I'm supposed to say to that.
0:39:32 > 0:39:34You're supposed to say...
0:39:35 > 0:39:36"..Don't disappear again."
0:39:38 > 0:39:41You're supposed to say, "Meet me again, write to me.
0:39:41 > 0:39:42"Don't break the thread."
0:39:44 > 0:39:46Let's pick up all the broken pieces.
0:39:47 > 0:39:49Let's pick up where we were.
0:39:53 > 0:39:55Can't I just say, "Come back"?
0:39:55 > 0:40:00- ON JUKEBOX:- # Darling, I love you... #
0:40:00 > 0:40:01Yes.
0:40:06 > 0:40:07- Keep warm.- I will.
0:40:09 > 0:40:12- Telephone me when you've seen the doctor.- Yes.
0:40:26 > 0:40:28Hang on, mate.
0:40:28 > 0:40:30- What's that?- What?
0:40:32 > 0:40:33Oh, my God!
0:40:33 > 0:40:35'ere, get the hook.
0:40:39 > 0:40:41- 'It's an old lady.'- I see.
0:40:44 > 0:40:46'You still there, guv?'
0:40:47 > 0:40:49Yes.
0:40:49 > 0:40:51'You'll need to check your missing persons record.'
0:40:51 > 0:40:53I'm aware of the procedure, thank you.
0:40:57 > 0:40:59RAPID KNOCKING AT DOOR
0:40:59 > 0:41:01- Patrick!- What's happened?
0:41:01 > 0:41:04It's little Tina Lewis. Her mother called - it's urgent.
0:41:20 > 0:41:23I assume motorised transport to the mortuary may not go amiss?
0:41:23 > 0:41:26I was going to drive them in the police car, Nurse Crane.
0:41:26 > 0:41:29Allow me to spare you the encroachment on your time.
0:41:29 > 0:41:32Nobody here has done anything criminal.
0:41:38 > 0:41:40She was all right last night!
0:41:40 > 0:41:44Sh-she was talking, she said there were little men in the wallpaper!
0:41:44 > 0:41:46Tina!
0:41:46 > 0:41:47Tina!
0:41:47 > 0:41:48She's unconscious.
0:41:48 > 0:41:51- I'm sending for an ambulance. - She's not going to die?!
0:41:51 > 0:41:53She can't die, it's only measles!
0:41:53 > 0:41:56It's never ONLY measles, Mrs Lewis.
0:42:21 > 0:42:24Just give the attendant the word when you're ready.
0:42:26 > 0:42:29SHE BREATHES HEAVILY
0:42:29 > 0:42:31SISTER EVANGELINA PRAYS SOFTLY
0:42:38 > 0:42:39We're ready.
0:42:45 > 0:42:47SISTER JULIENNE INHALES SHARPLY
0:42:47 > 0:42:49SHE EXHALES
0:42:55 > 0:42:56It isn't her.
0:42:57 > 0:42:59Poor woman.
0:43:00 > 0:43:02SISTER EVANGELINA SOBS Poor, poor woman.
0:43:04 > 0:43:09- SHE SINGS:- # Enough for Him, whom cherubim
0:43:09 > 0:43:12# Worship night and day
0:43:12 > 0:43:19# A breastful of milk and a mangerful of hay. #
0:43:19 > 0:43:22See, that's where I want the descant to come in.
0:43:22 > 0:43:24It always seems to peter out there.
0:43:24 > 0:43:26Well, that's because of the words.
0:43:26 > 0:43:27What's wrong with the words?
0:43:27 > 0:43:30Well, there's just a word that no-one likes singing.
0:43:30 > 0:43:32It's in that line.
0:43:33 > 0:43:34And it begins with a "B".
0:43:35 > 0:43:37What, "breast"?
0:43:37 > 0:43:39- HE CHUCKLES ANGELA:- Da-da!- Dad!
0:43:39 > 0:43:41- PHONE RINGS - I'll get that.
0:43:43 > 0:43:45- Dad, I've gone bright red!- Hello?
0:43:45 > 0:43:48- In the privacy of my own home. - I'll fetch him now.
0:43:48 > 0:43:49Hold the line.
0:43:51 > 0:43:54It sounds like another measles case.
0:43:54 > 0:43:56Joey Minton.
0:43:56 > 0:43:57And he's in my choir.
0:44:01 > 0:44:04Tonight at compline, we will once again say special intercessions
0:44:04 > 0:44:08for the safe return of Sister Monica Joan.
