0:00:29 > 0:00:33In 1963, it seemed
0:00:33 > 0:00:35humanity knew no bounds.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39Our horizon stretched into infinity as we tour through
0:00:39 > 0:00:43the atmosphere venturing into the galaxy itself.
0:00:45 > 0:00:50The universe felt so vast, it dwarfed us.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53There were times the wait was more than we could bare.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57- Nurse Franklin, what's the matter? - Uh!
0:00:57 > 0:01:02My chain's come off, my brakes are slack and my bell's stopped ringing.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04But the bike's all right though!
0:01:13 > 0:01:16Rosie, keep your hand away from the needle.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20I don't want you hurt, or a machine put out of action.
0:01:20 > 0:01:21And neither does Mr Gani.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Where is the boss today?
0:01:23 > 0:01:26One boss is away attending to a family matter.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30And the other one is standing right in front of you.
0:01:31 > 0:01:37Strawberries again. The torments of Prometheus are summoned to my mind.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41You'll have to pretend you're at Wimbledon, Sister.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43Do you have any plans, Nurse Anderson?
0:01:43 > 0:01:45They have a gospel choir at my church,
0:01:45 > 0:01:47and I'm going with my friend Sybil.
0:01:47 > 0:01:51I'm meeting with my Spanish class for an evening of sangria
0:01:51 > 0:01:53and Iberian snacks.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56I had to concede failure in my pursuit of chorizo sausage
0:01:56 > 0:02:01for them, but I've made shift with some spicy luncheon meat.
0:02:02 > 0:02:07Nurse Franklin? Do you have you any plans this evening?
0:02:09 > 0:02:13I thought I might sort out my nylons drawer.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15Or my manicure tray.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Or I might even get out my Keep Fit manual
0:02:17 > 0:02:22and finally master the half-clam scissor lift.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26There really is no end of things one can do with a whole,
0:02:26 > 0:02:28free Friday night.
0:02:36 > 0:02:37Salaam begum.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39- Where is she? - She's resting.
0:02:39 > 0:02:40Come. Sit down.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45I need to talk to you.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48Parveen? Cousin, let me see you!
0:02:48 > 0:02:53- Wait. - Saddiq? What is it? Is she ill?
0:02:53 > 0:02:56No.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00It is quite unexpected.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02We are blessed.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04Mumtaz.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07What is this? Have you brought a husband?
0:03:07 > 0:03:11Mere abbe ne palaey, sari gal mithi ho si?
0:03:11 > 0:03:13What is she saying? Arranged it?
0:03:15 > 0:03:17When I went home for my father's funeral.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23My mother had already decided.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25Your family agreed.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35You have taken another wife?
0:03:36 > 0:03:38I am so sorry.
0:03:41 > 0:03:42You are the father?
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Do not be sad.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50I feel sick.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52- Mumtaz, please... - Leave me.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52There's a busy district list this week,
0:04:52 > 0:04:55which I am handing on to Sister Winifred.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58And if you'd take the post-natal patients,
0:04:58 > 0:05:01Nurse Anderson, I'd like you to spend some extra time with
0:05:01 > 0:05:04Mrs Diller, one of those twins isn't gaining as she ought.
0:05:04 > 0:05:08Meanwhile, just two bookings-in for you, Nurse Franklin.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10You can have a bit of an easy wicket for a change.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13Phyllis! I, I don't want an easy wicket!
0:05:18 > 0:05:20Maybe not.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22But in my view, you need it.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25You've had a bit of a setback in the romantic stakes,
0:05:25 > 0:05:28and I dare say poor Mr Dockerill is drilling and filling
0:05:28 > 0:05:30at the dental department with a face as long as yours.
0:05:33 > 0:05:37I need to keep busy! Work will be the perfect cure.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40Nursing is about curing patients, Trixie.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42Not our own broken hearts.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46And I am not going to overstretch you
0:05:46 > 0:05:48until you can give of your best, again.
0:05:54 > 0:05:55Thank you, Mrs Gani.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59Sister will help you to dress, and then take a blood sample.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03This won't hurt, Parveen.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07I promise you.
0:06:07 > 0:06:08Please.
0:06:08 > 0:06:09Is she ill?
0:06:11 > 0:06:13Or is something the matter with the baby?
0:06:14 > 0:06:18There is nothing to suppose the baby is anything other than healthy.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20And your wife seems well.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24It says here that she is 15 years old.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28I wouldn't say anything that is untrue.
0:06:28 > 0:06:29She is 15.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32That's below the legal age of marriage here,
0:06:32 > 0:06:35but that is none of my concern.
0:06:35 > 0:06:39The fact that she is a very young first-time mother is.
0:06:40 > 0:06:44Just think how grateful the knees of the faithful will be!
0:06:44 > 0:06:47If the fingers of the faithful were doing their share,
0:06:47 > 0:06:49we wouldn't have got roped into this.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Valerie and I are benighted heathen
0:06:51 > 0:06:53and Lucille doesn't even go to this church!
0:06:53 > 0:06:55We are all one congregation under God.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00Would you pass the Penguin biscuits, please, Trixie?
0:07:06 > 0:07:08Just look at this poor lady astronaut.
0:07:08 > 0:07:12The moment she puts on her helmet, her bouffant will be ruined.
0:07:12 > 0:07:17Where immortality is concerned, the coiffure is an irrelevance.
0:07:18 > 0:07:24Valentina Tereshkova's name is destined to echo down the centuries.
0:07:24 > 0:07:28Ooh, I get this little shiver every time they say
0:07:28 > 0:07:30"first woman in space".
0:07:30 > 0:07:33Just the idea that there'll be other girls, going all that way.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35Doing all those things.
0:07:35 > 0:07:39My gran can remember people throwing stones at a female bus conductor.
0:07:43 > 0:07:47Have you mislaid something, Sister Monica Joan?
0:07:47 > 0:07:52I have parted company with my bodkin, and sought to retrieve it.
0:07:55 > 0:07:59There are needles aplenty in my chamber,
0:07:59 > 0:08:04I shall take this hassock there and sew until Compline.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13Mrs Loretta Campbell?
