Call the Midwife, I love Sunday night telly!!

[BrightnessFalls]

well, I will do for the next six weeks

Nannyplum - my DH is a police officer as well and there are two days he doesn't like talking about, the day he found the body of the murdered makeup artist Diane Chenery Wickens and the day he had to take a baby away from it's parents when he'd not long gone back from paternity leave.

He knew it was the best thing but found it very upsetting

It got me right at the end when her hand was shaking as Jenny bound her bust. Very sad.

I love the music though, and did enjoy the comic interludes this week. It made me smile thinking of her eau de nil uniform.

sob sob

Too too sad about Mary.

Loving Chummy though, I wondered if the doctor was a possible romantic linkup, as well as the policeman? (Haven't read the books)

I am still ambivalent about this. DD adores it and watching it now. Again.

I really enjoyed it.

Thought Miranda was fantastic.

Chummy is fab and yes there is a link to the policeman if I remember rightly

OOH yes didl Me too ;Miranda was just amazing I reckon she's BAFTA material!! I sobbed at the breech birth (DH couldn't watch from the first birth ) I don't know why but I didn't sob at poor little mary, maybe the acting didn't grab me 'cos the story was so awful

Yes, the Mary thing didn´t get me either.

I suppose I couldn´t help thinking that the baby was better off without her because whatever help had been available for her, she would have gone back to Zakir(?)

sadly diddle you are probably right.

I thought Miranda was great too - she managed to get subtlety into the part as well as all the more obvious slapstick stuff. Thought Chummy's kindness and calmness, despite her terror, in the breech birth scene was extremely well played.

Miranda was fabulous and really made last night's episode. Finding the main character a bit dull though & not really sure how much mileage there is in this as a series, how many different birth stories can there be?

Yes, it would be nice to see some of the follow up visits as well & some more of the other characters.

It looks like we might get to see some of the others a bit more next week. Tbh they seem to be more like stand-alone programmes they're showing one after the other than a proper series.

I would love to have my hair like Jenny's, but I think people would think it was odd now.

I just loved chummy miranda hart was just fab made me laugh and cry your maybe is presenting in the breech postion eh ARSE FIRST , poor mary though i sobbed and sobbed ,

my great aunt had a baby out of wedlock in 1940 she went to one of those homes to have her baby sp sad isnt it what happened to them , GA baby found her again was lovely ,

baby obviously not maybe , tut ,

I didn't think it was possible to love Miranda more than I already did - then I watched this! She was brilliant, I was crying when she delivered the breech baby, and I loved Minty this week too (sorry, don't know his real name!). I didn't really feel for Mary somehow but the lady with rickets was heartbreaking, I was so happy for her in the end.

I had shaves and enemas for mine in the 1970's-not as bad as it sounds-worse in anticipation :)

Miranda Hart was just fantastic in this last night. Loved her. I held my breath practically all through the breech delivery.

Had a very funny shouted conversation between rooms with DH when I realised it had started:
-Damn, we're missing 'Call the Midwife'!
-What?
-'Call the Midwife'!
-WHAT?? Why???

(I'm not even the tiniest bit pregnant....!!)

hehee spiderlight a little bit in the newspaper tv bit , call th e midwife has been comissioned for a 2nd series YAAAYY

Yes jenny's hair is lovely

There was a nice article in the paper about Jennifer Worth and the making of Call the Midwife. Miranda was given the part before she was a household name so they weren't casting a celeb just to pull in viewers iyswim.

*Nurse Camilla Fortescue-Cholmelely-Browne, known as Chummy, is clumsy, upper-class and 6ft 2in. When I first encountered her, on the page, I laughed out loud ? but feared that the role might prove impossible to cast.
Jennifer simply announced that she had found the perfect actress, another newcomer by the name of Miranda Hart, whose sitcom had just started airing.

We demurred ? the BBC had yet to commit to filming the series ? but Jennifer had already sent Miranda the book and had offered her the part.
By the time we started filming, Miranda was the most in-demand comedienne in Britain, but she had fallen in love with Chummy and shared my view that the character had depths crying out to be explored.*

Article here if interested.

Btw, am I the only one who thought the sight of the midwives all riding four-abreast on their bikes reminded them of The Four Marys in the Bunty comics?

Ooh yes, Mary Cotter,Mary Field, Mary Radleigh(?)....can't remember the fourth but she had a dark bob with fringe?

Agree that Miranda did very well.

Don't know if they will follow up on the Mary story in the TV series... In the book, the postscript to the Mary story was that, some years later when Jenny was married with young children, she read a newspaper article about a woman jailed for child abduction... and yes that woman was Mary.

I have a lovely photo of my mum and her fellow midwives standing beside their bicycles in Leith - circa 1950?