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'A world was moving from a time of limits, of austerity, | 0:00:30 | 0:00:34 | |
'into one which promised endless reinvention. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:38 | |
'We could change the homes we lived in, | 0:00:38 | 0:00:40 | |
'and the clothes we wore. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:42 | |
'We could fly across the world, investigate new planets, | 0:00:42 | 0:00:46 | |
'begin to crack our own genetic code. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:50 | |
'But, no matter what science sought, our challenge remained the same - | 0:00:51 | 0:00:57 | |
'to accept what it meant to be human. | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
'To embrace our strengths, our weaknesses, our dreams.' | 0:01:00 | 0:01:04 | |
Walk, don't run. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:12 | |
Another letter from Hong Kong. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:16 | |
Don't you think you should open it? | 0:01:18 | 0:01:20 | |
And be late for clinic, incurring the wrath of Sister Ursula? | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
Have you lost your marbles, Busby? | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
-Two minutes, Pats, to read the letter. That's all. -In which time, | 0:01:25 | 0:01:28 | |
I could have taken a patient's temperature or blood pressure. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:31 | |
I spoke with the Mother House. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:36 | |
Sister Mary Cynthia recuperates well. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
Oh, I had planned to telephone myself. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:44 | |
Now there's no need. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:45 | |
Shall we make this the last? | 0:01:46 | 0:01:48 | |
I beg your pardon? | 0:01:48 | 0:01:49 | |
None of us can truly spare the time for arranging them. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
Don't you agree? | 0:01:52 | 0:01:53 | |
Sweeties! | 0:02:06 | 0:02:07 | |
Pink ticket, number 16, please. Mrs Reed. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:22 | |
We're coming, Nurse. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:24 | |
You go on, love. You've got work. I'll manage from here. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:37 | |
She's in good hands, Mr Reed. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:39 | |
Your pocket. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:47 | |
Unlike your sisters, I won't indulge you. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:54 | |
Bonbons. Now. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:57 | |
We don't appear to have your full notes. Where were you before? | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
We were Whitechapel, Nurse. Dr Treneman on Alderman Row. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:20 | |
And this is your first pregnancy? | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
It is. My only baby. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:24 | |
Let's see how baby's getting on. Cold hands, I'm afraid. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:29 | |
That's all feeling jolly good. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:35 | |
Now, let's have a listen to baby's heartbeat. Then blood pressure, | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
urine sample, and we'll book you in for a home visit. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:41 | |
Oh, I shan't be at home. I'm to go to St Cuthbert's for my caesarean. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:45 | |
We'll want to see you regularly now, | 0:03:45 | 0:03:47 | |
and, well, it'll save you the journey. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:49 | |
Never dared hope for such treatment. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:52 | |
I think perhaps because I'm smaller, | 0:03:52 | 0:03:55 | |
people think the hopes are not so great. | 0:03:55 | 0:03:57 | |
That's it, you're getting it now, just got to keep working it. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:05 | |
Imagine you're in the ring with Henry Cooper. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:07 | |
I'm picturing the rent man, Mum. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:09 | |
-Hello, love! -George! | 0:04:09 | 0:04:11 | |
I'll get flour all over you. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:14 | |
Ah, that's no worse than what's been on me today - coal, grain and sugar. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:17 | |
It's a good one today. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:18 | |
Same tomorrow - big ships coming in all week. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:21 | |
-Oh! -I did well with this one, didn't I, Mum? | 0:04:21 | 0:04:23 | |
You both done well. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:25 | |
Come on then, Mister. We're waiting for you. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:27 | |
But pregnancy for a woman with achondroplasia is quite risky. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:36 | |
How can Mrs Reed not be aware of that? | 0:04:36 | 0:04:38 | |
I don't know, Doctor. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:39 | |
But she's definitely been booked in for a caesarean so, well, someone | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
must have discussed the potential problems of a vaginal birth. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:45 | |
The size of the pelvis is an obvious one, | 0:04:45 | 0:04:47 | |
-but there are others, and she should be aware of them. -It's normally | 0:04:47 | 0:04:50 | |
wonderful seeing a mother brimming over with excitement. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:54 | |
In this case, it unsettles me. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:57 | |
Let me do a bit of digging. | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
Once we've seen the notes, we'll know what she knows, | 0:04:59 | 0:05:02 | |
and then we can work out the best way to help. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
All right. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:06 | |
How's your father? | 0:05:09 | 0:05:10 | |
Pats, what did the letter say? | 0:05:14 | 0:05:16 | |
I haven't had the chance to read it. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:17 | |
-Then read it now. -I'm trying to sleep. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:20 | |
Besides, if I ignore it, then it might all go away. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:25 | |
Why do you always make light of everything? | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
I know what the letter will say - "Come home." | 0:05:28 | 0:05:32 | |
And that will mean leaving you. | 0:05:34 | 0:05:36 | |
So, I'd prefer to leave it unread. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:39 | |
Mrs Reed's notes from Dr Treneman's surgery. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:49 | |