0:44:08 > 0:44:10And we will also pray for the lost soul
0:44:10 > 0:44:13- recovered from the Thames this morning.- Yes, Sister.
0:44:15 > 0:44:18And that's all I can manage to say at the moment.
0:44:18 > 0:44:19Sister Mary Cynthia...
0:44:21 > 0:44:23..perhaps you would lead us in grace.
0:44:34 > 0:44:36LAMBS BLEAT
0:44:36 > 0:44:38RAT SQUEAKS
0:44:38 > 0:44:41Dost think, because thou art a rat...
0:44:41 > 0:44:43SHE PANTS
0:44:43 > 0:44:46..there shall be no more cakes and ale?
0:44:47 > 0:44:49SHE COUGHS, CATTLE LOW
0:44:51 > 0:44:54CATTLE LOW LOUDLY
0:44:54 > 0:44:56What a caterwauling...
0:44:56 > 0:44:59do we keep here!
0:44:59 > 0:45:01SHE COUGHS AND SPLUTTERS
0:45:05 > 0:45:07Oh, good.
0:45:07 > 0:45:10Can you go straight through and help Nurse Gilbert in the delivery room?
0:45:10 > 0:45:12Doctor's been delayed at the Board of Health
0:45:12 > 0:45:15and we've a lady in there with an occipital posterior.
0:45:15 > 0:45:17Nothing like manning the gas and air to start the day.
0:45:17 > 0:45:21Trixie, is there any news of Sister Monica Joan?
0:45:21 > 0:45:23How can a trail go cold like that
0:45:23 > 0:45:26when someone has a home and when they're loved?
0:45:29 > 0:45:33The Board of Health have approved the quarantine regulations.
0:45:33 > 0:45:37Hendy Street and St John's schools are breaking up early for Christmas
0:45:37 > 0:45:39and all children's groups are suspended till New Year.
0:45:39 > 0:45:41You did the right thing to push for that.
0:45:41 > 0:45:46I'm glad you think so, because the suspended groups include your choir.
0:45:46 > 0:45:49- No!- I'm sorry, Shelagh.
0:45:49 > 0:45:53But I never want to put another unresponsive child into an ambulance.
0:46:03 > 0:46:06TYPEWRITERS CLACK, PHONES RING
0:46:12 > 0:46:14HE EXHALES
0:46:14 > 0:46:18Mr Swann, I appreciate your disappointment,
0:46:18 > 0:46:22but we can't magic up a children's choral performance out of thin air.
0:46:22 > 0:46:25And I can't bring the magic of Christmas all the way to Poplar
0:46:25 > 0:46:27wrapped in paper and string!
0:46:27 > 0:46:30You have to furnish the sparkle, Reverend!
0:46:30 > 0:46:32Those were the terms of the deal.
0:46:32 > 0:46:35We're in the grip of a measles epidemic.
0:46:35 > 0:46:36I had chicken pox
0:46:36 > 0:46:40when I was doing Peter Pan with Madame Aida's Champagne Babes.
0:46:40 > 0:46:43I still managed to play the Princess Theatre nightly!
0:46:43 > 0:46:47Have you never heard the phrase "the show must go on"?!
0:46:47 > 0:46:50It's not a show, Mr Swann, it's an act of worship.
0:46:50 > 0:46:52Until somebody films it.
0:46:52 > 0:46:54And if nobody films it,
0:46:54 > 0:46:57you might as well worship in a darkened room
0:46:57 > 0:46:59with all the doors locked.
0:46:59 > 0:47:00What do you mean, "if nobody films it"?
0:47:00 > 0:47:04Mr Swann, I think that what Mr Hereward hasn't made clear
0:47:04 > 0:47:07is that the children have been quarantined
0:47:07 > 0:47:08for the good of their health.
0:47:08 > 0:47:11- And I'm sure you don't wish to see that compromised.- Of course not.
0:47:11 > 0:47:15- But...- And I'm sorry you weren't taken better care of as a child.
0:47:15 > 0:47:18No-one should have forced you to go on as Peter Pan.
0:47:18 > 0:47:19I wasn't even Peter Pan.
0:47:21 > 0:47:22I was Smee.
0:47:26 > 0:47:29Children matter, Mr Swann.
0:47:29 > 0:47:32And they're at the very heart of Christmas.
