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Our deepest desires are never simple. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:34 | |
But the peace we find when they are met | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
eclipses everything. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
Rhythm restored, | 0:00:40 | 0:00:42 | |
a familiar face returned, | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
the fresh new ticking of a clock once stopped. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:49 | |
When wishes are granted, | 0:00:50 | 0:00:52 | |
joy comes gently. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
And when it is not, we hang suspended, | 0:00:56 | 0:01:00 | |
waiting for release in the space between the heartbeats. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:06 | |
If you've been following the instructions on the pamphlet | 0:01:14 | 0:01:16 | |
I had specially Roneoed for you before I left for South Africa, | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
you shouldn't have any trouble at all with these new exercises. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:23 | |
Good evening, Barbara! Better late than never. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:26 | |
Retained placenta in Lisbon Buildings. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:28 | |
In which case you're excused. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:30 | |
And we're going to step to the side, | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
swinging our heads down to the floor. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:34 | |
Roses? | 0:01:38 | 0:01:40 | |
I'm sorry they're pink. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:41 | |
-They didn't have any red ones. -I prefer pink anyway. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:45 | |
How are the children? | 0:01:45 | 0:01:47 | |
They're looking after each other. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:49 | |
We're all looking after each other, really. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
It's you I worry about. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:54 | |
I know. | 0:01:54 | 0:01:55 | |
Is everything...as it was? | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
There's been no further bleeding. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:00 | |
I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, | 0:02:02 | 0:02:04 | |
but visiting hour is finishing early tonight. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:06 | |
-We've got ten minutes to go! -Then you can go and catch an early bus, | 0:02:06 | 0:02:10 | |
or drop into the Flag and Whistle and have half a beer. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
I've a new patient to see to, | 0:02:13 | 0:02:15 | |
and all my ladies need settling in for the night. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
That's us told, then. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:20 | |
Will you come back tomorrow? | 0:02:20 | 0:02:22 | |
I'd sleep in the corridor if they'd let me. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
The reason this exercise is called The Flamingo is because | 0:02:34 | 0:02:37 | |
whilst one leg bears the entire weight of the body, | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
the other is fully extended behind. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:42 | |
It's not because we're all turning pink, then? | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
As you swing each leg behind you, | 0:02:45 | 0:02:47 | |
fling the arms open like wings, | 0:02:47 | 0:02:51 | |
pushing forwards with the bust! | 0:02:51 | 0:02:53 | |
Oh, gosh! | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
You might do better leaning on this chair. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
Barbara, would you come to the front | 0:03:02 | 0:03:03 | |
and demonstrate to the rest of the class | 0:03:03 | 0:03:05 | |
whilst I check everybody's balance? | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
I'd like the whole class to look at Barbara's lovely supple back | 0:03:13 | 0:03:17 | |
and confident bust projection! | 0:03:17 | 0:03:19 | |
This is at least partly because Barbara | 0:03:19 | 0:03:21 | |
has come to the class wearing suitable undergarments, | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
namely a soft, elasticated brassiere and sensible briefs. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:29 | |
Anything more substantial than a lightweight panty corselet | 0:03:29 | 0:03:33 | |
is going to seriously affect your ability to carry out these moves. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:36 | |
Is that why you're out of breath, then? | 0:03:36 | 0:03:38 | |
No, it is not! | 0:03:38 | 0:03:41 | |
I really don't like putting you to trouble, Sister. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
I'm a nurse myself, and I know this isn't your job. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
If you're a nurse, you know not to argue with your superiors. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:55 | |
And if you choose not to use a bed pan, | 0:03:55 | 0:03:57 | |
you can't choose who wheels you to the lavatory. | 0:03:57 | 0:03:59 | |
I don't choose not to. I just find it almost impossible... | 0:03:59 | 0:04:03 | |
No upsetting yourself. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:05 | |
Upsetting yourself is the worst thing you can do. So I forbid it. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:09 | |
Fiery Jack! Active ingredient: capsicum pepper. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:16 | |
My mother swore by it for her fibrositis. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:19 | |
I haven't got fibrositis, Phyllis! I'm just unfit! | 0:04:19 | 0:04:23 | |
And the rest of the class were just as bad. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:25 | |
I don't think one of them had even looked at the exercises | 0:04:25 | 0:04:28 | |
-in that pamphlet, never mind done any! -Did you? | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
I was very busy in South Africa. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
Did you get any exercise on board ship? | 0:04:34 | 0:04:36 | |
I played giant chess. Almost every afternoon. | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
And I won a twist competition with the Chief Engineer. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
Well, that should've firmed your upper arms and trimmed your flanks. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:44 | |
S'not a laughing matter, Barbara! | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
I've let myself down and my class. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:49 | |
And I'm going to put it right. | 0:04:49 | 0:04:51 | |
See that Mrs Turner has all she needs, | 0:04:54 | 0:04:57 | |
then I must talk to you about the sluice room. | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
Yes, Sister Douglas. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:00 | |
She's very kind. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:04 | |
If you keep on the right side of her. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:06 | |
Nurse? I'm really sorry, but I need the toilet and I'm too scared | 0:05:06 | 0:05:10 | |
to move in case the bleeding starts again. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:12 | |
Don't worry. I'll fetch you a bedpan. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:14 | |