0:08:13 > 0:08:15That's me.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17Would you like to wait in here? I won't be a moment.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34Sorry for the delay.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40What do you have in there? A sneaky piece of cake?
0:08:42 > 0:08:45Something like that. I, I get peckish.
0:08:46 > 0:08:47I don't know what that is.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50But it doesn't look like cake.
0:08:50 > 0:08:51No.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55It's coal.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57Coal?
0:08:58 > 0:09:03I can't help myself. And I'm so ashamed.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11Oi! You're on private property!
0:09:12 > 0:09:17When I find a device that belongs to me secreted in your outhouse amongst
0:09:17 > 0:09:21your dibbers and your trowels and your long toms, it would appear
0:09:21 > 0:09:26to me that it is not I who requires a reminder of proprietary rights!
0:09:26 > 0:09:29Look, I'm sorry, Sister Monica Joan! I didn't realise it belonged to you!
0:09:29 > 0:09:31Must I have everything monogrammed,
0:09:31 > 0:09:34like garments going to the laundry?
0:09:34 > 0:09:38Marked, like the possessions of an infant?
0:09:55 > 0:09:58You could have started a grass fire.
0:09:58 > 0:09:59Oh...
0:10:01 > 0:10:03It upsets me when you upset yourself, Sister.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07I require this.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09And I require that it is not moved,
0:10:09 > 0:10:12when I place it somewhere for safe keeping.
0:10:14 > 0:10:18Perhaps we can attach it to a piece of elastic around your wrist.
0:10:23 > 0:10:27When I took the veil,
0:10:27 > 0:10:31I vowed to surrender the world of the senses.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35But some senses, it seems,
0:10:35 > 0:10:38are harder to relinquish than their counterparts.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42We'll sort something out.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45I promise.
0:10:48 > 0:10:51Lots of women crave different foods when they are pregnant.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55Pilchards, gherkins, sherbert lemons.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58Believe me, I've seen it all!
0:10:58 > 0:11:01It was marmalade sandwiches when I had my first.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03Apart from the fact that I can't stand marmalade,
0:11:03 > 0:11:06it never seemed so strange that I had to eat them in secret.
0:11:06 > 0:11:09The good news is that in every single case,
0:11:09 > 0:11:12the urge goes away as soon as the mother gives birth.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14What if it hurts the baby?
0:11:14 > 0:11:18My sister-in-law couldn't stay away from strawberries,
0:11:18 > 0:11:20and her poor little girl came out with a bright red
0:11:20 > 0:11:22mark right down one side of her face!
0:11:22 > 0:11:25That would just have been a coincidence.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28When an expectant mother feels compelled to keep eating
0:11:28 > 0:11:31certain things, it's called "pica".
0:11:31 > 0:11:34- There's a name for it? - Oh, yes.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37And whole chapters in obstetric text books.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39You're almost ready to have this baby so you won't...
0:11:39 > 0:11:42I'd give anything to just want a marmalade sandwich!
0:11:42 > 0:11:45..so you won't be suffering for much longer.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51- I did not choose this. - No.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Our families did. I cannot blame you.
0:11:54 > 0:12:00I cannot blame her. What can I feel? What can I do?
0:12:00 > 0:12:01I don't know.
0:12:01 > 0:12:05What we had wasn't everything we wanted.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07But the business became our child.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12It grew, it cost us sleep,
0:12:12 > 0:12:14it made us proud.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16For me.
0:12:16 > 0:12:17It showed me what love is.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21What it means to be husband and wife.
0:12:22 > 0:12:26When we met, when we were married,
0:12:26 > 0:12:27we did not know what those words meant.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32And we learned to share everything.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35But we cannot share this.
0:12:42 > 0:12:46Bit more tightening, and you shouldn't have any more trouble.
0:12:46 > 0:12:49You look after us so well, I wasn't aware there was any trouble.
0:12:49 > 0:12:50Well...
0:12:50 > 0:12:53that's the way of the world, isn't it, Sister?
0:12:53 > 0:12:57Full of pickles and predicaments, we don't always notice them.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00Are you in a... a pickle, or a predicament, Fred?
0:13:00 > 0:13:03Not me. Sister Monica Joan.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05Or more particularly, her eyes.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08I wondered if her sight was deteriorating.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10It is so very common with age.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13I reckon it's a lot worse than she's letting on.
0:13:13 > 0:13:17She's using a very strong magnifying glass, only in secret,
0:13:17 > 0:13:21and without it, it's like she's almost blind.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23Why isn't she admitting it?
0:13:23 > 0:13:25I don't know, Sister. Pride?
0:13:27 > 0:13:30And perhaps she fears nothing can be done.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33Or - begging your pardon, Sister Julienne -
0:13:33 > 0:13:36the fear that something can be.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39Well, she never was too keen on medical intervention.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42Remember the carry-on with the Mass X-ray van?
0:13:42 > 0:13:44She locked herself in the bathroom, I had to get my ladders out!
0:13:44 > 0:13:47Quite.
0:13:47 > 0:13:52Your care for her then did you credit, and does you credit now.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54And I must match it with my own,
0:13:54 > 0:13:58and make sure that we give her the help she that needs.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10Midwife's here, Loretta.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12Hello, Mrs Campbell.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16You seem to be doing nicely. Looks like I'm just in time.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18I don't know about nicely.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21I've got an ironing pile the size of Ben bloody Nevis
0:14:21 > 0:14:24and five pounds of potatoes still to peel for the tea.
0:14:24 > 0:14:28Well, I'm going to look you over, get you settled
0:14:28 > 0:14:30and then we'll see about bringing a neighbour to help.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33Nutty slack on the chest of drawers is never a good sign.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36I feel sick at the thought of it.
0:14:36 > 0:14:40Smuggling it round in my hankie, or my handbag,
0:14:40 > 0:14:42running into the toilets with it.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45Eating it behind closed doors.
0:14:45 > 0:14:49I try not to give in, Nurse, I, I really do.
0:14:51 > 0:14:54And when you do give in, do you feel better?
0:14:55 > 0:14:58I feel bloody brilliant, Nurse.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00For a minute.
0:15:00 > 0:15:01And then it all begins again...
0:15:05 > 0:15:07No...
0:15:07 > 0:15:08No...
