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Here comes the alphabetti spaghetti again. There’s a BBA in E14 send for the ladies of the RCM, PDQ.
Call The Midwife (BBC1) went all Line Of Duty, with a scattergun of initials, as Nurse Lucille Anderson (Leonie Elliott) broke off from training students from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and raced away by express bicycle to a Born Before Arrival (BBA) in Poplar (postcode E14).
With tensions mounting, there was a real danger Lucille might barge into the office of head nun Sister Julienne (Jenny Agutter) and address her as ‘Guv’. Mother of God!
Luckily, a BBA is just an impatient baby that doesn’t hang around waiting to be delivered by a woman in a plum uniform. It’s got nothing to do with an OCG (organised crime gang), which in the East End of the 1960s meant the Kray Twins and their associates.
Sunday, 23rd May 2021 at 7:45 pm
Over the last few seasons, Call the Midwife has covered the topic of abortion across multiple storylines – and always with great thoughtfulness and care.
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We’ve seen the effects of desperate self-induced abortions (or attempted abortions), with skewers and drugs; we’ve seen the backstreet abortions, carried out in unsanitary conditions with unclean instruments. And we’ve also seen the safer (but still illegal) option of abortion secretly carried out by doctors at private clinics.
Alongside that, we have followed the stories of so many desperate women who feel they have no other choice but to terminate their pregnancies – whether that be because of poverty, or abuse, or because they are unmarried, or because they are just not ready to be mothers.
Sunday, 25th April 2021 at 8:40 pm
At the start of season 10, Call the Midwife‘s Nurse Trixie Franklin (Helen George) was sent off to work at the Lady Emily Clinic. Her job was to scope the place out, and report back to Sister Julienne (Jenny Agutter) about whether a deal could be struck with the private clinic that would secure Nonnatus House’s financial future.
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In episode one, Trixie formed a close bond with heavily pregnant Fiona Aylward (Jo Herbert). She and her husband Matthew Aylward (Olly Rix) were expecting their first child, and were delighted when baby Jonathan was born happy and healthy.
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Call The Midwife stars promise Christmas special is slightly different
Stephen McGann says we can expect hope , sparkle and drama . 16/12/2020
Call The Midwifefans can expect a Christmas special that s a little bit different this year, two of its stars have promised.
Actor Stephen McGann, who plays Dr Patrick Turner, and Jenny Agutter, who plays Sister Julienne, dropped in for a video chat on
This Morning with hosts Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford to discuss the upcoming festive special episode for the BBC drama. It s been amazing – this is our ninth one and every year that we do them we never expect it to become a staple, McGann said. You never dream or imagine that you re going to have that privilege and that duty, too, to be something that people turn to on Christmas Day.