It's my third time in here. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:18 | |
First time I managed to hang on for as long as six months. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:20 | |
I'm only five months. But I'm hanging on, too. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:24 | |
ALARM RINGS | 0:05:27 | 0:05:31 | |
ALARM STOPS | 0:05:31 | 0:05:33 | |
Ow! | 0:05:40 | 0:05:42 | |
Ooh! | 0:05:42 | 0:05:43 | |
MUSIC: Fantastico by Peggy Lee | 0:05:49 | 0:05:52 | |
# You are so fantastico | 0:05:56 | 0:05:59 | |
# I'm a lucky so and so... # | 0:05:59 | 0:06:02 | |
Why don't you join me? | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
My wake-up routine can be your wind-down before bed. | 0:06:05 | 0:06:08 | |
Trixie, I've been jumping through hoops all night for Sister Douglas. | 0:06:08 | 0:06:12 | |
I don't need any more exercise, thank you. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:14 | |
Nurse Crane. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:21 | |
Early bird catches the worm. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
Or, at least, it gets all the worms lined up and identifies | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
which is likely to cause the most trouble. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
Drawing up this roster is like trying to plait soot. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:35 | |
In which case, you'll be delighted to hear that we've received | 0:06:35 | 0:06:39 | |
permission and funds to engage a new midwife. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
-We're going to advertise in the Midwives Chronicle. -Oh! | 0:06:42 | 0:06:46 | |
-Morning, Marnie! -Oh, I was just going out. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:53 | |
Oh, do have mercy on a poor, shattered midwife. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:55 | |
I really don't want to have to bike all the way back | 0:06:55 | 0:06:57 | |
with a delivery pack perched on my handlebars. | 0:06:57 | 0:07:00 | |
Mandy, go back in. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:02 | |
Do make sure you have | 0:07:05 | 0:07:06 | |
enough shillings put by for the gas and electricity meter. | 0:07:06 | 0:07:10 | |
A candlelit birth sounds romantic, | 0:07:10 | 0:07:12 | |
but I've attended several and they can be quite trying. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:15 | |
Is the lavatory at the end of the corridor? | 0:07:15 | 0:07:17 | |
You probably smelled it on your way in. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:20 | |
I-I beg your pardon, Nurse, but I really need to go now | 0:07:20 | 0:07:22 | |
or I'm going to be late. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:24 | |
-I'm sorry, I didn't realise you had an appointment. -Well, I have! | 0:07:24 | 0:07:28 | |
I'm due in court. | 0:07:28 | 0:07:30 | |
I bought stuff on HP before me husband left. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:37 | |
And once I realised he was never coming home, I ran up loans. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:40 | |
I'm going before the magistrates cos I defaulted on the payments. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:48 | |
-There are people you could've asked for help. -Well, I didn't, did I? | 0:07:48 | 0:07:52 | |
Let me help you to get the children as far as the bus stop. | 0:07:54 | 0:07:56 | |
It's the least I can do after I've made you late. | 0:07:56 | 0:08:00 | |
I'm sorry, I-I shouldn't've snapped, Nurse. | 0:08:00 | 0:08:03 | |
Well, I shouldn't've been such a bossy boots. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:07 | |
I've been away for months, | 0:08:07 | 0:08:09 | |
and I was probably enjoying myself a little bit too much. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:12 | |
My kids always have hankies on 'em. | 0:08:15 | 0:08:17 | |
One of the things my gran was strict about. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:21 | |
I've got out of the habit of it myself. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:23 | |
I never seem to have time for all the little things | 0:08:23 | 0:08:26 | |
that make you look respectable. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:27 | |
You look perfectly respectable to me. | 0:08:27 | 0:08:30 | |
Good morning, Mrs Turner. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:34 | |
I'm just going to ease you over into this chair | 0:08:34 | 0:08:36 | |
so that we can tidy up, ready for Mr Kenley's rounds. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:40 | |
All right? | 0:08:41 | 0:08:42 | |
Oh. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:47 | |
No. No... | 0:08:47 | 0:08:51 | |
It's all right. | 0:08:51 | 0:08:53 | |
Come and sit down. Come and sit down. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:57 | |
I know Marnie Wallace is a churchgoer and I thought | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
you'd want to be told that she might need some pastoral care. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
Thank you. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:03 | |
I'm aware she's on her own, of course, and I saw her on Sunday, | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
but she never mentioned anything about a court case. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:10 | |
It's the shame, probably. The more ashamed people are, | 0:09:10 | 0:09:13 | |
the less inclined they are to ask for help. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:15 | |
Yes. And the more they need it. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
I'll call and see her. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:19 | |
Patient is an elderly primigravida, | 0:09:21 | 0:09:24 | |
aged 36, | 0:09:24 | 0:09:26 | |
almost five months gestation. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:29 | |
Admitted after a moderate bleed, | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
further bleeding earlier today, now ceased. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:34 | |
Patient was successfully treated for pulmonary tuberculosis | 0:09:34 | 0:09:38 | |
using triple protocol some four years ago. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:42 | |
Why might that mean that conception was... | 0:09:42 | 0:09:47 | |
unexpected? | 0:09:47 | 0:09:48 | |
Damage to the pelvic organs, perhaps? | 0:09:51 | 0:09:54 | |
Possibly leading to problems in carrying a pregnancy to term? | 0:09:54 | 0:09:59 | |
I was diagnosed with scar tissue in the ovaries and fallopian tubes. | 0:09:59 | 0:10:03 | |
But once I actually managed to conceive, | 0:10:03 | 0:10:05 | |
there was no reason to anticipate further problems. | 0:10:05 | 0:10:07 | |
-You seem to be very well informed, Mrs...? -Turner. -Ah. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:11 | |
I'm a midwife by profession, | 0:10:11 | 0:10:13 | |
and I know there are always new developments in obstetrics. | 0:10:13 | 0:10:17 | |
If we could try to find out why this is happening... | 0:10:17 | 0:10:20 | |
Pregnancies click, or they don't. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:23 | |
Let's just watch | 0:10:23 | 0:10:25 | |
and wait, | 0:10:25 | 0:10:28 | |
shall we? | 0:10:28 | 0:10:29 | |
Kiddies need somewhere to play, | 0:10:40 | 0:10:42 | |
and now they've demolished the reservoir there's proper grass there | 0:10:42 | 0:10:45 | |
and a little hut where they sell ice creams. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:48 | |
I remember Tom saying something about it. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:50 | |