0:15:08 > 0:15:09Shush.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13I think it is a wonderful achievement and I think we might be
0:15:13 > 0:15:16able to persuade the wife, it would be a good idea if I could,
0:15:16 > 0:15:17to get her to go up there for a little while.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19You're blocking the view, Sister.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21There she is!
0:15:21 > 0:15:24Isn't this marvellous?
0:15:24 > 0:15:27I'd give anything to see my family on a screen like this.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29I wonder if she felt lonely up there by herself?
0:15:29 > 0:15:32She would have had no time to feel lonely.
0:15:32 > 0:15:36She is a fearless adventurer, fulfilling her destiny!
0:15:40 > 0:15:45A perfectly formed, and might I add, angelic looking, baby girl.
0:15:45 > 0:15:46She's all right.
0:15:47 > 0:15:52Look at her. I didn't hurt her after all.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55See, nothing to feel guilty about.
0:15:55 > 0:15:57You must feel proud of her, Mr Campbell?
0:15:57 > 0:16:00Oh, I do. You're a trooper all right, Loretta.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03A baby sister! What do you reckon to her, Robert?
0:16:03 > 0:16:05Do you like her?
0:16:07 > 0:16:09She's absolutely picture perfect.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11She's definitely all right? She didn't come to no harm?
0:16:11 > 0:16:13Not remotely!
0:16:13 > 0:16:17And you'll probably find the cravings will vanish now she's here.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20You don't want a bit of coal to munch on with your sherry?
0:16:20 > 0:16:24I do not! You can throw every last lump in the fire.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26Now that's worth toasting!
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Isn't it? Oh.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30I'm on duty, I'm afraid.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33What's the harm? It's only a granny's tipple.
0:16:33 > 0:16:34Hardly a drink at all.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46KNOCK AT DOOR >
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Come in.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50You have a visitor, Sister.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52It is not convenient.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55I am engaged in my spiritual reading for the day.
0:16:55 > 0:16:56It's Doctor Turner.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00I won't detain you long, Sister.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03But it would be good to have a chat for five minutes.
0:17:03 > 0:17:07I am a stranger to the artifice of "chatting", Doctor Turner.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09And so are you.
0:17:09 > 0:17:14If you invade my chamber, I must presume that your purpose is
0:17:14 > 0:17:20malignant, and I insist that you retreat.
0:17:20 > 0:17:25Just five minutes, and then you'll have all day to do your reading.
0:17:26 > 0:17:30With the magnifying glass a little bird told me about.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33There's no need for you to keep it a secret any more, Sister.
0:17:47 > 0:17:51This must be one of the strongest lenses available, Sister.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53But it won't brighten colours,
0:17:53 > 0:17:56or take away blurring of things in the middle distance.
0:17:56 > 0:17:59You know nothing of my visual acuity.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02No. I'm just guessing.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05But I am guessing that you have cataracts.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09And I know that there is plenty we can do.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14May I sit down, Parveen?
0:18:22 > 0:18:24You are a nurse.
0:18:24 > 0:18:28Midwives are special nurses who help the baby to be born,
0:18:28 > 0:18:31and make sure the mother has all the help she needs.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33My mother is in Pakistan.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38Is that her? Oh, she looks beautiful.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41Mumtaz my cousin.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43This her house.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46Could Mumtaz bring you to clinic next Tuesday?
0:18:46 > 0:18:47I can check you over now,
0:18:47 > 0:18:50but if you come to clinic you can meet some other mums.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54Mumtaz work in factory.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Where's your husband?
0:18:56 > 0:18:59In photograph? Here.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03No, no. I meant your husband.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06- Not your cousin's. - He is my husband.
0:19:06 > 0:19:07He marry me.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09But he marry her first.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15I shall submit neither to the knife,
0:19:15 > 0:19:18nor Doctor Turner's mountebank mould pills.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21I care not what remedies he suggests.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23Penicillin has not even been suggested,
0:19:23 > 0:19:25because your eyes are not infected.
0:19:25 > 0:19:29The lenses have simply clouded over with age
0:19:29 > 0:19:32and an operation will restore them.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Milton lost his sight at 43,
0:19:34 > 0:19:39and the verse he wrote upon the topic is pitiful indeed.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42"Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeons, beggary,
0:19:42 > 0:19:48"or decrepit age."
0:19:48 > 0:19:52And I don't doubt that he would have leapt at the chance of surgery.
0:19:52 > 0:19:57I am a far greater age than he.
0:19:57 > 0:20:02I have curated and collated in my mind
0:20:02 > 0:20:05an entire library of books,
0:20:05 > 0:20:10into which I can retreat when the light deserts me.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18And if you could rely upon your mind,
0:20:18 > 0:20:21I would willingly let you go there.
0:20:21 > 0:20:22But you cannot.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25And I will not abandon you to darkness.
0:20:42 > 0:20:43KNOCK AT DOOR
0:20:46 > 0:20:49Sister Julienne won't say Grace till you come down,
0:20:49 > 0:20:51and the flan is going cold.
0:20:51 > 0:20:55Cold flan? I can't possibly have that on my conscience.
0:20:55 > 0:20:59I couldn't believe what I was hearing at first.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02Two wives. That is bigamy!
0:21:02 > 0:21:05Not according to the law in Pakistan.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09A man can take up to four if he has a mind to.
0:21:09 > 0:21:13But this is a Christian country. And this is where they live now.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15There was a bigamist lived down our street
0:21:15 > 0:21:17when I was growing up in Leeds.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20He was a commercial traveller in women's hosiery
0:21:20 > 0:21:24and he had a second wife and family on the go in Fleetwood,
0:21:24 > 0:21:28plus a mistress in Nuneaton he was trying to get engaged to.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30I feel sorry for the first Mrs Gani.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33First wives are often stronger than you think.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36The world would be a far more harmonious place were
0:21:36 > 0:21:42we less concerned with the imagined strengths and frailty of others.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45If we weren't alert to the frailties of others,
0:21:45 > 0:21:48there's a great deal of caring that wouldn't get done.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53I will go and see Parveen Gani, and her family.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59Here's Sister Monica Joan's referral letter.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02Mr Greswell doesn't have a very long waiting list.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04The sooner the better, I think.
