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'It is not time itself that we notice passing, | 0:00:36 | 0:00:40 | |
'but the things it erases and reclaims for eternity. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:44 | |
'Infancy, childhood, | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
'golden moments, red-letter days, | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
'the darkest nights. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:52 | |
'All washed away, as if by water. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:57 | |
'All out of sight, as if by tides.' | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
It's all right, Beryl. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:02 | |
This will pass. It will pass. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
JAUNTY MUSIC PLAYS | 0:01:12 | 0:01:14 | |
SHE GASPS | 0:01:25 | 0:01:27 | |
You cannot interrupt the signal without warning. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:31 | |
The impulses within will disconnect and become deranged. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:35 | |
Sister, I tasked you with the flowers in the chapel this morning, | 0:01:35 | 0:01:38 | |
to celebrate the return of our sisters and our staff from Africa, | 0:01:38 | 0:01:43 | |
but now I find the vases empty. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:45 | |
And you...gyrating in front of the television. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:49 | |
Sister Ursula, I admit that the vases | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
await my effort, but I firmly refute | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
all charges of gyration! | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
Flowers, dear. | 0:01:58 | 0:01:59 | |
Oh, wait. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:06 | |
Rest assured, Nurse Busby, | 0:02:06 | 0:02:08 | |
if Matron makes a beeline for this bun today, | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
it shall not be found wanting. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:11 | |
I could do without another public reprimand. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:13 | |
We're studying breech births, and there's a test next week. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
Nurse Mount. | 0:02:16 | 0:02:18 | |
-Have you lost your way to the clinical room? -No, Sister Ursula. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
Then might I suggest you join me there... | 0:02:21 | 0:02:23 | |
at your earliest convenience? Patients await. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:27 | |
Meanwhile, we're all awaiting her departure. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:32 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
-Thank you. -Oh, dear. -Go inside, Barbara. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:53 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
All right, guv'nor, thank you. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
No sooner looked but they loved, | 0:03:00 | 0:03:03 | |
no sooner loved but they sighed, | 0:03:03 | 0:03:05 | |
and in these degrees have they made | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
a pair of stairs to marriage. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
-Dare we ask to see the ring, Babs? -I don't have one, yet. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:15 | |
Tom proposed to me in a field in Africa, | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
so I've got a blade of grass in a Germolene tin. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:21 | |
-THEY LAUGH -Simply charming. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
I do hope no ointment was wasted in the process. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:27 | |
We husbanded our resources very carefully, Sister Ursula, | 0:03:28 | 0:03:31 | |
and left Hope Clinic in a much better state | 0:03:31 | 0:03:34 | |
than it was when we arrived. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:35 | |
We even left Nurse Franklin behind - on loan - | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
-for the next two months. -So I've been informed. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:41 | |
Now, I imagine luncheon will be welcome. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:45 | |
It certainly would. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:47 | |
Oh. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:03 | |
Has something gone wrong in the kitchen? | 0:04:03 | 0:04:05 | |
Not at all. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:06 | |
I simply thought that with the return of our adventurers, | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
we might embrace a new routine. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:11 | |
A frugal luncheon, packed if required, | 0:04:11 | 0:04:14 | |
with our hot meal served at the end of the working day, | 0:04:14 | 0:04:16 | |
not in the midst of it. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:18 | |
But it's clinic this afternoon, Sister Ursula, | 0:04:18 | 0:04:20 | |
and a hearty meal at one o'clock helps keep us all going. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:23 | |
Sister Winifred, could you fill the water jug, please? | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
Of course. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:29 | |
-Would you like a dash of lemon barley in it? -No. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:32 | |
Don't sit down just yet, ladies. | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
The Mother House will be telephoning in a few moments, | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
and I'm sure Sister Julienne would like to take the call. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:45 | |
Of course. | 0:04:45 | 0:04:47 | |
PHONE RINGS | 0:04:47 | 0:04:49 | |
Nonnatus House. Sister Julienne speaking. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:56 | |
Greetings. | 0:04:56 | 0:04:58 | |
Sister Julienne! | 0:05:05 | 0:05:07 | |
Oh, my dear. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:09 | |
You look so very well. And happy. | 0:05:11 | 0:05:14 | |
Yes. Oh, I've just delivered a beautiful little boy, | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
and you've all come home! | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
I've just been speaking to Mother Jesu Emmanuel, | 0:05:23 | 0:05:27 | |
and she thanks everyone who's just returned from South Africa | 0:05:27 | 0:05:29 | |
for their service to the order, | 0:05:29 | 0:05:31 | |
and of course to the people that we helped. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:34 | |
She also wished me to tell you an important piece of news. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:41 | |
Sister Ursula, who has worked so tirelessly in our absence, | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
will not be returning to the Mother House. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:50 | |