Isn't there going to be a grand opening? | 0:10:50 | 0:10:52 | |
Well, an opening. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:53 | |
The Mayor's on his holidays, so I wouldn't call it grand. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:56 | |
Violet's borrowed a maypole to do something with the Brownies, | 0:10:56 | 0:10:59 | |
but the Cubs, they've gone to hell in a handcart | 0:10:59 | 0:11:01 | |
since Nurse Mount went off. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:03 | |
I could give a presentation with my Keep Fit Ladies. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:06 | |
It would give us all such an incentive, | 0:11:06 | 0:11:08 | |
and we'd draw quite a crowd with our leotards. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:10 | |
Leotards? In a public park? | 0:11:10 | 0:11:12 | |
Oh, Trixie, what would Sister Julienne say? | 0:11:12 | 0:11:14 | |
If you aren't going to take keep fit seriously, Barbara, | 0:11:14 | 0:11:17 | |
then you might as well give it up and run the Cubs in your spare time. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:21 | |
I don't have any spare time. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:22 | |
Why don't you take 'em on, Nurse Crane? | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
Because I find small boys exasperating. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:29 | |
And violent. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:30 | |
That's why a good Akela's so essential - | 0:11:30 | 0:11:33 | |
to stop them turning into exasperating and violent men. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
And how's that going to be accomplished? | 0:11:36 | 0:11:38 | |
By waving a magic wand? | 0:11:38 | 0:11:40 | |
Ah! They sell whistles down the hardware shop. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:43 | |
I just... | 0:11:48 | 0:11:50 | |
I can't make ends meet, on just National Assistance. | 0:11:50 | 0:11:53 | |
And now the courts are saying I have to pay back my debts in instalments. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
Would it help if I went through your bank account with you? | 0:11:58 | 0:12:02 | |
I haven't got a bank account. My husband wouldn't give me permission. | 0:12:02 | 0:12:06 | |
Hello, Marnie, sweetheart. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:08 | |
Hello, Dot. | 0:12:08 | 0:12:10 | |
-You her vicar? -Curate, yes. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:13 | |
I'm her cousin. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:14 | |
She asked me to be godmother to this little love, but I declined. | 0:12:14 | 0:12:18 | |
Don't believe in God, or in the devil. | 0:12:18 | 0:12:21 | |
Come here! | 0:12:22 | 0:12:24 | |
Got pink icing all over your face. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:27 | |
Looks like lipstick put on wrong. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:29 | |
Hankie. Never go without one. | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
Our grandma would be proud. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:35 | |
There, that's better, isn't it? | 0:12:37 | 0:12:39 | |
Anyway, it's really Master Kevin I've come to see today. | 0:12:39 | 0:12:43 | |
Cos he's the birthday boy! | 0:12:43 | 0:12:45 | |
Shall I unwrap it? | 0:12:47 | 0:12:49 | |
-It's a cap gun. -Dot! | 0:12:49 | 0:12:51 | |
I'm not celebrating Kevin's birthday today. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:53 | |
I can't afford to buy him anything, | 0:12:53 | 0:12:55 | |
and he's too little to know any better! | 0:12:55 | 0:12:58 | |
-Is it that bad? -Yes, it is. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:01 | |
Begging your pardon, Reverend, | 0:13:03 | 0:13:05 | |
but Marnie knows me and my Eugene would bend over backwards to help. | 0:13:05 | 0:13:09 | |
Dot! I don't want the kind of help you and Eugene are offering, | 0:13:09 | 0:13:12 | |
do you hear me? I don't want it. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:15 | |
But you need it, Marnie. You need all the help you can get. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:18 | |
Go! Just go, Dot. Get out of my flat, and just leave us all alone. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:22 | |
As it happens, | 0:13:27 | 0:13:28 | |
internal examination has given me confidence | 0:13:28 | 0:13:32 | |
in a diagnosis of incompetent cervix. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:35 | |
What does that mean? | 0:13:35 | 0:13:37 | |
It means there's a reason why you keep losing all these babies. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:41 | |
The neck of the womb lacks the muscularity it needs | 0:13:41 | 0:13:44 | |
to hold everything in place. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:46 | |
Nurse, are you able to recall the name for the treatment for this? | 0:13:46 | 0:13:51 | |
Cervical cerclage, sir? Often referred to as a Shirodkar Suture. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:56 | |
It's a stitch put into the cervix following threatened | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
spontaneous abortion, usually removed in the 36th week | 0:13:59 | 0:14:02 | |
to allow for natural labour and delivery. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:05 | |
"Though she be but little, she is fierce!" | 0:14:05 | 0:14:09 | |
Could you do that for me? | 0:14:10 | 0:14:12 | |
I'm prepared to give it my consideration. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
LOUD TOOT | 0:14:20 | 0:14:22 | |
LOUDER TOOT | 0:14:29 | 0:14:31 | |
EVEN LOUDER TOOT, BABY CRIES | 0:14:38 | 0:14:41 | |
I think this one will suffice. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:44 | |
I should like the Scouting Association discount, please. | 0:14:44 | 0:14:47 | |
Trixie chose the magazines. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:51 | |
Nurse Crane sent barley sugars. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:54 | |
I...I just spoke to the Sister. | 0:14:59 | 0:15:02 | |
She told me you had a setback. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:07 | |
It wasn't a very heavy loss. | 0:15:07 | 0:15:09 | |
Enough to suggest the baby may no longer be alive | 0:15:09 | 0:15:12 | |
but not enough to know for certain. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:13 | |
Do you want to know for certain? | 0:15:15 | 0:15:17 | |
If I did... | 0:15:20 | 0:15:22 | |
we may have to stop hoping. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:25 | |
And we were without hope of any kind for years. | 0:15:25 | 0:15:28 | |
We were happy enough before | 0:15:28 | 0:15:31 | |
and we will be happy again, whatever happens. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:35 | |
-We will, won't we? -Yes. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:39 | |
Good news, Marnie! | 0:15:44 | 0:15:46 | |
I've persuaded the council nursery to find afternoon places | 0:15:46 | 0:15:50 | |
for Kevin and Mandy for the next six weeks. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:53 | |
That came this morning. | 0:15:53 | 0:15:55 | |
From the landlord. | 0:15:55 | 0:15:56 | |
The rent man's been knocking on the door for weeks, | 0:15:59 | 0:16:01 | |
and I just haven't answered. | 0:16:01 | 0:16:03 | |
"Notice To Quit"? | 0:16:03 | 0:16:05 | |
I didn't read on after that. | 0:16:06 | 0:16:08 | |
I didn't dare. | 0:16:10 | 0:16:11 | |
How long have I got? | 0:16:15 | 0:16:18 | |
Two weeks. | 0:16:18 | 0:16:19 | |
I thought Tatler was supposed to be a gossip mag. | 0:16:31 | 0:16:33 | |
