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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.

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Jenny Agutter

Linda Bassett

Judy Parfitt

Helen George

Bryony Hannah

Laura Main

Emerald Fennell

Charlotte Ritchie

Victoria Yeates

Jack Ashton

Stephen McGann

Cliff Parisi

Alice Brown

Max Macmillan

Kate Lamb

Annabelle Apsion

Francois Coertze

Dries Botha

Amy Anley

Andrea Dondolo

Sinead Cusack

Sivenkosi Gubangxo

Phumla Stamper

Vusumzi Ntshanga

Nicholate Ngongoshe

Zanele Radau

Thando Guma

Shane Soetland

Danny Keogh

Jennifer Pau

Vanessa Redgrave

Heidi Thomas

Pippa Harris

Ann Tricklebank

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Call the Midwife: Christmas Special 2016

Christmas Special 2016

25/12/2016

BBC One - Call the Midwife, Christmas Special 2016

The Nonnatus team go to South Africa to try to save a clinic which is in danger of closure

Drama series about a group of midwives. The Nonnatus team face big challenges when they travel to Africa to try to save Hope Clinic, which is in danger of closure.

As Poplar enjoys celebrating a white Christmas, an unexpected SOS call from the Mother House interrupts festivities. Hope Clinic, a tiny mission hospital that has links to the Order is threatened with closure. A small working group of midwives and a cleric have been requested to travel out to South Africa to work at the clinic and assess its future viability. Sister Julienne swiftly procures the help of Sister Winifred, Trixie, Barbara, Nurse Crane, Dr Turner, Shelagh, Fred and Tom Hereward and they are soon transported to South Africa to try and save Hope Clinic. The African clinic poses many problems, and the team are both shaken and exhilarated by the challenges they are faced with: a water supply that's running dangerously low, no electricity and Dr Myra Fitzsimmonds, the clinic's doctor, who is suffering from a mystery illness. But the biggest hurdle is a neighbouring white farmer, who refuses access across his land for a new water pipe, which could save the clinic's future. The team dig deep and face these challenges head on, and achieve real success - a completed polio immunisation programme, several trips to save lives in remote locations and a caesarean performed by candlelight. In their courageous attempt to save Hope Clinic and make a difference to the lives of the people that use it, some of their own lives are changed forever.

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