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Call the Midwife is a British period drama television series about a group of nurse midwives working in the East End of London in the late 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The principal cast of the show has included Jessica Raine, Miranda Hart, Helen George, Bryony Hannah, Laura Main, Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Judy Parfitt, Cliff Parisi, Stephen McGann, Linda Bassett and Charlotte Ritchie.
One of the UK's earliest registered nurses, and the last surviving founder of Nonnatus House, Sister Monica Joan (whose birth name was Antonia Keville) retired from practice prior to the events of the series.
Call the Midwife is a British period drama television series based on the best-selling memoirs of former nurse Jennifer Worth, who died shortly before the first episode was broadcast. [1] It is set in the 1950s and 1960s and for the first three series centred primarily on Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine), based on the real Worth.
This Sunday’s Call the Midwife started out like any other installment of the PBS drama. Sister Hilda led the morning meeting for the midwives and noticed that Nurse Nancy seemed preoccupied with ...
Call the Midwife chronicles the lives of a group of midwives in the East End of London in the 1950s. The 14th and latest series of the hit BBC drama aired on 5 January, having first debuted in 2012.
Call the Midwife typically has a very stable schedule—new episodes generally air in the UK from January to March, with the season arriving in the US shortly after it finishes its UK run. So far ...
Jennifer Louise Worth RN RM (née Lee; 25 September 1935 – 31 May 2011) was a British memoirist.She wrote a best-selling trilogy about her work as a nurse and midwife practising in the poverty-stricken East End of London in the 1950s: Call the Midwife (2002), Shadows of the Workhouse (2005) and Farewell to The East End (2009).
She was known for her appearances in Coronation Street, New Tricks and Call the Midwife in which she played Mrs Torpy. [2] Cathcart also appeared in the TV programmes Holby City, Goodnight Sweetheart, Come Fly with Me, Doctors, [3] The Bill, and Casualty. Onstage, she appeared in The Comedy of Errors at the National Theatre, directed by Dominic ...