As of today, she will officially... | 0:05:50 | 0:05:53 | |
be in charge of all matters | 0:05:53 | 0:05:56 | |
medical and spiritual here in Nonnatus House. | 0:05:56 | 0:05:58 | |
And I will be serving... | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
as a member of staff, underneath her. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:06 | |
I would like to be the first to... | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
offer my good wishes | 0:06:14 | 0:06:16 | |
to our new superior. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:18 | |
INDISTINCT CHATTER | 0:06:34 | 0:06:36 | |
Pink for maternity, blue for postnatal. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:46 | |
A ticket for each patient to be seen in strictly numerical order. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:49 | |
I'm sorry, Sister Ursula, | 0:06:49 | 0:06:51 | |
but the traditional half-hourly timings have worked well enough. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:54 | |
But is well enough good enough, Mrs Turner? | 0:06:54 | 0:06:57 | |
Before the order's Cottage Hospital was closed, | 0:06:57 | 0:06:59 | |
there were accusations of inefficiency. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:02 | |
I shouldn't like the clinic here to be subjected to complaints. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:04 | |
Oh, most mothers don't mind when things run on. | 0:07:04 | 0:07:08 | |
They can attend talks and catch up with their friends | 0:07:08 | 0:07:10 | |
over tea and biscuits. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:12 | |
In future, Mrs Turner, biscuits will be for fainters only. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:16 | |
Eating for two should be about careful nutrition, | 0:07:16 | 0:07:19 | |
not self-indulgence. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:21 | |
Oh, what's all this? Are we having a raffle? | 0:07:26 | 0:07:29 | |
No, but we're taking a gamble, if you ask me. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:32 | |
SHE SIGHS | 0:07:32 | 0:07:34 | |
Sister Julienne, whatever are you doing? That's very heavy work. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:44 | |
Sister Ursula charged me with setting out the furniture. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:49 | |
It is a necessary task, and one I do gladly. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:52 | |
CHILDREN SHOUT | 0:08:05 | 0:08:07 | |
Pink ticket number 21. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:20 | |
I think that will be you, Mrs Watts. Thank you. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:25 | |
I'll have a feel of your tummy in a minute. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:28 | |
Before I do that, do you want to tell me why Master Mickey's | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
not in school today? | 0:08:31 | 0:08:33 | |
He's having trouble with his waterworks. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:35 | |
During the day, or just at night? | 0:08:35 | 0:08:36 | |
At night, mainly, but... | 0:08:36 | 0:08:38 | |
when he has an accident, he cries. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:40 | |
He won't go to school in the morning. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:42 | |
I think the other kids torment him. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:44 | |
He doesn't smell of wee, or anything. I'd never let that happen. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:47 | |
-No. -He gets called names because of those glasses. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:51 | |
We've been waiting and waiting to hear back from the hospital. | 0:08:51 | 0:08:54 | |
It can't be much fun peering out at the world from behind | 0:08:54 | 0:08:56 | |
that pirate's eye patch, young man. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:59 | |
How about, I'll ring that eye department | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
and chivvy them along? | 0:09:02 | 0:09:04 | |
Yes, please. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:05 | |
I could nip to the telephone now. | 0:09:07 | 0:09:09 | |
They might even squeeze you in this afternoon. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:11 | |
Oh, I can't do anything else today. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:14 | |
I've been sat here for hours waiting for my number to come up, | 0:09:14 | 0:09:16 | |
and I've got obligations. | 0:09:16 | 0:09:19 | |
We'll salvage that mascara. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:21 | |
And when we've listened to baby's heartbeat, | 0:09:21 | 0:09:24 | |
pop off and attend to your business, | 0:09:24 | 0:09:26 | |
and I'll telephone St Cuthbert's. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:28 | |
THEY CHEER | 0:09:33 | 0:09:36 | |
All right, mate?! How you doing? | 0:09:37 | 0:09:41 | |
-You're looking great! -Lester. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:44 | |
Trudy! | 0:09:46 | 0:09:47 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:09:47 | 0:09:50 | |
Blimey, Trude, good job they let me out for good behaviour. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
-You? Good behaviour? -Get any bigger, I'll be needing longer arms. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:09:58 | 0:10:00 | |
Daddy's won a cup for his boxing. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:02 | |
Go on, Mickey, take it. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:05 | |
Take it. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:09 | |
There you go. You can start your own collection. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:12 | |
Got a pair of gloves waiting for him down the gym. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:16 | |
No, Lester. Not the ring, not for Mickey. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
What's with his glasses? | 0:10:19 | 0:10:21 | |
-Is it that squint? -The proper word's an astigmatism. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
Oi, Lester. Come on. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:26 | |
Compliments of the boss. | 0:10:28 | 0:10:30 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:10:30 | 0:10:32 | |
# I don't need a kingdom | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
# I don't need a throne | 0:10:43 | 0:10:47 | |
# Or a crown with diamonds Shining bright | 0:10:47 | 0:10:51 | |
# Mm-mmm-mm | 0:10:52 | 0:10:55 | |
# If you said you loved me | 0:10:55 | 0:10:57 | |
# And you were mine alone | 0:10:59 | 0:11:02 | |
# Then I'd be a king for tonight | 0:11:02 | 0:11:06 | |
# Every single time you hold my hand... # | 0:11:07 | 0:11:11 | |
MUSIC CONTINUES ON RADIO | 0:11:11 | 0:11:13 | |
Patsy? Why is this letter thanking me for volunteering | 0:11:13 | 0:11:16 | |
to give a pottery demonstration at the, and I quote, | 0:11:16 | 0:11:19 | |
"Commonwealth Day Tea Party" in the community centre? | 0:11:19 | 0:11:22 | |
I had to give the organisers a list of people who'd contribute. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
