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JENNIFER WORTH: 'For the women of Nonnatus House, | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
'life was composed of countless tender disciplines. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:39 | |
'For every word not spoken in the precious nightly silence, | 0:00:39 | 0:00:43 | |
'prayers had to be offered, and rituals performed. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:47 | |
'For every sweet hour stolen, | 0:01:05 | 0:01:07 | |
'there was penance paid. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:09 | |
'And even fleeting, golden moments | 0:01:14 | 0:01:18 | |
'called for sacrifice and courage. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:21 | |
'Nothing came entirely easily. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:23 | |
'And, yet, all hardship was embraced, | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
'because that was the way the wind blew. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:28 | |
'That was the way that things were done.' | 0:01:28 | 0:01:30 | |
Daisy! | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
-For crying out loud, will you put a bit more into it?! -All right. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
Lou! Lou! | 0:02:31 | 0:02:33 | |
Your mother ain't well! Get up on that path and help her! | 0:02:33 | 0:02:36 | |
I'm sure you deserved it. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:50 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:02:50 | 0:02:53 | |
And a round of applause for the Beverley Sisters! | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
Better late than never. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
We're not late. It's eight on the dot. | 0:02:57 | 0:02:59 | |
If you spent less time lathering on the eye-black, Nurse Franklin, | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
you'd have been down here five minutes ago | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
and ready to start work at eight on the dot, like Sister Mary Cynthia. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:10 | |
I'd be careful, if I were you, Nurse Mount. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:12 | |
It may be October, | 0:03:12 | 0:03:13 | |
but there's plenty of flies still looking for a home. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
-Morning! -Good morning, Master Turner. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:19 | |
You're looking very spruce. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:22 | |
New blazer? | 0:03:22 | 0:03:23 | |
Yes, although it's still purple, unfortunately. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:26 | |
So I see. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:28 | |
Insulin? | 0:03:28 | 0:03:29 | |
My mum asked me to drop it off. And she says can Sister Julienne | 0:03:29 | 0:03:32 | |
call in at the practice after surgery hours? | 0:03:32 | 0:03:34 | |
I'll tell her. She's already asked to see me in her office. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:37 | |
Thank you. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:39 | |
Sister. Your courage and your forbearance | 0:03:39 | 0:03:42 | |
over the last few weeks has been admirable in every conceivable way. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:48 | |
-You have my absolute respect. -Thank you. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
But I haven't done anything out of the ordinary. I just carried on. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:55 | |
And it is for that very reason that I have wanted to send you | 0:03:55 | 0:03:58 | |
to the Mother House ever since you were attacked. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:01 | |
You deserve to spend time in prayer and reflection, | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
but I haven't been able to spare you. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:06 | |
We have no idea when Sister Evangelina will re-join us. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:10 | |
Or even if. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:13 | |
But she said she was going to the silent order for six months. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:17 | |
And the six months is over, | 0:04:17 | 0:04:19 | |
and we've scarcely heard a word from her. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:22 | |
But why would she choose an enclosed life? | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
Why would she choose to give up midwifery? | 0:04:25 | 0:04:28 | |
It may not be a choice. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
She may've found a different calling. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:33 | |
A new superfluity of apples abandoned upon our step! | 0:04:37 | 0:04:41 | |
I think these are russets and like to be as hard as swedes. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:44 | |
I'm quite sure that Mrs B can find something wonderful to do with them. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:48 | |
Again? | 0:04:48 | 0:04:50 | |
Again. Personally, I'm glad to be spared another marrow. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:56 | |
LIFT DINGS | 0:05:10 | 0:05:11 | |
MUSIC PLAYS ON RADIO, WOMAN HUMS ALONG | 0:05:24 | 0:05:28 | |
KNOCK ON DOOR | 0:05:35 | 0:05:37 | |
Midwife calling! | 0:05:37 | 0:05:38 | |
Mrs Matlin? | 0:05:38 | 0:05:40 | |
Oh, get down! | 0:05:42 | 0:05:43 | |
You could hurt yourself! | 0:05:43 | 0:05:46 | |
I can't stop myself, nurse. Yesterday, it was cleaning. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
And when there was nothing left to clean, I started painting. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:51 | |
Please let me finish - I've only got one more stroke with the brush. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:54 | |
In which case, I shall do it. | 0:05:54 | 0:05:56 | |
But it's not your job. | 0:05:56 | 0:05:57 | |
My job is looking after you, and that involves | 0:05:57 | 0:06:00 | |
stopping you falling, A, off this chair and, B, out of the window. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:03 | |
Anyone falling would make a right mess, from eight floors up! | 0:06:03 | 0:06:06 | |
It'd be like Tom and Jerry, where they fall off the roof | 0:06:06 | 0:06:09 | |
and leave a cat-shaped hole in the pavement. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
-Or a mouse-shaped hole. -Hello. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
Hello, love. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:15 | |
What's happening? | 0:06:15 | 0:06:16 | |
Your wife is in the grip of what's known as the nesting instinct, | 0:06:16 | 0:06:19 | |
-Mr Matlin. She needed a bit of a hand. -Thanks. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:23 | |
I must say, this is one of the nicest flats I've been to. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:30 | |
We had a wedding list. There was one in Woman's Own you could cut out. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:33 | |
We got the lot except for the sherry glasses. | 0:06:33 | 0:06:35 | |
Pretty much everything we wanted. Didn't we, Leslie? | 0:06:35 | 0:06:38 | |
So... | 0:06:47 | 0:06:49 | |
the contraceptive pill. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:51 | |
Licensed for distribution within weeks. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:54 | |
It's been talked about for so long, it's hardly a surprise. | 0:06:54 | 0:06:57 | |
No. But it is a challenge. | 0:06:57 | 0:07:01 | |
Well, of course it's a challenge, Sister. | 0:07:01 | 0:07:04 | |
Antibiotics were a challenge once. | 0:07:04 | 0:07:06 | |
Antibiotics were also a miracle. | 0:07:06 | 0:07:08 | |
And you think the contraceptive pill isn't? | 0:07:08 | 0:07:11 | |
It's a miracle with moral implications, Dr Turner. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
With other forms of contraception, you refer the patient | 0:07:18 | 0:07:22 | |
