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