And you did quite enjoy the lessons you had before you went to South Africa. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:29 | |
Do turn that transistor down, Deels. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:31 | |
-Crackling's agony. -Sorry. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:33 | |
I'm soldiering on in pursuit of Radio Luxembourg. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
The set's still in South Africa, and no telly. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:38 | |
This is our only chance of entertainment. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:40 | |
Apart from our cocktail of the day... | 0:11:40 | 0:11:43 | |
which is the Grasshopper. | 0:11:43 | 0:11:45 | |
Equal parts creme de menthe, creme de cacao, evap and a dash of cocoa. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:49 | |
Slips down like a liquid after-dinner mint, | 0:11:49 | 0:11:51 | |
-and then kicks you like a mule. -SHE LAUGHS | 0:11:51 | 0:11:53 | |
We got you some bitter lemon. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:55 | |
Actually, I'll have a cocktail, if it's all the same to you. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
Vicars' wives drink quite a lot of sherry, | 0:11:58 | 0:12:00 | |
and I think it's time I got myself in training. | 0:12:00 | 0:12:03 | |
-I'll raise a glass to that. -Me too! | 0:12:04 | 0:12:08 | |
To Barbara's looming career as an inebriate clergy spouse. | 0:12:08 | 0:12:11 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:12:11 | 0:12:13 | |
Oh! SHE COUGHS | 0:12:15 | 0:12:17 | |
BELL RINGS | 0:12:24 | 0:12:25 | |
The lady of the house, if you would be so kind. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:28 | |
Zelda, someone to see you. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:30 | |
# The best things in life are free... # | 0:12:32 | 0:12:35 | |
You come about the rum, dear? | 0:12:37 | 0:12:39 | |
As you may observe, I am in uniform, therefore I won't imbibe. | 0:12:39 | 0:12:43 | |
I've called with a message for Mrs Trudy Watts, | 0:12:43 | 0:12:46 | |
about an appointment at the eye clinic. | 0:12:46 | 0:12:49 | |
I'm her mother. You may as well come in. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:53 | |
# Your love gives me such a thrill | 0:12:53 | 0:12:57 | |
# But your love don't pay my bills | 0:12:57 | 0:12:59 | |
# I need money... # | 0:12:59 | 0:13:01 | |
Excuse me. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:03 | |
-# That's what I want -That's what I want | 0:13:03 | 0:13:06 | |
-# That's what I wa-a-a-a-nt -That's what I want... # | 0:13:06 | 0:13:10 | |
Come on, then, darling. Give us all a thrill! | 0:13:10 | 0:13:15 | |
They got hold of a load of raw rum from somewhere, | 0:13:33 | 0:13:35 | |
need a stocking to sieve out all the bits of carbon. | 0:13:35 | 0:13:39 | |
INDISTINCT CHATTER | 0:13:39 | 0:13:41 | |
THEY CHEER | 0:13:43 | 0:13:45 | |
It would seem I've come at an inconvenient time. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:55 | |
I'll leave this for your attention. | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
-# Lots of money -That's what I want | 0:14:01 | 0:14:04 | |
-# Whole lot of money -That's what I want... # | 0:14:04 | 0:14:09 | |
Of course. Thank you. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:11 | |
Well, that's my fate sealed. | 0:14:13 | 0:14:15 | |
My pottery teacher said she'll lend me her wheel. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:17 | |
I have to teach the Sunday school a Maori haka. | 0:14:17 | 0:14:20 | |
We can be companions in despair. | 0:14:20 | 0:14:21 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:14:21 | 0:14:23 | |
I do want you to have a proper ring, Barbara. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:27 | |
I know. And I know we can't really afford one. | 0:14:27 | 0:14:31 | |
Yet. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:32 | |
Besides, that blade of grass is more precious to me than diamonds. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:36 | |
I'm Barbara Gilbert, midwife and curate's fiancee, | 0:14:36 | 0:14:40 | |
-not Zsa Zsa Gabor. -Not many girls would say that. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:43 | |
Well, you're not engaged to many girls. | 0:14:43 | 0:14:45 | |
No. Just you. | 0:14:45 | 0:14:47 | |
-See you later. -Bye! | 0:14:51 | 0:14:54 | |
See you at the gym. | 0:14:54 | 0:14:55 | |
Come on, then. Your mother's conked out on the couch. | 0:15:05 | 0:15:09 | |
It's two o'clock in the morning. | 0:15:09 | 0:15:11 | |
I've had a long day. | 0:15:11 | 0:15:12 | |
I've had a long eight months. | 0:15:13 | 0:15:15 | |
You never did that in my dreams. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:30 | |
You never did that in mine. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:32 | |
Ow! | 0:15:34 | 0:15:36 | |
I'm going down the dock road. | 0:15:36 | 0:15:38 | |
There's girls down there who'll give it to me better than you ever did | 0:15:38 | 0:15:41 | |
for a ten bob note. | 0:15:41 | 0:15:43 | |
Some of them will do it for a gin and orange, or a snakebite. | 0:15:43 | 0:15:48 | |
Ah! | 0:15:48 | 0:15:49 | |
SHE SOBS | 0:15:57 | 0:16:00 | |
It's all right, Mickey. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:12 | |
I promise. | 0:16:12 | 0:16:13 | |
Ah, good morning. | 0:16:23 | 0:16:25 | |
May I point out that it is eight o'clock and 30 seconds precisely? | 0:16:25 | 0:16:30 | |
And I do not enjoy commencing my day | 0:16:30 | 0:16:33 | |
with an impersonation of the speaking clock. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:36 | |
Sister Winifred - maternity home. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:40 | |
I shall take over from you for the night shift. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:42 | |
Nurse Gilbert - all the bookings in, | 0:16:42 | 0:16:44 | |
plus an extra task in support of Mrs Trudy Watts. | 0:16:44 | 0:16:47 | |
I'm sorry to keep you waiting, Nurse Crane. | 0:16:48 | 0:16:51 | |
Sister Ursula stopped me in the corridor. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:54 | |
There's absolutely no need to apologise, Sister Julienne. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:58 | |
I've put you down as first on call today. | 0:16:58 | 0:17:00 | |
I think we'll be hearing from Mrs Gupte, | 0:17:00 | 0:17:02 | |
and she'll need someone very experienced. | 0:17:02 | 0:17:04 | |
No, I'm afraid Dr Turner's been called to an emergency. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:16 | |
No, I can't prescribe. | 0:17:16 | 0:17:19 | |
Because I'm only 15. | 0:17:19 | 0:17:20 | |
-Where's your mother? -She suddenly felt really ill. | 0:17:23 | 0:17:26 | |
She asked me to sit here for a minute, | 0:17:26 | 0:17:28 | |
because she couldn't leave the medical records unattended. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:31 | |
Leave this to me, and run for your bus. Don't forget to comb your hair. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:35 | |