0:47:32 > 0:47:34But if you put them at risk just to prove that point,
0:47:34 > 0:47:38- you make a nonsense of it all.- What do you propose we do, Mrs Turner?
0:47:38 > 0:47:40Simply bring your...
0:47:40 > 0:47:44cameramen and your lighting equipment to the church as planned.
0:47:44 > 0:47:49And we will give you a show to be proud of.
0:47:51 > 0:47:53SHE MOANS
0:48:09 > 0:48:11Mrs Turner?
0:48:11 > 0:48:13Hello, Iris.
0:48:13 > 0:48:16I finished the first of the shepherds last night.
0:48:16 > 0:48:19I think the tunic's come up lovely.
0:48:19 > 0:48:21Just, I wanted you to see it before I got the rest sewn up.
0:48:21 > 0:48:24I've got two mums flat out on Mary and Joseph
0:48:24 > 0:48:27and two more sneaking the angels into work with them.
0:48:27 > 0:48:30They're seamstresses down the curtain factory.
0:48:30 > 0:48:33- They're naughty girls. - They're good girls.
0:48:33 > 0:48:35It was a good cause.
0:48:35 > 0:48:36WAS a good cau...?
0:48:36 > 0:48:38- Shall I bring it in now?- Yes.
0:48:38 > 0:48:40Make sure you take it off the barrow.
0:48:40 > 0:48:43He will dither!
0:48:43 > 0:48:44Thing is, Mrs Turner,
0:48:44 > 0:48:47you need something better than an orange box
0:48:47 > 0:48:49if that manger's going to be on the telly.
0:48:49 > 0:48:52- I know, but... - I'm proud of this church.
0:48:52 > 0:48:55I put all the love and care I couldn't spend on Lorna
0:48:55 > 0:48:56into looking after it.
0:48:58 > 0:49:01Made sure its face is clean and its hair's brushed.
0:49:01 > 0:49:05Always made sure it was turned out in its proper Sunday best.
0:49:06 > 0:49:09Yeah, maybe Lorna wouldn't have liked me fussing.
0:49:10 > 0:49:12She might have been one of them little madams who wriggles
0:49:12 > 0:49:14and says the brush hurts.
0:49:18 > 0:49:21But I think she would have liked you to have this.
0:49:40 > 0:49:42SHE BREATHES HEAVILY
0:49:47 > 0:49:49I spent 22 Christmases not letting any joy in
0:49:49 > 0:49:53because I had no child to share it with.
0:49:53 > 0:49:54This year's been different.
0:49:54 > 0:49:56Has it?
0:49:56 > 0:49:59I stopped holding out against the happiness, didn't I?
0:50:00 > 0:50:03And I found out that Christmas was meant for me, too.
0:50:08 > 0:50:09I pretended to Mr Swann
0:50:09 > 0:50:12that the children weren't the most important thing,
0:50:12 > 0:50:14yet I just don't know how I'm going to replace them.
0:50:15 > 0:50:17Oh, I don't either.
0:50:20 > 0:50:22But you keep that cradle.
0:50:24 > 0:50:25Took me too long to let it go.
0:50:28 > 0:50:31LOUD BANGING
0:50:34 > 0:50:36Can I help you?
0:50:36 > 0:50:39- INDIGNANTLY:- You may stand aside and admit me!
0:50:41 > 0:50:44My...parents
0:50:44 > 0:50:46had a run of woeful butlers.
0:50:49 > 0:50:54But none that ever wore their hat indoors.
0:50:54 > 0:50:56Mind all this stuff. I wouldn't like you to trip.
0:51:00 > 0:51:04There were once a pair of wolfhounds here.
0:51:06 > 0:51:08Romulus and Remus.
0:51:09 > 0:51:12They sprawled on the floor
0:51:12 > 0:51:13in semblance of a rug.
0:51:15 > 0:51:20And caused more mishaps than any mess
0:51:20 > 0:51:21of cycle parts.
0:51:26 > 0:51:28I think that might have been before our time.
0:51:31 > 0:51:34Almost all the world is before your time, child.
0:51:36 > 0:51:40Though I see from the badges you affect,
0:51:40 > 0:51:43you are concerned to see it last a little longer.
0:51:43 > 0:51:46We're squatting here while we protest at the Aldermaston base.
0:51:46 > 0:51:48This was a school for a bit,
0:51:48 > 0:51:50but it shut and they can't sell it
0:51:50 > 0:51:54because there are nuclear weapons two miles up the road.