Thank you. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:50 | |
You look a bit better, Shelagh. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:52 | |
With luck, it will pass in a couple of weeks. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:55 | |
A year ago, I would have offered you Distaval. | 0:05:55 | 0:05:58 | |
A year ago, I would probably have taken it. | 0:05:58 | 0:06:01 | |
When I think about those poor babies born without arms or legs, | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
because of thalidomide... | 0:06:04 | 0:06:06 | |
I think about them every day. | 0:06:06 | 0:06:08 | |
But I think about this too, and how miraculous it is. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:14 | |
How lucky we are. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:17 | |
We ought to start telling people, really. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
I'd want the children to know first. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
Angela's too little to understand, but Timothy's a teenage boy. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:31 | |
He'll certainly understand! | 0:06:31 | 0:06:33 | |
Oh, Patrick! | 0:06:33 | 0:06:35 | |
PHONE RINGS | 0:06:35 | 0:06:37 | |
Nonnatus House. Midwife speaking. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:45 | |
Sister Winifred - Mrs Marsh is in labour. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:03 | |
I can't say this situation doesn't worry me. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:08 | |
And both parents are dwarves, so there's a high chance this baby will | 0:07:08 | 0:07:11 | |
be born with the same condition. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:13 | |
It could still be healthy. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:15 | |
-And it would be so loved. -I know. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:18 | |
And if the genetics work out differently, | 0:07:18 | 0:07:20 | |
it could actually be of normal size. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:22 | |
-Really? -Well, it's possible. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:24 | |
But it's also possible the baby will be stillborn, | 0:07:24 | 0:07:27 | |
or only live for hours. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:29 | |
And we have no way of knowing which way the dice will fall. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
In which case, we must prepare Mrs Reed for every scenario. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:36 | |
Even the saddest. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:38 | |
I'll do that. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:40 | |
I have to. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:41 | |
But she's so happy! | 0:07:42 | 0:07:44 | |
The thought of anything going wrong will break her heart. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:46 | |
She already knows. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:48 | |
Her previous GP told her. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
He also told her that she should terminate the pregnancy. | 0:07:50 | 0:07:54 | |
Here, Val! They're saying it's going to be today. The baby. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:05 | |
Make sure you pop by later, there'll be a drink on the bar for you. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:08 | |
All the luck to you, George. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:09 | |
Oh, Jessie, you're nearly there. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:17 | |
OK, Jessie. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:18 | |
Let's just take some slow breaths. Slow your breathing right down. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:23 | |
We're very close now. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:24 | |
Now, just one very gentle push, and we should see baby's head. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:28 | |
Perfect, absolutely perfect. And pant for me. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:35 | |
That's it, that's it. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:40 | |
Now another push for the shoulders. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:42 | |
I know you're exhausted, but I know you have the strength, Jessie. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:46 | |
Dig deep for it now and push for baby. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:49 | |
Well done! Well done! Baby's coming! | 0:08:51 | 0:08:55 | |
Ah, hear that, Jessie? | 0:08:55 | 0:08:57 | |
It's a little boy, Jessie. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:02 | |
BABY CRIES | 0:09:02 | 0:09:03 | |
Hello, my little one. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:26 | |
George and me agreed Bobby for a boy, after Dad. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
George Marsh? | 0:09:51 | 0:09:53 | |
Are you ready for your smallpox vaccination? | 0:09:53 | 0:09:55 | |
Here, ain't you got something smaller? | 0:09:55 | 0:09:57 | |
Oh, George, don't be a baby. | 0:09:57 | 0:09:59 | |
Talking of which - I hear your wife's in labour. | 0:09:59 | 0:10:01 | |
Ow! Here, that was crafty. | 0:10:01 | 0:10:04 | |
It's called distraction. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:05 | |
Off you go. And good luck to you and Jessie. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:09 | |
Arthur Pilbury? | 0:10:10 | 0:10:12 | |
Hello. | 0:10:12 | 0:10:14 | |
If you'd roll your sleeve up and relax your arm. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:17 | |
Mrs Reed, we have your notes from Dr Treneman. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:25 | |
We know you understand the risks associated with your pregnancy. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:38 | |
All I want is to be able to help with what may lie ahead. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:42 | |
I wanted this baby for so long. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:44 | |
No-one ever thought I'd be able to fall, never mind carry. | 0:10:44 | 0:10:48 | |
They were wrong, Nurse. Why can't they be wrong now? | 0:10:48 | 0:10:51 | |
I so very, very much hope that they are. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:54 | |
But I have a duty to care for you as much as for baby, | 0:10:55 | 0:10:58 | |
and part of that's trying to prepare you. | 0:10:58 | 0:11:01 | |
I can feel my baby. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:05 | |
He kicks and wriggles when we sing to him. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:08 | |
He's my little miracle, Nurse. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:10 | |
Don't ask me to give up, because I won't. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:14 | |
I can't. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:15 | |
Here, I got it, Arthur. You rest now. | 0:11:37 | 0:11:40 | |
I don't have the lungs for this game no more. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
Oh! | 0:11:57 | 0:11:59 | |
ALARM BLARES | 0:12:05 | 0:12:07 | |
