Call the midwife anyone?

[AloeSailor]

Can't believe the birth at the beginning, so realistic!

[scrumpkin]

I know. Amazing! I cried.

[CanYouHearMe]

Missed this. Will have to catch up on i-player tomorrow. Grrr.

[merlottits]

Outstanding. Moving. The workhouse howl

[mammmamia]

I've read the book but havent watched any of it on tv. I've sky plussed jt can't wait to watch

[judefawley]

It was lovely, I cried buckets.

It was so obviously filmed in summer though; spraying fake frost all over everything didn't fool me.

[Notquite]

MiL was characteristically bracing: 'There's no need to make all that noise when you're having a baby".

[judefawley]

I said that too, not quite!

[jinglebellyalltheway]

biggest load of bollocks ever! abandoned babies a rarity in the 50s??? shock at poverty and the concept of poor houses?? surely they all came across similar many times over! what was the big surprise?

and everyone is fixable, oh and the teenage mum who decided to keep the baby was just accepted down baby clinic and they all lived happily ever after.. and the old lady who had a lifetime of misery was "fixed" just like that!

yeah right

[Bilbobagginstummy]

Worth reading the books, jinglebelly - the Mrs Jenkins story in particular is terribly upsetting and being cleaner and more healthier didn't really heal anything more than the surface wounds.

[Bilbobagginstummy]

I do agree about the fake frost though - they should have showered everything in mud!

[Bunbaker]

I loved it as well, but found the fake frost too overdone. Who are they kidding?

[Northernlebkuchen]

I found it very sad.

[Bilbobagginstummy]

[Tryharder]

I thought it was really sad and was and at the end. I hadnt realised that Dan Stevens was leaving.

[Tryharder]

Oh FFS. Wrong thread. Thought we were discussing Downton. Was at Call The Midwife as well.

[Clawdy]

Oh thanks a lot,Tryharder!was deliberately avoiding Downton threads as planning to watch it tonight....

[Northernlebkuchen]

Clawdy - she's made a mistake posting that's all. No need to get all

[Heavywheezing]

Downtown was pants, just watch the last five minutes

[mrsjay]

we watched it last night slowly catching up on christmas telly, I loved it and cried and sobbed was mrs jenkins her from benidorm

[FrankH]

Not a programme I would normally have watched - but other members of my family wanted to watch it, so I did as well.

So glad I did. It's one of the best things I've seen on TV. Extremely moving in a non-sentimental way. That it's based on a real life memoir makes it even more heartbreaking.

Apart from the fake frost, great production and direction. Marvellous acting from a stellar cast.

This deserves all the accolades and awards that Downton Abbey so undeservedly got (I like DA - but it's trivial rubbish in comparison to CTM). I suspect that many right-wing Americans will dislike CTM intensely because they will think it's Communist/Socialist propaganda for the NHS and Obama's health policies.

On the other hand, PC "liberals" will dislike it because of the nuns and the strong Christian environment.

[Pixel]

I think we should all go back to speaking like Chummy. "Down to the napkin if you please".

I'm definitely going to start saying "Bravo!" .

[mrsjay]

I think we should all go back to speaking like Chummy. "Down to the napkin if you please".

I'm definitely going to start saying "Bravo!"

QUITE

dd bought me the dvd for christmas think i will watch it tonight,

[hattymattie]

I think DS was a bit overly influenced by Chummy - he's been saying "beastly" and "simply ghastly" all week. I've told him he needs to tone it down unless he wants to get beaten up at school;

[mrsjay]

he's been saying "beastly" and "simply ghastly" all week. I've told him he needs to tone it down unless he wants to get beaten up at school;

hehe

[LRDtheFeministDude]

Late to this - and I loved it too - but FWIW I read that the nuns whose order is the factual basis for the books did indeed say they only had one abandoned baby during their time there. He was christened John Divine (because they're actually the sisters of St John the Divine, not St Raymond Nonatus, which is a made-up name). So I think that was factual.

I thought they did tone down the Mrs Jenkins story a lot, but it was still very poignnt and I certainly got teary.

I knew it was coming but I loved Miranda Hart saying '...because under this coat, I am practically naked!'

Her bloke is a bit of alright too.