It's not gossip if you've never heard of any of the people. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:36 | |
Mind you, you can't fault the soft furnishings in it, | 0:16:36 | 0:16:39 | |
there's some magnificent pelmets. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:41 | |
Any time you fancy swapping pelmets | 0:16:41 | 0:16:44 | |
for "20 Exciting Things To Do With Liver" you're more than welcome. | 0:16:44 | 0:16:47 | |
Every time those doors swing open, I look to see if it's that specialist, | 0:16:53 | 0:16:56 | |
coming to tell me he'll do that operation. | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
Still, | 0:16:59 | 0:17:00 | |
at least there's no chance of us missing these babies moving, | 0:17:00 | 0:17:03 | |
when we're lying here, nailed to the bed. | 0:17:03 | 0:17:06 | |
I haven't felt mine move at all yet. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:09 | |
I wouldn't expect to - it's too soon. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:12 | |
It's too soon to hear a heartbeat either, | 0:17:12 | 0:17:14 | |
-even if there's one there to be heard. -Just you wait. | 0:17:14 | 0:17:17 | |
If they let you listen through the stethoscope, it sounds like | 0:17:17 | 0:17:20 | |
a horse coming in over the finish line in a 3:15. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:23 | |
It must be a magical thing when it's your own baby. | 0:17:23 | 0:17:26 | |
What does it feel like when it starts to move? | 0:17:28 | 0:17:31 | |
It's not like kicking. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:33 | |
Well, maybe it feels like kicking later on, but I wouldn't know. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:37 | |
You know what it does feel like, at six months, where I am now? | 0:17:37 | 0:17:40 | |
Like a goldfish. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:42 | |
Yeah, like a little goldfish, | 0:17:42 | 0:17:44 | |
nudging the side of his bowl with his little fins. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:46 | |
"I'm in here, Mum!" | 0:17:46 | 0:17:48 | |
You'll be feeling it yourself soon. I know you will. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:51 | |
And yours will have its boots on, kicking up a storm. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:54 | |
Excuse me, lovely. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:01 | |
Hello, Marnie. This is a surprise. | 0:18:06 | 0:18:09 | |
I'm sorry. I shouldn't have shouted. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:12 | |
You don't mind us coming here, do ya? | 0:18:13 | 0:18:16 | |
It's just that I remembered it was early closing at the beauty parlour. | 0:18:16 | 0:18:18 | |
Ring the bell. Go on. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:21 | |
MUSICAL DOORBELL | 0:18:23 | 0:18:25 | |
There's a choice of two tunes, just flick a little switch. | 0:18:25 | 0:18:29 | |
Dot... | 0:18:29 | 0:18:30 | |
I've come to talk to you about your offer. | 0:18:32 | 0:18:35 | |
I wish Eugene was here. He's at his salon, seeing a supplier. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:47 | |
Sugar? | 0:18:48 | 0:18:49 | |
One and a bit. | 0:18:49 | 0:18:51 | |
-It's lumps. You have to have one or two. -Dot. | 0:18:51 | 0:18:54 | |
Does Eugene know? | 0:18:54 | 0:18:56 | |
About your offer? | 0:18:56 | 0:18:58 | |
Yes. | 0:18:58 | 0:18:59 | |
He never wanted to adopt... | 0:19:02 | 0:19:05 | |
when we realised I was barren. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:07 | |
He said he wanted his own flesh and blood or nothing. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:11 | |
And I put it to him... | 0:19:13 | 0:19:15 | |
that your little one was the next best thing. | 0:19:15 | 0:19:18 | |
He knows I asked you. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:20 | |
And he knows you said no. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:23 | |
Well, as I said, | 0:19:24 | 0:19:26 | |
I'm saying yes now. | 0:19:26 | 0:19:28 | |
You can take it - as soon as it's born. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
We'll give it everything, Marnie. | 0:19:33 | 0:19:36 | |
-It'll be the child we never had. -It'll be the child you do have, Dot. | 0:19:36 | 0:19:40 | |
It'll be yours. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:43 | |
The Midwives Chronicle's arrived, Sister. The advertisement's in. | 0:19:47 | 0:19:51 | |
It feels rather exciting, really. | 0:19:51 | 0:19:53 | |
As though we've launched our little ship on a new adventure. | 0:19:53 | 0:19:57 | |
I can't shake off the feeling that this new person - | 0:19:57 | 0:19:59 | |
whoever she may be - is really a replacement for Sister Mary Cynthia. | 0:19:59 | 0:20:04 | |
Who could fill her shoes? | 0:20:04 | 0:20:06 | |
She is a very particular and gentle spirit, | 0:20:07 | 0:20:11 | |
and I suspect I miss her at least as much as you do. | 0:20:11 | 0:20:14 | |
Then why aren't we trying to find her? | 0:20:14 | 0:20:16 | |
Well, cos she isn't lost. | 0:20:16 | 0:20:18 | |
She was very unwell when she was returned to the Mother House, | 0:20:18 | 0:20:22 | |
and since you reported that she was not there, Mother Jesu Emmanuel | 0:20:22 | 0:20:26 | |
informed me that she has been sent to a place of greater safety. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:30 | |
Sister Mary Cynthia is a person, not a parcel. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:32 | |
She shouldn't be "returned" or "sent" anywhere. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:35 | |
She should be acting of her own free will. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:38 | |
She was in no fit state to do so. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
If you had seen her, you would believe me when I say that. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:44 | |
I don't disbelieve you. I just need to know she's all right. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:48 | |
Until Sister Mary Cynthia is well enough to choose | 0:20:48 | 0:20:51 | |
to make contact with us herself, we must treat her with the respect | 0:20:51 | 0:20:55 | |
we would show to anyone else who isn't well. | 0:20:55 | 0:20:59 | |
Especially if the illness is a mental one. | 0:20:59 | 0:21:02 | |
Mrs Wallace? | 0:21:08 | 0:21:09 | |
I've sorted everything out. | 0:21:13 | 0:21:15 | |
I'd be pleased... | 0:21:15 | 0:21:17 | |
if you weren't crying as you said that. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:20 | |
What you playing at, Fred Buckle? | 0:21:33 | 0:21:35 | |
I thought of the perfect way to get everybody down the new playground, | 0:21:35 | 0:21:39 | |
on the day of the opening. | 0:21:39 | 0:21:40 | |
"Spectacular Chariot Race | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
"From Market Cross to Reservoir Rec. | 0:21:43 | 0:21:46 | |
"Prams, carts, wheelbarrows. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:48 | |
"No conveyance too humble or too grand!" | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
Is that what all this is, then? | 0:21:51 | 0:21:53 | |
Yeah, well...it's to give people ideas. Look! | 0:21:53 | 0:21:57 | |
Look. | 0:21:57 | 0:21:58 | |
"Bigger than Ben Hur!" | 0:21:58 | 0:22:01 | |
I'd better start stocking Roman helmets, then. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:03 | |
I've never come across a case quite like it. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:10 | |
Mrs Wallace has made up her mind, | 0:22:10 | 0:22:12 | |
and seems to believe that God approves of her actions. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:15 | |