to a family planning clinic, which you can't do unless they're married. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:26 | |
Exactly. But with the pill, | 0:07:26 | 0:07:29 | |
the Minister for Health has issued no such guidelines. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:32 | |
-Yet. -And that's the most exciting thing. If I can prescribe it, | 0:07:32 | 0:07:37 | |
single women will benefit, too. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:40 | |
Quite. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:41 | |
You know the statistics as well as I do. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:44 | |
10% of babies in Poplar are born illegitimate. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:47 | |
With all the heartache and stigma that implies. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:50 | |
I don't doubt that you've looked at this | 0:07:52 | 0:07:54 | |
from every conceivable medical and social angle. | 0:07:54 | 0:07:58 | |
However, whilst there is nothing in Anglican teaching to forbid | 0:07:58 | 0:08:03 | |
birth control, the church does take a view on matters of morality. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:08 | |
As Mrs Turner, at least, will be aware. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:12 | |
Well, of course. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:16 | |
Have a lemon puff. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:18 | |
Is there anything plainer? | 0:08:21 | 0:08:23 | |
I have some arrowroot biscuits. I'll pop and fetch them. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:29 | |
KNOCK ON DOOR, IT OPENS | 0:08:32 | 0:08:34 | |
Tea is on the table, Sister. | 0:08:34 | 0:08:37 | |
I shan't join you today. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:40 | |
I feel I need to spend some quiet time in chapel. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:43 | |
-Perhaps you'd say grace instead? -Of course. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:46 | |
DOORBELL RINGS | 0:09:07 | 0:09:09 | |
Everyone's out on their evening rounds. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:19 | |
Apart from me, because I'm on call. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:22 | |
Good. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:23 | |
Ooh... | 0:09:26 | 0:09:27 | |
Have you bought shares in Brylcreem? | 0:09:27 | 0:09:29 | |
Funeral. People expect a certain level of grooming. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
Oh. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:34 | |
So, that's Peggy May, | 0:09:36 | 0:09:39 | |
Rose Willow, Golden Maid, | 0:09:39 | 0:09:42 | |
Sweet Alice, and Dora Deane. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:45 | |
Sounds like a line-up of chorus girls. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
It's all rather quaint, really. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:52 | |
I don't know why Nurse Crane insisted we came down together. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
Oh, um, little girl? | 0:09:55 | 0:09:57 | |
Do you know of a barge called the Molly Belle? | 0:09:59 | 0:10:01 | |
Yes. It's where I live. It's up there. | 0:10:01 | 0:10:05 | |
Is your mother's name Marguerite Blacker? | 0:10:05 | 0:10:09 | |
Yeah, but they call her Daisy. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:10 | |
You can always trust Trixie to have the latest records in. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:19 | |
MUSIC STARTS | 0:10:19 | 0:10:21 | |
# Hi, tiger | 0:10:23 | 0:10:25 | |
# Teach me, tiger, how to kiss you | 0:10:27 | 0:10:32 | |
# Wah wah wah wah wah | 0:10:33 | 0:10:35 | |
# Show me, tiger, how to kiss you | 0:10:35 | 0:10:39 | |
# Wah wah wah wah wah | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
# Take my lips, they belong to you | 0:10:43 | 0:10:51 | |
# But teach me first Teach me what to do | 0:10:51 | 0:10:58 | |
# Touch me, tiger when I'm close to you | 0:11:00 | 0:11:05 | |
# Wah wah wah wah wah | 0:11:05 | 0:11:08 | |
# Tiger | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
# Tiger | 0:11:13 | 0:11:17 | |
# Tiger... # | 0:11:18 | 0:11:20 | |
It is good of you to come. But I'm feeling much better now. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:25 | |
-Not that much better. -Don't contradict your mother, Lou. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:28 | |
They were good to her at the hospital, | 0:11:28 | 0:11:30 | |
but they said she was all right to leave. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:32 | |
I'm sorry. We've interrupted you during your meal. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:36 | |
If you telephone this number at any time of the day or night, | 0:11:36 | 0:11:39 | |
you can speak to a midwife about any aspect of your pregnancy. | 0:11:39 | 0:11:42 | |
There's no need to make an appointment. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:44 | |
Might not be 'ere that long. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:46 | |
We're in with a chance of a cargo going up to Manchester. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:50 | |
But thank you. | 0:11:50 | 0:11:51 | |
Lou, take that piece of paper off the lady. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:55 | |
Come on down, have a look at her. | 0:11:58 | 0:12:01 | |
No harm in putting minds at rest. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:03 | |
Dunno know why I took on so funny this morning. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:14 | |
I was only working the lock, and I do it all the time, | 0:12:14 | 0:12:17 | |
like me ma and me grandma did before me. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:20 | |
Locks are women's work. Always have been. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:22 | |
Like this. | 0:12:22 | 0:12:24 | |
If this is women's work, you're rather good at it. | 0:12:24 | 0:12:27 | |
Baby's heartbeat's wonderfully strong. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:29 | |
Felt like a failure, being taken to the hospital. | 0:12:29 | 0:12:32 | |
Having them do blood tests. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:34 | |
I should be able to get the results tomorrow. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:36 | |
And I can bring them here for you, or you could come by our clinic? | 0:12:36 | 0:12:39 | |
There are things we can give you for your other children - | 0:12:39 | 0:12:42 | |
free orange juice, and so forth, or rosehip syrup if you prefer. | 0:12:42 | 0:12:46 | |
Rosehip? You can do a lot with rosehips. | 0:12:46 | 0:12:49 | |
I make tea with them sometimes. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:51 | |
You've been awfully good to me, but I really shouldn't keep you. | 0:12:53 | 0:12:56 | |
RECORD CRACKLES | 0:12:59 | 0:13:00 | |
Tom. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:05 | |
People will be home soon. | 0:13:06 | 0:13:07 | |
True. | 0:13:09 | 0:13:10 | |
Oh, no. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:16 | |
-Oh, Tom! -What? | 0:13:16 | 0:13:19 | |
-The wall's covered in Brylcreem! From your head! -No! | 0:13:19 | 0:13:23 | |
Oh, it's not coming off. | 0:13:25 | 0:13:27 | |
Oh, I'm just making it more shiny. | 0:13:27 | 0:13:29 | |
Well, you'll have to say you tripped up with the butter dish. | 0:13:29 | 0:13:32 | |
Oh, Mr Hereward. What a nice surprise, | 0:13:36 | 0:13:38 | |
you must've come to join us for Compline. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:41 | |
Yes. I have. Indeed. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:44 | |
Poor Mrs Blacker. It was like trying to get a bird to eat out of my hand. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:52 | |
One false move, and she'd fly away. | 0:13:52 | 0:13:54 | |
I wish it wasn't so hard to give help to the people that need it. | 0:13:54 | 0:13:57 | |
And, you know, none of those children go to school. | 0:13:57 | 0:14:01 | |
I checked while you were in the cabin. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:03 | |