0:51:54 > 0:51:57This was always a house of discord and attrition.
0:51:59 > 0:52:00I was almost never happy here.
0:52:01 > 0:52:03But it was my home.
0:52:05 > 0:52:07SHE GROANS AND WHIMPERS
0:52:07 > 0:52:09SHE GROANS
0:52:13 > 0:52:16I shall need a hot brick for my feet.
0:52:19 > 0:52:22So you want the midwives of Nonnatus House to sing
0:52:22 > 0:52:24instead of the children,
0:52:24 > 0:52:27wearing our uniforms and our habits?
0:52:27 > 0:52:29I almost didn't like to come and ask you.
0:52:29 > 0:52:33It seems frivolous and stupid to be fretting about a carol service
0:52:33 > 0:52:36when Sister Monica Joan is missing.
0:52:36 > 0:52:39And that's without the television element.
0:52:39 > 0:52:41I do know you were always uneasy about that.
0:52:43 > 0:52:45I was...
0:52:45 > 0:52:46but it sometimes seems to me,
0:52:46 > 0:52:48the older I get, the more I have to learn.
0:52:52 > 0:52:54We get so much out of love.
0:52:55 > 0:52:57We find strength in it and courage.
0:52:59 > 0:53:01Love is our foundation and our fuel.
0:53:03 > 0:53:05But, if we don't show enough of it...
0:53:05 > 0:53:07No. Sister, no.
0:53:07 > 0:53:11You are not to blame for Sister Monica Joan running away.
0:53:11 > 0:53:14..then we might as well not feel any love at all,
0:53:14 > 0:53:17and that is why I'm here choosing clothes
0:53:17 > 0:53:20so a woman who drowned,
0:53:20 > 0:53:22who didn't even have a name,
0:53:22 > 0:53:26can be buried with some evidence that someone somewhere cared
0:53:26 > 0:53:28and that is why
0:53:28 > 0:53:30I'm going to say yes
0:53:30 > 0:53:32to singing in your choir.
0:53:34 > 0:53:38I offered her some of that lentil risotto but she didn't want to know.
0:53:38 > 0:53:40I had a bit more luck with the Eccles cakes.
0:53:40 > 0:53:43- Should we send for a doctor? - No, we aren't registered with one.
0:53:43 > 0:53:47- We could take her to hospital if she...- I shall be taken nowhere.
0:53:50 > 0:53:51It was
0:53:51 > 0:53:55effort enough to make my way here.
0:53:55 > 0:53:59Now that I am home, I am quite content.
0:53:59 > 0:54:00But, Antonia...
0:54:00 > 0:54:05It seems strange to hear my name again within these walls.
0:54:08 > 0:54:10Antonia.
0:54:13 > 0:54:16I have come home
0:54:16 > 0:54:18to be counted.
0:54:22 > 0:54:27Do you suppose it's all right for us to feel excited about the broadcast?
0:54:27 > 0:54:29If Sister Monica Joan were here,
0:54:29 > 0:54:32she'd be more excited about it than anyone.
0:54:32 > 0:54:34We should enter into the spirit of it,
0:54:34 > 0:54:37- for her sake.- Exactly.
0:54:37 > 0:54:40Barbara, you must let me give you a make-up lesson.
0:54:40 > 0:54:42The television lights can be frightfully cruel
0:54:42 > 0:54:43to one's complexion.
0:54:43 > 0:54:46We won't even be able to see ourselves perform, anyway.
0:54:46 > 0:54:48Unless we stand outside the electrical shop
0:54:48 > 0:54:49and peer in through the window.
0:54:49 > 0:54:51I suppose my family will see me.
0:54:51 > 0:54:54They'll be watching the broadcast when it's screened on Christmas Day.
0:54:54 > 0:54:56Pan Stik, that's it.
0:54:56 > 0:54:58I promise you, just one layer of Pan Stik.
0:54:58 > 0:55:01And some rouge and a teensy lick of mascara.
0:55:01 > 0:55:03Trixie, Barbara doesn't need mascara.
0:55:03 > 0:55:05Some lipstick might be nice.
0:55:05 > 0:55:09With a touch of Gay Geranium, you'd look quite like Jean Simmons.
0:55:10 > 0:55:12The young Jean Simmons, obviously.
0:55:12 > 0:55:14I haven't been to the cinema for years.
0:55:14 > 0:55:17Behold, I bring tidings of great joy.
