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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play BBC drama CALL THE MIDWIFE is based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth who began a career in midwifery in the 1950s Newly qualified Jenny is sent to work alongside an order of nursing nuns at Nonnatus House in London&s East End This release

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play fter the huge success of Series 1-3 Call the Midwife has been commissioned for a third 8 part series the community prepares to enter a new decade the 1960s Trixie has a proposal Cynthia seriously considers becoming a nun & Chummy begins to run a baby home for unmarried mothers Two new faces join the team
- Barbara played by Charlotte Ritchie (Fresh Meat) & Nurse Crane played by Linda Bassett (Lark Rise to Candleford) who comes into conflict with Sister Evangelina
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play It is now 1962 & the Nonnatus House team are as committed to caring for the people of Poplar as ever However the social revolution in the outside world is mirrored by change & challenge much closer to home As they strive to help mothers & families cope with the demands of childbearing disability disease & social prejudice our beloved medics must make choices
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- of their own Series six will see them laugh together cry together & pull together supporting each other as never before Also

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2016 Christmas Special



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Tracklist Summer Is Coming The Miracle Three Steps From the Sky The Rain Dr Turner&s Diagnosis She Wants to Live The Passage to Eternity The Moment I Lost You Lucille&s Theme Dr Turner Is Saving a Life Tom & Barbara&s Engagement Love Theme for Tom & Barbara The Wedding Barbara&s Last Journey The True Meaning of Love Losing a Baby Cynthia&s Theme The Soul of Mary Cynthia Descends Into Darkness Nurse Crane&s Heart A Father Is Forever Hope for a Better Future The Caress of a Mother The Turners Shelagh Gives Birth The Hidden Side of Trixie We Will Be Memories The Adventure of Life Call the Midwife Theme Tune ...
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Be part of the popular drama Call the Midwife by helping Women all over Poplar as they go into labour! The Midwives of Nonnatus House have never been so busy delivering babies in all sorts of locations! Will you get to your next delivery on time or will you be required to divert to the Surgery to assist Dr Turner? Try not to get a bicycle puncture or forget your delivery pack as you might be delivering twins or even triplets! Using easy to learn gameplay roll the dice collect cards & delivers babies!! The Midwife to deliver the most babies wins the game! The Call the Midwife Boardgame has been developed by Rachel Lowe & faithfully follows the drama of the award winning TV Show ...
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The first two series & the 2012 Christmas special of the BBC drama adapted from Jennifer Worth&s memoirs about a group of midwives working in East London in the 1950s Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine) gets her first job at Nonnatus House which she soon realises is a nursing convent & not a hospital as she had assumed As she begins caring for patients she gradually becomes accustomed to her new environment making friends with fellow midwives Cynthia (Bryony Hannah) Trixie (Helen George) & the clumsy Chummy (Miranda Hart) In series two it&s 1958 & while Jenny has her hands full dealing with an abused patient Trixie & Sister Evangelina (Pam Ferris) are forced to board a Swedish cargo ship to tend to the captain&s pregnant daughter In the Christmas special the discovery of an abandoned baby on the convent&s doorstep proves to be a catalyst as the community come together to try to trace the child&s mother Elsewhere Jenny finds herself drawn into the mystery surrounding elderly local woman Mrs Jenkins (Sheila Reid) while Chummy is determined to stage an unforgettable nativity play ...
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Call The Midwife 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle stunning imagery featuring iconic characters with the backdrop of Nonnatus House ...
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth Call the Midwife follows Nurse Jenny Lee & the midwives from Nonnatus House convent as they provide the best possible care to the expectant mothers of Poplar in the 1950s This Call the Midwife box set features the complete series one two & three together with both Christmas specials In series one Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine) gets her first job at Nonnatus House which she soon realises is a nursing convent & not a hospital as she had assumed As she begins caring for patients she gradually becomes accustomed to her new environment making friends with fellow midwives Cynthia (Bryony Hannah) Trixie (Helen George) & the clumsy Chummy (Miranda Hart) In series two it&s 1958 & while Jenny has her hands full dealing with an abused patient Trixie & Sister Evangelina (Pam Ferris) are forced to board a Swedish cargo ship to tend to the captain&s pregnant daughter In the Christmas special the discovery of an abandoned baby on the convent&s doorstep proves to be a catalyst as the community come together to try to trace the child&s mother Elsewhere Jenny finds herself drawn into the mystery surrounding elderly local woman Mrs Jenkins (Sheila Reid) while Chummy is determined to stage an unforgettable nativity play Series three sees Chummy PC Noakes & baby Freddy back in the East End; Sister Bernadette
- now known as Shelagh since leaving the convent
- preparing for her wedding to Dr Turner; & Jenny facing some tough personal & professional challenges At Christmas when an unexploded World War II bomb is found under a warehouse close to Nonnatus House the nuns & dozens of local families find themselves homeless Later Dr Turner finds himself in a race against time to immunise children against polio & when a Royal visitor comes to the East End Chummy persuades them to open the new Community Centre The fascinating portrayal of birth life death & a community on the brink of huge social change Call the Midwife continues to offer a gripping insight into a world that is so drastically different from how we live now

