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Call the Midwife
2012 · TV series · 52 min episodes · 15 seasons
Created by Heidi Thomas
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
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British TV is doing _great_ in the streaming era: black mirror, adolescence, peaky blinders, the crown, call the midwife, derry girls, downtown abbey; and so many great police procedurals: line of duty, endeavour, the bay, Sherlock, grace; even those Harlan coben miniserieses - the ones with at least one absurd plot twist per episode - are great fun!
While I’ll be among the first to moan that we’ll never see another red dwarf, python, tinker tailor/smiley’s people, yes minister, father ted [0] .. British tv is still producing great stuff.
It’s the “bureaucrats” in the bbc who are under threat from streaming. I’m not losing sleep!
[0] made in Britain; simply could not have been made in Ireland as was.
A few years ago, we decided to travel to Wales, mainly to visit the Doctor Who Experience, but also to pay Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch a visit (for the novelty factor). We flew to Stansted and then drove through the English countryside and had a truly magical moment, when we decided to stop for a short rest. In small town we drove onto a parking lot, and then followed the sign to a small park/picnic are. The park was right at one of the waterways and there lay a few of those narrowboats and one or two were navigating the channel. It was such an unexpected sight, it felt light out of this world. Before that I had never heard of them.
Later I saw a depiction of life on such a boat when my wife watched Call the Midwife. It must have been Episode S05E07.
Be careful of watching television broadcast elsewhere first on PBS, they sometimes edit for time. I know they cut down almost every episode of Call the Midwife (about 55-58 minute originally) to make it possible to fit the intro and outro commercials so the whole package fits into their broadcast schedule and these edited versions of the show are the ones on the region 1 DVDs most recently. This documentary was broadcast as a single episode but I have not looked into any changes made.
In her book (and later a television show) "Call The Midwife", the author Jennifer Worth recalls that while she was in school she picked up a medical book from the 1890s and she read this sentence: "Should labor continue for more than 10 days, the services of a doctor should be asked for."
yep, yep, yep, Leukaemia. I thought of it based on a Call the Midwife episode.
Not only are they serious medical professionals now, but they have been for a while. Watch the British TV show Call the Midwife. Even back in the 50s midwives were well-trained specialized nurses who dealt with serious medical issues on a regular basis.
I think you're thinking of midwives from a few hundred (or more) years ago, before the fields of medicine and nursing existed as they do today.