Good morning. Midwife calling. | 0:17:47 | 0:17:49 | |
I hope you've got some Alka-Seltzer in that bag of yours. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:52 | |
Or a box of Omo, cos that bloody kid's wet the bed again. | 0:17:52 | 0:17:55 | |
-Has Mickey gone to school? -Yes. Thank Christ. | 0:17:55 | 0:17:59 | |
Snivelled all the way, mind you. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:00 | |
Could you tell Mrs Watts that Nurse Crane has asked me | 0:18:00 | 0:18:03 | |
to collect him this afternoon, and take him to the eye clinic? | 0:18:03 | 0:18:06 | |
She thought it might help her if she could rest. | 0:18:06 | 0:18:08 | |
All right. Well, I can't take him. I'm off to Margate. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:11 | |
I weren't joking about that Alka-Seltzer. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:15 | |
We don't carry it, I'm afraid. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:16 | |
Knock-knock. All patients dispatched. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:26 | |
Doctor plied with tea and provided with clean instruments, | 0:18:26 | 0:18:28 | |
and sent off on his rounds. | 0:18:28 | 0:18:30 | |
-Thank you, Sister. -You still struggling with Cape Town tummy? | 0:18:30 | 0:18:34 | |
Only shook mine off about a week ago. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:37 | |
Is it...both ends? | 0:18:37 | 0:18:39 | |
It's kind of you to ask, but I'm sure no-one needs chapter and verse | 0:18:41 | 0:18:44 | |
on my every visit to the smallest room. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:46 | |
Violet, would you be averse to me paying you a compliment? | 0:18:53 | 0:18:57 | |
So long as it doesn't interfere with my press stud inventory. | 0:18:57 | 0:19:01 | |
You have got a lovely silhouette. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:05 | |
Don't you start talking to me in French, Fred Buckle. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:08 | |
You don't know where it might end. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:10 | |
THEY GIGGLE | 0:19:10 | 0:19:12 | |
Good afternoon, Nurse Gilbert. What can I do for you? | 0:19:14 | 0:19:17 | |
Do you stock plastic pants, aged five to six? | 0:19:17 | 0:19:20 | |
Could you attend to that light bulb for me, please, Frederick? | 0:19:22 | 0:19:25 | |
Strictly speaking, they're an incontinence garment, | 0:19:25 | 0:19:27 | |
not baby linen, but I can telephone one of my wholesalers for you. | 0:19:27 | 0:19:32 | |
Meanwhile, I was hoping that you'd | 0:19:32 | 0:19:33 | |
have something for me to admire by now. | 0:19:33 | 0:19:37 | |
Oh, no, not yet. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:38 | |
That piece of grass will be dead by Commonwealth Day, | 0:19:38 | 0:19:41 | |
and you'll want to have something to show off by then, | 0:19:41 | 0:19:43 | |
as I gather that you're going to be performing on your potter's wheel. | 0:19:43 | 0:19:46 | |
Oh! They'll be needing bobbies on horseback to control the crowds. | 0:19:46 | 0:19:50 | |
I'm actually quite nervous about it. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:52 | |
The wheel is quite difficult to control, | 0:19:52 | 0:19:54 | |
and the only other time I've used it, things became quite violent. | 0:19:54 | 0:19:57 | |
FRONT DOOR OPENS, CLOSES | 0:20:20 | 0:20:23 | |
RINGING TONE | 0:20:23 | 0:20:25 | |
If you're nervous, | 0:20:28 | 0:20:29 | |
why don't you come and give a demonstration to my Brownies? | 0:20:29 | 0:20:32 | |
Practice makes perfect. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:34 | |
Oh, yes, good afternoon. Is that Renton's Hygienic Garments? | 0:20:34 | 0:20:37 | |
We can sit down and enjoy our holiday. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:47 | |
KNOCK AT DOOR | 0:20:47 | 0:20:49 | |
Sorry, Miss Dawkins. I was calling to collect Mickey Watts. | 0:20:49 | 0:20:51 | |
He has an eye clinic appointment. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:53 | |
He left ten minutes ago with his father. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:55 | |
Oh! Oh, that's fine, then. | 0:20:55 | 0:20:57 | |
Who do you reckon loves you most, Mickey? | 0:21:02 | 0:21:05 | |
Most out of everyone you ever knew or met. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:08 | |
Mum. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:09 | |
Yeah. Yeah, that's right. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:11 | |
And who do you reckon loves you next most? | 0:21:13 | 0:21:14 | |
Me. I do. Your dad. | 0:21:21 | 0:21:23 | |
And Granny Zelda loves you. | 0:21:25 | 0:21:27 | |
The world's full of people who love you, cos you ain't even six yet. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:30 | |
But you're going to be seven next year, then eight, then nine, | 0:21:32 | 0:21:36 | |
all the way up to numbers you ain't even done in school yet. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:40 | |
And you're going to get called names. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:42 | |
And you're going to get thumped. | 0:21:42 | 0:21:45 | |
And you'll have to fight your corner. | 0:21:45 | 0:21:48 | |
You'll have to fight for every bastard thing you've got, | 0:21:48 | 0:21:52 | |
cos the only person who's ever really going to love you... | 0:21:52 | 0:21:54 | |
..is you. | 0:21:56 | 0:21:57 | |
And that's why I'm going to show you what to do with these. | 0:22:00 | 0:22:03 | |
Midwife calling. FRONT DOOR CLOSES | 0:22:09 | 0:22:11 | |
I've had a breakthrough on the bed-wetting front. | 0:22:13 | 0:22:15 | |
But you took Mickey to the hospital about his eyes. | 0:22:15 | 0:22:18 | |
-Anyway, where is he? -Didn't his father bring him home? | 0:22:18 | 0:22:22 | |
The gloves have gone. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:26 | |
DOOR SLAMS | 0:22:28 | 0:22:30 | |
This is how you learn to be a man, Mickey. | 0:22:32 | 0:22:35 | |
This is how you stop 'em calling names. | 0:22:35 | 0:22:38 | |
Mickey! | 0:22:51 | 0:22:52 | |
I'm sorry, Mrs Watts, but Mickey's father had the right to remove | 0:22:54 | 0:22:57 | |
him from school premises, as long as he had permission from the staff. | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
But he never had permission to take him to the gym. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:02 | |
Lester's not a fit father. He's only just come out of prison. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:05 | |
Neither Nurse Crane nor I knew that, Trudy. | 0:23:05 | 0:23:08 | |
I'm not sure it would have made any difference if you had. He was | 0:23:08 | 0:23:11 | |
convicted of demanding money with menaces, not cruelty to a child. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:14 | |
So he's free to do what he likes, then? | 0:23:14 | 0:23:15 | |
Thank you. You made that very clear. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:17 | |
We were only trying to help. | 0:23:19 | 0:23:20 | |
I'll drop round the gym and have a friendly word. | 0:23:20 | 0:23:23 | |
KNOCK AT DOOR | 0:23:26 | 0:23:28 | |
Sister, aren't you coming downstairs to join us for handicrafts? | 0:23:29 | 0:23:32 | |
