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Call the Midwife gets a special documentary to look back at 10 years
Call the Midwife star Helen George recalls that filming took place in “a very spooky place” for the show’s first ever series.
This Sunday a one-off documentary, Call the Midwife: Special Delivery, will see the cast look back at their highlights from the last 10 years of the show.
And Helen, who plays nurse Trixie Franklin, has fond memories of shooting the early series, even if they were shot somewhere spooky!
“We were on a different set then, in Mill Hill [in North London]. It was an old seminary and a very spooky place! But we were surrounded by fields and there were retired race horses who I’d feed at lunch.
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Two exceptional illnesses in a few weeks were unlikely to worry personnel who have previously identified the uncommon genetic disorders osteogenesis imperfecta (season four) and achondroplasia (six), and encountered mothers suffering from leprosy (seven) and puerperal, or postpartum, psychosis (three). Even more impressively, Turner and his team spotted these problems by simple observation, without the pi
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Helen George has opened up about her romance with her former
Call the Midwife co-star, Jack Ashton. The couple met when filming the BBC series in South Africa in 2016;
they now live together with their three-year-old daughter Wren Ivy in the East End.
During a candid chat with
Daily Mail s
You Magazine, the actress - who plays nurse Trixie Franklin - confessed being in the same industry as her beau (Reverend Tom Hereward) helped.
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