0:22:04 > 0:22:09Before she decides to flee Nonnatus House disguised as a washer woman.
0:22:09 > 0:22:13She needs to be accompanied to hospital by someone she can trust.
0:22:13 > 0:22:17And it sounds as though Sister Julienne is in her bad books.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19Let's see when they can fit her in.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22I'll take her myself, if she hasn't come round to the notion.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33Why don't you go and lie down?
0:22:33 > 0:22:36So that you are resting when the midwife comes? Go on!
0:22:36 > 0:22:40I don't want rest. And I don't want this.
0:22:40 > 0:22:41Don't want what?
0:22:41 > 0:22:46You hating me. Your husband to be my husband.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49And this. I don't want this.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52The midwife has come to see Parveen.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55Obviously she has come to see Parveen.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58If your blood pressure is raised,
0:22:58 > 0:23:03it means we need to look out for other signs of complications.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05But this is a very healthy reading.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10Have you discussed where you want the baby to be born?
0:23:10 > 0:23:11There is a choice?
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Hospital delivery is available,
0:23:13 > 0:23:17but we encourage home birth where possible.
0:23:17 > 0:23:21Do you have any children of your own, Mrs Gani?
0:23:21 > 0:23:23No.
0:23:23 > 0:23:24Thakkeh maar da.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28She says it's kicking.
0:23:31 > 0:23:32I think that's an elbow.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37- Morning, Nurse. - Oh, good morning.
0:23:40 > 0:23:44Your ankles are looking lovely and slender, Mrs Campbell -
0:23:44 > 0:23:47you're already losing that puffiness.
0:23:48 > 0:23:52And Baby's latching on like a professional.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54Have you got any Anadin?
0:23:54 > 0:23:58I don't carry proprietary medications, Mr Campbell.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01Might I surmise you've been wetting the baby's head?
0:24:01 > 0:24:03Half-drowning it, more like.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06He was down the Black Sail till all hours,
0:24:06 > 0:24:11and he kicked it all off with that sherry he had with Nurse Franklin.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13Did he indeed?
0:24:13 > 0:24:17I reckon Nurse Franklin would rather have had some Tio Pepe,
0:24:17 > 0:24:19you see it on the adverts.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22But she didn't seem to mind that it was only Bristol Cream.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27We'll try Baby on the other breast in a moment.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29When Mr Campbell has repaired elsewhere.
0:24:33 > 0:24:37- KNOCK AT DOOR - Entrez!
0:24:37 > 0:24:38Oh, hello Phyllis!
0:24:38 > 0:24:42I was offered a box of Milk Tray by a grateful patient this afternoon.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44Slightly shop soiled, but I couldn't resist.
0:24:44 > 0:24:48Help yourself - though I'm afraid I beat you to the lime barrel.
0:24:48 > 0:24:52A box of Milk Tray isn't the only thing you were offered, is it?
0:24:52 > 0:24:54- Or the only thing you couldn't resist?- I'm sorry.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56I don't know what you mean.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59You drank sherry at the Campbell's house.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01Yesterday, after the baby was born.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06They put me on the spot.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09I want you to tell me it was an isolated incident.
0:25:09 > 0:25:10A one-off.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12A momentary slip.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15But I don't think you can, can you?
0:25:15 > 0:25:19A little brightener now and again isn't the end of the world.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22It's the end of your being in control of things.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24However much you might try to argue otherwise.
0:25:26 > 0:25:32And I do try. Lately, I've almost managed to convince myself...
0:25:32 > 0:25:36- Trixie, have you stopped going to your meetings?- No.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38- Are you sure?- Phyllis.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41- I'm not a child! - No.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43You're a nurse, and a midwife, Trixie.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45And there are rules.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47Rules you've broken.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51As well as the promises you've made to yourself.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56Are you...
0:25:56 > 0:25:58are you going to report me?
0:25:59 > 0:26:01Not this time.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04But you must keep attending your meetings, Trixie.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06I'll go back. I promise
0:26:06 > 0:26:08You did stop going, then?
0:26:23 > 0:26:24Mrs Gani.
0:26:26 > 0:26:27I am afraid Parveen is not here.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29I'm glad.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31Because I wanted to see you.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34There.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37One handkerchief, neatly pressed and ready for action.
0:26:37 > 0:26:41I know not why you insist on my taking such a thing.
0:26:41 > 0:26:45Do you envisage tears, in addition to the gnashing of my teeth?
0:26:45 > 0:26:49No, I envisage us putting our best feet forward
0:26:49 > 0:26:53and approaching this appointment in a positive and optimistic manner.
0:26:53 > 0:26:57I suggest you wear your black veil, in case we want to pop
0:26:57 > 0:27:02into a nice little cafe I know of on our way back from the hospital.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06It's called the Black Kettle Cafe
0:27:06 > 0:27:09and has quite the reputation for its custard slices.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Spit spot, Sister.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14Let's not keep Fred waiting.
0:27:18 > 0:27:22I am familiar with the strain
0:27:22 > 0:27:25that a baby can bring within a family.
0:27:26 > 0:27:30Not every baby is welcome or wanted.
0:27:30 > 0:27:36I have seen confusion, and distress and heartbreak, in my time.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40I feel many things.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46But it is best that I do not discuss them.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49Parveen's child is not my child.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52And her pregnancy is not your pregnancy.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03I knew nothing of it, until she arrived.
0:28:06 > 0:28:10I knew nothing of the wedding, until she arrived.
0:28:12 > 0:28:17Everything was decided by others, and done by them.
0:28:17 > 0:28:18I am forced to accept,
0:28:18 > 0:28:22and accept, and accept.
0:28:24 > 0:28:28Just as I had to accept that I would never have a baby.
0:28:28 > 0:28:32I am so very sorry that you are in this situation.
0:28:41 > 0:28:45Oh, good morning, Mr Dockerill.
0:28:45 > 0:28:48Good morning, Nurse Crane.
0:28:48 > 0:28:50As nobody on these premises has expressed
0:28:50 > 0:28:54a desire for emergency dental attention, might
0:28:54 > 0:28:57I presume that you've called because you'd like to see Nurse Franklin?