I can't. I'm preparing for my life vows. | 0:23:32 | 0:23:35 | |
Community recreation is just as important. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:38 | |
Sister Ursula says I need to spend more time on my studies. | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
The difficulty with television is that it kills the conversation | 0:23:57 | 0:24:00 | |
in the room so completely. | 0:24:00 | 0:24:02 | |
Without that cumbersome device to distract us, | 0:24:05 | 0:24:09 | |
we can take greater pleasure in our handicrafts. | 0:24:09 | 0:24:11 | |
And in one another's company. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:16 | |
Sister Ursula, are we allowed to know | 0:24:16 | 0:24:18 | |
where the television set has gone? | 0:24:18 | 0:24:19 | |
Suffice to say, it is now in a place where it will be enjoyed. | 0:24:19 | 0:24:22 | |
I had the police call round the gym. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
Acting all matey. The police! | 0:24:29 | 0:24:32 | |
Making sure there was nothing they need to investigate, | 0:24:32 | 0:24:34 | |
when there wasn't a mark on the little bastard! | 0:24:34 | 0:24:36 | |
You're good at that, aren't you? Not leaving marks on people, Lester. | 0:24:36 | 0:24:40 | |
I never know whether it's cos you're clever, or cos you're just a coward. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:45 | |
Coward? | 0:24:45 | 0:24:46 | |
Coward? | 0:24:49 | 0:24:50 | |
Cowards don't do this, do they? | 0:24:53 | 0:24:57 | |
SHE SCREAMS | 0:24:57 | 0:24:59 | |
Or this. | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
Or this! SHE SOBS | 0:25:01 | 0:25:03 | |
Lester... | 0:25:07 | 0:25:10 | |
-What about Mickey? -He'll be all right. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:12 | |
He ain't got the brains to get himself in any bother. | 0:25:12 | 0:25:15 | |
SHE SOBS | 0:25:22 | 0:25:25 | |
Your dad's playing a game, Mickey. | 0:25:38 | 0:25:40 | |
It's like a pirate game. | 0:25:40 | 0:25:42 | |
We're pretending he's gone away to sea, and he's put me in a prison. | 0:25:42 | 0:25:46 | |
Listen, I want you to go and get some toys, | 0:25:50 | 0:25:54 | |
and sit and play on the stairs. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:56 | |
-You can pretend you're guarding me. -All right, Mummy. | 0:25:56 | 0:25:59 | |
SHE GROANS | 0:26:01 | 0:26:03 | |
The most important thing, when you begin to throw a pot, | 0:26:10 | 0:26:13 | |
is to make sure that your clay is in the absolute centre of your wheel, | 0:26:13 | 0:26:17 | |
so you need to throw it down firmly. | 0:26:17 | 0:26:20 | |
Ooh! | 0:26:20 | 0:26:22 | |
Stop laughing at once! | 0:26:22 | 0:26:23 | |
How can poor Nurse Gilbert make a lovely vase if she can't | 0:26:23 | 0:26:27 | |
concentrate because of all the noise? | 0:26:27 | 0:26:30 | |
Then you need to smooth it - oh, dear - into a cone shape. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:35 | |
Oh, erm... | 0:26:35 | 0:26:38 | |
Erm, right. | 0:26:38 | 0:26:39 | |
Oh, er... | 0:26:40 | 0:26:42 | |
Erm, and the next step is to make an opening... | 0:26:42 | 0:26:48 | |
Oh. Oh. CLAY SPLATS | 0:26:48 | 0:26:51 | |
SHE GROANS | 0:26:57 | 0:26:59 | |
Mickey, it's getting too dark for this part of the pirate game. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:12 | |
I need you to go and fetch something for me. | 0:27:12 | 0:27:14 | |
All right, Mummy. | 0:27:14 | 0:27:15 | |
I have noticed a certain halting of progress since I assumed the | 0:27:18 | 0:27:23 | |
role of your spiritual directress, but the prospect of life vows can be | 0:27:23 | 0:27:29 | |
a difficult time for a novice, and you are assured of all our prayers. | 0:27:29 | 0:27:33 | |
I don't always doubt them. | 0:27:33 | 0:27:35 | |
There are times when I feel them upholding me like wings. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:39 | |
And times when you do not? | 0:27:39 | 0:27:41 | |
SHE GROANS AND BREATHES HEAVILY | 0:27:46 | 0:27:49 | |
Push it under the door, lovey. Here, push it towards me. | 0:28:03 | 0:28:07 | |
That's it. That's it, Mickey. | 0:28:13 | 0:28:15 | |
I don't want to ply you with questions, child, | 0:28:27 | 0:28:29 | |
but if I do not ask them, I fear we shall not find answers. | 0:28:29 | 0:28:34 | |
Do you think I don't ask questions myself? | 0:28:34 | 0:28:37 | |
Questions come into my head all the time. | 0:28:37 | 0:28:39 | |
Sometimes I think He is asking them of me. | 0:28:39 | 0:28:42 | |
Sometimes I think I'm asking them of Him. | 0:28:42 | 0:28:45 | |
The voices are more similar than you'd think. | 0:28:47 | 0:28:50 | |
It's all right, baby. It's all right. | 0:29:25 | 0:29:28 | |
-I promise you. -Mummy, when are you coming out? | 0:29:29 | 0:29:32 | |
Mummy! | 0:29:42 | 0:29:43 | |
Mickey... Mickey, run and... bang on the door. | 0:30:05 | 0:30:08 | |
Bang on it. Run. | 0:30:08 | 0:30:10 | |
Help! Help! | 0:30:15 | 0:30:16 | |
-FAINT: -Help me! Help my mummy! | 0:30:17 | 0:30:20 | |
BANGING ON DOOR | 0:30:27 | 0:30:30 | |
Hurry! | 0:30:30 | 0:30:31 | |
Help! | 0:30:32 | 0:30:34 | |
Oh, my dear. | 0:30:38 | 0:30:40 | |
Oh. TRUDY SOBS | 0:30:40 | 0:30:44 | |
Come inside. | 0:30:44 | 0:30:45 | |
Come inside, where we can help you. | 0:30:46 | 0:30:48 | |
-What is this disturbance? -Mrs Watts is in labour. | 0:30:52 | 0:30:54 | |
Things are moving rather fast. | 0:30:54 | 0:30:55 | |
In that case, she should be at the hospital or the maternity home. | 0:30:55 | 0:30:58 | |
She was unable to make her way to either. | 0:30:58 | 0:31:00 | |
We will assess the situation here and see what we should do. | 0:31:00 | 0:31:04 | |
WATER BREAKS | 0:31:04 | 0:31:05 | |
Clinical room, straight away. | 0:31:08 | 0:31:09 | |
You've looked after your mother very well, young man. | 0:31:21 | 0:31:24 | |
Now, I think it's time someone looked after you. | 0:31:25 | 0:31:28 | |
Would you like to come with me? | 0:31:30 | 0:31:31 | |
We'll see if we can find the biscuit tin. | 0:31:31 | 0:31:34 | |
Might find some chocolate ones, if we're very lucky. | 0:31:34 | 0:31:37 | |
That's it. That's it. | 0:31:42 | 0:31:45 | |
-Won't be long now. Trust us. -I do. | 0:31:45 | 0:31:47 | |
Oh! | 0:31:49 | 0:31:50 | |
Oh, I can see baby's head, Trudy. | 0:32:06 | 0:32:08 | |
One last push. | 0:32:10 | 0:32:11 | |
SHE GRUNTS | 0:32:12 | 0:32:16 | |
There. | 0:32:16 | 0:32:17 | |
You have a daughter, Trudy. | 0:32:18 | 0:32:20 | |
Mucus extractor. | 0:32:20 | 0:32:22 | |
What's happening? | 0:32:24 | 0:32:25 | |
We need to clear baby's airways. | 0:32:26 | 0:32:28 | |
BABY CRIES | 0:32:48 | 0:32:50 | |
Love you, little girl. Love you, do you hear me? | 0:33:11 | 0:33:14 | |
-Will we have to go to hospital? -It would be best in the circumstances. | 0:33:19 | 0:33:22 | |
I don't care. I'm not going. | 0:33:24 | 0:33:27 | |
I'm not leaving Mickey. | 0:33:27 | 0:33:28 | |
Bit of a rude arrival for the poor little soul. | 0:33:40 | 0:33:43 | |
Bathing in her own first bowel movement. | 0:33:43 | 0:33:45 | |
-But will she be all right? -There's no harm done. | 0:33:45 | 0:33:49 | |