If I may venture an observation, | 0:22:15 | 0:22:18 | |
when people seek the approval of the Almighty, it is generally because | 0:22:18 | 0:22:23 | |
they fear they will not get it. | 0:22:23 | 0:22:25 | |
Sister, you know as well as I do that many poor women have given | 0:22:25 | 0:22:28 | |
children they cannot feed to relatives better placed to do so. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:32 | |
And we have never condemned them. | 0:22:32 | 0:22:34 | |
It happens with slightly older children. But I can't remember | 0:22:34 | 0:22:37 | |
it ever happening with such a new-born. | 0:22:37 | 0:22:39 | |
Nurse Franklin, we look after mothers giving new-borns | 0:22:39 | 0:22:42 | |
-up for adoption every week. -And not many of them would | 0:22:42 | 0:22:45 | |
if society gave them much choice in the matter. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:47 | |
I've mopped up more tears and dried up more milk supplies | 0:22:47 | 0:22:50 | |
than you can shake a stick at. | 0:22:50 | 0:22:53 | |
Adoption is always a very delicate and complicated issue. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:57 | |
I was adopted myself, when I was two months old. | 0:22:58 | 0:23:01 | |
Well, I'm sure that will make you much more sensitive | 0:23:04 | 0:23:08 | |
-to Mrs Wallace's situation. -I hope so. | 0:23:08 | 0:23:11 | |
I don't know what happened when I was born. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:14 | |
But my adoptive parents were wonderful, | 0:23:14 | 0:23:16 | |
and I've never doubted that my mother did her best for me. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:19 | |
And we'll do our best for this poor mother. | 0:23:19 | 0:23:22 | |
Every care taken and no questions asked. | 0:23:22 | 0:23:25 | |
I know that landlord. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:32 | |
He terrorised me and Dot when we were first married. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:36 | |
Gives me quite a thrill, | 0:23:36 | 0:23:38 | |
writing him a cheque with my gold-nibbed fountain pen. | 0:23:38 | 0:23:41 | |
You remind me of that nursery rhyme, | 0:23:41 | 0:23:44 | |
"The king was in his counting house." | 0:23:44 | 0:23:46 | |
I shall have to brush up on my nursery rhymes. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:49 | |
It'll be all hands on deck in a minute. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:53 | |
I called in at the furniture shop, they're delivering a nice roll | 0:23:53 | 0:23:55 | |
of lino and a brand-new mattress as we speak. | 0:23:55 | 0:23:58 | |
The van's pulling up already. | 0:23:58 | 0:24:00 | |
I don't need a new mattress, Dot. | 0:24:00 | 0:24:02 | |
Marnie, the one you've got sags in the middle | 0:24:02 | 0:24:05 | |
like Old Nick's hammock! | 0:24:05 | 0:24:07 | |
I still wish you were coming to have the baby at our house. | 0:24:07 | 0:24:10 | |
But this is your home. | 0:24:11 | 0:24:14 | |
And whatever you want, you can have. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:18 | |
You can even have a say in naming it. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:20 | |
No. | 0:24:20 | 0:24:22 | |
It'll be your baby. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:23 | |
I like Andrew for a boy. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:27 | |
Same as Prince Andrew. | 0:24:27 | 0:24:30 | |
And something ending in A for a girl. | 0:24:30 | 0:24:33 | |
I think it's starting. I was sick with Kevin and with Mandy. | 0:24:38 | 0:24:43 | |
Do you want me to ring Nonnatus House? | 0:24:43 | 0:24:45 | |
And skip, skip, step to the side, | 0:24:52 | 0:24:55 | |
skip, skip, step to the side. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:57 | |
And if you bump into somebody, just keep going. | 0:24:57 | 0:24:59 | |
KIDS YELL | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
WHISTLE TOOTS | 0:25:04 | 0:25:06 | |
Pack, alert! | 0:25:06 | 0:25:08 | |
I thought you were coming earlier, Nurse Crane. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:12 | |
We were delayed. | 0:25:12 | 0:25:14 | |
I thought it best to spend some time | 0:25:14 | 0:25:16 | |
revising basic commands and responses. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
I had an aunt with half a dozen Sheltie pups, | 0:25:19 | 0:25:22 | |
she took a similar tack with them. | 0:25:22 | 0:25:24 | |
Well, you've still to convince me that mixing the sexes up | 0:25:24 | 0:25:27 | |
around the maypole will work. | 0:25:27 | 0:25:28 | |
Pack, at ease. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:33 | |
I've just found a blackcurrant jelly and a tin of evap on the step. | 0:25:37 | 0:25:41 | |
Another kindly patient must've put them there after Mrs Penny left. | 0:25:41 | 0:25:45 | |
She says there's a hotpot in the oven, | 0:25:45 | 0:25:47 | |
and she's coming back later, for Angela's bedtime. | 0:25:47 | 0:25:49 | |
-No prizes for guessing what's for pudding! -Dad. | 0:25:49 | 0:25:54 | |
You don't have to pretend to be jolly all the time. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:57 | |
You don't have to pretend that nothing's happening. | 0:25:57 | 0:26:00 | |
With your next pain, I want you to push with all your strength. | 0:26:00 | 0:26:03 | |
Really show me what you can do. | 0:26:03 | 0:26:05 | |
SHE GROANS | 0:26:05 | 0:26:09 | |
No noise, Marnie. Save your energy for that push. | 0:26:09 | 0:26:13 | |
Help! Help! | 0:26:13 | 0:26:15 | |
SHE WHIMPERS AND GROANS | 0:26:15 | 0:26:18 | |
It's like it doesn't want to be born, Nurse. | 0:26:22 | 0:26:25 | |
All right, sweetie. | 0:26:25 | 0:26:26 | |
We're going to get you some help. | 0:26:26 | 0:26:28 | |
Dot, could you telephone Poplar 491, | 0:26:30 | 0:26:34 | |
and say Doctor Turner and another midwife are needed at this address | 0:26:34 | 0:26:37 | |
for an assisted delivery? | 0:26:37 | 0:26:38 | |
-Will you be all right on your own? -Absolutely we will. | 0:26:38 | 0:26:41 | |
Dad, I know it makes sense to shield Angela | 0:26:48 | 0:26:51 | |
but it doesn't make sense to shield me. | 0:26:51 | 0:26:53 | |
I'm sorry, Tim. | 0:26:55 | 0:26:56 | |
But we're just marking time and waiting. | 0:26:57 | 0:27:01 | |
For all we know, there might not be anything to shield you from. | 0:27:01 | 0:27:04 | |
Have you done your homework? | 0:27:06 | 0:27:07 | |
I do it every night when you're at the hospital. | 0:27:07 | 0:27:10 | |
Maybe when I'm 18 we can go to the pub and have | 0:27:11 | 0:27:14 | |
-a proper conversation. -Go to the pub? | 0:27:14 | 0:27:16 | |
That's where men go to talk, isn't it? | 0:27:16 | 0:27:18 | |
I've only got three more years to wait. | 0:27:18 | 0:27:21 | |
PHONE RINGS | 0:27:21 | 0:27:23 | |
Hello, Turner. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:30 | |
Sister Winifred. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:31 | |
I see. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:34 | |
Yes, of course, I'll be there straight away. Thank you. Goodbye. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:38 | |
I have to go out to a case, son. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:43 | |
I'm sorry. | 0:27:44 | 0:27:46 | |
How are we getting along? | 0:27:50 | 0:27:52 | |
Baby seems to be in a good anterior position, but Mrs Wallace | 0:27:52 | 0:27:55 | |
has been in the second stage for a couple of hours without progress. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:58 | |
-She's very tired. -I'll examine her. | 0:27:58 | 0:28:00 | |
But let's prepare for forceps. | 0:28:01 | 0:28:04 | |
Good evening, Master Turner. What are you doing here? | 0:28:21 | 0:28:25 | |