The eldest, Lou, is already 11 | 0:14:03 | 0:14:05 | |
and I'm not sure she can even read or write. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:07 | |
The whole family's completely itinerant. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:09 | |
Never in the same place for more than a week or so, | 0:14:09 | 0:14:12 | |
they travel huge distances. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:14 | |
There must be ways around that. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:16 | |
Well, Mrs Blacker was quite surprised | 0:14:16 | 0:14:18 | |
when I told her all the things she was entitled to. | 0:14:18 | 0:14:21 | |
Trouble is, I'm not sure whether she wants to accept them. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:24 | |
Barge people are a law unto themselves, they always were. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:34 | |
They don't call them water gypsies for no reason. I... | 0:14:35 | 0:14:39 | |
Good grief! Where did that stain on the wallpaper come from? | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
What stain? | 0:14:45 | 0:14:47 | |
Oh, dear. I do hope it isn't another patch of damp. | 0:14:47 | 0:14:50 | |
Sister Julienne's worried the building's getting wet rot. | 0:14:50 | 0:14:53 | |
Ooh, perhaps it's just an optical illusion. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:56 | |
This isn't moisture. | 0:14:56 | 0:14:58 | |
It's grease! | 0:14:58 | 0:14:59 | |
I surmise a manifestation from another realm. | 0:15:00 | 0:15:05 | |
Spirits have been known to talk through | 0:15:05 | 0:15:08 | |
the approbation of strange substances. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:11 | |
Whatever it is, it's strange enough. | 0:15:11 | 0:15:15 | |
It smells rather masculine to me. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:17 | |
Masculine? | 0:15:17 | 0:15:19 | |
Though what it's doing six feet up the wall is anybody's guess! | 0:15:19 | 0:15:23 | |
-Good morning, ladies. -ALL: Good morning, Sister. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:27 | |
Nurse Crane will issue the morning's schedule after breakfast. | 0:15:27 | 0:15:30 | |
But this evening, I would like you all to attend | 0:15:30 | 0:15:35 | |
a special seminar here at Nonnatus House. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:38 | |
I have an obligation this evening. I have it every week. | 0:15:38 | 0:15:43 | |
Of course. I'm sorry. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:45 | |
After a great deal of prayer and reflection, I have asked | 0:15:46 | 0:15:51 | |
Dr Turner to come and talk to us about the new contraceptive pill, | 0:15:51 | 0:15:54 | |
which will be available within the next few weeks. | 0:15:54 | 0:15:57 | |
That's absolutely tremendous news! | 0:15:57 | 0:15:59 | |
I've also invited Mr Hereward to join us, | 0:15:59 | 0:16:03 | |
so he can give us a Christian perspective. | 0:16:03 | 0:16:06 | |
It's a shame Sister Evangelina isn't here. | 0:16:06 | 0:16:08 | |
She'd have had plenty to say about it all! | 0:16:08 | 0:16:11 | |
Sister Evangelina has elected to be absent. | 0:16:11 | 0:16:14 | |
We must proceed without her view. | 0:16:14 | 0:16:17 | |
FRONT DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES | 0:16:22 | 0:16:24 | |
There were Worcesters today, and there were crab apples. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:30 | |
The latter still with the tang of Epping Forest upon them. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:33 | |
I'm sure no-one will object to us sharing our good fortune. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:38 | |
Before you apply the term "good fortune" to this glut, | 0:16:38 | 0:16:42 | |
I suggest you hear the opinion of my bowels! | 0:16:42 | 0:16:45 | |
I sense this is a personal letter, | 0:16:47 | 0:16:49 | |
since you intend to dispatch it yourself? | 0:16:49 | 0:16:52 | |
Yes. It is. | 0:16:52 | 0:16:54 | |
It is to Sister Evangelina. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:56 | |
I did not think we should ever have to plead with her. | 0:16:58 | 0:17:01 | |
Nor did I. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:02 | |
But time has passed. And who knows what has passed | 0:17:04 | 0:17:06 | |
between our Sister and the Lord? | 0:17:06 | 0:17:08 | |
And who knows what addlement her mind has suffered, | 0:17:08 | 0:17:11 | |
closeted in ostentatious silence? | 0:17:11 | 0:17:14 | |
Evangelina is a woman built for noise and motion, | 0:17:16 | 0:17:22 | |
designed to hear His voice above the din of living. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:26 | |
-Sister, please... -You fear what will become of us if she does not return. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:32 | |
I fear what will become of HER. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:36 | |
As do I. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:38 | |
And now, I am going to post my letter. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:41 | |
Excellent! | 0:18:04 | 0:18:05 | |
Oh! Very good. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:11 | |
-There we are. -Thank you. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:17 | |
You haven't gained anything in a month, Gina. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:23 | |
Top of the milk for you, | 0:18:23 | 0:18:24 | |
and make sure you help yourself to an extra potato. | 0:18:24 | 0:18:26 | |
That being said, I'm not sure how much longer you've got left. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:29 | |
There's still nothing doing, Nurse. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:31 | |
I thought, if I came down here, it might stop me painting the bathroom. | 0:18:31 | 0:18:34 | |
Or me husband. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:35 | |
-Ah, is he getting restless, too? -Not so's you'd notice. | 0:18:35 | 0:18:38 | |
It's like he don't even know there's a baby on the way. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:41 | |
Thank you, Sister. I'm sorry to have kept you. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:49 | |
Some blood results came back from the London. | 0:18:49 | 0:18:51 | |
-One or two will need attention. -Thank you. | 0:18:51 | 0:18:53 | |
Could you pop over to the side room, Sister? | 0:18:53 | 0:18:56 | |
This week's unmarried mothers are ready to catch the bus | 0:18:56 | 0:18:59 | |
-to the station. You just need to sign those final forms. -Of course. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:02 | |
-Good afternoon. May I help you? -I had another dizzy do. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:11 | |
The red-headed nurse said I could come here, | 0:19:11 | 0:19:13 | |
but I only want to talk to her. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:15 | |
Of course. Take a seat. And I'll fetch Nurse Mount. | 0:19:15 | 0:19:18 | |
It was my husband made me come. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
I had a hard time having Jonah, it took me ages to pick up afterwards. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:25 | |
These things do all get rather harder with age. | 0:19:25 | 0:19:27 | |
Where was Jonah born? | 0:19:27 | 0:19:29 | |
In a barge, like the others. | 0:19:29 | 0:19:31 | |
I always liked the quiet, the being on me own... | 0:19:31 | 0:19:34 | |
On your own? | 0:19:34 | 0:19:35 | |
But maybe not this time. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
Well, we can look after you when you deliver. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:40 | |
And keep an eye on your blood pressure, which is rather low. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:42 | |
The London blood tests showed that you're also anaemic, | 0:19:42 | 0:19:45 | |
so our rather lovely doctor can prescribe you iron pills. | 0:19:45 | 0:19:48 | |
Will they cost much? | 0:19:48 | 0:19:50 | |
Just the prescription fee. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:51 | |
Only my Joe had to turn down a Birmingham cargo today, | 0:19:51 | 0:19:55 | |
