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Call the Midwife

Drama: Classic & Period

Drama: Medical

Drama set in London's East End during the 1950s, based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

A heart-warming tale of life in London's hard-up East End. Midwives welcome new lives in the changing times of the 50s and 60s.

Series 1

Call the Midwife: Series 1

Vanessa Redgrave

Jessica Raine

Jenny Agutter

Pam Ferris

Miranda Hart

Judy Parfitt

Helen George

Bryony Hannah

Laura Main

Cliff Parisi

Stephen McGann

Ben Caplan

Amy McAllister

George Rainsford

Emma Noakes

Tom Colley

Susie Baxter

Tom Goodman-Hill

Thomasin Rand

Hugh Warren

Jamie Payne

Heidi Thomas

Nicola Munns

Anton Saunders

Call the Midwife: Series 1: Episode 4

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Episode 4

BBC One - Call the Midwife, Series 1, Episode 4

When a baby girl is snatched from her pram, the community unites to search for the child.

Drama series set in 1950s London. When a baby girl is snatched from her pram, the local community unites to search for the child. Meanwhile, Cynthia witnesses another type of loss.

The episode commences with Jenny delivering a little girl, Gillian, to Shirley Redmond. As Shirley's previous baby was stillborn, Sister Evangelina is also in attendance. Jenny has now been working in the East End for some time, and feels privileged to share such a precious part of these women's lives. Soon after Shirley gives birth, a bombshell drops; the newborn baby has been snatched from her pram, outside the Redmond household. A full-scale search is launched, and the entire community becomes involved in the quest to reunite the desperate parents with their child. 

Cynthia, meanwhile, finds herself involved in an equally traumatic situation as she witnesses true love and heartbreak when she meets David and Margaret during their time of need. A middle-aged headmaster, David and his young musician wife Margaret are expecting their firstborn when she suffers from eclampsia. It is a heart wrenching case, and Cynthia observes the strength of soul mates and tragedy of loss.

Just as the trail appears to have gone cold with Shirley's baby, she is found. She was taken by Mary, the Irish girl whom Jenny had befriended previously. Mary has been unable to resolve the grief she felt after losing her own child. The police want to prosecute Mary but, urged by Jenny, Sister Julienne and Sister Evangelina intervene and ask for leniency on Mary's behalf.

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A newly-qualified midwife begins her career alongside an order of nursing nuns.

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