Telephone for an ambulance and the fire brigade. Hurry! | 0:12:18 | 0:12:21 | |
Nurse, over here. Nurse, help this man. | 0:12:21 | 0:12:24 | |
Fetch fresh water and blankets. | 0:12:24 | 0:12:26 | |
We've only got the piped river water, Nurse. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:28 | |
I need clean water. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:29 | |
SHE WHISTLES | 0:12:29 | 0:12:31 | |
Go to the pub, fetch water. Fill the kegs. Hurry. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
Well, don't just stand there - go with him. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:36 | |
Valerie Dyer. I'm a nurse. Queen Alexandra's. Army Corps. | 0:12:36 | 0:12:40 | |
Tell me what you need. | 0:12:40 | 0:12:41 | |
We need to get these men away from the building | 0:12:41 | 0:12:43 | |
and check them for smoke damage and burns. | 0:12:43 | 0:12:45 | |
I need everyone away from the building! | 0:12:45 | 0:12:48 | |
All right, now, deep breaths, nice and easy. Let's get you sat down. | 0:12:53 | 0:12:58 | |
Come and sit down. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:00 | |
Pump. Get the water in there now. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:02 | |
Through the grates, through the doors, flood it. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:05 | |
Can't breathe. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:10 | |
It's the smoke. Try not to panic. Slow, deep breaths. | 0:13:10 | 0:13:15 | |
Arthur Pilbury and George Marsh - they're still in there. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:17 | |
Oh, Lord, no. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:19 | |
I'm coming with you. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:20 | |
Look, the fire's only just out. | 0:13:20 | 0:13:22 | |
The bloody wiring must've caused this. It'll still be dangerous. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:24 | |
I'm coming with you. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:26 | |
So am I. | 0:13:26 | 0:13:27 | |
Here! | 0:13:28 | 0:13:30 | |
There! | 0:13:30 | 0:13:31 | |
HELP! HELP! | 0:13:31 | 0:13:34 | |
It's all right, George. We're here now. | 0:13:35 | 0:13:39 | |
It's Mrs Turner. I'm here with Miss Dyer. | 0:13:39 | 0:13:42 | |
You know me, George, Val from the pub. | 0:13:42 | 0:13:44 | |
Val. Val, what's happened to me? | 0:13:44 | 0:13:47 | |
Let him go now, George. Let me try to help Arthur. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:50 | |
Arthur? Arthur, can you hear me? | 0:13:53 | 0:13:56 | |
All right there, George. We'll get you out as soon as we can. | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
Me eyes. Me eyes, w...what's wrong with them? | 0:13:59 | 0:14:03 | |
Don't touch them, George. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:05 | |
-You got fresh water? -There's none down here. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:07 | |
Help me, I...I can't see. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:09 | |
This man needs clean water, and he needs it now. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:11 | |
It's just a warehouse. We're not equipped. | 0:14:11 | 0:14:14 | |
Here's a Thermos. There's water in it. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:16 | |
Come on, Arthur, breathe. | 0:14:23 | 0:14:24 | |
Lean back, I've got you. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:31 | |
-I got you! -Breathe, Arthur, breathe. -Lean back into me. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:35 | |
That's it. | 0:14:35 | 0:14:36 | |
HE PANTS | 0:14:41 | 0:14:43 | |
-All right. -Come on, Arthur. | 0:14:43 | 0:14:46 | |
I can't see. I can't see nothing. | 0:14:47 | 0:14:50 | |
-You're going to be fine, George. -W...why can't I see? | 0:14:50 | 0:14:52 | |
The doctor will be here soon. | 0:14:52 | 0:14:55 | |
Here! Your Jessie might have had her baby by now. | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
We've got a book running at the Black Sail - | 0:14:58 | 0:15:00 | |
we all reckon it's going to be a girl. | 0:15:00 | 0:15:02 | |
-Do you? -Yeah, most definitely. | 0:15:02 | 0:15:03 | |
Or a boy. | 0:15:05 | 0:15:07 | |
Each way, then! | 0:15:07 | 0:15:08 | |
Each way. That's the stuff. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:10 | |
Arthur, come on, breathe. | 0:15:10 | 0:15:12 | |
Don't leave me. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:13 | |
Leave my best customer? | 0:15:15 | 0:15:16 | |
I'm right here, George. | 0:15:19 | 0:15:21 | |
I'm right here. | 0:15:21 | 0:15:22 | |
This isn't too deep. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:46 | |
But you must have been in shock, if you didn't feel it. | 0:15:46 | 0:15:49 | |
All I could think of was trying to help those men. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:53 | |
There was nothing of any use at all there! | 0:15:53 | 0:15:55 | |
No first aid-box, no water, nothing. | 0:15:55 | 0:15:58 | |
At least there was us. And our training. | 0:15:58 | 0:16:00 | |
Wait till I tell my mum I've been in here! | 0:16:02 | 0:16:05 | |
When I was little, me and my sisters used to watch the Nonnatuns | 0:16:05 | 0:16:08 | |
arriving on their bikes with the big black bags on the back. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:11 | |
And then we'd hear that Mrs Mahoney, or Mrs Blewitt, | 0:16:11 | 0:16:13 | |
or Cousin Peg had had a little boy or girl. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:16 | |
We thought you brought the baby in the bag! | 0:16:16 | 0:16:19 | |
Yes, they keep them in that cupboard over there. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:25 | |
Where have you been nursing since you left the Army, Miss Dyer? | 0:16:25 | 0:16:28 | |
I haven't. | 0:16:28 | 0:16:30 | |
I wanted to come home, | 0:16:30 | 0:16:32 | |
and home's quite a nice place to be while I decide what's next. | 0:16:32 | 0:16:36 | |
I'm not that good at sitting with my feet up, though. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:39 | |
That's how I came to be pulling pints in my auntie's pub today. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:42 | |
It's extremely fortunate that you were. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:44 | |
It was awful. | 0:16:44 | 0:16:46 | |
You think you'd get used to the sound of men yelling, | 0:16:47 | 0:16:49 | |
but you never do. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:51 | |
I'm so sorry, Mrs Marsh. | 0:17:00 | 0:17:02 | |
His sight, it... | 0:17:03 | 0:17:05 | |
It will come back, won't it? | 0:17:05 | 0:17:07 | |
George has deep burns to his eyes. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:12 | |
BABY CRIES | 0:17:12 | 0:17:14 | |
I fell in love with those eyes. | 0:17:14 | 0:17:16 | |
It's too much for her, Dr Turner. | 0:17:18 | 0:17:20 | |
You know, she's only just had the baby. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:22 | |
Can you give her something to help her? | 0:17:22 | 0:17:24 | |
Mum, no, I don't want to take nothing. | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
I just want to know - will he see again? | 0:17:26 | 0:17:28 | |
We have to be very patient. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:30 | |