cos of me coming here. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:56 | |
Where's Lou? | 0:19:58 | 0:19:59 | |
Doing crepe paper handicrafts with the other children. | 0:19:59 | 0:20:02 | |
And being quite the bossy-boots, from the look of things. | 0:20:02 | 0:20:04 | |
She's like a second mum to my three lads. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:06 | |
I call her my right hand. | 0:20:06 | 0:20:09 | |
-Knock, knock! -Come in, Doctor. | 0:20:09 | 0:20:11 | |
I was just telling Mrs Blacker what a sterling service we provide. | 0:20:11 | 0:20:14 | |
No stone left unturned in pursuit of a happy outcome! | 0:20:14 | 0:20:18 | |
Which means that we need to give you a bit of extra care, Mrs Blacker. | 0:20:18 | 0:20:22 | |
-The nurse said about the iron pills. -Yes. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:25 | |
And I'd also like to book you into our maternity home for bed rest. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:29 | |
I do appreciate that it will be a wrench for you to be away | 0:20:33 | 0:20:35 | |
from your children, Mrs Blacker. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:38 | |
But you need to put your new baby - and yourself - first for a while. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
We do everything together. All of us. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:44 | |
We're never apart. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:46 | |
Your husband and children can visit every evening, | 0:20:46 | 0:20:48 | |
between five and seven, longer at weekends. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:51 | |
That sounds all right. | 0:20:52 | 0:20:54 | |
And they'll have so much to tell you every day. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:57 | |
The school has room for all four of them - Jonah and Barney will be | 0:20:57 | 0:21:00 | |
in the same class and Lou can meet up with them every day at playtime. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:04 | |
Do you want to go to school, or do you want to stop with Dad? | 0:21:05 | 0:21:07 | |
School. | 0:21:07 | 0:21:08 | |
All right. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:14 | |
Very wise. So, if I could just get you to confirm that I've entered | 0:21:14 | 0:21:18 | |
your name, address and birthdate correctly on the booking form, | 0:21:18 | 0:21:21 | |
we're all shipshape and Bristol fashion. | 0:21:21 | 0:21:24 | |
I haven't brought me glasses. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:26 | |
Not to worry. I'll fine-tune the paperwork. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:31 | |
MUSIC: By The Light Of The Silvery Moon by The Black and White Minstrels | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
Sister Monica Joan, I really don't think Dr Turner wants to be | 0:21:37 | 0:21:40 | |
competing with the Black and White Minstrels. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
The room required cleansing with glad acts, | 0:21:43 | 0:21:46 | |
for it had been unsettled by the advent of strange medicine. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:51 | |
What's happened to trouble you, Sister? | 0:21:51 | 0:21:53 | |
The mark of it remains quite plain... | 0:21:53 | 0:21:56 | |
..upon the wall. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:00 | |
Put these back in the kitchen. They're for after the talk. | 0:22:02 | 0:22:05 | |
-# By the silvery moon -The moon, the moon | 0:22:09 | 0:22:14 | |
-# By the silvery moon -The moon, the moon | 0:22:14 | 0:22:19 | |
# By the silvery moon... # | 0:22:19 | 0:22:24 | |
In the United States, the pill was initially only approved | 0:22:24 | 0:22:27 | |
as a treatment for menstrual disorders. | 0:22:27 | 0:22:30 | |
But hundreds of thousands of American women are now taking it | 0:22:30 | 0:22:34 | |
as a contraceptive and it has been declared to be 100% effective | 0:22:34 | 0:22:39 | |
in preventing pregnancy. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:41 | |
One of the best things about this method of contraception | 0:22:41 | 0:22:45 | |
is that it's completely within the control of the woman. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:48 | |
Some men aren't going to like that. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:51 | |
Listen, I've spent quite enough afternoons | 0:22:51 | 0:22:53 | |
in family planning clinics rolling sheaths onto a wooden... | 0:22:53 | 0:22:58 | |
Excuse me, Sister, may I say penis? | 0:22:58 | 0:23:00 | |
By all means. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:02 | |
..wooden penis, trying to convince mothers of five or six children | 0:23:02 | 0:23:06 | |
that barrier methods are the way ahead. | 0:23:06 | 0:23:09 | |
Time and again, you get the same response. "My Eddie won't." | 0:23:09 | 0:23:13 | |
"My Ted can't." | 0:23:13 | 0:23:15 | |
"My Billy says, it's like going for a paddle with your socks on." | 0:23:15 | 0:23:19 | |
SOME CHUCKLING, HE LAUGHS NERVOUSLY | 0:23:19 | 0:23:22 | |
There are so many things about sobriety that surprised me. | 0:23:25 | 0:23:29 | |
Everybody's journey here seems to begin with such a bang. | 0:23:29 | 0:23:33 | |
The torrents of tears, the phone calls in the dead of night. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:38 | |
The wanting to die. | 0:23:38 | 0:23:40 | |
My experience was no different. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:45 | |
But what nobody tells you - or at least what nobody told me | 0:23:45 | 0:23:48 | |
in almost a year of dragging myself here on the 49 bus - | 0:23:48 | 0:23:53 | |
is that life without a drink can be so appallingly boring. | 0:23:53 | 0:23:58 | |
The drag - | 0:23:59 | 0:24:02 | |
the utter drag - | 0:24:02 | 0:24:04 | |
of Horlicks every night. | 0:24:04 | 0:24:07 | |
The tedium of barley water with your Sunday lunch. | 0:24:07 | 0:24:10 | |
Oh, it used to be such fun to mix a drink, thinking, | 0:24:10 | 0:24:13 | |
"What can I put in this Campari to make it a brighter colour, | 0:24:13 | 0:24:16 | |
"give it more bite?" | 0:24:16 | 0:24:18 | |
Oh, and I so loved the smell of maraschino cherries. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:21 | |
I loved the lipstick red of them... | 0:24:23 | 0:24:26 | |
..and the way other people smiled as I speared the... | 0:24:27 | 0:24:31 | |
cherry on a cocktail stick. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:34 | |
It was such a wonderfully frivolous thing. | 0:24:34 | 0:24:37 | |
It meant that I was with friends. That I wasn't alone. | 0:24:37 | 0:24:41 | |
I don't bother much with maraschino cherries any more, | 0:24:44 | 0:24:48 | |
I don't even put them in my Horlicks, or my barley water - | 0:24:48 | 0:24:52 | |
they taste revolting. | 0:24:52 | 0:24:54 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:24:54 | 0:24:56 | |
I don't need them. | 0:24:56 | 0:24:59 | |
I know that fun doesn't come in bottles now. | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
I know the value of sobriety... | 0:25:02 | 0:25:05 | |
..and I know what friendship really is, what it means. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:10 | |
I always did, I just couldn't see it. | 0:25:12 | 0:25:15 | |
I owe the 49 bus rather a lot, all things considered. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:25:19 | 0:25:21 | |
And I owe you - all of you - even more. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:30 | |
Thank you. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:32 | |
Like any method of contraception, | 0:25:35 | 0:25:37 | |
you have to use it religiously, or it doesn't work. | 0:25:37 | 0:25:40 | |
And there are some groups of women | 0:25:40 | 0:25:41 | |
who'll find taking daily medication difficult. | 0:25:41 | 0:25:44 | |
Which could be a catastrophe, if they are single. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:47 | |
I'm extremely concerned that we do nothing to promote... | 0:25:48 | 0:25:53 | |
recreational intercourse and I'm sure Mr Hereward feels the same. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:58 | |