0:28:57 > 0:29:00Yes. But I don't know if she'd like to see me.
0:29:00 > 0:29:02She's on her rounds, as it happens.
0:29:03 > 0:29:07But please be advised that what that young lass doesn't
0:29:07 > 0:29:11need at this precise moment in time is a romance with a man who
0:29:11 > 0:29:14is effectively married.
0:29:14 > 0:29:16Trixie meant the world to me, Nurse Crane.
0:29:16 > 0:29:18And she still does.
0:29:18 > 0:29:21I will not do anything that would distress, or hurt her.
0:29:21 > 0:29:23Good.
0:29:23 > 0:29:26Because what she does need is a friend.
0:29:29 > 0:29:30She is 15.
0:29:33 > 0:29:35I was 15 when I married Saddiq, in Pakistan,
0:29:37 > 0:29:40and I can still recall the terror that I felt.
0:29:41 > 0:29:44But he was hardly older than I was.
0:29:44 > 0:29:47You were children together.
0:29:47 > 0:29:48And we grew together.
0:29:50 > 0:29:51Grew up together.
0:29:53 > 0:29:56She has been forced to lie with a man more than twice her age.
0:30:01 > 0:30:06Saddiq is a good man, and gentle.
0:30:08 > 0:30:09I know him.
0:30:12 > 0:30:13But she does not.
0:30:15 > 0:30:16I feel rage, and grief.
0:30:19 > 0:30:21For myself.
0:30:21 > 0:30:23And my marriage.
0:30:25 > 0:30:30And I do not see the child in front of me, with an infant in her belly.
0:30:30 > 0:30:31I...
0:30:31 > 0:30:34..think only of the children that I can never have.
0:30:40 > 0:30:43And I despise myself!
0:30:46 > 0:30:48I do not.
0:30:50 > 0:30:55I will book Parveen into the maternity home to have her baby.
0:30:55 > 0:30:58She will get excellent care, and it will give you
0:30:58 > 0:31:02the chance to come to terms with what is happening.
0:31:02 > 0:31:05I will never come to terms with it.
0:31:07 > 0:31:08And yet I must try.
0:31:11 > 0:31:14If you could remain as motionless as possible it will assist me...
0:31:27 > 0:31:30Yes. You have bilateral cataracts - that is to say, one in each eye.
0:31:30 > 0:31:33They both require surgery.
0:31:33 > 0:31:36You must put me under the knife?
0:31:36 > 0:31:38Not the knife, Sister. The scalpel.
0:31:38 > 0:31:43It's a delicate surgery, thoroughly tried and tested.
0:31:43 > 0:31:45And my understanding, Mr Greswell,
0:31:45 > 0:31:48is that general anaesthesia would be deployed?
0:31:48 > 0:31:49Mmm-hmm. Of course.
0:31:49 > 0:31:52I can promise you, Sister, you won't know a thing about it.
0:31:52 > 0:31:54One small scratch on the back of your hand,
0:31:54 > 0:31:56you'll be away in fairyland.
0:31:56 > 0:32:01If you assume that an enforced visit to an imaginary realm will
0:32:01 > 0:32:07reconcile me to your butchery, sir, you are mistaken.
0:32:07 > 0:32:10Sister Monica Joan, I'm sure Mr Greswell will be more than...
0:32:10 > 0:32:12It... It is not necessary for Mr Greswell
0:32:12 > 0:32:15and I to waste any more of one another's time.
0:32:27 > 0:32:32Mr Greswell was remarkably courteous, all things considered,
0:32:32 > 0:32:35and said he would leave Sister Monica Joan on his waiting list.
0:32:35 > 0:32:38- But she remains intransigent? - Yes.
0:32:38 > 0:32:41And she went straight to her bedroom and slammed the door.
0:32:41 > 0:32:44I suspect I shall be leaving this tea on the landing.
0:32:44 > 0:32:48But if she doesn't have the operation, she will go blind.
0:32:48 > 0:32:49Quite.
0:32:49 > 0:32:53Will she have to go back to the Mother House - the one thing she's dreaded?
0:32:53 > 0:32:54If she is to lose her sight,
0:32:54 > 0:32:58it's best that she remains somewhere familiar.
0:32:58 > 0:33:01And that we help to prepare her.
0:33:13 > 0:33:16You were right to bring Parveen in - her waters have broken,
0:33:16 > 0:33:18but her contractions are yet to start.
0:33:18 > 0:33:20She must come home?
0:33:20 > 0:33:23Given the situation, I think it's best for us to keep
0:33:23 > 0:33:25her on the ward to monitor her progress.
0:33:25 > 0:33:28We can give her caster oil to encourage the labour
0:33:28 > 0:33:30and hopefully we won't have to wait too long.
0:33:30 > 0:33:33We will contact you as soon as there is any news.
0:33:37 > 0:33:40I'm not convinced this is fully showerproof.
0:33:41 > 0:33:44My offer of chauffeur service still stands.
0:33:44 > 0:33:45Thank you, Phyllis.
0:33:45 > 0:33:47But taking the bus is part of my routine.
0:33:47 > 0:33:50If I can bag the top deck, front seat,
0:33:50 > 0:33:52left-hand side then it sets me up for my entire evening.
0:33:52 > 0:33:55I can understand that.
0:33:55 > 0:33:57Off you pop.
0:33:57 > 0:33:59Get yourself back in the swing of it.
0:34:04 > 0:34:07Mr Gani, hello, It's Sister Julienne...
0:34:07 > 0:34:08from the Maternity Home.
0:34:08 > 0:34:11Parveen's contractions have begun.
0:34:11 > 0:34:15Young mothers often labour very quickly, so if you...
0:34:15 > 0:34:16and Mrs Gani would like to come in?
0:34:18 > 0:34:21Thank you.
0:34:21 > 0:34:23The baby's coming.
0:34:33 > 0:34:35Shall we gather round, ladies and gentlemen?
0:34:40 > 0:34:43Are you joining us?
0:34:43 > 0:34:45Not this evening.
0:34:45 > 0:34:48You're doing really well.
0:34:48 > 0:34:50Good girl, good girl...
0:34:56 > 0:34:58Parveen,
0:34:58 > 0:35:01Parveen. Mumtaz is here...