And Mickey is watching television with my own lad. | 0:33:49 | 0:33:52 | |
And wearing a slightly-too-small pair of my daughter's pyjamas. | 0:33:52 | 0:33:56 | |
But a boy can't have everything. | 0:33:56 | 0:33:58 | |
We're going to set up a camp bed for him, | 0:33:58 | 0:34:00 | |
so he won't be far away. | 0:34:00 | 0:34:02 | |
We can talk about everything else in the morning. | 0:34:06 | 0:34:09 | |
I used to go down the old rectory gardens when I was a kid. | 0:34:14 | 0:34:18 | |
Do my dreaming. | 0:34:18 | 0:34:20 | |
You can hear the church bells ringing down there. | 0:34:20 | 0:34:22 | |
No wonder I used to dream about weddings and white dresses. | 0:34:22 | 0:34:26 | |
But love never really got me anywhere at all. | 0:34:29 | 0:34:33 | |
Love brought you here tonight, though, didn't it? | 0:34:33 | 0:34:36 | |
Love is why you refused to go to hospital. | 0:34:37 | 0:34:39 | |
So you could keep your little family together. | 0:34:41 | 0:34:43 | |
But love won't keep us safe, Nurse. | 0:34:43 | 0:34:45 | |
I need to start hating now. | 0:34:47 | 0:34:48 | |
Oh, lass, such strong words. | 0:34:51 | 0:34:53 | |
But I've got to be strong now. Don't you see? | 0:34:53 | 0:34:55 | |
Why don't you wait till morning? | 0:34:56 | 0:34:58 | |
You contradicted my authority last night. | 0:35:07 | 0:35:10 | |
Junior members of staff heard of it. | 0:35:10 | 0:35:12 | |
And so did Sister Mary Cynthia, who is approaching the end of her | 0:35:12 | 0:35:15 | |
novitiate, and requires a clear example of our rule of life. | 0:35:15 | 0:35:19 | |
No, Sister. | 0:35:19 | 0:35:20 | |
Sister Mary Cynthia requires encouragement, gentleness, | 0:35:20 | 0:35:24 | |
and understanding. Last autumn, she was violently attacked. | 0:35:24 | 0:35:27 | |
She gave them the necessary evidence, and since that date, | 0:35:27 | 0:35:30 | |
she's never spoken a word of it. | 0:35:30 | 0:35:33 | |
But what if she needs to speak of it? | 0:35:33 | 0:35:35 | |
Sister Mary Cynthia takes her strength from our continued prayers, | 0:35:35 | 0:35:39 | |
and you can uphold her further by setting an example, Sister. | 0:35:39 | 0:35:43 | |
Obedience in all things, including the will of the Almighty. | 0:35:43 | 0:35:47 | |
Lester, get out. | 0:36:13 | 0:36:15 | |
Got in easily enough. | 0:36:16 | 0:36:18 | |
-You've got no right to be here. -Yes, I have. | 0:36:18 | 0:36:21 | |
I'm checking out what's mine. | 0:36:22 | 0:36:24 | |
-Trudy, this isn't sensible. -He'll be at the gym for three hours. | 0:36:39 | 0:36:43 | |
If I go home, I'll be safe. | 0:36:43 | 0:36:44 | |
I'll be somewhere where doors can be locked, by me. | 0:36:44 | 0:36:47 | |
Do you at least have money for your taxi fare? | 0:36:47 | 0:36:49 | |
I'm asking the cabbie to stop at Ziegler's Jewellers. | 0:36:49 | 0:36:52 | |
These got me into this mess - they can get me out of it. | 0:36:52 | 0:36:55 | |
Taxi fare, new locks, solicitor. In that order. | 0:36:55 | 0:36:59 | |
I'm getting a divorce. | 0:36:59 | 0:37:01 | |
-Wait for me! -Wait! | 0:37:03 | 0:37:05 | |
I'm actually struggling to understand the connection | 0:37:11 | 0:37:13 | |
between the Commonwealth and balloons, Barbara. | 0:37:13 | 0:37:17 | |
Well, they're made of rubber, which comes from India, Malaysia, | 0:37:17 | 0:37:20 | |
-and Ceylon. -And what about pottery? | 0:37:20 | 0:37:22 | |
Everywhere in the former empire use plates. | 0:37:24 | 0:37:27 | |
I've just realised this will be our first parish event | 0:37:27 | 0:37:30 | |
as an engaged couple. | 0:37:30 | 0:37:32 | |
Well, I should give my Germolene tin an extra polish, then. | 0:37:32 | 0:37:35 | |
-Oh, it doesn't matter, Tom. -It matters to me. | 0:37:38 | 0:37:41 | |
Trudy, baby was only born last night. | 0:37:47 | 0:37:49 | |
Dr Turner's on his way, | 0:37:51 | 0:37:52 | |
but we'd all feel better if you had the usual twice-daily visits. | 0:37:52 | 0:37:56 | |
And I think you would, too. | 0:37:58 | 0:37:59 | |
I'm a good mother, Sister. You have to trust me. | 0:38:01 | 0:38:04 | |
I do trust you. | 0:38:04 | 0:38:06 | |
Just like you trusted us last night. | 0:38:07 | 0:38:09 | |
-They want to help you, Trudy. -I'm going to have to do this on my own. | 0:38:11 | 0:38:15 | |
My mum kept putting all her chips on men - | 0:38:15 | 0:38:17 | |
marrying them, not marrying them. | 0:38:17 | 0:38:19 | |
Always ended up with a black eye, and the same old mess. | 0:38:19 | 0:38:22 | |
I broke out that bedroom on my own. | 0:38:22 | 0:38:25 | |
And now I'm going to break away from him. | 0:38:25 | 0:38:28 | |
I want you to succeed, Trudy. I really do. | 0:38:28 | 0:38:30 | |
-But... -No. No, don't you cry. Please don't you cry. | 0:38:32 | 0:38:36 | |
I'm happy about this, Sister. | 0:38:37 | 0:38:39 | |
I'm doing something I should have done a long time ago. | 0:38:39 | 0:38:42 | |
Trudy, so few people have the courage to do that. | 0:38:42 | 0:38:45 | |
Trudy! BANGING ON DOOR | 0:38:45 | 0:38:47 | |
This is my house! Open this door! | 0:38:47 | 0:38:49 | |
It is my house too, because I am your wife, and you are not | 0:38:49 | 0:38:52 | |
coming over this threshold because my children aren't safe if you do. | 0:38:52 | 0:38:55 | |
GLASS SMASHES | 0:38:55 | 0:38:58 | |
HE GROWLS | 0:38:58 | 0:38:59 | |
You can't keep me out! | 0:39:01 | 0:39:02 | |
HE GROWLS | 0:39:05 | 0:39:08 | |
What's happened? | 0:39:08 | 0:39:10 | |
I've been fighting for my rights. | 0:39:10 | 0:39:12 | |
I'll have the law on you! Changing my bloody locks! | 0:39:16 | 0:39:20 | |
What's happened, Sister? Got yourself a puncture? | 0:39:31 | 0:39:34 | |
KNOCK AT DOOR | 0:39:41 | 0:39:43 | |
Sister, I know your door isn't locked... | 0:39:43 | 0:39:47 | |
..but I will not force my way in. | 0:39:48 | 0:39:49 | |
And I've taken your name off the roster, | 0:39:59 | 0:40:01 | |
so that you can rest. | 0:40:01 | 0:40:02 | |
You can't do that! | 0:40:05 | 0:40:06 | |
You aren't in charge! | 0:40:06 | 0:40:09 | |
Even Sister Ursula isn't really in charge. | 0:40:09 | 0:40:11 | |
My head is so full of scriptures that the phrases fray... | 0:40:17 | 0:40:22 | |
..and jumble on occasion.... | 0:40:23 | 0:40:25 | |
..but I would still lay every slipple at your feet, | 0:40:27 | 0:40:31 | |
if I thought these fragments might illuminate your way. | 0:40:31 | 0:40:34 | |
Will you take refuge in medicine instead? | 0:40:36 | 0:40:39 | |
It will hydrate as a sedative. | 0:40:43 | 0:40:46 | |
I can't take it, I've got so many things to do! | 0:40:46 | 0:40:49 | |
You have given this to women in their labours countless times. | 0:40:49 | 0:40:53 | |
Ugh! | 0:40:59 | 0:41:01 | |
-You can't take my bag away! I might need it! -Sister... | 0:41:01 | 0:41:05 | |
Oh, Sister. | 0:41:05 | 0:41:07 | |
What was it Julian of Norwich wrote? | 0:41:08 | 0:41:11 | |
Not the thing about, "All shall be well." | 0:41:13 | 0:41:15 | |
Not that, because I can't believe that any more. | 0:41:15 | 0:41:18 | |
She wrote, "God did not say thou shalt not be tempested, | 0:41:18 | 0:41:24 | |
"thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be diseased." | 0:41:24 | 0:41:29 | |
"But he said, thou shall not be overcome." | 0:41:31 | 0:41:34 | |