0:55:17 > 0:55:19We have a truncated house call list this evening
0:55:19 > 0:55:23- so we can finish early to attend choir practice.- ALL:- Oh!
0:55:23 > 0:55:25All right, all right, your enthusiasm is duly noted.
0:55:25 > 0:55:28Now let's turn our minds back from our performance to our patients.
0:55:28 > 0:55:30Nurse Mount.
0:55:34 > 0:55:36SHE GARGLES
0:55:41 > 0:55:44You've made me swallow it.
0:55:44 > 0:55:48It's meant to be a gargle to lubricate my tubes.
0:55:48 > 0:55:51Mrs Turner recommended it after rehearsal.
0:55:51 > 0:55:53My singing is rather rusty.
0:55:53 > 0:55:55I'd have recommended engine oil.
0:55:58 > 0:56:00I'm not going to quarrel with you. Not at Christmas,
0:56:00 > 0:56:03not with everything hanging over us like this.
0:56:03 > 0:56:06You mean Sister Monica Joan?
0:56:06 > 0:56:08Oh, yes. I could kick myself, I really could.
0:56:09 > 0:56:11If we get her back safely,
0:56:11 > 0:56:15she can put up next year's tree on Easter Sunday if she likes.
0:56:15 > 0:56:19I just keep running through everything I said.
0:56:19 > 0:56:23I keep running over everything she said when she was ill.
0:56:23 > 0:56:25Delirium's always interesting.
0:56:25 > 0:56:28Sometimes, the truth comes out.
0:56:28 > 0:56:30Was she talking about her mother?
0:56:30 > 0:56:32Mostly.
0:56:32 > 0:56:34She was talking about her childhood.
0:56:34 > 0:56:36About the house she lived in
0:56:36 > 0:56:38and what they did when it was cold
0:56:38 > 0:56:41and it must have been on her mind because,
0:56:41 > 0:56:44the next day, she mentioned it again.
0:56:44 > 0:56:48- The house?- She said everyone should go home for Christmas.
0:56:48 > 0:56:52That was why Jesus was born in Bethlehem.
0:56:52 > 0:56:55Something about that being its true meaning.
0:56:59 > 0:57:01SHE HUMS
0:57:32 > 0:57:33SHE GASPS
0:57:41 > 0:57:44I know where she is.
0:57:44 > 0:57:46- Morning, Sister.- Sister Monica Joan.
0:57:46 > 0:57:47I know where she is.
0:57:47 > 0:57:49Here, I've written it all down.
0:57:53 > 0:57:57No. I'm sorry, this really doesn't say "manger" to me.
0:57:57 > 0:57:59It isn't supposed to.
0:57:59 > 0:58:01It's supposed to say "cradle".
0:58:01 > 0:58:04Something every mother watching is going to recognise.
0:58:04 > 0:58:07Just as they'll recognise the newborn baby that we'll place there.
0:58:07 > 0:58:10Will it be a good-looking newborn baby?
0:58:10 > 0:58:11We don't know yet.
0:58:11 > 0:58:14We haven't been to the maternity home to pick one.
0:58:17 > 0:58:20- Yes.- 'I'll make sure the information is passed on.'- Thank you.
0:58:21 > 0:58:24An inspector from the Berkshire constabulary's going to call me back
0:58:24 > 0:58:27- in due course.- Due course?
0:58:27 > 0:58:30She's been missing for days and she's nearly 90!
0:58:30 > 0:58:33This address is out of my area, Sister. It has to be referred.
0:58:33 > 0:58:36I'm just as worried as you but those are the regulations.
0:58:36 > 0:58:38Regulations?
0:58:38 > 0:58:40One day, Sergeant Noakes,
0:58:40 > 0:58:42when you're a bit less wet behind the ears,
0:58:42 > 0:58:43you will realise there are regulations
0:58:43 > 0:58:45and there is common sense.
0:58:53 > 0:58:55Stop!
0:58:55 > 0:58:56Wait!
0:58:56 > 0:58:59Morning, Sister. What happened to your bike?
0:58:59 > 0:59:03Nothing, but pedal power isn't going to get me all the way to Berkshire.
0:59:03 > 0:59:06- Berkshire? I've got a van full of Christmas trees.- Go!
0:59:15 > 0:59:19I am reconciled to the lady on the right's habit.