0:35:03 > 0:35:06You timed it perfectly - Baby's almost here.
0:35:06 > 0:35:08What do I...
0:35:08 > 0:35:10What can I do?
0:35:10 > 0:35:13Help her by talking in Punjabi.
0:35:18 > 0:35:21The head's about to be born.
0:35:21 > 0:35:24We need to take this slowly, Parveen...
0:35:24 > 0:35:26Parveen very slow...
0:35:26 > 0:35:30Sirr aavnda peya, tu aistaa kar.
0:35:30 > 0:35:32Don't push too hard.
0:35:32 > 0:35:33Zyaadaa zorr naa laa.
0:35:37 > 0:35:40Encourage her. She's doing really well.
0:35:41 > 0:35:45Haa edhaa! Tu acha karr ree hai, Parveen.
0:35:45 > 0:35:46Tu karr sakh ni a!
0:35:47 > 0:35:49The head is coming.
0:35:49 > 0:35:50Tu karr sakh ni a, shabash!
0:35:50 > 0:35:54You're doing so well.
0:35:54 > 0:35:56Sirf mohnday 'un.
0:35:56 > 0:35:58Fair thoo zoor lagaa.
0:36:01 > 0:36:02Well done! Well done!
0:36:06 > 0:36:08You have a little boy, Parveen!
0:36:10 > 0:36:12You have a son!
0:36:17 > 0:36:20You have a boy?
0:36:23 > 0:36:24He's so beautiful...
0:36:27 > 0:36:30And you are very, very clever.
0:36:38 > 0:36:39Look at his fingers!
0:36:41 > 0:36:43And his hair...
0:36:45 > 0:36:47Look at what you have done.
0:36:47 > 0:36:48You did it also.
0:36:50 > 0:36:52You helped me.
0:37:00 > 0:37:03Looks like you dodged the worst of the rain, then?
0:37:03 > 0:37:06Yes. I got off very lightly.
0:38:17 > 0:38:20Salaam mera beta.
0:38:20 > 0:38:22A son.
0:38:24 > 0:38:25My son.
0:38:29 > 0:38:31Our son.
0:38:47 > 0:38:50I telephoned the Royal Institute for the Blind
0:38:50 > 0:38:53and spoke to an exceptionally helpful lady.
0:38:53 > 0:38:56There are a great many things on offer to people whose sight
0:38:56 > 0:38:57is failing.
0:38:57 > 0:39:01In due course, you may wish to consider a white stick.
0:39:03 > 0:39:07We can put that notion to one side for the time being.
0:39:08 > 0:39:11But without the surgery, you are going to have to
0:39:11 > 0:39:15prepare for a future where things are very different.
0:39:18 > 0:39:21The lady suggested you might start learning Braille.
0:39:21 > 0:39:26I managed to pick up some books for beginners, from the library.
0:39:32 > 0:39:35You love books so much, Sister Monica Joan.
0:39:36 > 0:39:39And many of the great works are printed in Braille,
0:39:39 > 0:39:42so once you've mastered it, you can read them in translation.
0:39:44 > 0:39:48It seems that I am in translation now.
0:39:49 > 0:39:50Transmuted.
0:39:52 > 0:39:53Altered.
0:39:55 > 0:39:56Metamorphosed.
0:39:58 > 0:40:00Oh, Sister...
0:40:02 > 0:40:05There are other words for my condition.
0:40:08 > 0:40:10But I can't recall them now.
0:40:19 > 0:40:21Christopher.
0:40:21 > 0:40:24What an unexpected pleasure.
0:40:24 > 0:40:27Sorry. Would you have preferred it if I'd called first?
0:40:27 > 0:40:28Not really.
0:40:35 > 0:40:40I was about to remind you there are rules about kissing in the vicinity of this doorstep.
0:40:40 > 0:40:43Well, it can't matter, surely, if we're just friends.
0:40:44 > 0:40:47No. I don't suppose it can.
0:40:47 > 0:40:49How's Alexandra?
0:40:49 > 0:40:51Doing better.
0:40:51 > 0:40:52I'm seeing a bit more of the old sparkle.
0:40:52 > 0:40:54Oh, I'm so glad.
0:40:58 > 0:41:02She got a gold star in her essay entitled "My Rabbit", and wants me
0:41:02 > 0:41:05to show it to you when she's allowed to bring her exercise book home.
0:41:05 > 0:41:08I'd love to see it.
0:41:08 > 0:41:10Even if it means seeing me too?
0:41:17 > 0:41:21I don't want to do anything that adds to your unhappiness, Trixie.
0:41:21 > 0:41:25- Who told you I was unhappy? - A little bird. Well...
0:41:25 > 0:41:26Phyllis?
0:41:26 > 0:41:28A slightly bigger bird, admittedly.
0:41:28 > 0:41:30But a very concerned, and caring one.
0:41:30 > 0:41:34She had no right discussing my personal business with anyone.
0:41:34 > 0:41:35Trixie.
0:41:36 > 0:41:39I care too.
0:41:49 > 0:41:52Oh, sorry, Sister.
0:41:52 > 0:41:55I didn't mean to interrupt you.
0:41:55 > 0:41:58These flowers were going spare from the allotment,
0:41:58 > 0:42:02Sister Winifred said to leave them in here for the altar.
0:42:02 > 0:42:05Not much scent, for a hybrid tea.
0:42:06 > 0:42:08They are roses?
0:42:08 > 0:42:09Yeah.
0:42:13 > 0:42:18My mother was intensely fond of her rose garden.
0:42:21 > 0:42:24She taught me the name of every bloom.
0:42:25 > 0:42:26Zephyrine Drouet.
0:42:30 > 0:42:34Souvenir de Malmaison.
0:42:36 > 0:42:38La Reine.
0:42:40 > 0:42:41I don't know what these are.
0:42:41 > 0:42:47Other than prone to mildew and a bit on the thorny side.
0:42:47 > 0:42:50If I were in a more jocular cast of mind,
0:42:50 > 0:42:54I might say the same about myself.
0:42:54 > 0:42:57But you're feeling a little bit out of sorts, aren't you, Sister?
0:42:59 > 0:43:02I can scarcely see that they are flowers at all.
