Call the Midwife

[DaphneDahlia]

I’m watching Call the Midwife from the beginning, not seen the episodes before. I find Trixie irritating. Really up herself and a shirty little madam. I think it hits a nerve as I know a few similar people IRL.
Does anyone know what I mean?

I’m actually quite jealous! CTM is my comfort watch!
she will grow on you.
The first series’s were the best

She actually turns out to be a more complex character than you think with an interesting back story. I love how you watch the characters grow up throughout the series. I absolutely loved Call The Midwife!

I've just seen this on the Radio Times website:

Not only has filming begun on a two-part Christmas special for 2025, as well as a 15th season for 2026, but two exciting new projects related to the show are in the works.
The first of these is a prequel series set in Poplar during World War II, which is being produced for the BBC and is set to air next year.

Meanwhile, the second is a Call the Midwife film, which is in development now, and will be set overseas in 1972, featuring iconic characters from the existing series.

Link here

Absolutely brilliant! But that means they will have to recast young sister Evangelina, Julienne and Monica Joan! Who would you pick?!

Trixie is amazing in the episode where she goes on board a ship to deliver a baby. The mother has been pimped out to all the sailors by her own father and Trixie's righteous anger is a joy to beyond.

I remember Sister Evangelina in that episode. Very matter of fact.

until she can’t be bothered to check with disastrous consequences and when she’s away * * for ages yes

I thought the same about Jenny!

the earlier series are all based on a book which is a memoir of one of the actual Nonatus midwives from the 1950s.
I actually thought the first series was earlier, so interested to see it was late 50s.

The memoirs only cover about 10-15 years, so all more recent ones are written by modern script writers and they are at times very irritating. (often putting opinions in the mouths of people that would have been very unlikely at the time)

But I do love it.
I love the idea of a prequel, becuase I think it was most striking in the early days, pre social care, NHS and benefits. Absolutely tragic at times.

The whole Trixie storyline at the moment is ridiculous. We know they wrote Oly Rix out, and why they wrote him out .. but to have her always in Poplar “to keep her registration up” (not a thing at the time), leaving her husband and stepson thousands of miles away, is just nonesense.

I think early Trixie is a good example of the juxtaposition which often existed in community nursing in the 1950s-60s: the newly NHS trained, young community nurses were typically middle class young women from very different backgrounds than the people they found themselves working among, and Trixie’s personality probably reflects how many young women in that position would have come across. And it shows that for all that, she’s a devoted midwife, choosing to work in difficult circumstances - at a time when many young women of her background would have chosen office work or nursing in a nice, tidy hospital with clean linen around others more of “their kind.”

I remember Jenny in the episode where she was speaking with the mother of a woman who was neglecting her children and being abused by her husband, and the mother saying “you don’t want to be here with me and my problems, you want to be off up in the West End, doing your dancing”, and Jenny saying that she didn’t, she wanted to be right where she was - I found that a great insight into the dynamics and into an often difficult character to warm to.

Love Trixie! She's someone you'd want by your side during birth; ditto Nurse Crane. Bloody legend she is!

Who was the one who was a nun but then decided she loved the Doc and they got married? She is SO irritating...

None of the initial midwives were as annoying as Rosalind.

You leave Trixie alone! She is an angel.

Wait till she marries the lord and becomes a lady - even more up herself. I do like her character though

I adore her, she’s such a girls girl to me and I feel like I would gravitate towards her out of everyone.

I like all of them to be honest.

Although I think one of the weakest characters was the one in series 1 who was supposed to be the narrator? Jenny?

Attending my birth I would like Trixie, Nurse Crane, Valerie, Lucille, and Sister Evangelina.

Watched the final episode of the latest series last night and I loved it so much, haven’t enjoyed an episode so much since the earlier series.
Just love Nancy, nurse crane all of them really. Is it me or has the doctor taken a bit more of a back seat, obviously still in it but just a bit less about him!
which is very welcome

Why did they write Oly Rix out?

I absolutely love Trixie so sorry I can't agree with you there!

I love call the midwife! I wish I could watch it all over again!

Don’t give spoilers for those who haven’t watched it!

saw the moonlanding in past show that was 1969 already so 2 years after

Valerie and Patsy were my favourite ever midwives, very closely followed by Nurse Crane and Trixie. I love how NC is always referred to by her job and surname unless she's with Miss Higgins!

I am currently reading the book which is much more detailed. Jenny comes across as very naive in some of the stories especially the Cable St chapter....

Watched the first five or so series years ago but have no TV licence now so enjoying the books instead.

I noticed online last night that her sister Christine has a book out too about their lives as sisters growing up.

Shelagh.