Well, what are the government guidelines? | 0:26:00 | 0:26:03 | |
Mr Hereward, shouldn't you be more concerned with church teachings | 0:26:03 | 0:26:08 | |
than government guidelines? | 0:26:08 | 0:26:10 | |
Well, I do think we have to be mindful of the Bible. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:13 | |
When Paul wrote to the Corinthians, | 0:26:13 | 0:26:15 | |
he said, "There is too much immorality among you. | 0:26:15 | 0:26:17 | |
"Let each man keep to his own wife and each woman to her own husband." | 0:26:17 | 0:26:22 | |
Well, how on earth can that be relevant? | 0:26:22 | 0:26:24 | |
Contraception wasn't invented then. | 0:26:24 | 0:26:26 | |
Times change, but the value of marriage remains constant. | 0:26:26 | 0:26:29 | |
So, say there's a young woman, she's 19 or 20 | 0:26:29 | 0:26:34 | |
and she's in love with a boy - who's in love with her - | 0:26:34 | 0:26:38 | |
and she knows and he knows that they can't keep fighting this desire | 0:26:38 | 0:26:44 | |
that's drawing them together. | 0:26:44 | 0:26:47 | |
Would you have them risk everything - | 0:26:47 | 0:26:49 | |
their reputation, their peace of mind - | 0:26:49 | 0:26:51 | |
because they simply can't help themselves? | 0:26:51 | 0:26:54 | |
I'd be obliged to counsel self-restraint. | 0:26:54 | 0:26:57 | |
And, with Mr Hereward's wise words, it's time we drew this to a close. | 0:27:00 | 0:27:04 | |
Nurse Gilbert, I believe you're first on call. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:09 | |
Tom, how could you sit there and lecture people on self-restraint | 0:27:09 | 0:27:13 | |
in a room where your Brylcreem has made a mark on the wall | 0:27:13 | 0:27:16 | |
as big as an elephant's face? | 0:27:16 | 0:27:18 | |
I wasn't lecturing. | 0:27:18 | 0:27:20 | |
Sister Julienne put me on the spot. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:22 | |
-Well, you hadn't said a word till then! -Well, nobody asked me to. | 0:27:22 | 0:27:25 | |
And I could hardly chip in, you were talking about medicine and menstr... | 0:27:25 | 0:27:30 | |
Menstruation. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:32 | |
Both subjects about which I know nothing. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:34 | |
Well, maybe you should learn! | 0:27:34 | 0:27:36 | |
If you're going to go around family planning meetings like some sort of...moral advisor. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:40 | |
Barbara, are you saying you believe in sex before marriage? | 0:27:42 | 0:27:44 | |
No, I'm saying I believe it happens - | 0:27:44 | 0:27:49 | |
and I know how it happens. | 0:27:49 | 0:27:52 | |
I'm sorry, it's Gina Matlin's first and she's gone into labour. | 0:27:52 | 0:27:56 | |
She'll be fretting until someone arrives. | 0:27:56 | 0:27:58 | |
Can I have a kiss? | 0:28:02 | 0:28:04 | |
Just the one. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:06 | |
Tiger. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:12 | |
Oh, Gina... | 0:28:24 | 0:28:27 | |
you've had a long night, but this is normal - | 0:28:27 | 0:28:30 | |
especially with a first baby - and you are doing so well. | 0:28:30 | 0:28:35 | |
No, I'm not. It hurts. It hurts so much and that gas is useless! | 0:28:35 | 0:28:40 | |
Oh, it's not useless. It's run out. | 0:28:40 | 0:28:44 | |
SHE SOBS | 0:28:44 | 0:28:45 | |
Mr Matlin? | 0:28:45 | 0:28:47 | |
-Mr Matlin! -I'm sorry, I fell asleep. | 0:28:47 | 0:28:51 | |
And I'm sorry I had to wake you, | 0:28:51 | 0:28:53 | |
but I need you to make a phone call for me. | 0:28:53 | 0:28:57 | |
You lot behave yourselves, now. | 0:28:57 | 0:28:59 | |
-And you. -Nurse Mount'll keep me in order, I reckon. | 0:29:01 | 0:29:04 | |
I may not be on horseback, but consider me the cavalry. | 0:29:15 | 0:29:18 | |
Gina, this baby's well on its way | 0:29:18 | 0:29:21 | |
and we've brought more gas to get us through the home stretch. | 0:29:21 | 0:29:24 | |
Shall I take over, you look done in. | 0:29:24 | 0:29:27 | |
You yell your head off, if you fancy it, Gina. | 0:29:32 | 0:29:34 | |
That's the last you'll be having | 0:29:34 | 0:29:36 | |
-without some help. -CRIES OF PAIN | 0:29:36 | 0:29:39 | |
-Am I the only one in here? -Yes, you're lucky. | 0:29:41 | 0:29:45 | |
-We're unusually quiet at the moment. -Ceiling's so high. | 0:29:45 | 0:29:49 | |
Makes me feel dizzy, even though I'm not. | 0:29:49 | 0:29:52 | |
Your blood pressure's rather good today. | 0:29:53 | 0:29:56 | |
Morning, Mrs Blacker. | 0:29:56 | 0:29:58 | |
A doctor will be here to check you over shortly | 0:29:58 | 0:30:00 | |
and I've come to ask if you want a soft or a hardboiled egg. | 0:30:00 | 0:30:04 | |
I have bread in the mornings, usually. | 0:30:04 | 0:30:07 | |
-Eggs are surprisingly rich in iron. -What's this? | 0:30:07 | 0:30:10 | |
Nightdress, dressing gown and slippers. | 0:30:10 | 0:30:13 | |
-I told you everything would be provided. -No. I mean - what's this? | 0:30:13 | 0:30:17 | |
It says "Property of Kenilworth Row Maternity Home." | 0:30:17 | 0:30:20 | |
We write that on everything. | 0:30:20 | 0:30:22 | |
Baby's with us as far as his shoulders, Gina. | 0:30:25 | 0:30:28 | |
If you can give me one more massive, brave push - | 0:30:28 | 0:30:32 | |
you'll have him in your arms. | 0:30:32 | 0:30:35 | |
SHE PANTS | 0:30:35 | 0:30:37 | |
SHE GROANS | 0:30:38 | 0:30:40 | |
BABY CRIES | 0:30:47 | 0:30:49 | |
Oh, lass, you put the graft in and here's your reward! | 0:30:54 | 0:30:58 | |
A little boy, Gina, and just wait till you see him. | 0:30:58 | 0:31:03 | |
BABY CRIES | 0:31:05 | 0:31:07 | |
You've got a little smasher there, you really have. | 0:31:14 | 0:31:17 | |
Your husband will be grinning from ear to ear. | 0:31:17 | 0:31:20 | |
I don't reckon Leslie wants any of this - | 0:31:23 | 0:31:26 | |
the baby, or a wife. | 0:31:26 | 0:31:30 | |
Gina, I'm sure that isn't true. | 0:31:30 | 0:31:32 | |
We'd only been courting three months and we had to get married. | 0:31:32 | 0:31:37 | |
It's not what either of us planned. | 0:31:37 | 0:31:40 | |
I came round to it - I couldn't help it, once I felt him kicking... | 0:31:40 | 0:31:45 | |
..but I don't think Leslie ever did. | 0:31:46 | 0:31:49 | |
He's so soft. | 0:31:55 | 0:31:57 | |
Leslie said we could call him Robert, if he was a boy, after his grandad. | 0:31:59 | 0:32:05 | |
But I just don't think he really wanted him... | 0:32:07 | 0:32:11 | |
or me. | 0:32:11 | 0:32:13 | |
Except for in the way he shouldn't have. | 0:32:13 | 0:32:16 | |
It's far too late to be crying about that now. | 0:32:17 | 0:32:20 | |
THEY SIGH | 0:32:21 | 0:32:23 | |
-Barley sugar? -Oh, yes, please! | 0:32:23 | 0:32:25 | |
It's a rotten business, isn't it? Having to get married. | 0:32:27 | 0:32:30 | |
Well, there's plenty make a decent fist of it...and plenty don't. | 0:32:30 | 0:32:35 | |
Though, it's still better than what my mother went through | 0:32:35 | 0:32:38 | |
when she had me out of wedlock. | 0:32:38 | 0:32:41 | |
Oh, I don't mention it much. | 0:32:41 | 0:32:43 | |
Suffice to say, it made its mark. | 0:32:44 | 0:32:47 | |
During the war, all morals were tossed to the winds, | 0:32:48 | 0:32:51 | |
but even so, when the opportunity of a weekend in Cleveleys with | 0:32:51 | 0:32:55 | |
an Air Force sergeant presented itself, I nearly chickened out. | 0:32:55 | 0:32:59 | |
NEARLY chickened out? | 0:32:59 | 0:33:01 | |
I did the appropriate research | 0:33:01 | 0:33:04 | |
and purchased a hygienic douche through the small advertisements. | 0:33:04 | 0:33:09 | |
It was called the Omega Spray. | 0:33:09 | 0:33:11 | |
It involved a certain amount of fiddle-faddle, | 0:33:13 | 0:33:15 | |
but we managed well enough. | 0:33:15 | 0:33:18 | |
I shall always have very fond memories of Cleveleys. | 0:33:18 | 0:33:22 | |
Phyllis, what happened to him? The Air Force sergeant? | 0:33:22 | 0:33:27 | |
-Killed, over Germany, in 1941. -Oh. | 0:33:27 | 0:33:31 | |
It made me very glad we'd seized the moment. | 0:33:31 | 0:33:35 | |
It's almost a full moon. | 0:33:39 | 0:33:41 | |