0:43:11 > 0:43:13I don't drink all the time.
0:43:13 > 0:43:18I have rules, and - by and large - I stick to them.
0:43:19 > 0:43:21You know how self-disciplined I am.
0:43:23 > 0:43:27And I know how brave you are,
0:43:27 > 0:43:30and how fragile, how proud.
0:43:32 > 0:43:36And I know you'll do everything you possibly can alone, before you ask for help.
0:43:36 > 0:43:37I'm not asking for help.
0:43:40 > 0:43:42But you need it.
0:43:46 > 0:43:48Yes.
0:43:48 > 0:43:49I do.
0:43:55 > 0:43:58Thank you for allowing me to say that.
0:44:03 > 0:44:08When I first took the veil, I fought it.
0:44:09 > 0:44:12I performed the tasks required,
0:44:12 > 0:44:16but inside I resisted every rule
0:44:16 > 0:44:20and questioned every regulation.
0:44:20 > 0:44:23Well, that's human nature, isn't it?
0:44:23 > 0:44:24It was my nature.
0:44:27 > 0:44:29And still is.
0:44:30 > 0:44:33I could always hear God's voice,
0:44:33 > 0:44:37I was merely reluctant to let Him have the final word.
0:44:39 > 0:44:45Sister Monica Joan, if you don't have this operation,
0:44:45 > 0:44:47He will have the last word.
0:44:48 > 0:44:51And you will lose your eyesight altogether.
0:44:51 > 0:44:53But if that is what He intends?
0:44:59 > 0:45:06The greatest lesson I learned from the religious life was acceptance.
0:45:06 > 0:45:11It was hard but supremely worthwhile.
0:45:13 > 0:45:16I should perhaps not abnegate it now -
0:45:16 > 0:45:17but instead...
0:45:21 > 0:45:26..surrender to blindness.
0:45:28 > 0:45:33If you submit to blindness then you'll be throwing all sorts
0:45:33 > 0:45:36back in to God's face!
0:45:36 > 0:45:38Will you e...explain your meaning. If you can.
0:45:39 > 0:45:42Well...
0:45:42 > 0:45:44People trying to help you. You're rejecting that.
0:45:44 > 0:45:48Medical science can help you. You're rejecting that, too! And...
0:45:49 > 0:45:54And if you believe that God created the world then
0:45:54 > 0:45:57He made all of those things possible
0:45:57 > 0:46:02and I would be a little bit fed up with you, if I was the man upstairs.
0:46:03 > 0:46:07"The man upstairs" knows my reasoning.
0:46:08 > 0:46:13In which case, he also knows you're scared.
0:46:28 > 0:46:30We all get scared, Sister.
0:46:32 > 0:46:34I was scared at El Alamein.
0:46:36 > 0:46:39I bet that lady astronaut was scared,
0:46:39 > 0:46:41when they put her in her rocket.
0:46:42 > 0:46:46Think of all the things that she's seeing now.
0:46:51 > 0:46:57BABY CRIES
0:47:05 > 0:47:08I have decided to suffer the surgeon's knife.
0:47:08 > 0:47:10Really?
0:47:10 > 0:47:12If an ingenue of 26 can travel through the earth's
0:47:14 > 0:47:16atmosphere at orbital velocity,
0:47:16 > 0:47:21then a woman as ancient as myself
0:47:21 > 0:47:24can face her fear of the scalpel.
0:47:24 > 0:47:26Sister Monica Joan.
0:47:26 > 0:47:29Having a cataract operation really isn't comparable to
0:47:29 > 0:47:31going into space.
0:47:31 > 0:47:35I look upon the astronaut, and myself, as Brides of Science.
0:47:35 > 0:47:39And courteously invite you to do likewise.
0:47:56 > 0:47:58I'd come in with you if it were allowed.
0:47:58 > 0:48:03But instead I'll sit tight here until you're finished.
0:48:03 > 0:48:04All right.
0:48:24 > 0:48:27I managed to pull some strings and lo and behold
0:48:27 > 0:48:30Sister Monica Joan's name is on the cancellations list!
0:48:30 > 0:48:32Thank you.
0:48:32 > 0:48:36Time is of the essence, lest she should change her mind again.
0:48:36 > 0:48:38She has changed it once already...
0:48:39 > 0:48:41How did you get her to agree?
0:48:43 > 0:48:46It would appear that the credit should go to Fred.
0:48:52 > 0:48:54Is that Baby Gani?
0:48:54 > 0:48:56Yes.
0:48:56 > 0:49:00Sadly Mother still isn't interested in feeding him herself.
0:49:00 > 0:49:03I almost wish I'd encouraged a home birth.
0:49:03 > 0:49:04With less support from us,
0:49:04 > 0:49:08Parveen might have been more inclined to engage with him.
0:49:08 > 0:49:10What about the other Mrs Gani?
0:49:10 > 0:49:13It's such a very delicate situation.
0:49:31 > 0:49:33Mrs Gani. Hello.
0:49:33 > 0:49:35What are you doing here?
0:49:35 > 0:49:37I just came to speak to you about the baby.
0:49:37 > 0:49:39Please go.
0:49:39 > 0:49:41It is not my child.
0:49:44 > 0:49:45I know how hard this is for you Mrs Gani
0:49:45 > 0:49:48but he's so little.
0:49:48 > 0:49:50He needs all the love he can get.
0:49:50 > 0:49:54I said go. Please.
0:49:58 > 0:50:01SHE CRIES OUT
0:50:01 > 0:50:03Mrs Gani? Oh, goodness.
0:50:03 > 0:50:05- Leave me. - Let me take a look.
0:50:07 > 0:50:09I'll call Doctor Turner.
0:50:26 > 0:50:29I know what's said in there is private,
0:50:29 > 0:50:33but did anything help tonight?
0:50:34 > 0:50:35In a way.
0:50:35 > 0:50:37Then why do you look so sad?
0:50:37 > 0:50:39Because I realised something.
0:50:41 > 0:50:44We can't keep seeing each other, Christopher.
0:50:48 > 0:50:50But I want to help.
0:50:50 > 0:50:52I don't think you can.
0:50:52 > 0:50:56Just because we're not together, doesn't mean I don't care any more.
