Call the Midwife

Call the Midwife2012

Director: Mature Jenny
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Call the Midwife is a BBC period drama series about a group of nurse midwives working in the East End of London in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It stars Jessica Raine, Miranda Hart, Helen George, Bryony Hannah, Laura Main, Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferr… more »



[Jenny is describing her visit to a pregnant woman who has 24 children and lives in squalid conditions]

Jenny Lee:
I didn't know where to turn or how to take my leave. They seemed completely unconcerned.

Cynthia Miller:
About the pregnancy or the mess?

Jenny Lee:
The pregnancy *and* the mess. They only had eyes for each other.

Sister Monica Joan:
Exactly. And look where it's got them!

Jenny Lee:
And how can anyone have 24 children and still look so young?

Trixie Franklin:
*Now* you've opened a lovely jar of worms.

Sister Bernadette:
Because she was fourteen when she had her first.

Sister Julienne:
She may even have been younger. Mr Warren brought her back from the Spanish Civil War.

Sister Bernadette:
Most men would be happy with some enemy binoculars!

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