0:59:19 > 0:59:21It smacks somewhat of the Virgin Mary,
0:59:21 > 0:59:23which is nothing if not fortuitous,
0:59:23 > 0:59:26but this, the hat, the mackintosh...
0:59:26 > 0:59:29Oh, we won't be wearing our macs.
0:59:29 > 0:59:32And the cardigans are really very Christmassy.
0:59:32 > 0:59:36Glorious technicolour has not come to the BBC yet, dear.
0:59:36 > 0:59:39This fabric is terribly limp.
0:59:39 > 0:59:40Oh, they're midwives,
0:59:40 > 0:59:42the uniforms get washed a lot.
0:59:46 > 0:59:49Is there the smallest chance of frilly little caps?
0:59:49 > 0:59:51Oh! Quite a big one, actually.
0:59:51 > 0:59:54And, if you stump up for more broderie anglaise,
0:59:54 > 0:59:55they could be very frilly indeed.
0:59:55 > 0:59:56HE SNIGGERS
0:59:56 > 0:59:57HE CLEARS THROAT
0:59:57 > 1:00:00I shall be starting on your ensemble in a moment.
1:00:06 > 1:00:08- STRAINED:- Mrs Turner...
1:00:08 > 1:00:10Iris, whatever's the matter?
1:00:10 > 1:00:12I woke up feeling proper rotten.
1:00:14 > 1:00:17I had a kidney stone last year. I reckon it's come back.
1:00:19 > 1:00:21And it would be today, when there's so much to do.
1:00:21 > 1:00:23Today's just the rehearsal.
1:00:23 > 1:00:25The church looks beautiful!
1:00:25 > 1:00:26Oh!
1:00:26 > 1:00:28I'm taking you to see Doctor.
1:00:36 > 1:00:40- WOMAN'S ECHOING VOICE: - 'Antonia... Antonia!
1:00:42 > 1:00:45'Nanny found the Bible in your room again.'
1:00:48 > 1:00:51Antonia... Try to drink something.
1:00:51 > 1:00:55There was a piano in here.
1:00:56 > 1:01:00But I imagine you used it for firewood.
1:01:00 > 1:01:02You must take in some fluids.
1:01:02 > 1:01:05Or we'll have to take you to a hospital.
1:01:05 > 1:01:07I will not go.
1:01:08 > 1:01:11The story is concluded.
1:01:12 > 1:01:15I was born in this house.
1:01:16 > 1:01:19And I'm content to meet my maker here.
1:01:43 > 1:01:45LABOURED BREATHING
1:01:46 > 1:01:48Have you passed any blood recently?
1:01:48 > 1:01:51No, I've had the change. I had it early.
1:01:51 > 1:01:52I meant in your urine.
1:01:52 > 1:01:53No.
1:01:53 > 1:01:56I have been going more than usual, though.
1:01:56 > 1:01:58Oh, I feel a bit sick.
1:01:59 > 1:02:01The pain's in my back, mostly.
1:02:04 > 1:02:06SHE MOANS
1:02:07 > 1:02:09Ah, oooh. Oooh.
1:02:28 > 1:02:31Iris, dear, when you're ready
1:02:31 > 1:02:33I'm going to get you to your feet
1:02:33 > 1:02:36and we're going to help you across to the maternity home.
1:02:36 > 1:02:37Maternity home?
1:02:37 > 1:02:40You're going to have a baby!
1:02:46 > 1:02:47When?
1:02:47 > 1:02:49Very soon.
1:02:50 > 1:02:53I, I don't, I...
1:02:54 > 1:02:57I don't feel safe.
1:02:57 > 1:03:00When I had my Lorna, Sister Julienne said
1:03:00 > 1:03:03the most important thing was to f-feel safe.
1:03:03 > 1:03:07I'll ring Nonnatus House. SHE MOANS IN PAIN
1:03:08 > 1:03:12Will you please put your foot down before I put it down for you?
1:03:12 > 1:03:15I'm driving down dangerous country lanes!
1:03:15 > 1:03:18There might be rabbits or sheep!
1:03:19 > 1:03:24Iris, Iris, I know this is hard to get to grips with.
1:03:24 > 1:03:25I know.
1:03:26 > 1:03:28I-I'm, I'm 46.
1:03:28 > 1:03:30How can I not have known?
1:03:30 > 1:03:32You're not the first woman this has happened to.
1:03:32 > 1:03:35It's rare, but you're not alone.
1:03:35 > 1:03:36But will it be all right?