I think a policeman would describe me as loitering with intent. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:28 | |
Mum won't have any visitors if I don't go in | 0:28:28 | 0:28:31 | |
-but no-one under 16 is allowed. -Well, no-one's been asked to show | 0:28:31 | 0:28:34 | |
their birth certificate while I've been here. | 0:28:34 | 0:28:36 | |
Now, once we're all set, I'll need you to push with each contraction. | 0:28:39 | 0:28:44 | |
I'm tired of pushing. | 0:28:44 | 0:28:46 | |
But the difference now, Marnie, is that you'll be pushing, | 0:28:46 | 0:28:48 | |
and Doctor will be pulling. | 0:28:48 | 0:28:50 | |
You'll have your baby in your arms before you know it. | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
You can push with the next one, Marnie. Save your strength. | 0:28:52 | 0:28:55 | |
First blade. | 0:28:55 | 0:28:57 | |
And the second. | 0:28:58 | 0:28:59 | |
Contraction. | 0:29:01 | 0:29:04 | |
Deep breath and push! | 0:29:04 | 0:29:06 | |
Push, Marnie, push! | 0:29:06 | 0:29:09 | |
-Come on! Come on, girl. -You can do it! | 0:29:11 | 0:29:14 | |
-And again. -You're doing so, so well, Marnie. | 0:29:17 | 0:29:19 | |
-Head's on the way! -Nearly there! | 0:29:24 | 0:29:26 | |
Push now! | 0:29:36 | 0:29:38 | |
-Keep it coming, Marnie! Keep it coming! -Good girl! | 0:29:38 | 0:29:42 | |
That's it! That's it! | 0:29:42 | 0:29:45 | |
That's it! | 0:29:45 | 0:29:47 | |
BABY CRIES | 0:29:47 | 0:29:49 | |
Well done. | 0:29:49 | 0:29:50 | |
Well done, Marnie. | 0:29:50 | 0:29:52 | |
It's a boy. | 0:29:58 | 0:29:59 | |
Did you hear that? | 0:30:05 | 0:30:08 | |
Thank you. | 0:30:08 | 0:30:09 | |
Thank you. | 0:30:10 | 0:30:12 | |
He's a man, he doesn't find it easy to talk about his feelings. | 0:30:16 | 0:30:19 | |
But he's also a doctor. | 0:30:19 | 0:30:21 | |
You'd think he'd find it easier to talk about this than most men. | 0:30:21 | 0:30:24 | |
Timothy, does it not occur to you | 0:30:24 | 0:30:26 | |
that that's why he can't discuss things? | 0:30:26 | 0:30:29 | |
He knows what could happen. And so do I. | 0:30:29 | 0:30:32 | |
He's going to look like a prize fighter by tomorrow. | 0:30:35 | 0:30:38 | |
I predict at least one black eye and very possibly two. | 0:30:38 | 0:30:43 | |
I'm sorry, soldier. | 0:30:43 | 0:30:45 | |
Time for a little someone's wash and brush up! | 0:30:45 | 0:30:49 | |
Let's introduce him to his mother first. | 0:30:49 | 0:30:51 | |
Give him to Dot. | 0:30:55 | 0:30:57 | |
Give him to her. | 0:31:01 | 0:31:02 | |
Oh, look at you. | 0:31:13 | 0:31:15 | |
Look at you, looking at me, as if to say, | 0:31:16 | 0:31:21 | |
"How did I get here?" | 0:31:21 | 0:31:23 | |
It's been ever such a long, long journey. | 0:31:25 | 0:31:28 | |
But you're here now. | 0:31:28 | 0:31:30 | |
Sshhh. | 0:31:32 | 0:31:34 | |
What's happening? | 0:31:41 | 0:31:43 | |
I'm putting this Nil-By-Mouth sign over your bed, Mrs Venables, | 0:31:43 | 0:31:46 | |
because in the morning you're going to be having an operation. | 0:31:46 | 0:31:48 | |
Are they going to put that stitch in? | 0:31:48 | 0:31:50 | |
Mr Kenley has decided you're a prime candidate | 0:31:50 | 0:31:52 | |
for cervical cerclage. | 0:31:52 | 0:31:54 | |
Nurse Busby will pop by in a few minutes to help you to prepare. | 0:31:54 | 0:31:58 | |
Hello, son. Mrs Penny's gone. | 0:32:05 | 0:32:09 | |
She told me where you were headed. | 0:32:09 | 0:32:11 | |
Thank you. | 0:32:12 | 0:32:14 | |
I thought you might be angry. | 0:32:14 | 0:32:15 | |
Some rules are worth breaking. | 0:32:16 | 0:32:19 | |
Others, you are going to have to stick to for a while. | 0:32:19 | 0:32:23 | |
Like not going to the pub. | 0:32:23 | 0:32:25 | |
-Beer? -To be precise, two bottles of Pale Ale | 0:32:25 | 0:32:28 | |
and a packet of pork scratchings. | 0:32:28 | 0:32:32 | |
Are you going to stay with them tonight? | 0:32:37 | 0:32:39 | |
Absolutely. | 0:32:39 | 0:32:41 | |
Marnie's had quite a rough time, | 0:32:41 | 0:32:43 | |
and baby might be grisly because of his sore head. | 0:32:43 | 0:32:47 | |
I have to go home and tell my husband. | 0:32:48 | 0:32:51 | |
We'll come back to get the baby in the morning, in the car. | 0:32:53 | 0:32:57 | |
We can bring his carrycot. | 0:32:58 | 0:33:01 | |
All his lovely new clothes. | 0:33:01 | 0:33:03 | |
We'll be a family from the off, then. | 0:33:06 | 0:33:08 | |
Poor sweet. | 0:33:10 | 0:33:11 | |
Are you sure you don't want to see baby? | 0:33:15 | 0:33:18 | |
Sister Winifred's about to give him a bottle, | 0:33:18 | 0:33:20 | |
but I could bring him in here just so you could have a peep. | 0:33:20 | 0:33:23 | |
I want him christened. | 0:33:24 | 0:33:26 | |
As soon as possible. | 0:33:26 | 0:33:28 | |
Baby's not in any danger, Marnie. He's just a little bruised. | 0:33:28 | 0:33:31 | |
You'd feel reassured if you just took a look at him. | 0:33:31 | 0:33:34 | |
You could give him his bottle yourself, if you'd like to? | 0:33:35 | 0:33:38 | |
I just want him christened. | 0:33:38 | 0:33:41 | |
First thing in the morning. | 0:33:41 | 0:33:43 | |
Dad, that was miles off bull's-eye. | 0:33:47 | 0:33:49 | |
Dad, thanks - for this. | 0:34:01 | 0:34:05 | |
Tim... | 0:34:05 | 0:34:07 | |
whatever happens with this baby, | 0:34:07 | 0:34:10 | |
family life won't change. | 0:34:10 | 0:34:12 | |
But I'll change. | 0:34:12 | 0:34:14 | |
You've been changing for 15 years. | 0:34:14 | 0:34:17 | |
And I love you just the same. | 0:34:17 | 0:34:19 | |
Nurse! | 0:34:31 | 0:34:33 | |
Nurse! | 0:34:33 | 0:34:35 | |
Something's happening! | 0:34:35 | 0:34:36 | |
Stay where you are, Mrs Venables! | 0:34:36 | 0:34:38 | |
No! No! I'm supposed to be having my operation this morning! | 0:34:38 | 0:34:41 | |
-Is something wrong? -I think she's in labour. | 0:34:41 | 0:34:44 | |
Not again, not again. | 0:34:44 | 0:34:47 | |
Make it stop! Make it stop! | 0:34:47 | 0:34:51 | |
Make it stop! Please! | 0:34:51 | 0:34:54 | |
In the name of God... | 0:34:57 | 0:35:00 | |
the Father, the Son | 0:35:00 | 0:35:03 | |
and the Holy Spirit. | 0:35:03 | 0:35:05 | |
-Amen. -Amen. | 0:35:06 | 0:35:09 | |
Marnie, I'm going to say the godparent's responses. | 0:35:10 | 0:35:14 | |
But it is usual for the mother to hold her baby until that point. | 0:35:14 | 0:35:18 | |
There you go. Sh... | 0:35:31 | 0:35:33 | |
Please don't think I don't love him, Mr Hereward. | 0:35:36 | 0:35:40 | |
I've never doubted that for a single moment. | 0:35:40 | 0:35:42 | |
You only have to be brave a little bit longer. | 0:35:46 | 0:35:49 | |
It'll be over very quickly. | 0:35:49 | 0:35:51 | |
I don't want it to be over! | 0:35:51 | 0:35:53 | |
-Lean into me, Gloria. Do as Sister says. -I don't want to push! | 0:35:53 | 0:35:56 | |
SHE GROANS AND SOBS | 0:35:56 | 0:36:02 | |
-Good girl. -No... | 0:36:02 | 0:36:04 | |
Name this child. | 0:36:07 | 0:36:09 | |
Andrew...? | 0:36:11 | 0:36:13 | |
Andrew Thomas. | 0:36:15 | 0:36:18 | |
After the reverend. | 0:36:18 | 0:36:19 | |
Andrew Thomas, | 0:36:29 | 0:36:31 | |
I baptise thee in the name of the Father, | 0:36:31 | 0:36:34 | |
and of the Son, | 0:36:34 | 0:36:36 | |
and of the Holy Ghost. | 0:36:36 | 0:36:38 | |
Amen. | 0:36:40 | 0:36:41 | |
Amen. | 0:36:42 | 0:36:44 | |
Good girl. | 0:36:50 | 0:36:52 | |
Soon this will all be over. | 0:36:54 | 0:36:56 | |
And there'll be no more pain. | 0:36:59 | 0:37:01 | |
-Is it alive? -No. | 0:37:19 | 0:37:22 | |
No, dear. | 0:37:22 | 0:37:24 | |
I'm sorry. | 0:37:25 | 0:37:27 | |
You see to this, Nurse. | 0:37:31 | 0:37:33 | |
Mrs Venables and I can manage on our own now. | 0:37:36 | 0:37:39 | |
Noooo! | 0:37:44 | 0:37:46 | |
I'll pop to the kitchen and prepare a bottle for Master Andrew. | 0:37:49 | 0:37:52 | |