We have to wait for the swelling to come down, and then we'll know more. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:36 | |
He's been living for Bobby. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:41 | |
You'll pull him through, won't you? He's got to see you. | 0:17:43 | 0:17:47 | |
He's got to. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:50 | |
..bless, O Father, thy gifts to our use, | 0:17:56 | 0:18:01 | |
and us to thy service, | 0:18:01 | 0:18:05 | |
for Christ's sake. Amen. | 0:18:05 | 0:18:08 | |
Amen. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:10 | |
It has been a turbulent day. Let us restore ourselves. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:14 | |
I had meant to broach this at a later date, | 0:18:16 | 0:18:19 | |
but it appears an opportune moment to do so now. | 0:18:19 | 0:18:23 | |
During my time here, I have been struck by the lengths you go to | 0:18:24 | 0:18:28 | |
for your patients, above and beyond. | 0:18:28 | 0:18:30 | |
No request is too great a trouble. | 0:18:32 | 0:18:35 | |
You are ceaseless in your well-meaning involvement. | 0:18:35 | 0:18:38 | |
But you are encouraging dependencies which cannot be supported. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:45 | |
We have more patients and less staff, and we must see ourselves | 0:18:45 | 0:18:48 | |
as resources to be used sparingly. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:50 | |
You are midwives and nurses, not maids and nannies. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:56 | |
We are whatever is needed. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:02 | |
But don't you see? You will now be what is needed most - | 0:19:02 | 0:19:05 | |
providers of efficient health care and midwifery services. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:09 | |
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." | 0:19:10 | 0:19:13 | |
Just as our approach must change, | 0:19:15 | 0:19:17 | |
so must our way of organising Nonnatus House. | 0:19:17 | 0:19:21 | |
There is to be no fat on the lamb. | 0:19:21 | 0:19:24 | |
We are to become a hub of energy and activity, | 0:19:24 | 0:19:28 | |
fit for the challenges of the modern world. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
Those who do not earn their place must find another, | 0:19:32 | 0:19:36 | |
or there will be professional consequences. | 0:19:36 | 0:19:39 | |
And Nurse Gilbert, second call. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:45 | |
Up and at 'em, ladies. We've a full day ahead of us. | 0:19:45 | 0:19:48 | |
I would like to take Mrs Marsh to see her husband, | 0:19:48 | 0:19:50 | |
if he's up to visitors, but it would mean my swapping with Mrs Henderson. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:54 | |
That's fine. I can take care of Mrs Henderson. | 0:19:54 | 0:19:57 | |
It's been made more than clear that we should provide only care | 0:19:57 | 0:20:00 | |
that is strictly necessary, and then within an appointment. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:05 | |
I'm afraid your request strays into the land of extra-curricular. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:08 | |
And travel visas there have been cancelled. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:11 | |
Mr Marsh has been through a terrible trauma. | 0:20:11 | 0:20:14 | |
I'm quite sure that a visit from his wife is exactly what's needed, | 0:20:14 | 0:20:17 | |
to lift his spirits with news of his son. | 0:20:17 | 0:20:20 | |
We can still maintain compassion, even with efficiency. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:24 | |
I'm not sure I heard you correctly, Sister Winifred. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:29 | |
I'm a trifle deaf these days. | 0:20:29 | 0:20:31 | |
KNOCK AT DOOR | 0:20:35 | 0:20:37 | |
Midwife calling. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:38 | |
Mrs Reed. How are we today? | 0:20:42 | 0:20:45 | |
Oh, you know, still breathless, and I feel ever so big now. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:48 | |
I'll make us coffee, and while I do, I'd like you to look through these. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:53 | |
A little light reading. We recommend it for all our mothers-to-be. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:56 | |
But... | 0:21:00 | 0:21:01 | |
Nurse Mount, you made it sound as if I shouldn't hope. | 0:21:01 | 0:21:04 | |
We can offer no promises, | 0:21:06 | 0:21:09 | |
nothing to outweigh those with greater knowledge, | 0:21:09 | 0:21:11 | |
but at this moment, you are an expectant mother. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
I think in all my talk of duty, perhaps I forgot to speak of joy. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:18 | |
I keep thinking how much worse this could have been. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:29 | |
You're such a catastrophist! But you're also a doctor, | 0:21:29 | 0:21:33 | |
and you know what it's like when help is needed - you just jump in. | 0:21:33 | 0:21:36 | |
He would have got even more involved than you, Mum! | 0:21:36 | 0:21:39 | |
Probably ended up fried to a crisp. | 0:21:39 | 0:21:41 | |
Patrick? | 0:21:41 | 0:21:42 | |
Now? | 0:21:44 | 0:21:45 | |
Best done when we're all together as a family. | 0:21:45 | 0:21:48 | |
Mum, the fact that your biscuit intake has rocketed, | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
you turn green at the mention of sardines, and Dad won't even | 0:21:51 | 0:21:54 | |
let you pick up a teapot, leads me to only one conclusion, | 0:21:54 | 0:21:57 | |
as does the embarrassed looks on your faces. | 0:21:57 | 0:22:01 | |
Angela and I are getting a baby sister or brother, aren't we? | 0:22:01 | 0:22:04 | |
Yes. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:08 | |
Yes, we are. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:10 | |
Good. And I don't want to know any other details. | 0:22:10 | 0:22:12 | |
-Mr Marsh, please. -He's just over there. | 0:22:24 | 0:22:26 | |
George! | 0:22:31 | 0:22:32 | |
Jessie? | 0:22:32 | 0:22:33 | |
I'm here. I'm here, love. I'm here. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:36 | |
We got a son. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:40 | |
Bobby. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:44 | |
He's the spit of you already. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
He's so beautiful. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:47 | |
Look, talk to the doctors, will you? | 0:22:47 | 0:22:49 | |
Cos the nurses ain't making no sense to me. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:51 | |
They're saying they don't know if me sight will come back. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:54 | |
Mr Marsh, I'm Sister Winifred from Nonnatus House. | 0:22:56 | 0:23:00 | |
I had the honour of delivering your beautiful little boy. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:03 | |
Well, when am I going to see again? | 0:23:03 | 0:23:05 | |
The doctors have said that once the swelling has gone down, | 0:23:05 | 0:23:07 | |