1:03:36 > 1:03:39How is it going to be all right?
1:03:39 > 1:03:42Everything will be all right, Iris. I promise you.
1:03:44 > 1:03:46Sister Julienne.
1:03:48 > 1:03:50You delivered my Lorna.
1:03:50 > 1:03:52Yes, I did.
1:03:52 > 1:03:54And I've often remembered her in my prayers.
1:03:58 > 1:04:00I never thought I'd have another child.
1:04:00 > 1:04:03I just... I kept loving her.
1:04:03 > 1:04:05And you always will.
1:04:07 > 1:04:09Love is not going to be halved, but doubled.
1:04:26 > 1:04:28SHE SCREAMS IN PAIN
1:04:28 > 1:04:33That's it, that's it, Iris. Another strong, steady push.
1:04:33 > 1:04:35That's it, that's it.
1:04:35 > 1:04:39Yes! Perfect, perfect.
1:04:39 > 1:04:42Baby's head stopped slipping back now, it'll be with us soon.
1:04:42 > 1:04:43Your husband's arrived now, Iris.
1:04:43 > 1:04:46Dr Turner's just bringing him up-to-date...
1:04:46 > 1:04:48SHE SCREAMS IN PAIN
1:04:48 > 1:04:51SHE SCREAMS IN PAIN
1:04:51 > 1:04:52That's it.
1:04:52 > 1:04:53SHE SCREAMS IN PAIN
1:04:58 > 1:05:01That's it. Nice, steady drag.
1:05:09 > 1:05:10This is the place!
1:05:16 > 1:05:19CRYING
1:05:20 > 1:05:25Well done. It's a little girl!
1:05:25 > 1:05:26And she's beautiful.
1:05:30 > 1:05:31Come here.
1:05:35 > 1:05:36Come on.
1:05:38 > 1:05:40Come to your mum.
1:05:47 > 1:05:48CRYING
1:05:51 > 1:05:53Ssh. Ssh.
1:06:08 > 1:06:11I remember the days of old.
1:06:11 > 1:06:14I meditate on all thy works.
1:06:14 > 1:06:17I muse on the works of thy hands.
1:06:17 > 1:06:20I stretch forth my hands unto thee.
1:06:20 > 1:06:26My soul thirsteth after thee, as in a thirsty land.
1:06:26 > 1:06:30Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning.
1:06:32 > 1:06:35- BOTH:- For in thee do I trust.
1:06:35 > 1:06:40Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk.
1:06:41 > 1:06:44For I lift up my soul unto thee.
1:06:47 > 1:06:48Amen.
1:06:48 > 1:06:49(Amen.)
1:06:54 > 1:06:55Open wide.
1:06:58 > 1:07:01I think you'll find it's my turn to start shouting the odds.
1:07:04 > 1:07:05DOOR OPENS
1:07:05 > 1:07:07The police have arrived.
1:07:07 > 1:07:10They want to know if they should call an ambulance.
1:07:11 > 1:07:14An ambulance is not required.
1:07:15 > 1:07:16I have funds aplenty
1:07:16 > 1:07:19since I pawned my mother's jewels.
1:07:19 > 1:07:23- You pawned them?!- It was an interesting experience.
1:07:24 > 1:07:28En route, I spent one highly displeasing night
1:07:28 > 1:07:31in a Gerrards Cross guesthouse.
1:07:32 > 1:07:35Much capital remains.
1:07:37 > 1:07:40I suggest we telephone a taxi.
1:07:41 > 1:07:44Your chauffeur already awaits.
1:07:55 > 1:07:59I reckon, uh... about six pound, 4oz?
1:07:59 > 1:08:01You're spot on!
1:08:01 > 1:08:03Costermonger's never wrong!
1:08:04 > 1:08:05What we going to call her, then?
1:08:05 > 1:08:07No sad names this time.
1:08:09 > 1:08:11I'm going to call her Joy.
1:08:11 > 1:08:14Oh, that's a lovely name to give a child.
1:08:14 > 1:08:16It's all we've got to give her!
1:08:16 > 1:08:19I haven't got a vest or a mitten for the poor little scrap!
1:08:24 > 1:08:27PHONE RINGS
1:08:28 > 1:08:30Nonnatus House, midwife speaking.
1:08:30 > 1:08:33'I'm calling from a box on the corner of Whittle Street.'
1:08:34 > 1:08:36There's someone there in need of attention.
