Is there a Call the Midwife thread?

[Oodbrain]

The poor little boy

[Groovee]

Love this programme, so heartbreaking seeing all the kids I'm that state x

[StepfauxWife]

Oh I know, the little boy breaks my heart.

[Mumzy]

It seems Trixie went through a similar experience to the young lad when she was growing up

[Oodbrain]

I love Sister Monica Joan such pearls of wisdom in flowery language

[Whitershadeofpale]

I don't know why the VoiceOver at the beginning always calls it cosy, or heartwarming etc. It's usually heartbreaking, all the more so as you know these things went on.

Does anybody know what else the young boy has been in? He seems very familiar.

[ethelb]

It's a shame they didn't make more of a story about the wpc. They would have done a lot of what the nuns are being shown to be doing. They could have highlighted a reet good feminist argument about their work.

[Oodbrain]

Dd1 has been up in arms about the W PC element.

[BikeRunSki]

But female police constables were called WPC until what - the 1990s?

[LIZS]

re children going to Australia

[Oodbrain]

I was trying to remember that from watching the BillI thought 90s.

Dd1 was all 'why has she got a skirt on, how will she run' etc

[Oodbrain]

Yes and the hint at sadness.
I always hate separating siblings too.

[ethelb]

Until 99, but they were a separate dept of the metropolitan police until 77.

They dealt with 'women's issues ' especially prostitution. Some argue that since the integration of the wpc with the men's police forces, areas they covered including missing children (many became prostitutes) has never been as well handled/ successful since.

Missing woman recovery rates in particular have never recovered.

[StressheadMcGee]

I know LIZS, I really wasn't expecting that

[MissHJ]

I thought the kids would get a happy ending and then the voiceover said otherwise. Really sad episode tonight.

[Cecyhall]

So sad that they didn't get a happy life after all that.

Lots of emotions this week.

[Marcipex]

So sad to think of children being separated.

[ethelb]

Call the midwife has been getting schmaltzyier since the second series. They needed a dose of how tough life was for vulnerable people in the 60s. That whole mother and baby home rescue by the nice, caring considerate nurses and Drs story line was a bit too much of a stretch even for Christmas!

[aturtlenamedmack]

God that ending was completely heartbreaking.

[Oodbrain]

That's interesting ethel & I agree on the home at Xmas being schmaltzy

[LennyCrabsticks]

Oh god that's just led me to google the child migrant stuff. It's horrifying! And such recent history too.

[Angelto5]

Good first episode I thought-so happy for Trixie

Was it her dad that suffered from PTSD?

Any thoughts on what is medically wrong with sister evangelina?

[Raahh]

I loved the Billy Fury bit. My mum was always a massive fan.

[ethelb]

Fibroids? But isn't she a bit old? Plus how many female drs were there?! This is getting ridiculous.

[HoldMeCloserTonyDanza]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that was insanely depressing!

I'm questioning the wisdom of spending my Sunday nights confronting the reality of East End 1950s poverty.

But the schmaltzy unrealistic crap in previous series used to drive me mad!

Christmas Day was really bleak as well. I mean they dress it up at the end with the swinging 50s tunes watching everyone having a nice Christmas dinner. But the next day everyone still woke up unmarried mothers and lobotomised former asylum inmates just the same. It wasn't a happy ending! The world was harsh and awful!

[ilovechristmas1]

so sad i agree

reminded me of how i imagine the house in angelea's ashes

cant help thinking what happened to them