Call the Midwife

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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.

Series 9

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Call the Midwife: Series 9: Episode 3

Episode 3

BBC One - Call the Midwife, Series 9, Episode 3

Lucille delivers a baby in a lift and Nurse Crane treats a Sylheti woman.

Lucille is trapped in a lift with a woman in labour while working at St Cuthbert's, and Nurse Crane helps a Sylheti woman with fistula.

Lucille is seconded to St Cuthbert’s when a ward Sister is off sick.

Nurse Crane goes to the school to give the new pupils their inoculations and is concerned to meet two brothers, Rahul and Jalal, who are new and come from Sylhet in East Pakistan (Bangladesh). It is unclear which jabs the boys have had.

The incubator fund has stalled, and Shelagh enlists Violet, Trixie, Sister Frances and Valerie to put on a charity fashion show for the community. 

Call the Midwife: Series 9

BBC One

A moving and intimate insight into the colourful world of midwifery in 1960s east London.

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