0:50:58 > 0:51:01- I still... - I know.
0:51:01 > 0:51:02And I still do too.
0:51:04 > 0:51:08But that's precisely why this can't go on.
0:51:08 > 0:51:09You have to look to your future.
0:51:11 > 0:51:13And I have to look to mine.
0:51:13 > 0:51:16God willing, there's a lot of life left to live for both of us.
0:51:22 > 0:51:24Goodnight.
0:51:25 > 0:51:26Take care of yourself, Trixie.
0:51:34 > 0:51:37You should make a full recovery,
0:51:37 > 0:51:41although I'd keep up the painkillers for a day or two.
0:51:41 > 0:51:43Drink this.
0:51:43 > 0:51:46- It's been well sugared. - Thank you.
0:51:47 > 0:51:49You have taken care of me very well.
0:51:51 > 0:51:54I heard you speak of the baby.
0:51:54 > 0:51:56Is he unwell?
0:51:56 > 0:51:57Not unwell.
0:51:57 > 0:51:59Just a little unsettled.
0:52:00 > 0:52:04Perhaps because motherhood isn't proving easy for Parveen.
0:52:04 > 0:52:07How can motherhood be hard? She's given birth.
0:52:07 > 0:52:11Her body has prepared her.
0:52:11 > 0:52:14Motherhood is about so much more than a physical process, Mrs Gani.
0:52:14 > 0:52:15Well,
0:52:15 > 0:52:18I don't know any more about that than you do.
0:52:19 > 0:52:23I think we all know more about love than we might realise.
0:52:24 > 0:52:28I'm a doctor, but I'm a father too.
0:52:29 > 0:52:34I have a son to my late first wife, an adopted daughter,
0:52:34 > 0:52:37and a little boy who was born after my second wife
0:52:37 > 0:52:41and I had given up all hope of ever having a baby of our own.
0:52:41 > 0:52:43For you, the miracle happened.
0:52:43 > 0:52:44Yes.
0:52:44 > 0:52:48But the miracle wasn't that a child was born.
0:52:48 > 0:52:52It was that my wife and I had found ways to embrace what we were given.
0:52:53 > 0:52:57We built a family out of several disparate elements,
0:52:57 > 0:53:01and at least one major surprise.
0:53:04 > 0:53:06Is it a happy family?
0:53:07 > 0:53:08Yes.
0:53:08 > 0:53:09It is.
0:53:11 > 0:53:14Not necessarily average.
0:53:14 > 0:53:16And a bit chaotic sometimes.
0:53:17 > 0:53:19But it works very nicely.
0:53:21 > 0:53:27So you are saying that I must embrace what I am given...?
0:53:27 > 0:53:30We are saying if you can open your heart to Parveen...
0:53:33 > 0:53:37..then maybe you can find a way you can all thrive.
0:53:37 > 0:53:39The baby most especially.
0:53:46 > 0:53:48Phyllis?
0:53:48 > 0:53:50Yes, lass?
0:53:51 > 0:53:53I'm sorry.
0:53:53 > 0:53:56Oh, lass! What for?
0:53:56 > 0:54:00For putting you in such a difficult position with Sister Julienne.
0:54:00 > 0:54:03For being less than honest with you,
0:54:03 > 0:54:06when you deserve nothing less than the truth.
0:54:06 > 0:54:08And for not turning up for duty tomorrow.
0:54:11 > 0:54:15Because I'm going to have to turn my attention to something very pressing,
0:54:15 > 0:54:17that means going away for a while.
0:54:21 > 0:54:26I'm not one for biblical quotations and well you know it.
0:54:26 > 0:54:30But my mother always used to say, "Sufficient unto the day is
0:54:30 > 0:54:33"the evil thereof".
0:54:33 > 0:54:38Which is just another way of saying you can start afresh in the morning.
0:54:38 > 0:54:41And you can.
0:54:41 > 0:54:42I promise you.
0:55:08 > 0:55:10Oh, Mrs Gani!
0:55:10 > 0:55:14I was about to take Baby through to the Nursery for his bottle.
0:55:14 > 0:55:16You aren't feeding him yourself?
0:55:17 > 0:55:19It's too hard...
0:55:21 > 0:55:25I can remember my grandmother telling me "To feed the baby,
0:55:25 > 0:55:29"one must feed the mother."
0:55:29 > 0:55:32Let's get you something to eat, hm?
0:55:40 > 0:55:42You asked to see me, Nurse Franklin.
0:55:42 > 0:55:44- Yes, I did. - And I'm glad.
0:55:46 > 0:55:50Because if you hadn't, I would have been forced to ask to see you.
0:55:52 > 0:55:55I can do better than this, Sister Julienne.
0:55:55 > 0:55:57I believe you can.
0:55:57 > 0:55:59And we both know that you must.
0:56:02 > 0:56:06I'm granting you leave of absence for six months,
0:56:06 > 0:56:09to enable you to seek help for your problems.
0:56:09 > 0:56:13Once you are yourself again, you may return to your position.
0:56:14 > 0:56:17You go with our love.
0:56:17 > 0:56:18And our prayers.
0:56:37 > 0:56:41Sometimes one small gesture...
0:56:41 > 0:56:44can give us the strength to do enormous things.
0:56:45 > 0:56:50A little generosity can unleash great tenderness
0:56:50 > 0:56:53leading in time to deep real love.
0:57:04 > 0:57:08And a single conversation can change your mind, a life.
0:57:09 > 0:57:13The world is no bigger than the people who inhabit it.
0:57:15 > 0:57:20And together or alone we are closer than we know.
0:57:24 > 0:57:28It seems he may have been suffering from smallpox.
0:57:28 > 0:57:31I need help. But you must keep it a secret.
0:57:31 > 0:57:34You said you didn't want any balloons or a welcoming committee.
0:57:34 > 0:57:36That's why we didn't tell them we were coming home.
0:57:36 > 0:57:38She's suffering such anguish -
0:57:38 > 0:57:40so terrified of another forceps delivery that
0:57:40 > 0:57:42she doesn't want to give birth.
0:57:42 > 0:57:45- Eunice!- I'm not doing it, Kenny. I can't...