Sister Monica Joan is convinced full moons are our busiest nights. | 0:33:42 | 0:33:46 | |
I did a stint on psychiatric once - used to say the same thing there. | 0:33:46 | 0:33:50 | |
I wish the Blacker children had got on better at school. | 0:33:55 | 0:33:58 | |
When they visited Daisy, I heard them telling her the other children had been horrible. | 0:33:58 | 0:34:03 | |
Lou doesn't want to go again. | 0:34:03 | 0:34:05 | |
-Do they smell? -Lots of children smell. | 0:34:05 | 0:34:09 | |
In any given vaccination queue, you can tell who's been rehoused | 0:34:09 | 0:34:12 | |
somewhere with a bathroom and who hasn't. | 0:34:12 | 0:34:15 | |
The Blacker children are never going to have a bathroom | 0:34:15 | 0:34:19 | |
and their clothes are a problem, too. | 0:34:19 | 0:34:21 | |
Pats, next time we both have the same night off... | 0:34:21 | 0:34:25 | |
..I want to go to Gateways Club. | 0:34:26 | 0:34:29 | |
Why? | 0:34:29 | 0:34:31 | |
Because there are women like us there! | 0:34:31 | 0:34:33 | |
We've discussed this! | 0:34:33 | 0:34:36 | |
I don't want to be with "women like us", I just want to be with you. | 0:34:36 | 0:34:39 | |
We can hold hands there. Dance there. | 0:34:39 | 0:34:44 | |
Be in a crowd and be invisible. | 0:34:44 | 0:34:46 | |
I'm sorry. | 0:34:47 | 0:34:49 | |
-There you go, pass that down. Well done. -Ta. | 0:34:50 | 0:34:54 | |
We'll rinse the lotion off your hair and just trim the ends | 0:34:56 | 0:34:58 | |
before you change into some nice smart clothes. | 0:34:58 | 0:35:00 | |
I don't want us to be late, they'll pick on us if we are. | 0:35:00 | 0:35:03 | |
Miss Dawkins said you could come in at ten and go straight | 0:35:03 | 0:35:05 | |
to Music and Movement. And no-one will pick on you, | 0:35:05 | 0:35:08 | |
wearing those lovely fresh knickers and vests. | 0:35:08 | 0:35:11 | |
Here we are! | 0:35:11 | 0:35:13 | |
There's something for everyone, including ribbons for Lou's plaits. | 0:35:13 | 0:35:17 | |
Perfect! The rest is clearly doing everything we hoped. | 0:35:23 | 0:35:27 | |
I feel like it might happen today. | 0:35:27 | 0:35:29 | |
According to your dates, you're not quite due. | 0:35:29 | 0:35:31 | |
Let's see what Mother Nature has in store. | 0:35:31 | 0:35:34 | |
-Mummy! -Look who I found coming up the stairs! -Come here! | 0:35:34 | 0:35:37 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:35:37 | 0:35:38 | |
What's this, then? | 0:35:38 | 0:35:40 | |
What's happened? | 0:35:40 | 0:35:42 | |
Well, nurse got them spruced up a bit. | 0:35:42 | 0:35:45 | |
We thought you'd be pleased. | 0:35:45 | 0:35:47 | |
Pleased that they look nothing like 'emselves? | 0:35:47 | 0:35:50 | |
SHE SNIFFS | 0:35:50 | 0:35:51 | |
Pleased that they smell of disinfectant? | 0:35:51 | 0:35:54 | |
It's just delousing lotion. Rather a lovely fresh smell, I always think. | 0:35:54 | 0:35:58 | |
My kids don't have lice! | 0:35:58 | 0:36:00 | |
You get lice in schools and they never went there till yesterday! | 0:36:00 | 0:36:03 | |
Sister Winifred insisted on it. She always says, | 0:36:03 | 0:36:06 | |
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." | 0:36:06 | 0:36:10 | |
And you dressed Lou up like a little girl. Ribbons and ankle socks? | 0:36:10 | 0:36:13 | |
They're not going to last five minutes on the barge! | 0:36:13 | 0:36:15 | |
Daisy, Lou just wanted to fit in, to be like everybody else. | 0:36:15 | 0:36:19 | |
She's not like everybody else. | 0:36:19 | 0:36:21 | |
She's a bargee, whether you like it or not. | 0:36:21 | 0:36:24 | |
-We do things our way! -Well, Nurse just wanted what was best for 'em, | 0:36:24 | 0:36:27 | |
just like I wanted what was best for you. | 0:36:27 | 0:36:28 | |
I'll tell you what's best for me - | 0:36:28 | 0:36:30 | |
my own bunk, my own food and not to have | 0:36:30 | 0:36:33 | |
Property of Somebody Else written all over me in black bloody pen. | 0:36:33 | 0:36:36 | |
Mrs Blacker, you said yourself you didn't want to have another baby without help. | 0:36:36 | 0:36:40 | |
Yeah, there's help - and there's interference. | 0:36:40 | 0:36:44 | |
-Fetch me my clothes, please. -Daisy... | 0:36:44 | 0:36:47 | |
By which I mean my own clothes. The ones I came in wearing | 0:36:47 | 0:36:50 | |
and which are good enough for me. I'm going home. | 0:36:50 | 0:36:53 | |
-Mrs Blacker... -Fetch 'em! | 0:36:53 | 0:36:55 | |
WIND HOWLS | 0:36:57 | 0:36:59 | |
ON TV: 'It's better when you've got a gun in your hand. | 0:37:15 | 0:37:17 | |
'What are you like without it?' GUNSHOT | 0:37:17 | 0:37:19 | |
Autumn high tide, I reckon, straight out of Whitaker's Almanack. | 0:37:19 | 0:37:24 | |
You ought to batten down the hatches. | 0:37:24 | 0:37:26 | |
I'm sure there's no need for us to be alarmed. | 0:37:26 | 0:37:28 | |
-PROGRAMME STOPS -Oh! | 0:37:28 | 0:37:30 | |
TV CRACKLES | 0:37:30 | 0:37:32 | |
It's blowing up a right storm out there, Sister. | 0:37:33 | 0:37:35 | |
Oh! | 0:37:39 | 0:37:40 | |
PHONE RINGS | 0:37:42 | 0:37:44 | |
Nonnatus House, midwife speaking? | 0:37:44 | 0:37:45 | |
Hello, can you send a midwife over to the maternity home? | 0:37:45 | 0:37:49 | |
Mrs Mansoor's just arrived and we already have a lady who's had | 0:37:49 | 0:37:53 | |
to go straight through to the delivery room. | 0:37:53 | 0:37:55 | |
On my way, sweetie. | 0:37:55 | 0:37:57 | |
There's just been a weather warning on the wireless - | 0:38:00 | 0:38:02 | |
gale-force nine across London. | 0:38:02 | 0:38:04 | |
That settles it. I'm not going anywhere | 0:38:04 | 0:38:06 | |
until I've put on at least three layers of hair lacquer. | 0:38:06 | 0:38:10 | |
PHONE RINGS | 0:38:10 | 0:38:12 | |
Nonnatus House, midwife speaking? | 0:38:12 | 0:38:13 | |
Dad! | 0:38:20 | 0:38:21 | |
Stay down below, Lou, till this blows over. | 0:38:21 | 0:38:26 | |
It's Mum, she isn't well. | 0:38:26 | 0:38:28 | |
-Nurse! Nurse... -Oh, my goodness! Are you in labour? | 0:38:28 | 0:38:33 | |
Either that or I've weed on my bleeding slippers. | 0:38:33 | 0:38:35 | |
It's swaying. The whole block of flats is actually swaying. | 0:38:40 | 0:38:44 | |
Is it? | 0:38:44 | 0:38:45 | |
-You all right? -I dunno. | 0:38:47 | 0:38:50 | |
I've got an headache and a pain here - | 0:38:50 | 0:38:53 | |
under my ribs. | 0:38:53 | 0:38:55 | |
Shall I clear off out? Get the kids from under your feet? | 0:39:04 | 0:39:07 | |
You can't go walking up and down the towpath in this wind! | 0:39:07 | 0:39:10 | |
I should be taking you back to that little hospital - | 0:39:10 | 0:39:12 | |
-or even just fetch that nurse. -No! | 0:39:12 | 0:39:14 | |
We had words, that nurse and me - bad words - and I meant 'em. | 0:39:14 | 0:39:17 | |
-Daisy, tell me what to do! -You'll have to go and get a sheet | 0:39:17 | 0:39:22 | |
and Lou can help me. | 0:39:22 | 0:39:24 | |
Oh, hello, Mrs Mansoor! | 0:39:27 | 0:39:29 | |
This is Mrs Wheatley! | 0:39:29 | 0:39:32 | |
Nurse Franklin, Dr Turner's in the delivery room, | 0:39:32 | 0:39:34 | |
we have a deep transverse arrest. | 0:39:34 | 0:39:37 | |
Or maybe we should go straight to Della and Nahima. | 0:39:37 | 0:39:40 | |
One way or another, I think you two will end up on first name terms! | 0:39:40 | 0:39:44 | |
NAHIMA GROANS | 0:39:44 | 0:39:45 | |
Oh, Nahima! | 0:39:45 | 0:39:48 | |
-I can see flashing lights. -It's just the electrics. | 0:39:58 | 0:40:01 | |
It keeps flickering with the storm. | 0:40:01 | 0:40:03 | |
It's like spots or sparkles. | 0:40:03 | 0:40:07 | |
I can see 'em even when I close me eyes. | 0:40:07 | 0:40:10 | |
DAISY SCREAMS | 0:40:19 | 0:40:21 | |
Let's see how things are lining up. | 0:40:25 | 0:40:28 | |
With a bit of luck, you'll be able to start pushing soon. | 0:40:28 | 0:40:31 | |
NAHIMA SCREAMS | 0:40:31 | 0:40:33 | |
Hang on, Nahima! I'll be across in two ticks, I promise! | 0:40:33 | 0:40:36 | |
Oh. | 0:40:39 | 0:40:41 | |
SHE WHIMPERS | 0:40:43 | 0:40:45 | |
It's just the lights in the flat. | 0:40:45 | 0:40:47 | |
No. | 0:40:49 | 0:40:50 | |
I can't see properly. | 0:40:53 | 0:40:55 | |
I'm going to get help. | 0:40:57 | 0:40:59 | |
BABY CRIES | 0:40:59 | 0:41:01 | |
I need you to come and see my mum. | 0:41:15 | 0:41:18 | |