Unless you want to try feeding him yourself? | 0:37:54 | 0:37:57 | |
I don't want him messed about. | 0:37:59 | 0:38:01 | |
Of course. | 0:38:01 | 0:38:03 | |
Morning. | 0:38:03 | 0:38:04 | |
Is something wrong? | 0:38:06 | 0:38:07 | |
No. Marnie just wanted the baby to be baptised. | 0:38:07 | 0:38:12 | |
I don't believe in any of that. | 0:38:12 | 0:38:14 | |
That's why I did it. | 0:38:14 | 0:38:16 | |
He's called Andrew Thomas. | 0:38:18 | 0:38:21 | |
You can take him now. | 0:38:28 | 0:38:30 | |
What will happen to my baby? | 0:38:37 | 0:38:39 | |
Don't you worry about that now. | 0:38:39 | 0:38:41 | |
You leave that to us - that's what we're here for. | 0:38:41 | 0:38:44 | |
-No, I wanted to see it! -I know. | 0:38:44 | 0:38:47 | |
But it wouldn't be wise. | 0:38:48 | 0:38:50 | |
You can cry if you want to. | 0:38:57 | 0:38:59 | |
There will be better days than this. | 0:39:01 | 0:39:03 | |
If these are the best interview candidates the Midwives Chronicle | 0:39:16 | 0:39:19 | |
can deliver to our door, I have to say I fear for our profession. | 0:39:19 | 0:39:23 | |
Is there anyone on the list you feel we really shouldn't see? | 0:39:23 | 0:39:27 | |
Mantlewood, Geoffrey Arnold rather leaps off the page. | 0:39:27 | 0:39:30 | |
Yes. He would appear to be a man. | 0:39:30 | 0:39:33 | |
But he's highly qualified as a district nurse. | 0:39:33 | 0:39:36 | |
Sister Julienne, more than half of our work is midwifery. | 0:39:36 | 0:39:40 | |
A field in which men are not currently | 0:39:40 | 0:39:42 | |
permitted to train or qualify. | 0:39:42 | 0:39:44 | |
I would also like to draw your attention to Gretchen Elise Fruman, | 0:39:45 | 0:39:51 | |
who appears to spring from somewhere called Vermillion, South Dakota. | 0:39:51 | 0:39:56 | |
I thought an American would be a breath of fresh air. | 0:39:56 | 0:39:59 | |
So no Americans. | 0:40:00 | 0:40:02 | |
And no men. | 0:40:02 | 0:40:04 | |
All the bottles and powdered milk are packed and in the car. | 0:40:08 | 0:40:13 | |
So, looks like we're ready for the off. | 0:40:15 | 0:40:18 | |
Come on, then, little lad. | 0:40:20 | 0:40:22 | |
Your carriage awaits. | 0:40:22 | 0:40:24 | |
Wait. | 0:40:36 | 0:40:37 | |
He can't go without an 'ankie. | 0:40:45 | 0:40:46 | |
Give it to him. | 0:40:50 | 0:40:51 | |
Take this from your mother, Andrew. | 0:40:59 | 0:41:01 | |
And may God's love go with you always. | 0:41:04 | 0:41:07 | |
CRYING INSIDE | 0:41:23 | 0:41:26 | |
Did I do the right thing, Mr Hereward? | 0:41:30 | 0:41:33 | |
Tell me honestly, did I do the right thing? | 0:41:33 | 0:41:35 | |
I'm not even going to answer that question, Marnie. | 0:41:35 | 0:41:38 | |
Because you did the only thing you could. | 0:41:38 | 0:41:41 | |
Thank you for being so kind to me. | 0:41:41 | 0:41:43 | |
It must've been quite hard. | 0:41:45 | 0:41:47 | |
It wasn't hard at all. | 0:41:47 | 0:41:50 | |
Have you been in this situation before? | 0:41:50 | 0:41:52 | |
I've been in this situation once. | 0:41:54 | 0:41:56 | |
Is there anything else I can do for you before I go? | 0:42:01 | 0:42:06 | |
I want to get rid of the pram. | 0:42:07 | 0:42:09 | |
Kevin's not a baby any more. | 0:42:09 | 0:42:11 | |
I was only pushing him round in it to keep it warm for... | 0:42:11 | 0:42:14 | |
..the next one. | 0:42:16 | 0:42:18 | |
Now I need someone to take it away. | 0:42:20 | 0:42:22 | |
Tom? How did it go? | 0:42:32 | 0:42:35 | |
He's gone. | 0:42:35 | 0:42:37 | |
Tom...this isn't your story. | 0:42:38 | 0:42:42 | |
You've always said you couldn't've had a happier childhood, | 0:42:42 | 0:42:45 | |
or a better life. | 0:42:45 | 0:42:47 | |
That was before I witnessed a woman giving up her child. | 0:42:48 | 0:42:52 | |
Before I was in the room watching her crying. | 0:42:52 | 0:42:55 | |
What about her story? | 0:42:55 | 0:42:57 | |
I'm sorry. | 0:42:57 | 0:42:58 | |
There are no photographs of me as a child. | 0:43:01 | 0:43:03 | |
I didn't think I minded. | 0:43:05 | 0:43:07 | |
But now I've seen one. | 0:43:09 | 0:43:11 | |
And I do. | 0:43:11 | 0:43:13 | |
If Dr Turner was a Girl Guide, | 0:43:19 | 0:43:21 | |
he'd get his Needlework Badge for those stitches. | 0:43:21 | 0:43:24 | |
But you really are going to have to stay in bed | 0:43:24 | 0:43:27 | |
or you might tear again. | 0:43:27 | 0:43:28 | |
We could transfer you to the maternity home or hospital, | 0:43:28 | 0:43:31 | |
you could have a proper rest, away from your children. | 0:43:31 | 0:43:34 | |
Why would I want to be away from my children? | 0:43:34 | 0:43:37 | |
-Can they come in now? -Of course. | 0:43:39 | 0:43:42 | |
MUSIC: Please Let It Be Me by The Fashions | 0:43:46 | 0:43:50 | |
-# I love you so -I love you so | 0:43:50 | 0:43:54 | |
# But you used to play around | 0:43:54 | 0:43:58 | |
# I'll let her know | 0:43:58 | 0:44:02 | |
# If you're king of town | 0:44:02 | 0:44:07 | |
# The nights when we're apart | 0:44:07 | 0:44:12 | |
# You were in your heart | 0:44:12 | 0:44:15 | |
# Please let it be me | 0:44:15 | 0:44:19 | |
# Please let it be me | 0:44:19 | 0:44:24 | |
-# One night -One night | 0:44:24 | 0:44:26 | |
-# One night you're mine -One night you're mine | 0:44:26 | 0:44:28 | |
-# And you say you're true -When you say you're true | 0:44:28 | 0:44:32 | |
# And then | 0:44:32 | 0:44:34 | |
# Then I find | 0:44:34 | 0:44:37 | |
-# You're with someone new -Someone new | 0:44:37 | 0:44:41 | |
# Whose heart will you break? | 0:44:41 | 0:44:45 | |
# Whose love | 0:44:45 | 0:44:47 | |
# Will you take? | 0:44:47 | 0:44:49 | |
# Please let it be me | 0:44:49 | 0:44:52 | |
# Please let it be me... # | 0:44:52 | 0:44:57 | |
I thought I'd escort that last one to the door. | 0:44:59 | 0:45:02 | |
I'm quite sure she realised that she'd been unsuccessful. | 0:45:02 | 0:45:05 | |
She was trilling like Tweetie Pie | 0:45:05 | 0:45:07 | |
all the way to the bottom of the stairs. | 0:45:07 | 0:45:11 | |
Today's layer cake assumes the form | 0:45:11 | 0:45:14 | |
of coffee and walnut sponge. | 0:45:14 | 0:45:17 | |
Since the maker's hand moved freely with the flavourings, | 0:45:17 | 0:45:21 | |
I consumed my portion earlier, | 0:45:21 | 0:45:24 | |
lest it render me wakeful tonight. | 0:45:24 | 0:45:27 | |
Thank you, Sister. Do pour us all a cup of tea. | 0:45:27 | 0:45:32 | |
Nurse Crane, most of our new recruits | 0:45:32 | 0:45:35 | |
-are like fish out of water to begin with. -Yes. | 0:45:35 | 0:45:37 | |
And whole weeks get wasted while they flap around gasping for air. | 0:45:37 | 0:45:42 | |
We need someone who can roll their sleeves up, | 0:45:42 | 0:45:45 | |
and not collapse when they see an East End privy. | 0:45:45 | 0:45:49 | |
None would disagree who have toiled in these environs. | 0:45:49 | 0:45:54 | |
The trouble is nursing treats young working class girls | 0:45:54 | 0:46:00 | |
the way the world treats women. | 0:46:00 | 0:46:02 | |
They're all over them when there's a war on. | 0:46:02 | 0:46:04 | |
Afterwards, nobody wants to know. | 0:46:04 | 0:46:07 | |
Thank you. | 0:46:07 | 0:46:08 | |
THUNDER AND RAIN OUTSIDE | 0:46:11 | 0:46:14 | |
Shelagh? Shelagh? | 0:46:17 | 0:46:20 | |
You must've seen babies that lived as long as mine did. | 0:46:27 | 0:46:30 | |
Yes. | 0:46:30 | 0:46:32 | |
Do they have fingers and toes? | 0:46:32 | 0:46:35 | |
Yes, they do. | 0:46:35 | 0:46:37 | |
I feel stupid asking but when I ask the nurses, | 0:46:38 | 0:46:41 | |
it's like it wouldn't do me any good to know. | 0:46:41 | 0:46:44 | |
And it does do me good. | 0:46:44 | 0:46:46 | |
I'm glad. | 0:46:46 | 0:46:47 | |
They say my milk will come in tomorrow. | 0:46:51 | 0:46:54 | |