they'll be in a better position to understand. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:09 | |
That's not telling me nothing. Am I going to be blind? | 0:23:09 | 0:23:12 | |
Your eyes must be given the chance to heal. | 0:23:12 | 0:23:15 | |
George, we got a baby boy. Just think of him. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:19 | |
Without me sight, I've got nothing. | 0:23:19 | 0:23:21 | |
Still can't get your plaster wet, Mum? | 0:23:28 | 0:23:30 | |
I believe the authorities look unfavourably on child labour. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:33 | |
Oh, didn't I say? I'm a slow healer. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:36 | |
I've been thinking - if the baby's another girl, I might move out. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:39 | |
I might come with you. If I stay, I'll be outnumbered. | 0:23:39 | 0:23:43 | |
It's from the Coroner's Court. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:45 | |
There's to be an inquest into the death of Arthur Pilbury. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:48 | |
They want me to act as a witness. | 0:23:48 | 0:23:50 | |
I'm glad they're investigating. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:56 | |
Always good to make these things a matter of record. | 0:23:56 | 0:23:59 | |
There's no need be nervous, Shelagh. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:04 | |
I suppose not. | 0:24:04 | 0:24:06 | |
Perhaps I can make the coroner see what should be done for the future. | 0:24:06 | 0:24:09 | |
That's my girl. | 0:24:09 | 0:24:10 | |
They want George to speak up at court for Arthur. | 0:24:15 | 0:24:18 | |
Oh, well, that could spur him on, don't you think? | 0:24:18 | 0:24:21 | |
I can't say, Mum. | 0:24:21 | 0:24:23 | |
They was always close, him and Arthur. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:25 | |
He gets so tired. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:26 | |
We're still early days, ain't we? | 0:24:27 | 0:24:29 | |
I wish I could bring something in for you. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:34 | |
I feel I'm just making it harder. | 0:24:34 | 0:24:35 | |
None of that talk now. We couldn't manage without you. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:39 | |
We'll just have to bake more bread. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:43 | |
George will be back on his feet, and it'll be like normal. | 0:24:44 | 0:24:47 | |
Only better, cos we've got this little one. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:49 | |
It's like a jumping bean. I call it the morning shuffle. | 0:24:56 | 0:25:00 | |
Now, you're sure you're managing? | 0:25:00 | 0:25:02 | |
Your lungs are probably quite restricted by now. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:04 | |
-I'm breathless all right. -We can ask for a home help. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:06 | |
No, I've got Derek. He's a whizz in a pinny. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:09 | |
Well, don't be brave and struggle on. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:11 | |
It's no struggle, Nurse. Not this little miracle. | 0:25:11 | 0:25:14 | |
How's our patient? | 0:25:15 | 0:25:17 | |
Your wife is a model mother-to-be. | 0:25:17 | 0:25:19 | |
Would you like to hear baby? | 0:25:25 | 0:25:27 | |
Sorry, do excuse me. | 0:25:58 | 0:26:00 | |
My word - back up to your birth weight in just a week. | 0:26:16 | 0:26:20 | |
Bravo, little one. | 0:26:20 | 0:26:22 | |
There's still no change, with George? | 0:26:27 | 0:26:30 | |
He says it's like being buried alive. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:35 | |
You mustn't give up. | 0:26:35 | 0:26:37 | |
It's not me who's given up. | 0:26:37 | 0:26:39 | |
This is the dark before the dawn, but there is always a dawn. | 0:26:39 | 0:26:44 | |
I think someone might have been listening to me "upstairs." | 0:26:49 | 0:26:52 | |
Shall I top up the meter? | 0:26:52 | 0:26:53 | |
No. We can manage. | 0:26:53 | 0:26:55 | |
Jessie? | 0:26:55 | 0:26:56 | |
We're just a bit short, that's all, without George's wage. | 0:26:56 | 0:27:00 | |
One wonders what is left to clean. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:08 | |
You startled me. | 0:27:10 | 0:27:12 | |
Indeed. | 0:27:12 | 0:27:14 | |
For you are close to what magicians call a hypnotic state. | 0:27:14 | 0:27:18 | |
It really is just cleaning. | 0:27:19 | 0:27:21 | |
Sister Monica Joan, is there something I can help you with? | 0:27:27 | 0:27:30 | |
I've committed a crime - I read your letter. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:32 | |
There comes a time when even the songbird | 0:27:32 | 0:27:36 | |
must return to its nest to hear the tune its parents sang. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:41 | |
He's dying. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:42 | |
I can't make him better. | 0:27:44 | 0:27:45 | |
You can ease him on his way. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:47 | |
I'm good at my job. | 0:27:53 | 0:27:54 | |
Very good at it. | 0:27:56 | 0:27:57 | |
I know how to look after my patients. | 0:27:59 | 0:28:01 | |
All of this - Nonnatus, Poplar. | 0:28:01 | 0:28:04 | |
Terribly good at all of it. | 0:28:06 | 0:28:07 | |
But losing someone? | 0:28:08 | 0:28:10 | |
Nope. | 0:28:11 | 0:28:12 | |
Not good at that at all. | 0:28:14 | 0:28:16 | |
We only fail when we do not try. | 0:28:16 | 0:28:18 | |
Now, are you sure you don't want me to wait with you? | 0:28:29 | 0:28:31 | |
Derek, I'll be fine. Go! Finish adapting the pram. | 0:28:31 | 0:28:36 | |
Sorry, after you. | 0:28:40 | 0:28:42 | |
Here we are, Mr Marsh - what a lovely welcome party for you. | 0:28:55 | 0:28:59 | |
Hello, George, love. | 0:29:01 | 0:29:02 | |
Jess. | 0:29:03 | 0:29:05 | |
There's someone else here for you, George. Bobby's here. | 0:29:05 | 0:29:10 | |
This is your daddy. | 0:29:12 | 0:29:13 | |
No. No, not like this. | 0:29:14 | 0:29:15 | |
He shouldn't be in a place like this. | 0:29:15 | 0:29:17 | |
Get him out of here! | 0:29:17 | 0:29:19 | |
What, you want to torture me a bit more, do you? | 0:29:19 | 0:29:20 | |
I brought him cos he's your son, and I thought he'd give you hope. | 0:29:20 | 0:29:23 | |
I can't see him, Jess! He's a stranger to me. | 0:29:23 | 0:29:27 | |
You think that's how I want him to know me? | 0:29:29 | 0:29:32 | |
I won't be a father like this, Jessie. Not like this. | 0:29:32 | 0:29:35 | |
And I want to be a mother like this? | 0:29:35 | 0:29:37 | |
On my own, unable to sleep at night for worrying | 0:29:38 | 0:29:42 | |
if you're suffering, if you're frightened. | 0:29:42 | 0:29:45 | |
I don't want it this way, | 0:29:45 | 0:29:46 | |
but my God, I'll make the best of it if I have to. | 0:29:46 | 0:29:49 | |
Cos you're alive, and I'll take you deaf, broke, or blind. | 0:29:49 | 0:29:53 | |
You know how much this meant to me today, bringing Bobby to you? | 0:29:57 | 0:30:01 | |
Bye, love. | 0:30:04 | 0:30:05 | |
Don't you know me yet? | 0:30:09 | 0:30:11 | |
I love the bones of you. | 0:30:13 | 0:30:15 | |
The very heart of you, George. | 0:30:17 | 0:30:19 | |
As I was saying, ladies... | 0:30:36 | 0:30:38 | |