Come in! | 0:41:18 | 0:41:20 | |
I've got one cable running into the delivery room - | 0:41:23 | 0:41:25 | |
there's a mother who still needs stitches - | 0:41:25 | 0:41:28 | |
and we need a working light in the ward! | 0:41:28 | 0:41:31 | |
Doctor, Mrs Mansoor's baby's crowning! | 0:41:31 | 0:41:34 | |
Some people have parents who do ordinary jobs. | 0:41:34 | 0:41:37 | |
Get cranking the handle. | 0:41:37 | 0:41:38 | |
Sooner them than me! | 0:41:45 | 0:41:47 | |
Midwife calling! | 0:41:57 | 0:41:59 | |
This way, Nurse, and mind your head! We've got the water on already. | 0:42:02 | 0:42:06 | |
Thank you. | 0:42:10 | 0:42:13 | |
We heard her kicking off yelling and...well, we all know what that sort of racket means, don't we? | 0:42:13 | 0:42:18 | |
She's calmed down a bit since she's had some company. | 0:42:18 | 0:42:21 | |
-Hello, nurse. -Any objection to me popping by? | 0:42:23 | 0:42:26 | |
-I can just leave you with your friends. -Bless you. | 0:42:26 | 0:42:29 | |
And bless them, never met any of them before! | 0:42:29 | 0:42:33 | |
Don't mean to say we ain't friends, though. | 0:42:33 | 0:42:35 | |
We know the life - that means we know each other. | 0:42:35 | 0:42:38 | |
Yes. | 0:42:38 | 0:42:39 | |
Come on, then, let's clear out and make some room. | 0:42:41 | 0:42:44 | |
We'll take the kids down the Golden Maid with their father. | 0:42:44 | 0:42:47 | |
And what about this one? She looks old enough to come in handy. | 0:42:47 | 0:42:51 | |
Take her with the other kids. Me and Nurse Mount can manage, can't we? | 0:42:51 | 0:42:56 | |
Absolutely. And I'll take my lead from you. | 0:42:56 | 0:43:00 | |
Calm down, take a deep breath and tell me what you mean. | 0:43:00 | 0:43:04 | |
She, she says she can see flashing lights! | 0:43:05 | 0:43:08 | |
Go back to Gina and wait with her. | 0:43:08 | 0:43:11 | |
I'm telephoning for an ambulance and then I'll come straight to you. | 0:43:11 | 0:43:15 | |
-I require an ambulance, please. Nelson Tower... -'Yes.' | 0:43:16 | 0:43:20 | |
Anchorage Estate... | 0:43:20 | 0:43:23 | |
Flat number... LINE CRACKLES THEN CUTS OFF | 0:43:23 | 0:43:26 | |
Oh. Hello? | 0:43:26 | 0:43:29 | |
Hell's teeth! | 0:43:30 | 0:43:32 | |
Good grief! | 0:43:36 | 0:43:37 | |
Come on! | 0:43:44 | 0:43:46 | |
SHE SIGHS | 0:43:47 | 0:43:49 | |
And that's me excused physical jerks for the rest of the week. | 0:43:57 | 0:44:00 | |
It's a good job you live on the 8th floor, young lady, not the 18th. | 0:44:00 | 0:44:03 | |
Let's have a look at you, love. | 0:44:06 | 0:44:08 | |
Leslie tells me you've had a headache | 0:44:15 | 0:44:17 | |
and some visual disturbance. | 0:44:17 | 0:44:20 | |
-Any nausea or vomiting? -I feel a bit sick. | 0:44:20 | 0:44:23 | |
Right. | 0:44:28 | 0:44:30 | |
I called an ambulance before I left | 0:44:30 | 0:44:32 | |
and I'm of the view we should make use of it. | 0:44:32 | 0:44:36 | |
All things considered, | 0:44:36 | 0:44:37 | |
-I think you'll be better off in the hospital. -What about Robert? | 0:44:37 | 0:44:40 | |
Robert can come, too. | 0:44:40 | 0:44:43 | |
Leslie, while you've been with Gina, has she suffered from any twitching | 0:44:45 | 0:44:50 | |
or shaking - anything that you might describe as a fit? | 0:44:50 | 0:44:53 | |
No...I don't know. | 0:44:53 | 0:44:55 | |
How ill is she, Nurse? | 0:44:57 | 0:44:59 | |
There's a condition called pre-eclampsia, | 0:44:59 | 0:45:01 | |
which can affect pregnant women. | 0:45:01 | 0:45:02 | |
Once in a blue moon, it kicks in after Baby's been born. | 0:45:02 | 0:45:06 | |
Will she die? | 0:45:07 | 0:45:09 | |
There's plenty we can do to help her. | 0:45:09 | 0:45:12 | |
But the ambulance won't have the complete address, | 0:45:12 | 0:45:14 | |
I need you to go downstairs, wait outside and flag it down. | 0:45:14 | 0:45:17 | |
No! I'm not going to leave her! | 0:45:17 | 0:45:19 | |
-Leslie, we can't waste any time. -I'm not going to leave my wife. | 0:45:19 | 0:45:22 | |
I don't want him to go! I don't want him to go. | 0:45:22 | 0:45:26 | |
Don't leave me, Leslie. | 0:45:26 | 0:45:27 | |
Right, Gina, you need a warm coat and something on your feet. | 0:45:32 | 0:45:35 | |
That's the ticket, kids. One foot in front of the other. | 0:45:43 | 0:45:46 | |
There you go. | 0:45:48 | 0:45:50 | |
Almost there, sweetheart. | 0:45:51 | 0:45:53 | |
GLASS SMASHES | 0:45:58 | 0:46:00 | |
Still in one piece, kids? | 0:46:00 | 0:46:02 | |
SHE RETCHES | 0:46:02 | 0:46:04 | |
She's being sick! | 0:46:05 | 0:46:07 | |
That's it. That's wonderful, Daisy. | 0:46:09 | 0:46:13 | |
SHE RETCHES | 0:46:18 | 0:46:20 | |
Come on, you lovebirds. | 0:46:23 | 0:46:25 | |
Save your courting... | 0:46:32 | 0:46:35 | |
Till we've got you safely in that ambulance. | 0:46:35 | 0:46:38 | |
Baby's turning, Daisy, it knows just what to do. | 0:46:45 | 0:46:48 | |
Like you do. | 0:46:48 | 0:46:50 | |
SHE EXHALES SHARPLY | 0:46:51 | 0:46:53 | |
That's perfect! | 0:46:55 | 0:46:57 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:46:57 | 0:47:00 | |
Can I hold it? Can I? | 0:47:00 | 0:47:03 | |
Just hold on one moment. | 0:47:03 | 0:47:05 | |
Sorry, little one. There we go. | 0:47:05 | 0:47:08 | |
-BABY CRIES -Go on. You can pick her up now. | 0:47:08 | 0:47:11 | |
-Her? -It's a little girl. | 0:47:11 | 0:47:13 | |
BABY GURGLES | 0:47:15 | 0:47:17 | |
Oh, don't cut it yet! | 0:47:28 | 0:47:30 | |
In a minute, then. | 0:47:31 | 0:47:32 | |
There's worse things than being completely part of someone, | 0:47:37 | 0:47:41 | |
being part of something bigger. | 0:47:41 | 0:47:44 | |
Even just for a little while. | 0:47:45 | 0:47:48 | |
But we know where we belong, don't we? | 0:47:56 | 0:47:58 | |
-Are you coming with us? -Yes. I shall be following behind, | 0:48:12 | 0:48:14 | |
just to be on the safe side. | 0:48:14 | 0:48:16 | |
But you don't need me - you've got him. | 0:48:16 | 0:48:19 | |
You really have - and he knows how to take care of his family. | 0:48:19 | 0:48:23 | |
Yes, I do. | 0:48:23 | 0:48:25 | |
And I'm not going to leave her side. | 0:48:25 | 0:48:27 | |
That's what we like to hear, isn't it? Good lad. | 0:48:27 | 0:48:30 | |
Have you seen the state of the street outside? | 0:48:37 | 0:48:40 | |
Is it still impassable? | 0:48:40 | 0:48:41 | |
Suffice to say, if it hadn't have been | 0:48:41 | 0:48:43 | |
for two extremely helpful firemen, I wouldn't be here at all. | 0:48:43 | 0:48:47 | |
What's the situation with the maternity home? | 0:48:47 | 0:48:49 | |
No telephone and no electricity. | 0:48:49 | 0:48:53 | |
Of the three mothers who delivered overnight, Mrs Jones had forceps | 0:48:53 | 0:48:56 | |
and was transferred to St Cuthbert's this morning. | 0:48:56 | 0:48:59 | |
Mrs Wheatley and Mrs Mansoor and their babies were discharged, | 0:48:59 | 0:49:02 | |
because their homes still have power. | 0:49:02 | 0:49:04 | |
We'll add them to the morning's list. | 0:49:04 | 0:49:06 | |
Meanwhile, we must visit all our due and overdue mothers - | 0:49:06 | 0:49:09 | |
if there are any left - and make them aware that we're deprived | 0:49:09 | 0:49:12 | |
of telephony until further notice. | 0:49:12 | 0:49:15 | |
I saw your note about Gina Matlin. | 0:49:15 | 0:49:17 | |
Post-natal pre-eclampsia is so very rare. | 0:49:17 | 0:49:20 | |
When I left for London, she was poorly but stable | 0:49:20 | 0:49:24 | |
and her husband was camped outside her room. | 0:49:24 | 0:49:27 | |
So, all in all, there's every reason for optimism. | 0:49:27 | 0:49:30 | |
-Mind your noggin on that! -Thank you, officer. | 0:49:30 | 0:49:33 | |
What's happened, Fred? | 0:49:38 | 0:49:40 | |
The railway signal blew down and took half the old wall with it. | 0:49:40 | 0:49:43 | |
-It's come down like a stack of dominoes. -Was anyone hurt? | 0:49:43 | 0:49:46 | |
We don't think there's anyone underneath it. | 0:49:46 | 0:49:49 | |
Er, look, let's see if we can get you past and to your patients. | 0:49:49 | 0:49:51 | |
-Bob... -WOMAN: All right, all right! | 0:49:51 | 0:49:53 | |
It's a pile of rubble, not the pyramids of Egypt. | 0:49:53 | 0:49:57 | |
Get a shovel and start clearing it. | 0:49:57 | 0:49:59 | |