Sister Mary Cynthia has never received treatment | 0:41:43 | 0:41:45 | |
for mental instability. | 0:41:45 | 0:41:47 | |
And the most recent record we have for her relates to | 0:41:47 | 0:41:50 | |
her injuries after the attack. | 0:41:50 | 0:41:52 | |
I blame myself for this. | 0:41:52 | 0:41:54 | |
I wanted her to survive. I wanted her pain to vanish with her bruises. | 0:41:54 | 0:41:58 | |
She knew that. | 0:41:58 | 0:42:00 | |
And she lives and breathes to please others. | 0:42:00 | 0:42:03 | |
I want Dr Turner to see her. | 0:42:04 | 0:42:07 | |
He will want to see her, too. | 0:42:07 | 0:42:08 | |
I'm sorry, it's just... | 0:42:13 | 0:42:14 | |
..the smell of the milk. | 0:42:16 | 0:42:17 | |
Breakfasts have been impossible. | 0:42:19 | 0:42:21 | |
Breakfasts? | 0:42:22 | 0:42:25 | |
I can't quite believe it myself, Sister. | 0:42:25 | 0:42:27 | |
Even Patrick doesn't know. | 0:42:28 | 0:42:30 | |
But... | 0:42:30 | 0:42:32 | |
..I'm expecting a baby. | 0:42:34 | 0:42:35 | |
-And I'm so afraid. -Oh! | 0:42:38 | 0:42:40 | |
And I'm not. | 0:42:41 | 0:42:43 | |
Because I never stopped praying. | 0:42:45 | 0:42:47 | |
But we were told we could never have children. | 0:42:49 | 0:42:52 | |
Shelagh, there's no doubt at all now. | 0:42:52 | 0:42:55 | |
You can ask him to share your joy. | 0:42:56 | 0:42:58 | |
I don't know how I'm going to tell him. | 0:42:59 | 0:43:02 | |
I blame the films. | 0:43:32 | 0:43:33 | |
Makes girls go mad for romance and roses and Rossano Bloody Brazzi. | 0:43:33 | 0:43:38 | |
And when they don't get it, you'd think the sky had fallen in. | 0:43:38 | 0:43:42 | |
I thought that way meself once. | 0:43:42 | 0:43:44 | |
-BABY CRIES -Or twice. | 0:43:44 | 0:43:45 | |
Maybe even three times, but my son-in-law owns this house outright, | 0:43:45 | 0:43:49 | |
and he's got prospects, and he respects his elders. | 0:43:49 | 0:43:51 | |
There's plenty worse off than my daughter. | 0:43:51 | 0:43:54 | |
Er, Mr Watts is not willing to allow Mrs Watts to remain | 0:43:54 | 0:43:57 | |
in the property if the marriage is dissolved. | 0:43:57 | 0:44:00 | |
I'm not paying you to know what my husband wants. | 0:44:00 | 0:44:02 | |
I want to know what I can do. | 0:44:02 | 0:44:03 | |
I thought you were supposed to be a midwife. | 0:44:03 | 0:44:05 | |
Can't you stop that kid from whingeing? | 0:44:05 | 0:44:07 | |
I find babies are unsubtle when there's tension in the room. | 0:44:07 | 0:44:10 | |
So take her in the kitchen. | 0:44:10 | 0:44:12 | |
Or when they're removed any distance from the mother. | 0:44:12 | 0:44:15 | |
BABY CRIES SOLICITOR CLEARS THROAT | 0:44:15 | 0:44:17 | |
Er, you can divorce your husband for cruelty, Mrs Watts, | 0:44:17 | 0:44:20 | |
providing you can prove that cruelty took place. | 0:44:20 | 0:44:23 | |
He locked me in the bedroom. I could have died giving birth on my own. | 0:44:23 | 0:44:26 | |
Well, were there witnesses, Mrs Watts? | 0:44:26 | 0:44:28 | |
There was witnesses when he put his fist through that window. | 0:44:28 | 0:44:30 | |
-Would they testify to it? -Course they won't bloody testify. | 0:44:30 | 0:44:34 | |
People round here have to get on with their neighbours, | 0:44:34 | 0:44:36 | |
and like I said, Lester's got connections. | 0:44:36 | 0:44:39 | |
And I've got burns - here, here and here. | 0:44:39 | 0:44:42 | |
He did them with his cigarette. | 0:44:42 | 0:44:43 | |
Again, you would have to PROVE that, Mrs Watts. | 0:44:43 | 0:44:46 | |
I'm extremely happy to give a statement summarising | 0:44:46 | 0:44:48 | |
the medical overview. | 0:44:48 | 0:44:49 | |
Why should you have to? You can see them. | 0:44:49 | 0:44:52 | |
Just like you can see the bruises under my hair where | 0:44:52 | 0:44:54 | |
he digs his fingers in when he don't get what he wants. | 0:44:54 | 0:44:56 | |
And how do we know you didn't do all these things to yourself, | 0:44:56 | 0:44:59 | |
when you didn't get what YOU wanted? | 0:44:59 | 0:45:01 | |
She's got form in that department, Mr Wylton. | 0:45:01 | 0:45:04 | |
That was years ago, when Mickey was a baby. | 0:45:06 | 0:45:08 | |
And I put my own head in the oven. | 0:45:10 | 0:45:11 | |
I never tried to pretend that was Lester. | 0:45:11 | 0:45:13 | |
It occurs to me, Mrs Watts, that you may wish to apply for custody | 0:45:16 | 0:45:20 | |
of your children, in which case... | 0:45:20 | 0:45:21 | |
Custody? But they're my kids. | 0:45:21 | 0:45:24 | |
Why should I apply for anything? | 0:45:24 | 0:45:25 | |
Because they are your husband's children, too. | 0:45:25 | 0:45:28 | |
You could be construed as having a history of mental instability, | 0:45:28 | 0:45:33 | |
and he has certain rights. | 0:45:33 | 0:45:35 | |
What about Mrs Watts' rights? | 0:45:35 | 0:45:37 | |
And her children's - don't they have a right not to be terrorised? | 0:45:37 | 0:45:41 | |
You look tired, Sister. | 0:45:52 | 0:45:54 | |
I slept for a long time. | 0:45:54 | 0:45:56 | |
How did you feel when you fell asleep? | 0:45:58 | 0:46:01 | |
As though... | 0:46:01 | 0:46:03 | |
my mind was flat, and black. | 0:46:03 | 0:46:05 | |
Like a blackboard covered in writing. | 0:46:06 | 0:46:09 | |
-And when you woke up? -As though it had been rubbed clean a little. | 0:46:11 | 0:46:15 | |
I have to keep my head still, | 0:46:16 | 0:46:18 | |
or else I can still see the words out of the corners of my eyes. | 0:46:18 | 0:46:21 | |
Can you tell me what they say? | 0:46:21 | 0:46:23 | |
Say? The words - they don't talk. | 0:46:25 | 0:46:29 | |
Do you think I might be ill? | 0:46:36 | 0:46:38 | |
I do. | 0:46:40 | 0:46:42 | |
But that means you can be healed. | 0:46:43 | 0:46:45 | |
-Excuse me, please. -Oh, sorry. | 0:46:54 | 0:46:56 | |
BABY CRIES | 0:46:56 | 0:46:58 | |
I can't and I won't barge in without your say-so, but please, | 0:47:03 | 0:47:07 | |
let me take a look at you, Trudy. | 0:47:07 | 0:47:09 | |
Just had a delivery. Legal papers, from Lester's solicitor. | 0:47:13 | 0:47:18 | |
He's going for custody with immediate effect. | 0:47:18 | 0:47:20 | |
I would prefer to discuss the situation with Mrs Watts. | 0:47:20 | 0:47:24 | |
Trudy, let me see if I can help. | 0:47:24 | 0:47:26 | |
You'll make things worse. | 0:47:28 | 0:47:29 | |
I've got to do this on my own. | 0:47:30 | 0:47:32 | |
Because I'm on my own. | 0:47:33 | 0:47:35 | |
So, if you'll excuse me, my son-in-law has asked me to supervise | 0:47:36 | 0:47:38 | |
the locksmith, and this time, madam here ain't getting any keys. | 0:47:38 | 0:47:42 | |
It's not right. It's just not. | 0:48:07 | 0:48:10 | |
The man Trudy's trying to escape is a criminal, | 0:48:10 | 0:48:13 | |
and he's playing the legal system like a penny violin. | 0:48:13 | 0:48:16 | |
I'm generally wary of elaborate drinks, | 0:48:17 | 0:48:20 | |
but a small, dry sherry won't hit the spot tonight. | 0:48:20 | 0:48:23 | |
So, what's our poison, then, Phyllis? | 0:48:23 | 0:48:25 | |
Brandy Alexanders made with | 0:48:25 | 0:48:27 | |
condensed milk for a velvety, luxurious taste. | 0:48:27 | 0:48:30 | |
This Women's Realm pamphlet's been quite an education. | 0:48:31 | 0:48:34 | |
-Brandy Alexander, Patsy? -No, thank you. | 0:48:36 | 0:48:40 | |