Ladies? | 0:30:42 | 0:30:43 | |
SHE CLEARS THROAT | 0:30:43 | 0:30:45 | |
If we might continue. | 0:30:45 | 0:30:47 | |
For nearly nine months, you've each been providing | 0:30:47 | 0:30:50 | |
full bed and board for baby. | 0:30:50 | 0:30:52 | |
Excuse me, Nurse Gilbert, might I be excused to the little girls' room? | 0:30:52 | 0:30:55 | |
Oh, of course. | 0:30:55 | 0:30:57 | |
As I was saying, birth is a little like bank holiday weather - | 0:30:59 | 0:31:02 | |
you're never quite sure what you'll get. | 0:31:02 | 0:31:05 | |
Sister? Are you going on a picnic? | 0:31:14 | 0:31:17 | |
I'm not saying I wouldn't be tempted by a jam sandwich, | 0:31:19 | 0:31:23 | |
or a pickled onion one, | 0:31:23 | 0:31:24 | |
but Mrs Marsh is struggling without her husband's wage. | 0:31:24 | 0:31:29 | |
This is for her. | 0:31:30 | 0:31:32 | |
There's a packet of Rich Tea on the lower shelf, tucked away. | 0:31:36 | 0:31:40 | |
Biscuits are always welcome in a crisis - people drink so much tea. | 0:31:40 | 0:31:44 | |
Sisters. We must husband our resources carefully. | 0:31:44 | 0:31:47 | |
Who is to say that greater troubles will not come tomorrow? | 0:31:49 | 0:31:52 | |
Sister Ursula, we have always helped our neighbours where we can. | 0:31:52 | 0:31:56 | |
And the people in this district ARE our neighbours, | 0:31:56 | 0:31:58 | |
not objects of charity or pity. | 0:31:58 | 0:32:00 | |
They are the first to give to us when they have flowers, | 0:32:02 | 0:32:07 | |
or fruit, or vegetables to spare. | 0:32:07 | 0:32:09 | |
Be that as it may, | 0:32:09 | 0:32:10 | |
we cannot create the expectation of personal support at every turn. | 0:32:10 | 0:32:15 | |
We are here to nurse our patients, not to nanny them. | 0:32:15 | 0:32:19 | |
Yes, Sister. | 0:32:19 | 0:32:20 | |
I do not wish to be forced to discipline anyone... | 0:32:20 | 0:32:23 | |
..and I'm sure Sister Winifred will not waste her time again | 0:32:24 | 0:32:27 | |
by accompanying patients on visits to the hospital. | 0:32:27 | 0:32:31 | |
Jessie Marsh has just had a baby. | 0:32:33 | 0:32:36 | |
Her mother has arthritis. There was no-one else who could take her. | 0:32:36 | 0:32:40 | |
This is a close-knit community. Somebody else could have been found, | 0:32:40 | 0:32:44 | |
and you could have continued with your duties. | 0:32:44 | 0:32:47 | |
No matter what she says, this isn't the way we do things. | 0:32:52 | 0:32:56 | |
No, it is not. | 0:32:59 | 0:33:01 | |
Hello, Fred. Have you any spare carrots or maybe some potatoes? | 0:33:07 | 0:33:13 | |
That's a very personal question, but, yes. | 0:33:13 | 0:33:17 | |
We're collecting for a patient. Discreetly collecting. | 0:33:17 | 0:33:20 | |
You look fatigued. | 0:33:25 | 0:33:26 | |
I rather needed some air. | 0:33:28 | 0:33:30 | |
This is the Anschluss of Nonnatus, | 0:33:30 | 0:33:33 | |
and we must simply sit it out and wait for Churchill. | 0:33:33 | 0:33:37 | |
Now, of course, at the hospital, | 0:33:41 | 0:33:42 | |
Nurse will provide you with sanitary napkins, | 0:33:42 | 0:33:46 | |
breastpads, and clothes for baby. | 0:33:46 | 0:33:49 | |
He's got nothing to be showing off for. | 0:33:49 | 0:33:51 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:33:51 | 0:33:52 | |
But your case must contain all that you will need for lying in. | 0:33:54 | 0:33:59 | |
And of course, not only your outfit for coming home, | 0:33:59 | 0:34:01 | |
but also baby's travelling outfit. | 0:34:01 | 0:34:04 | |
Do we have any seamstresses or tailors in our ranks today? | 0:34:06 | 0:34:09 | |
I'm a seamstress. I make all my clothes, and my husband's. | 0:34:09 | 0:34:13 | |
Well, I'm no expert in the world of couture, | 0:34:13 | 0:34:15 | |
seeing as I wear my uniform most days, | 0:34:15 | 0:34:18 | |
but am I right that the correct outfit is as important | 0:34:18 | 0:34:21 | |
as the event one is wearing it to? | 0:34:21 | 0:34:23 | |
I should say so. | 0:34:23 | 0:34:25 | |
Well, there you have it, from one who knows. | 0:34:25 | 0:34:28 | |
Did you make your dress? | 0:34:28 | 0:34:30 | |
Oh, I'd love to have something in that colour, | 0:34:30 | 0:34:32 | |
after the baby, of course. | 0:34:32 | 0:34:34 | |
Are you on the telephone? | 0:34:34 | 0:34:35 | |
I am. Poplar 232. | 0:34:35 | 0:34:37 | |
What's all this? | 0:34:44 | 0:34:46 | |
We had a little extra in our harvest, | 0:34:46 | 0:34:48 | |
and none of us could bear it going to waste. | 0:34:48 | 0:34:50 | |
We don't need charity. | 0:34:50 | 0:34:52 | |
We do, love. | 0:34:52 | 0:34:53 | |
It's not forever, and there's no shame in it. | 0:34:53 | 0:34:56 | |
Just to tide us over, then. | 0:35:01 | 0:35:02 | |
They were such a lovely bunch, Derek. | 0:35:07 | 0:35:10 | |
I'd so love to have them here one day - perhaps for a coffee morning. | 0:35:10 | 0:35:14 | |
Probably wouldn't want to come, would they? | 0:35:16 | 0:35:18 | |
It would be a trek for them. | 0:35:18 | 0:35:20 | |
You're not finishing the pram first? | 0:35:20 | 0:35:22 | |
The pram doesn't earn me money. Repairing the clock does. | 0:35:22 | 0:35:25 | |
Derek, we need the pram ready. | 0:35:27 | 0:35:29 | |
No, we don't! | 0:35:29 | 0:35:30 | |
We're in cloud-cuckoo-land. | 0:35:32 | 0:35:34 | |
I'm scared if you go into that hospital, then you won't come out. | 0:35:34 | 0:35:37 | |
Neither of you. | 0:35:37 | 0:35:39 | |
Shelagh, don't make yourself ill with anxiety about this. | 0:35:44 | 0:35:48 | |
I'm just afraid I won't remember everything. | 0:35:48 | 0:35:52 | |
Things moved so fast during the accident. | 0:35:52 | 0:35:54 | |
Your nerve didn't fail you then, and it won't fail you today. | 0:35:54 | 0:35:57 | |
Hold the line, Mrs Reed. | 0:36:18 | 0:36:19 | |
Yes, I've got your details here. | 0:36:22 | 0:36:24 | |
I will telephone the hospital and an ambulance will collect you, | 0:36:24 | 0:36:27 | |
and your surgery will be brought forward. | 0:36:27 | 0:36:29 | |
Stay perfectly calm. There's nothing to be upset about. | 0:36:31 | 0:36:34 | |
Hello, Mrs Turner. You look nice. | 0:36:40 | 0:36:43 | |
Oh, thank you. | 0:36:43 | 0:36:45 | |
Nervous, but nice. | 0:36:45 | 0:36:46 | |
I didn't know what to wear. I only ever gave evidence once before, | 0:36:48 | 0:36:51 | |
but it was an Army inquiry, so I just wore a uniform. | 0:36:51 | 0:36:54 | |
I'm glad I had shoes and a blouse to fuss about. | 0:37:00 | 0:37:03 | |
It took my mind off things - all the questions they might ask, | 0:37:03 | 0:37:06 | |
and all the answers I wanted to give | 0:37:06 | 0:37:07 | |
were going round and round inside my head. | 0:37:07 | 0:37:09 | |
Mine too. | 0:37:09 | 0:37:11 | |
You just want to get it right, don't you? | 0:37:11 | 0:37:13 | |
For the sake of the victims. | 0:37:13 | 0:37:15 | |
Yes. | 0:37:15 | 0:37:16 | |
George Marsh and Arthur Pilbury deserve better. | 0:37:16 | 0:37:19 | |
They weren't soldiers going into battle - they were men doing a job. | 0:37:19 | 0:37:23 | |
And it could've been avoided. | 0:37:23 | 0:37:24 | |
Mrs Shelagh Turner. | 0:37:26 | 0:37:27 | |
Your turn. Do your best for them. | 0:37:29 | 0:37:32 | |
Mrs Berry - a boy! | 0:37:39 | 0:37:41 | |
Oh, thank the Lord, she was two weeks overdue. | 0:37:41 | 0:37:45 | |