1:08:44 > 1:08:47- What are you up to?- We're drawing the raffle tomorrow.
1:08:47 > 1:08:48Tomorrow?
1:08:48 > 1:08:51I could murder a bit of cheese on toast.
1:08:51 > 1:08:53I've been driving through countryside.
1:08:53 > 1:08:55Well, you can have cheese on toast
1:08:55 > 1:08:56when you've helped me out with this lot.
1:08:58 > 1:09:02I want you to take out all the 84s and all the 85s.
1:09:16 > 1:09:18I reckon this is immoral.
1:09:18 > 1:09:20Well, keep at it, and then you've got
1:09:20 > 1:09:24the choice of Wensleydale, cheddar or Red Leicester.
1:09:24 > 1:09:26They say the headaches will fade away.
1:09:26 > 1:09:28I just need to rest for a little longer.
1:09:29 > 1:09:31Not that my mother will let me do much else.
1:09:31 > 1:09:33Will she let you come back to work?
1:09:33 > 1:09:35I have to come back to work!
1:09:35 > 1:09:37Back to London.
1:09:38 > 1:09:39This is where my life is.
1:09:41 > 1:09:43- And where you are. - Deils, I'm not going anywhere.
1:09:43 > 1:09:46You can't come back if they don't give you a clean bill of health.
1:09:46 > 1:09:47They will.
1:09:48 > 1:09:49I'll make them.
1:09:50 > 1:09:52KNOCKING
1:09:52 > 1:09:53People out here are waiting!
1:09:56 > 1:09:58People in here are waiting.
1:10:01 > 1:10:03Sheila, it's here, I found it.
1:10:03 > 1:10:05Wait there.
1:10:06 > 1:10:08GARGLING
1:10:17 > 1:10:18I didn't know you could arrange flowers.
1:10:18 > 1:10:21There's a lot about me that you don't know.
1:10:22 > 1:10:24Beatrix Franklin, midwife of mystery.
1:10:33 > 1:10:37In your own time, Mr Swann. Any ticket you like.
1:10:42 > 1:10:43Number 85!
1:10:43 > 1:10:45Oh! Fancy that!
1:10:45 > 1:10:46Oh!
1:10:46 > 1:10:51'Sometimes, the route to joy is indirect.
1:10:51 > 1:10:54'Our journey home not quite as we expected.
1:10:54 > 1:10:57'There's no magic star to guide our steps,
1:10:57 > 1:11:00'no ancient prophecies to predict our way.
1:11:16 > 1:11:21'The greatest gift is to know that we travel not alone,
1:11:21 > 1:11:22'but in the company of others.
1:11:22 > 1:11:26'That there are hands that we can reach for
1:11:26 > 1:11:29'and hearts to keep us warm.'
1:11:40 > 1:11:43# Silent night
1:11:43 > 1:11:46# Holy night
1:11:46 > 1:11:50# All is calm
1:11:50 > 1:11:54# All is bright
1:11:54 > 1:12:01# Round yon virgin, mother and child
1:12:01 > 1:12:09# Holy infant so tender and mild
1:12:09 > 1:12:16# Sleep in heavenly peace
1:12:16 > 1:12:23# Sleep in heavenly peace
1:12:24 > 1:12:28ALL: # Silent night
1:12:28 > 1:12:32# Holy night
1:12:32 > 1:12:40# Shepherds quake at the sight
1:12:40 > 1:12:48# Glories stream from heaven afar
1:12:48 > 1:12:55# Heavenly hosts sing Hallelujah
1:12:55 > 1:13:04# Christ the Saviour is born
1:13:04 > 1:13:10# Christ the Saviour is born. #
1:13:10 > 1:13:13'Sister Monica Joan never did
1:13:13 > 1:13:16'redeem her mother's jewels from the pawn shop.
1:13:16 > 1:13:19'Instead, she purchased two things.
1:13:19 > 1:13:22'A replacement for the Christmas pudding
1:13:22 > 1:13:24'and a television set.
1:13:24 > 1:13:29'She deemed both essential for contentment at Nonnatus House.
1:13:29 > 1:13:33'If others disagreed, they gave no voice to their objections,
1:13:33 > 1:13:36'and the family gathered round,
1:13:36 > 1:13:40'watching their faces flicker black and white,
1:13:40 > 1:13:43'their very presence in the room an act of love,
1:13:43 > 1:13:46'a welcome home.'