Then they'll have to dry it up using Epsom salts. | 0:46:54 | 0:46:57 | |
That is what's usually advised. | 0:46:58 | 0:47:01 | |
You'd think your body would know better than to make milk | 0:47:03 | 0:47:06 | |
for a baby who could never live, wouldn't you? | 0:47:06 | 0:47:08 | |
Yes. | 0:47:11 | 0:47:12 | |
Hello, Mr Spenlow. Have you been to see Marnie? | 0:47:24 | 0:47:27 | |
Not yet. Dot's been having thoughts. | 0:47:27 | 0:47:31 | |
About the way ahead, and how we ought to proceed. Can I come in? | 0:47:31 | 0:47:35 | |
What do they mean, "a private adoption"? | 0:47:38 | 0:47:40 | |
It's when a baby is handed directly by the mother | 0:47:40 | 0:47:43 | |
to the adoptive parents, | 0:47:43 | 0:47:45 | |
rather than going through a charity or an agency. | 0:47:45 | 0:47:47 | |
But that's what we're already doing, isn't it? | 0:47:47 | 0:47:50 | |
A formal private adoption would involve paperwork. | 0:47:50 | 0:47:54 | |
And it would be legally binding. | 0:47:54 | 0:47:56 | |
Does that mean I couldn't change my mind? | 0:47:57 | 0:48:00 | |
I'm afraid it does, Marnie. | 0:48:00 | 0:48:02 | |
Is this what is known as a "lady's glass"? | 0:48:33 | 0:48:36 | |
Yes, it is. | 0:48:36 | 0:48:38 | |
It practically had cobwebs on. | 0:48:38 | 0:48:40 | |
I did dust it. | 0:48:40 | 0:48:42 | |
You strike me as a young woman of very high standards. | 0:48:42 | 0:48:45 | |
That's what the Army does for you. And nursing. | 0:48:45 | 0:48:48 | |
Being an Army Nurse makes you twice as particular. | 0:48:48 | 0:48:52 | |
Miss Dyer, why did you resign from military service? | 0:48:52 | 0:48:57 | |
It was all so... | 0:48:59 | 0:49:01 | |
efficient, in a way that wasn't always good. | 0:49:01 | 0:49:05 | |
Plenty of curing. Not quite so much caring. | 0:49:05 | 0:49:09 | |
I thought I'd be bored by now. | 0:49:09 | 0:49:12 | |
But it's as if going away made me look at Poplar through fresh eyes. | 0:49:12 | 0:49:16 | |
Even on the day of that explosion, I didn't want to be anywhere else. | 0:49:16 | 0:49:20 | |
It was the way people pulled together. | 0:49:20 | 0:49:23 | |
It was the way you cared that caught my eye. | 0:49:23 | 0:49:26 | |
And why I thought you might be interested in my offer. | 0:49:26 | 0:49:30 | |
Miss Dyer, all you have to do | 0:49:30 | 0:49:32 | |
is write and apply formally. | 0:49:32 | 0:49:35 | |
I appreciate I've rather put you on the spot. | 0:49:37 | 0:49:41 | |
By all means take some time to think about it. | 0:49:41 | 0:49:43 | |
Oh, I don't need any time to think about it, Sister. | 0:49:43 | 0:49:46 | |
I'll be applying today. | 0:49:46 | 0:49:49 | |
Marnie. You shouldn't be out of doors. | 0:49:54 | 0:49:57 | |
I wanted one bit of paperwork that I could call my own. | 0:49:57 | 0:50:00 | |
So I went down to the Town Hall and I registered the baby. | 0:50:01 | 0:50:05 | |
And when I signed it... | 0:50:06 | 0:50:08 | |
I knew I wanted him. | 0:50:08 | 0:50:10 | |
I'm so sorry, Gloria. | 0:50:21 | 0:50:23 | |
I've got this idea in my head | 0:50:28 | 0:50:30 | |
that next year, or the year after, | 0:50:30 | 0:50:33 | |
it'll be a lovely sunny day, | 0:50:33 | 0:50:35 | |
and I'll be down Chrisp Street Market, pushing a pram. | 0:50:35 | 0:50:39 | |
And somewhere near the flower stall, I'll look up and I'll see you... | 0:50:40 | 0:50:44 | |
pushing a pram. | 0:50:44 | 0:50:46 | |
And we'll smile, | 0:50:46 | 0:50:48 | |
and we'll pass the time of day. | 0:50:48 | 0:50:51 | |
That would be lovely, wouldn't it? | 0:50:54 | 0:50:56 | |
I knew. | 0:51:07 | 0:51:09 | |
I knew as soon as I heard that tune on the ruddy doorbell. | 0:51:09 | 0:51:13 | |
You always had a way of pressing doorbells really hard | 0:51:13 | 0:51:15 | |
when we was kids, playing Ring The Bell And Run Away. | 0:51:15 | 0:51:19 | |
Except you're not going to run away this time, are ya? | 0:51:19 | 0:51:22 | |
Marnie knows what she wants, Dot. | 0:51:22 | 0:51:24 | |
Oh, well! We'll have to hand him straight over then, won't we? | 0:51:24 | 0:51:27 | |
Marnie is Andrew's mother, Dot. | 0:51:29 | 0:51:31 | |
But what's she got to give him? | 0:51:31 | 0:51:32 | |
And please don't say love. | 0:51:33 | 0:51:36 | |
I'm so full of love for him, it's... it's spilling out of me like water. | 0:51:36 | 0:51:40 | |
And it's spilling out of me like milk. | 0:51:42 | 0:51:44 | |
Somebody take him! | 0:51:55 | 0:51:57 | |
BABY CRIES | 0:52:02 | 0:52:05 | |
Thank you for looking after him. | 0:52:18 | 0:52:21 | |
Oh, he'll need his hankie. | 0:52:21 | 0:52:23 | |
You keep it, Dot. | 0:52:27 | 0:52:29 | |
I'm sorry. | 0:52:32 | 0:52:33 | |
We're going to listen for baby's heartbeat today, Mrs Turner. | 0:52:56 | 0:53:00 | |
Now? | 0:53:00 | 0:53:01 | |
I wanted a particular doctor... | 0:53:01 | 0:53:04 | |
and he has a very busy schedule. | 0:53:04 | 0:53:07 | |
STRONG HEARTBEAT | 0:54:00 | 0:54:05 | |
Shelagh. | 0:54:09 | 0:54:10 | |
Afternoon, Mr Spenlow. | 0:54:33 | 0:54:35 | |
Reverend. | 0:54:35 | 0:54:37 | |
Has this been made redundant? | 0:54:37 | 0:54:40 | |
Well, we bought all this stuff for the little fella. | 0:54:40 | 0:54:42 | |
And we want him to have it. | 0:54:42 | 0:54:43 | |
Some of this is my fault. | 0:54:46 | 0:54:48 | |
I said I wouldn't adopt from an orphanage. | 0:54:48 | 0:54:51 | |
Didn't want a stranger's child. | 0:54:52 | 0:54:54 | |
You live and learn, don't you? | 0:54:56 | 0:54:58 | |
Mr Spenlow, I can introduce you to someone from an adoption agency. | 0:55:00 | 0:55:04 | |
When the time is right. | 0:55:04 | 0:55:06 | |
Well, when Dot's stopped crying. | 0:55:08 | 0:55:11 | |
-One for you. -Thanks, Danny. Drinks on the house if I've won the pools! | 0:55:23 | 0:55:27 | |
During the summer of 1962 | 0:55:44 | 0:55:46 | |
there was joy in the sunlit streets | 0:55:46 | 0:55:49 | |
around Nonnatus House. | 0:55:49 | 0:55:52 | |
The opening of the recreation ground | 0:55:52 | 0:55:54 | |
restored something to the soul of the district. | 0:55:54 | 0:55:58 | |
People were given a place to gather, | 0:55:58 | 0:56:00 | |
room to play, a space to share. | 0:56:00 | 0:56:04 | |
Sometimes the heart desires such very simple things. | 0:56:04 | 0:56:09 | |
The heart holds within it | 0:56:09 | 0:56:11 | |
all that is most precious, | 0:56:11 | 0:56:13 | |
all that we must protect. | 0:56:13 | 0:56:16 | |
Ready...steady... | 0:56:23 | 0:56:28 | |
But it is also braver and bolder, | 0:56:28 | 0:56:30 | |
more resilient than we realise. | 0:56:30 | 0:56:33 | |
If we wound it, it will heal. | 0:56:33 | 0:56:36 | |
And if it breaks, it learns to beat again. | 0:56:43 | 0:56:47 | |
One of the great doctors of the Roman Empire once described | 0:56:49 | 0:56:52 | |
the heart as "a source and hearthstone of the inborn heat | 0:56:52 | 0:56:57 | |
"by which we are all governed. "It is," he wrote, | 0:56:57 | 0:57:01 | |
"Made of hard flesh not easily injured. | 0:57:01 | 0:57:04 | |
"In vigour, tension, general strength and resistance to injury, | 0:57:04 | 0:57:08 | |
"the fibres of this organ far surpass all others, | 0:57:08 | 0:57:13 | |
"for no other instrument performs such continuous, | 0:57:13 | 0:57:18 | |
"hard work as the heart." | 0:57:18 | 0:57:22 | |
Nurse Dyer. Welcome to Nonnatus House. | 0:57:23 | 0:57:27 | |
Why have you brought him here? | 0:57:28 | 0:57:30 | |
He's simple. He needs proper care. | 0:57:30 | 0:57:32 | |
Together we're going to save the borough's teeth. | 0:57:32 | 0:57:34 | |
I must get back to Sister Winifred. | 0:57:34 | 0:57:36 | |
She'll be thinking Nurse Franklin's run me out of town. | 0:57:36 | 0:57:38 | |
We must instruct our troops! | 0:57:38 | 0:57:41 | |
An innocent is in danger! | 0:57:41 | 0:57:44 |