And Mrs Reed - oh, poor thing, early labour. | 0:37:45 | 0:37:48 | |
I'm sorry, did you say Mrs Reed? | 0:37:48 | 0:37:50 | |
It seems her surgery's been brought forward. | 0:37:50 | 0:37:53 | |
I'll go to her at once. | 0:37:53 | 0:37:54 | |
Nurse Mount... | 0:37:54 | 0:37:55 | |
I'm not letting her go through this alone. | 0:37:55 | 0:37:57 | |
Sister Ursula has been perfectly clear - there will be consequences. | 0:37:57 | 0:38:00 | |
Consequences be damned. Mrs Reed is my patient. | 0:38:00 | 0:38:04 | |
If I've learned one thing from Nonnatus, from you, | 0:38:04 | 0:38:07 | |
it's that we do what's right for our patient. | 0:38:07 | 0:38:10 | |
Good on her. | 0:38:13 | 0:38:14 | |
This woman is a primigravida with achondroplasia. | 0:38:20 | 0:38:23 | |
Her pelvic abnormalities bar a vaginal delivery, | 0:38:23 | 0:38:25 | |
thus a caesarean section is necessary. | 0:38:25 | 0:38:28 | |
Labour has begun at 37 weeks, | 0:38:28 | 0:38:30 | |
therefore we must proceed immediately and get her to theatre. | 0:38:30 | 0:38:34 | |
Bring her in. | 0:38:34 | 0:38:35 | |
I'm sorry about that, Mrs Reed. | 0:38:37 | 0:38:39 | |
I'll be with you in the operating theatre. | 0:38:39 | 0:38:41 | |
Mrs Reed? | 0:38:41 | 0:38:42 | |
You only have a moment. | 0:38:42 | 0:38:43 | |
I don't want to lose my baby. | 0:38:45 | 0:38:46 | |
Everyone will do all they can for you and baby. | 0:38:46 | 0:38:49 | |
I haven't got my case - it was all so quick. | 0:38:49 | 0:38:52 | |
The midwife said they'd telephone Derek, but he isn't here. | 0:38:52 | 0:38:55 | |
Leave it all with me. | 0:38:55 | 0:38:56 | |
Mr Marsh, unable to see, was in great distress. | 0:38:58 | 0:39:02 | |
All the while, I attempted to revive Mr Pilbury, | 0:39:03 | 0:39:06 | |
though very sadly it was too late by the time we got to the men. | 0:39:06 | 0:39:10 | |
I'm so sorry, Mrs Pilbury. | 0:39:11 | 0:39:13 | |
You are here to address me, Mrs Turner, nobody else. | 0:39:13 | 0:39:16 | |
Thank you. We're appreciative of your time. | 0:39:16 | 0:39:20 | |
Sir, if I might be permitted. | 0:39:20 | 0:39:22 | |
What we found at the dock was | 0:39:23 | 0:39:25 | |
a dreadful lack of anything that could have helped. | 0:39:25 | 0:39:28 | |
Not even the basics of fresh running water | 0:39:28 | 0:39:31 | |
for burns, or wound cleaning. | 0:39:31 | 0:39:33 | |
Thank you, Mrs Turner. | 0:39:33 | 0:39:34 | |
Had there been a register, we would have known where | 0:39:34 | 0:39:36 | |
Arthur Pilbury was. Perhaps he could have been helped sooner. | 0:39:36 | 0:39:40 | |
We are concerned only with the cause of the accident. | 0:39:40 | 0:39:43 | |
Should you not be concerned with those living with its impact? | 0:39:45 | 0:39:49 | |
You are free to leave. | 0:39:49 | 0:39:50 | |
Where is Nurse Mount? | 0:40:03 | 0:40:04 | |
Where she is needed. | 0:40:06 | 0:40:08 | |
I told you not to make yourself ill. | 0:40:20 | 0:40:22 | |
I'm not ill! I'm just tired. | 0:40:22 | 0:40:26 | |
And angry. | 0:40:26 | 0:40:28 | |
Still? | 0:40:28 | 0:40:29 | |
I did my best. I know that. | 0:40:30 | 0:40:33 | |
And so did Valerie Dyer. | 0:40:34 | 0:40:35 | |
But our best is worthless, because it won't change anything. | 0:40:37 | 0:40:41 | |
FOOTSTEPS | 0:40:48 | 0:40:51 | |
Jessie? | 0:40:53 | 0:40:54 | |
How are you, my love? Oh, it's good to see you. | 0:40:54 | 0:40:57 | |
Mr Reed? I'm Reverend Hereward. | 0:41:07 | 0:41:10 | |
Nurse Mount thought you might like some company while you wait. | 0:41:10 | 0:41:14 | |
Will you bless our baby? | 0:41:14 | 0:41:15 | |
Every doctor makes it sound so...inevitable. | 0:41:16 | 0:41:19 | |
Well, I'll do whatever you need me to do, Mr Reed, but | 0:41:19 | 0:41:24 | |
I've always found that by trusting in God, nothing is inevitable. | 0:41:24 | 0:41:28 | |
Feels like I can smell each tea leaf. | 0:42:02 | 0:42:05 | |
It was good of you to come, Mrs Turner. | 0:42:11 | 0:42:13 | |
I never thanked you, for what you did for me and Arthur that day. | 0:42:13 | 0:42:16 | |
You don't need to thank me. | 0:42:16 | 0:42:18 | |
They don't know yet, about me eyes, when the dressings come off, | 0:42:18 | 0:42:22 | |
but they say without the water you had on you, | 0:42:22 | 0:42:24 | |
well, it gives me a chance I wouldn't have had. | 0:42:24 | 0:42:27 | |
Then help me. | 0:42:27 | 0:42:28 | |
Come to the Coroner's Court. | 0:42:30 | 0:42:31 | |
Tell them that men like you should be protected. | 0:42:32 | 0:42:36 | |
Stand up like this? | 0:42:36 | 0:42:38 | |
No. Never. | 0:42:38 | 0:42:40 | |
Tell them what this accident has done to you, to Arthur. | 0:42:41 | 0:42:45 | |
We tried, and couldn't save him, but now we need to fight for him. | 0:42:47 | 0:42:51 | |
I must know - is baby all right? | 0:42:55 | 0:42:58 | |
I don't know, Pats. The paediatrician took it straight away. | 0:42:58 | 0:43:01 | |
Sir? | 0:43:04 | 0:43:05 | |
Do excuse me, I'm Nurse Mount, Mrs Reed's district midwife. | 0:43:05 | 0:43:08 | |
I ask that I be allowed to break the news to Mrs Reed. | 0:43:08 | 0:43:11 | |
Mrs Reed... | 0:43:22 | 0:43:25 | |
you have a daughter. | 0:43:25 | 0:43:26 | |
Yes. Yes, Penny. Your baby is well. | 0:43:28 | 0:43:31 | |
But...but they said she'd suffer. | 0:43:35 | 0:43:37 | |
No, no, Penny, she's... | 0:43:37 | 0:43:40 | |
Forgive the term - she's "normal" sized. | 0:43:40 | 0:43:43 | |
Don't you mean "big"? | 0:43:46 | 0:43:48 | |
-Congratulations, Mr Reed. -Thank you. | 0:43:53 | 0:43:55 | |
Thank you. | 0:43:59 | 0:44:00 | |
What if we can't manage her? | 0:44:05 | 0:44:06 | |
What if she can't bear that we're dwarves? | 0:44:06 | 0:44:09 | |
Mrs Reed, I'm not a mother, | 0:44:09 | 0:44:11 | |
but I know what it is to be a child and to be afraid. | 0:44:11 | 0:44:14 | |
I grew up in a prisoner of war camp, you see. | 0:44:16 | 0:44:18 | |
Oh. | 0:44:20 | 0:44:21 | |
And, through all of it, | 0:44:21 | 0:44:23 | |
the only thing I was truly afraid of was losing my mother. | 0:44:23 | 0:44:26 | |
The one who loved me beyond all fear and all horror. | 0:44:27 | 0:44:31 | |
So do not doubt how much your child will love you, | 0:44:33 | 0:44:36 | |
or how little she will see of the things that worry you. | 0:44:36 | 0:44:39 | |
What happened? | 0:44:41 | 0:44:42 | |
She died. | 0:44:45 | 0:44:46 | |
Along with my sister. | 0:44:47 | 0:44:48 | |
And your father? | 0:44:52 | 0:44:53 | |
He survived. | 0:44:56 | 0:44:58 | |
But I think I was so afraid of loss, I... | 0:45:00 | 0:45:03 | |
I closed my heart to him. | 0:45:03 | 0:45:05 | |
The Mount residence. Who is speaking, please? | 0:45:24 | 0:45:27 | |
It's Patsy. | 0:45:29 | 0:45:31 | |
Miss Mount? Oh, you are all your father asks for. | 0:45:31 | 0:45:35 | |
Nurse Mount, may I have a few moments of your time? | 0:45:47 | 0:45:51 | |
Of course, Sister Ursula. | 0:45:53 | 0:45:54 | |
I made it clear, did I not, | 0:45:54 | 0:45:56 | |
that there would be consequences should you disregard my orders? | 0:45:56 | 0:46:00 | |
Yes. You made it very clear. | 0:46:00 | 0:46:02 | |
And you paid no heed. I thought you more responsible than that. | 0:46:02 | 0:46:06 | |
And a better nurse. | 0:46:06 | 0:46:07 | |
I'm trying to be the best nurse and person I can be, Sister. | 0:46:07 | 0:46:11 | |