An evening of ulcer-dressing and haemorrhoid compression | 0:48:40 | 0:48:42 | |
on the district rounds rather spoilt my appetite. | 0:48:42 | 0:48:46 | |
And if you wouldn't mind getting off my bed... | 0:48:46 | 0:48:48 | |
..I'd quite like a lie-down. | 0:48:50 | 0:48:51 | |
Doctor, if I wasn't aware of Sister Mary Cynthia's need for | 0:49:21 | 0:49:25 | |
psychiatric help before I saw you with her yesterday, I am now. | 0:49:25 | 0:49:30 | |
And I'm very grateful for your interest. | 0:49:31 | 0:49:33 | |
There is a particularly gentle, and therefore suitable, | 0:49:33 | 0:49:37 | |
therapeutic community near Birmingham, called Northfield. | 0:49:37 | 0:49:41 | |
Because her family live there, we may be able to get her in. | 0:49:41 | 0:49:44 | |
Doctor, the Order of St Raymond Nonnatus is sister Mary Cynthia's | 0:49:44 | 0:49:48 | |
family now, and she's already left for the Mother House. | 0:49:48 | 0:49:52 | |
She'll be seen by a Chichester doctor as soon as she arrives. | 0:49:52 | 0:49:56 | |
-Dr Turner. -Sister... | 0:50:00 | 0:50:03 | |
did you see Sister Mary Cynthia before she left? | 0:50:03 | 0:50:05 | |
No, I did not. | 0:50:05 | 0:50:07 | |
She wasn't at the wards, | 0:50:07 | 0:50:08 | |
and when I went to her room before breakfast, it was empty. | 0:50:08 | 0:50:12 | |
-I see. -I cannot question what has happened, but I do want it noted. | 0:50:12 | 0:50:16 | |
PHONE RINGS | 0:50:21 | 0:50:23 | |
Nonnatus House, midwife speaking. | 0:50:25 | 0:50:28 | |
Er, we've had an unscheduled delivery at the station. | 0:50:28 | 0:50:31 | |
There was a bottle in the bag she left. | 0:50:40 | 0:50:42 | |
The teat came off, and it leaked all over the nappies and the clothes. | 0:50:42 | 0:50:46 | |
How can a mother abandon her children? | 0:50:46 | 0:50:48 | |
And she obviously cares so much. | 0:50:48 | 0:50:50 | |
I think you'll find Trudy did this BECAUSE she cares so much. | 0:50:50 | 0:50:53 | |
Be that as it may, we have to find out where she's gone. | 0:50:53 | 0:50:56 | |
Abandonment is a criminal offence. You can get six months. | 0:50:56 | 0:50:59 | |
Trudy Watts is not the criminal in this situation, Sergeant Noakes. | 0:51:04 | 0:51:08 | |
No. I can see that. | 0:51:08 | 0:51:10 | |
I was about to telephone the children's officer, | 0:51:10 | 0:51:13 | |
to organise a foster home. | 0:51:13 | 0:51:14 | |
But if we put these children into care, | 0:51:15 | 0:51:17 | |
we may have trouble getting them out. | 0:51:17 | 0:51:20 | |
Trudy's already on her knees. | 0:51:20 | 0:51:22 | |
I've no interest in kicking her, or her kiddies, while she's down. | 0:51:22 | 0:51:25 | |
And I think I might know where she's gone. | 0:51:25 | 0:51:28 | |
I've lost track of the times you've crept into my room now. | 0:51:38 | 0:51:41 | |
I never tire of looking for the look upon your face. | 0:51:41 | 0:51:45 | |
Is it going to be excited Pats, or happy Pats? | 0:51:45 | 0:51:48 | |
Sad Pats or troubled Pats? | 0:51:49 | 0:51:53 | |
But I love all of those girls. | 0:51:53 | 0:51:55 | |
Even this one. | 0:51:55 | 0:51:57 | |
What, apologetic Pats? | 0:51:57 | 0:51:58 | |
Apologetic Pats and I do have what you might call | 0:51:58 | 0:52:01 | |
a glancing acquaintance. | 0:52:01 | 0:52:03 | |
I owe you an apology. | 0:52:03 | 0:52:04 | |
For being brusque and not telling you why. | 0:52:05 | 0:52:08 | |
And for something else which may never happen, but if it does... | 0:52:12 | 0:52:15 | |
..it's going to hurt us both so much. | 0:52:17 | 0:52:19 | |
What? | 0:52:23 | 0:52:25 | |
I've had a letter from Hong Kong. | 0:52:25 | 0:52:27 | |
-From your father? -From his nurse. | 0:52:27 | 0:52:29 | |
He's developed a degenerative condition of the nervous system. | 0:52:31 | 0:52:35 | |
Do you need to visit him? | 0:52:36 | 0:52:37 | |
-I spoke to his nurse. He's... -SHE GULPS | 0:52:39 | 0:52:42 | |
..paralysed. | 0:52:42 | 0:52:43 | |
He wants me to go to him, but... | 0:52:44 | 0:52:46 | |
..I don't know what to do. | 0:52:48 | 0:52:49 | |
I reckon this is one for you, Nurse Crane. | 0:52:58 | 0:53:00 | |
Well, lass, you've given us all a fright. | 0:53:21 | 0:53:23 | |
But I don't think anyone involved's been more afraid than you. | 0:53:25 | 0:53:28 | |
I thought I was going to kill myself. | 0:53:46 | 0:53:48 | |
But you didn't. | 0:53:50 | 0:53:51 | |
And I'm not going to ask you why, because you're a mother. | 0:53:53 | 0:53:56 | |
Therefore, the answer's quite obvious to me. | 0:53:56 | 0:53:59 | |
I thought there was no other way. | 0:54:00 | 0:54:03 | |
No other way to get away from Lester. | 0:54:03 | 0:54:05 | |
-No other way to save the kids. -There's always another way... | 0:54:05 | 0:54:09 | |
..if you've someone to help you look for it. | 0:54:11 | 0:54:14 | |
Hello. | 0:54:26 | 0:54:28 | |
Hello, you. | 0:54:28 | 0:54:29 | |
-A ring. -An engagement ring. | 0:54:34 | 0:54:37 | |
I bought it for both of us, from my savings. | 0:54:37 | 0:54:41 | |
That's not the way it's meant to be, Barbara. | 0:54:43 | 0:54:46 | |
No. It's a new way. | 0:54:46 | 0:54:48 | |
Our way. | 0:54:49 | 0:54:50 | |
And absolutely perfect. | 0:54:57 | 0:54:58 | |
'In the spring of 1962, | 0:55:18 | 0:55:20 | |
'no-one knew what the tides would bring to Nonnatus House. | 0:55:20 | 0:55:25 | |
'The currents ebbed and eddied, leaving no clear channel for its | 0:55:25 | 0:55:29 | |
'ship to sail upon, but even in the midst of such uncertainty came joy.' | 0:55:29 | 0:55:35 | |
Are you going to watch me do my drawing? | 0:55:43 | 0:55:45 | |
It's going to be a very special picture. | 0:55:45 | 0:55:47 | |
'No-one is ever as alone as they imagine. | 0:55:49 | 0:55:52 | |
'Trudy Watts spent some time in a hostel for women, | 0:55:52 | 0:55:56 | |
'and the help she received changed both her prospects and her fate. | 0:55:56 | 0:56:01 | |
'She was awarded custody of Mickey, and his baby sister, | 0:56:01 | 0:56:05 | |
'and rehoused in a council flat far from London, | 0:56:05 | 0:56:08 | |
'where there were green fields and skies that held a hint of blue.' | 0:56:08 | 0:56:13 | |
Patrick. | 0:56:13 | 0:56:14 | |
You gave me a note once, from you and someone else. | 0:56:16 | 0:56:19 | |
Now I'm giving you this... | 0:56:23 | 0:56:25 | |
from me, and someone else. | 0:56:25 | 0:56:28 | |
"Please will you be my dad?" | 0:56:33 | 0:56:35 | |
'For everything washed away, a fresh potential dawned, | 0:56:40 | 0:56:46 | |
'and in every wave of change, there came a new beginning.' | 0:56:46 | 0:56:50 | |
-Bye! -Bye! Thank you! | 0:56:50 | 0:56:53 | |
Bye! | 0:56:53 | 0:56:54 | |
It's normally a wonderful thing, | 0:57:07 | 0:57:09 | |
a mother brimming over with excitement. | 0:57:09 | 0:57:10 | |
In this case, it unsettles me. | 0:57:10 | 0:57:12 | |
I'm scared if you go in to that hospital, you won't come out. | 0:57:12 | 0:57:15 | |
You are midwives and nurses, not maids and nannies. | 0:57:15 | 0:57:19 | |
Those who do not earn their place must find another. | 0:57:19 | 0:57:22 | |
Telephone for an ambulance and the fire brigade! | 0:57:24 | 0:57:27 | |
Valerie Dyer. I'm a nurse. Tell me what you need. | 0:57:27 | 0:57:30 |