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The first five series of the BBC drama adapted from Jennifer Worth&s memoirs about a group of midwives working in poverty-stricken East London in the 1950s & &60s In the first series Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine) gets her first job at Nonnatus House which she soon realises is a nursing convent & not a hospital as she had assumed As she begins caring for patients she gradually becomes accustomed to her new environment making friends with fellow midwives Cynthia (Bryony Hannah) Trixie (Helen George) & the clumsy Chummy (Miranda Hart) In the second series it&s 1958 & while Jenny has her hands full dealing with an abused patient Trixie & Sister Evangelina (Pam Ferris) are forced to board a Swedish cargo ship to tend to the captain&s pregnant daughter In the third series set in 1959 the midwives temporarily find themselves without a place to work when an unexploded bomb is found near Nonnatus House Meanwhile Sister Winifred (Victoria Yeates) attempts to settle in to life at the convent & Chummy arranges for a royal visit to raise awareness of their weekly clinics In the fourth series the midwives are joined by new recruit Barbara Gilbert (Charlotte Ritchie) but she doesn&t get off to the best of starts after a night out with Trixie & Patsy (Emerald Fennell) Meanwhile Barbara has to aid a first-time mother when her birth doesn&t go according to plan & Sister Julienne (Jenny Agutter) struggles with the financial pressures on Nonnatus House In the fifth series Trixie continues to enjoy her role as a fitness instructor but Sister Julienne isn&t so happy about her new hobby Meanwhile Barbara begins a relationship with Vicar Tom Hereward (Jack Ashton) & the nurses & midwives of Nonnatus try to determine why there have been so many cases of babies being born with severe deformities in Poplar The collection also

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all four Christmas specials Actors Jessica Raine Bryony Hannah Helen George Miranda Hart Pam Ferris Number of discs 16

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Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s Paperback

Jennifer Worth&s tales of being a midwife in 1950s London now a major BBC TV series Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings but also because of what they were expected to endure But while Jennifer witnessed brutality and tragedy she also met with amazing kindness and understanding tempered by a great deal of Cockney humour She also earned the confidences of some whose lives were truly stranger more poignant and more terrifying than could ever be recounted in fiction Attached to an order of nuns who had been working in the slums since the 1870s Jennifer tells the story not only of the
women she treated but also of the community of nuns (including one who was accused of stealing jewels from Hatton Garden) and the camaraderie of the midwives with whom she trained Funny disturbing and incredibly moving Jennifer&s stories bring to life the colourful world of the East End in the 1950s
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Jennifer Worth&s tales of being a midwife in 1950s London now a major BBC TV series Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings but also because of what they were expected to endure But while Jennifer witnessed brutality & tragedy she also met with amazing kindness & understanding tempered by a great deal of Cockney humour She also earned the confidences of some whose lives were truly stranger more poignant & more terrifying than could ever be recounted in fiction Attached to an order of nuns who had been working in the slums since the 1870s Jennifer tells the story not only of the women she treated but also of the community of nuns (including one who was accused of stealing jewels from Hatton Garden) & the camaraderie of the midwives with whom she trained Funny disturbing & incredibly moving Jennifer&s stories bring to life the colourful world of the East End in the 1950s

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