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Call the midwife

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JazzAnnNonMouse · 20/01/2013 19:41

Tonight?

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PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 18/02/2013 17:57

I think it should have been after 9 o'clock really, when they were showing it so graphically.

However, just in terms of the filming, I thought the way they cut between the abortion and Trixie doing her nails was very clever. It made it very hard to watch.

Also, on a more cheerful note, isn't the music lovely? That's one of the things I most enjoy about it.

mrsjay · 18/02/2013 17:59

I agree with you the scene was powerful wasn't it.

apparently sister bernadette well the actress sings some of the songs

YouBrokeMySmoulder · 18/02/2013 18:01

But the continuity announcer did make it very clear what the content was going to be and after that then it is upto parents isnt it?

mrsjay · 18/02/2013 18:06

you broke my shoulder I suppose you are right and yes it is but I think parents gauge programmes as pre and post watershed as I said before my youngest is 15 so I have no issues with her watching

NotADragonOfSoup · 18/02/2013 18:21

I don't think it needed to be post watershed. It was cut very cleverly.

OddBoots · 18/02/2013 18:26

I don't think the watershed means much, there is some fab family viewing after 9pm (Wonders of Life, Genius of Invention, Howard Goodall's Story of Music etc) and violent and antisocial viewing earlier in the evening (most soaps esp EastEnders).

LIZS · 18/02/2013 18:29

Ah , would have missed the announcer. We don't normally watch it but saw the Christmas one and have caught snatches a few times since.

mrsjay · 18/02/2013 18:32

I suppose they have wife beating husband beating baby swaps babies dying etc etc in the soaps yet they put a penguin programme on last week at 9pm Confused

FWIW i thought the cut away scene between trixie and the abortion was very well done , all in all its a great series

hackmum · 18/02/2013 19:15

Mrsjay: "I think that would have been far to much for sunday night telly I think people want a happyish ending ,"

Yes, I think killing the baby might have been a bit much! I think I'd have preferred not to have them wandering the fields though. It was too corny for words.

Pixel · 18/02/2013 19:40

Must admit, I did think "Sound of Music" at the end (lots of nuns in that too!).

I appreciate that the people were skint and work was scarce but you'd have thought contraception would have been a higher priority for anyone who could stretch to it. It must have been much cheaper than paying for an extra mouth to feed or a dodgy abortion, and a lot less dangerous. I wasn't sure if perhaps some of them avoided for religious reasons? Are the nuns meant to be catholic? (genuinely not sure, not an expert on nuns! Wink.)

Bilbobagginstummy · 18/02/2013 21:24

The nuns in this are anglican nuns.

Last night's episode was so distressing. The argument for safe, legal abortion graphically laid out. Sad

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 18/02/2013 22:37

She says in the book that most men completely refused to wear a sheath. There was a shocking statistic as well about how the number of births changed when the pill became available. I don't have my copy to hand, but think it was from something like fifty deliveries a month to five or six. Can anybody check?

BertieBotts · 18/02/2013 23:08

I think the condoms weren't very nice as well as the cost aspect, and perhaps not all that reliable either (well, more reliable than chance you'd hope.)

Oodsigma · 18/02/2013 23:28

polka those numbers sound right to ms

Oodsigma · 18/02/2013 23:28

polka those numbers sound right to ms

Pixel · 19/02/2013 00:28

Ah right, thanks. I guess if they really were rubber they would have been pretty horrible. Men can be very selfish though can't they.

doyouwantfrieswiththat · 19/02/2013 00:40

If you've read the books ,iirc the old soldier from the first series specifically mentions using sheaths to save his wife from falling pregnant. The books are wonderful, after reading them I find the new series a bit cheesey, and lots of stuff added in that changes the feel of the story.

hackmum · 19/02/2013 08:18

Well, surprise, surprise, Sunday's episode has made the Daily Mail:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2280850/Viewers-anger-graphic-Call-Midwife-scene-showed-backstreet-abortion-watershed.html

And someone's been reading this thread (but they can't spell Mumsnet):

"On Mums Net, one user wrote: ?Had to walk out of the room during illegal abortion scene?, while another added: ?Very uncomfortable viewing.?"

youfhearted · 19/02/2013 08:40

just caught up on two episodes last night and one the night before, feel absolutely wrung out.
and the books are worse? Shock
i did go off it after the xmas speical wehich I found too cheesey. or pehrpas it was because I watched it with DH.
better to watch alone and sob

GwendolineMaryLacey · 19/02/2013 08:44

Throughout the 1950's the Sisters had delivered around 100 babies per month. In the year 1964 that number had dropped to four or five.

mrsjay · 19/02/2013 08:50

PIXEL I don't think it was a case of people being skint they were in poverty but even back then which really wasn't that long ago people were expected to have babies it was a part of marriage IYSWIM, but then they did go to back street abortionists so they were contradicting themselves but id imagine contraception wasn't at the top of the priorities, big families were not unusual my own mum is 1 of 8

mrsjay · 19/02/2013 08:52

On Mums Net, one user wrote: ?Had to walk out of the room during illegal abortion scene?, while another added: ?Very uncomfortable viewing.?"

Shock I didnt say that but im fuming that they use us for their paper why isn't mumsnet private why are they using our words , >>off to check t n cs Angry

GwendolineMaryLacey · 19/02/2013 08:57

It's an open forum, they can take what they like. There was a huge kick off about this a few years back.

mrsjay · 19/02/2013 08:59

how irritating although I have seen discussion programmes the wright stuff using topics , bloody lazy and annoying.

NotADragonOfSoup · 19/02/2013 09:14

No one on this thread said those quotes in the DM. Is there another thread?