Well, I find myself obliged to dock your wages. | 0:46:11 | 0:46:14 | |
You can spare yourself the trouble. | 0:46:16 | 0:46:18 | |
A refund for the time I spent with Penny Reed. | 0:46:20 | 0:46:23 | |
I came to Nonnatus House precisely because | 0:46:23 | 0:46:25 | |
I wanted to go above and beyond for my patients, | 0:46:25 | 0:46:29 | |
to be where I was needed most. | 0:46:29 | 0:46:31 | |
And right now, it seems I'm needed elsewhere. | 0:46:31 | 0:46:33 | |
In Hong Kong. With my dying father. | 0:46:33 | 0:46:36 | |
When will you go? | 0:46:56 | 0:46:57 | |
As soon as I can get passage from Southampton. | 0:46:59 | 0:47:02 | |
You've made the bravest, most caring decision that you could. | 0:47:04 | 0:47:08 | |
I'm proud of you, Pats. | 0:47:10 | 0:47:13 | |
How will we manage it? | 0:47:13 | 0:47:14 | |
You and I? | 0:47:16 | 0:47:17 | |
How will we survive the distance, and the time apart? | 0:47:19 | 0:47:23 | |
We'll do what everyone else does. | 0:47:23 | 0:47:25 | |
We'll write. | 0:47:26 | 0:47:27 | |
We'll wait. | 0:47:29 | 0:47:30 | |
We'll love. | 0:47:31 | 0:47:32 | |
If Mr Marsh is not here within the next few minutes, | 0:48:00 | 0:48:03 | |
we will move on to the next witness. | 0:48:03 | 0:48:05 | |
Bravo, George. | 0:48:14 | 0:48:16 | |
Help me up, Mrs Turner. | 0:48:16 | 0:48:18 | |
The chair would be easier. | 0:48:18 | 0:48:20 | |
I'm walking in. | 0:48:21 | 0:48:22 | |
Jessie? | 0:48:38 | 0:48:39 | |
I'm here. | 0:48:41 | 0:48:43 | |
I recognised your perfume. | 0:48:44 | 0:48:47 | |
Jessie, I... I'm sorry. | 0:48:47 | 0:48:49 | |
See Mr Marsh is helped to the stand. | 0:48:51 | 0:48:53 | |
I can't. I can't hold her. | 0:49:02 | 0:49:05 | |
My arms are too short. | 0:49:05 | 0:49:06 | |
You've carried this baby for nine months. You can hold her now. | 0:49:07 | 0:49:11 | |
That's it. You have her safe. You have her. | 0:49:17 | 0:49:21 | |
Oh, my. | 0:49:25 | 0:49:26 | |
Oh, my. | 0:49:28 | 0:49:29 | |
Where did you come from? So perfect, so beautiful. | 0:49:31 | 0:49:38 | |
Nurse, we're observing Mrs Reed. | 0:49:40 | 0:49:42 | |
Mr Simkins delivered baby yesterday... | 0:49:43 | 0:49:46 | |
Not today. | 0:49:46 | 0:49:47 | |
Mrs Reed is not a specimen, she's a mother. | 0:49:47 | 0:49:49 | |
Let her have this moment in private. | 0:49:51 | 0:49:53 | |
I'll tell Mr Simkins about this. | 0:49:54 | 0:49:56 | |
Is she really ours? | 0:50:11 | 0:50:13 | |
I've come from the court. | 0:50:30 | 0:50:31 | |
The verdict's in? | 0:50:31 | 0:50:33 | |
Arthur's death is recorded as an accident. | 0:50:33 | 0:50:36 | |
Accident waiting to happen, more like. | 0:50:36 | 0:50:38 | |
But the coroner is writing to the port authority, recommending that | 0:50:38 | 0:50:43 | |
there should be fresh water stations on every dock, a register of men | 0:50:43 | 0:50:48 | |
so their whereabouts are known, | 0:50:48 | 0:50:50 | |
and there will be protective eyewear for anyone working with | 0:50:50 | 0:50:53 | |
chemicals or flammable substances. | 0:50:53 | 0:50:56 | |
You did it, Mrs Turner! You made them listen. | 0:50:56 | 0:50:58 | |
George did it. | 0:51:01 | 0:51:02 | |
This is it, then. | 0:51:33 | 0:51:35 | |
Anything? | 0:51:47 | 0:51:48 | |
I got nothing, Doc. | 0:51:52 | 0:51:54 | |
But we got everything else. | 0:51:57 | 0:51:59 | |
Well, little one, you're on fine form, | 0:52:10 | 0:52:13 | |
bright eyed and gaining weight. | 0:52:13 | 0:52:15 | |
I shall follow your progress from Hong Kong with interest. | 0:52:15 | 0:52:18 | |
I said she'd grown. | 0:52:18 | 0:52:20 | |
That's the spirit, Bella. | 0:52:20 | 0:52:22 | |
What if she outgrows us? | 0:52:22 | 0:52:24 | |
We never really outgrow our parents, we just think we do. | 0:52:26 | 0:52:31 | |
But what if she thinks us peculiar next to all the others? | 0:52:31 | 0:52:35 | |
Sometimes we have to stop wondering and worrying, | 0:52:35 | 0:52:40 | |
and we simply have to do what scares us most. | 0:52:40 | 0:52:43 | |
I love you. | 0:52:56 | 0:52:57 | |
I can't do this. | 0:53:03 | 0:53:04 | |
You have to. | 0:53:06 | 0:53:07 | |
Your carriage has arrived. I'll grab your bag. | 0:53:07 | 0:53:10 | |
Goodbye. Safe journey. | 0:53:15 | 0:53:18 | |
-Oh, goodbye! -Thank you. | 0:53:18 | 0:53:21 | |
Bye, old thing. | 0:53:30 | 0:53:31 | |
(I love you.) | 0:53:33 | 0:53:35 | |
Godspeed! | 0:53:48 | 0:53:49 | |
That's it. Hold his head. | 0:53:59 | 0:54:02 | |
You smell like home. | 0:54:12 | 0:54:14 | |
He's looking at you, George. He knows you. | 0:54:14 | 0:54:17 | |
I love you, little Bobby. | 0:54:23 | 0:54:25 | |
This is us now, all right? And we will manage. | 0:54:25 | 0:54:29 | |
And we will be grateful. | 0:54:30 | 0:54:32 | |
Keeping up with your Spanish? | 0:54:41 | 0:54:43 | |
I like to chip away at a little every day. | 0:54:43 | 0:54:45 | |
Keeps me occupied, prevents the mind becoming rusty. | 0:54:45 | 0:54:49 | |
I might take it up myself. | 0:54:49 | 0:54:50 | |
If I may quote a poem. | 0:54:58 | 0:55:00 | |
"For love of you, the air, it hurts, and my heart, and my hat, | 0:55:00 | 0:55:06 | |
"they hurt me. | 0:55:06 | 0:55:09 | |
"Who would buy it from me, this ribbon I am holding, | 0:55:09 | 0:55:13 | |
"and this sadness of cotton, white, for making handkerchiefs with? | 0:55:13 | 0:55:19 | |
"Ay, the pain it costs me to love you as I love you." | 0:55:20 | 0:55:25 | |
Not my words, but those of Garcia Lorca. | 0:55:27 | 0:55:30 | |
I'm not one for Spanish poetry - give me Tennyson any day - | 0:55:31 | 0:55:36 | |
but I find his words move me. | 0:55:36 | 0:55:38 | |
I have a volume of his poems in English, | 0:55:40 | 0:55:43 | |
if you should care to borrow it. | 0:55:43 | 0:55:45 | |
And, if I may... | 0:55:48 | 0:55:49 | |
..the pain it costs to love, | 0:55:51 | 0:55:56 | |
I believe it is always worth it. | 0:55:56 | 0:55:58 | |
I'll leave the volume by your door. | 0:56:04 | 0:56:07 | |
If we might put a two-week limit on the loan, I should appreciate it. | 0:56:07 | 0:56:10 | |
# Love letters straight from your heart | 0:56:15 | 0:56:20 | |
# Keep us so near while apart... # | 0:56:26 | 0:56:32 | |
'However great the scale of injury or loss, | 0:56:32 | 0:56:35 | |
'our frailties and pains are made bearable by others, | 0:56:35 | 0:56:40 | |
'their thoughts, their deeds, their reaching out. | 0:56:40 | 0:56:44 | |
'Their love and our endurance make us human and complete.' | 0:56:44 | 0:56:52 | |
Welcome home, Nurse Franklin. I'm afraid I need you to man the phone. | 0:57:01 | 0:57:06 | |
Me and the baby, stuck in here for 30 days, | 0:57:06 | 0:57:08 | |
with me mother-in-law looking after us. | 0:57:08 | 0:57:11 | |
You don't sound terribly keen. | 0:57:11 | 0:57:13 | |
They're trying to close us down. | 0:57:13 | 0:57:15 | |
We're to be inspected, apparently, and then they decide our fate. | 0:57:15 | 0:57:18 | |
Nonnatus House will not carry slackers, Nurse Gilbert. | 0:57:18 | 0:57:21 | |
I am not certain that Sister Ursula is fit | 0:57:21 | 0:57:23 | |
to be making these decisions. | 0:57:23 | 0:57:26 | |
What's the matter? | 0:57:28 | 0:57:30 | |
# Love letters straight from your heart | 0:57:33 | 0:57:40 | |
# I memorise every line. # | 0:57:44 | 0:57:50 |