-Anyone would think there'd never been a war. -Sister! | 0:49:59 | 0:50:03 | |
Morning, Sister Julienne. Sister Mary Cynthia. | 0:50:05 | 0:50:08 | |
Meanwhile, I see Fred's been pillaging the dressing up box. | 0:50:08 | 0:50:12 | |
Where's a real ARP warden, when you need one? | 0:50:12 | 0:50:15 | |
Now, mind your step there! | 0:50:15 | 0:50:17 | |
No, thank you, I can see where I'm going. | 0:50:17 | 0:50:19 | |
Sister Evangelina, this really is a most extraordinary surprise. | 0:50:19 | 0:50:24 | |
Well, it wouldn't have been, if anyone had answered the telephone this morning! | 0:50:24 | 0:50:28 | |
The line was blown down in the gale. | 0:50:28 | 0:50:31 | |
And what are you doing about it? | 0:50:31 | 0:50:33 | |
I was just on my way to call in at the Post Office. | 0:50:33 | 0:50:36 | |
What ever happened to "Never Surrender?" | 0:50:36 | 0:50:40 | |
Excuse me! Excuse me! | 0:50:40 | 0:50:42 | |
Do you suppose she's back for good, or just for a visit? | 0:50:42 | 0:50:46 | |
We can only hope she intends to enlighten us. | 0:50:46 | 0:50:49 | |
Thank you. | 0:50:55 | 0:50:56 | |
That's that little problem ironed out. | 0:50:56 | 0:50:58 | |
Their line is still up and running - | 0:50:58 | 0:51:01 | |
the connection was protected by the railway bridge. | 0:51:01 | 0:51:04 | |
So, I've requisitioned their phone for the duration. | 0:51:04 | 0:51:07 | |
Fred, when you've finished saving the world, | 0:51:08 | 0:51:12 | |
-I shall be requiring my bicycle. -Yes, Sister! | 0:51:12 | 0:51:16 | |
I shall be easing myself back in. No midwifery duties for a while. | 0:51:17 | 0:51:21 | |
I'll warm myself up on district work | 0:51:22 | 0:51:25 | |
before you let me loose on precious cargo. | 0:51:25 | 0:51:29 | |
It's so very, very good to have you back with us, Sister. | 0:51:29 | 0:51:32 | |
Well, what with one thing and another, it was about time. | 0:51:32 | 0:51:36 | |
There's only so much peace and quiet a soul can take. | 0:51:36 | 0:51:40 | |
In the end, it's like giving a plant too much water. | 0:51:40 | 0:51:42 | |
SHE SIGHS | 0:51:42 | 0:51:44 | |
An autoclave can only sterilise things | 0:51:44 | 0:51:46 | |
if they're properly cleaned beforehand. | 0:51:46 | 0:51:48 | |
It is a machine, not a magician. | 0:51:48 | 0:51:51 | |
Nevertheless, we still have power, | 0:51:53 | 0:51:56 | |
which is a blessing from above, if there ever was one! | 0:51:56 | 0:51:59 | |
"And, behold, I am with thee | 0:52:02 | 0:52:06 | |
"and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest | 0:52:06 | 0:52:10 | |
"and will bring thee again into this land..." | 0:52:10 | 0:52:14 | |
"..for I will not leave." | 0:52:14 | 0:52:18 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:52:18 | 0:52:20 | |
The Book of Genesis instead of Keats, indeed. | 0:52:20 | 0:52:23 | |
That gale must have blown some sense into you. | 0:52:23 | 0:52:27 | |
(Go and see if there's any cake in the tin.) | 0:52:27 | 0:52:29 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:52:29 | 0:52:32 | |
JENNIFER WORTH: 'For some, the high winds altered very little. | 0:52:32 | 0:52:35 | |
'The Blackers, with their healthy newborn, | 0:52:35 | 0:52:38 | |
'left London and headed North along straight waterways | 0:52:38 | 0:52:42 | |
'that hadn't changed in decades.' | 0:52:42 | 0:52:44 | |
-Bye. -Aw, bye! Have a safe trip. -'Sister Winifred arranged | 0:52:44 | 0:52:48 | |
'for the children's lessons to be sent to them and marked by post. | 0:52:48 | 0:52:52 | |
'It was something. | 0:52:52 | 0:52:53 | |
'Meanwhile, Leslie Matlin grew in strength, | 0:52:55 | 0:52:59 | |
'courage and love for his wife and child. | 0:52:59 | 0:53:02 | |
'For not every happiness is chosen. Some, like the harvest, | 0:53:02 | 0:53:06 | |
'simply have to be accepted.' | 0:53:06 | 0:53:08 | |
Sister, I was looking for you. | 0:53:08 | 0:53:11 | |
Another donation - five pounds of wormy apples - | 0:53:11 | 0:53:13 | |
and I am sorry to say - a marrow. | 0:53:13 | 0:53:16 | |
-I was hoping to ask you something. -Mm-hm. | 0:53:17 | 0:53:20 | |
If it's about this contraceptive pill, all I've got to say is, | 0:53:20 | 0:53:23 | |
it's typical of Dr Turner. One sniff of a novelty medication, | 0:53:23 | 0:53:27 | |
he's off like a moggy with catmint. | 0:53:27 | 0:53:29 | |
I spent a great deal of time in prayer about it. | 0:53:29 | 0:53:32 | |
But, just now, the thing that worries me is you. | 0:53:33 | 0:53:36 | |
Why? I've never felt better! | 0:53:38 | 0:53:41 | |
I wish I could believe that. But it's not true, is it? | 0:53:41 | 0:53:44 | |
-I take it you mean this? -Yes. | 0:53:45 | 0:53:48 | |
I had a stroke. | 0:53:57 | 0:53:59 | |
Two months after I left for the retreat. | 0:54:01 | 0:54:04 | |
Why didn't you let us know? | 0:54:05 | 0:54:07 | |
-We could've prayed for you, at the very least. -I know. | 0:54:07 | 0:54:10 | |
But at the time, this was between me and Him. | 0:54:10 | 0:54:13 | |
I was much worse than this, I couldn't move my arm at all. | 0:54:14 | 0:54:18 | |
And you wouldn't have wanted to see me slurping my tea. | 0:54:18 | 0:54:21 | |
-Was your mouth affected, too? -Yeah, mouth, speech - the full works. | 0:54:21 | 0:54:25 | |
I got all that back within six weeks, | 0:54:25 | 0:54:29 | |
even though, most of the time, I had nobody to practise with. | 0:54:29 | 0:54:33 | |
But I knew what He meant by it. | 0:54:33 | 0:54:35 | |
I'd gone to the silent order to learn to keep my peace | 0:54:35 | 0:54:39 | |
and He showed me. | 0:54:39 | 0:54:42 | |
Prayers aren't always answered the way one would hope, but... | 0:54:42 | 0:54:47 | |
They are generally answered. | 0:54:47 | 0:54:50 | |
And the answer He gave me was this - | 0:54:51 | 0:54:56 | |
when things change, we have to find a different way. | 0:54:56 | 0:55:00 | |
Now, whenever I do up a button, or a shoelace, | 0:55:01 | 0:55:06 | |
I'm reminded of the need to keep learning. | 0:55:06 | 0:55:09 | |
A reminder we all need, from time to time. | 0:55:10 | 0:55:14 | |
Nothing stays the same. | 0:55:14 | 0:55:16 | |
WE don't stay the same, ourselves. | 0:55:16 | 0:55:20 | |
And all the time, the world keeps on spinning faster. | 0:55:20 | 0:55:24 | |
# I love how your eyes close | 0:55:37 | 0:55:41 | |
-# Whenever you kiss me -Ooh-ooh | 0:55:41 | 0:55:46 | |
# And when I'm away from you | 0:55:46 | 0:55:50 | |
# I love how you miss me | 0:55:50 | 0:55:54 | |
-# I love the way you always treat me tenderly... -# | 0:55:54 | 0:56:02 | |
JENNIFER WORTH: 'Sometimes, there's a brightness | 0:56:02 | 0:56:05 | |
'and a richness in the moment. | 0:56:05 | 0:56:07 | |
'A ripeness that simply says, "Taste this" | 0:56:08 | 0:56:12 | |
'and calls us to partake without fear or any thought of punishment. | 0:56:12 | 0:56:18 | |
'It is the fruit of our experience | 0:56:18 | 0:56:21 | |
'and, in its heart, it bares the seed of all our hopes.' | 0:56:21 | 0:56:26 | |
# ..without being told to | 0:56:26 | 0:56:30 | |
# I love the way your touch is always heavenly | 0:56:30 | 0:56:39 | |
-# But, darling, most of all I love how you love me... -# | 0:56:39 | 0:56:43 | |
'Take the joy, take all it gives. | 0:56:43 | 0:56:48 | |
'Life is sweet... | 0:56:48 | 0:56:50 | |
'..and it is ours. | 0:56:51 | 0:56:54 | |
'As is our right to love and relish every moment.' | 0:56:54 | 0:57:00 | |
# ..and when I'm away from you... # | 0:57:00 | 0:57:03 | |
They let her off the boat first because she's in the family way. | 0:57:03 | 0:57:06 | |
-We want to organise a wedding. -I'd never had any dreams | 0:57:06 | 0:57:09 | |
-of a wedding day. -I had - once upon a time. | 0:57:09 | 0:57:13 | |
There must've been more than just one or two cases! | 0:57:13 | 0:57:16 | |
I don't know how to put it right! | 0:57:16 | 0:57:18 | |
I just think she's lonely... | 0:57:18 | 0:57:20 | |
or heartbroken. | 0:57:20 | 0:57:21 | |
When I see Tom and Barbara together now, | 0:57:21 | 0:57:23 | |
I don't see what I might've had, I see what they have. | 0:57:23 | 0:57:26 | |
Babies are a two-handed job. I do not handle newborns any more. | 0:57:26 | 0:57:31 | |
# I love how you love me... # | 0:57:31 | 0:57:34 |