Call the Midwife is back!

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

This Sunday (17th) at 8pm on BBC1.

I enjoyed the Christmas special - it was good to see Delia back, and I think there's going to be a nice romance with Tom and Barbara

The - it looks like we are going to get a thalidomide story.

[AtiaoftheJulii]

Dd reckons if anything happens between Tom and Barbara that Trixie will fall off the wagon, now they've signposted it by mentioning her AA meetings again.

[AnneEyhtMeyer]

I'm hoping Trixie will be so upset she leaves.

I thought I didn't like Jenny, but my dislike of Trixie is at a whole different level. I may stop watching.

[misstiredbuthappy]

I think the doctor or someone will get lun cancer or problems caused by smoking. The hints are constantly there.

[SuffolkNWhat]

The hints have been there since series 1

[Girlfriend36]

God I love CTM!!!

Think the storyline was probably fairly realistic, the thalidomide scandal was and is still so shocking. I don't think the families were ever properly compensated were they?

Yes not sure about Tom and Barbara is he planning on working his way round all the midwives

[MrsJamin]

It could go either way for Tom, back to trixie or a new love with Barbara. Nothing quite like a love triangle for drama.
I think they handled the thalidomide story very well, I read that a thalidomide survivor helped them with the storyline and was even on set.

[rivierliedje]

The show is going to have to go on for a while longer before someone gets lung cancer though, won't it.
I can't imagine being bossed back home to a different country at 24. Such a lack of independence for women.

[misstiredbuthappy]

Would the two women (can't remember for the life off me their names) get in trouble if everyone knew there are in a relationship or would it just be frowend upon ?

[SuffolkNWhat]

It'd be hushed up, if lucky they might be able to live together as maiden aunts etc

[readyforno2]

Ahhh!! Missed it. Just saw this thread now. I'm gutted. Will it be on YouTube do you think? Or Iplayer?

[rivierliedje]

Well it wasn't illegal (like it was for men), but it would be a perfectly suitable excuse to fire someone and make them a pariah in the community.

[kinkytoes]

Well the nuns would be less than impressed for a start I'm sure!

[misstiredbuthappy]

Why was it illegal for men and not women ?

[AnneEyhtMeyer]

In real life I expect they would live as unmarried friends.

If it had been discovered the nuns would have been horrified I imagine.

In CTM I expect they will be philosophical and understanding and embrace their love.

[SuffolkNWhat]

Because the Victorians couldn't figure out how women have sex

[misstiredbuthappy]

I should Google shouldn't I sorry.

[firefly78]

Queen Victoria didnt believe that something so abhorrent really existed.

[rivierliedje]

Because men made the laws and couldn't fathom women doing anything like that? I don't really know, but I imagine that played a part. Also, wasn't the law based on sodomy being a sin (the bible etc) and only men can commit sodomy? Something like that?

[CrayonShavings]

Ooh why all the hate for Trixie? I didn't watch Strictly, is she that bad a dancer?

She had a point that the nuns get the whole weekend off for praying, why shouldn't the midwives have hobbies? I like her, she's gutsy.

[AnneEyhtMeyer]

Her dancing was fine, but she was a cow.

[Bunbaker]

"It's awful to think a generation were affected by that awful drug."

My generation. I went to Brownies with a girl who was a thalidomide victim. One of her legs was shorter than the other and her hands weren't fully formed. I think her arms were a little shorter as well.

[Moln]

Well that was emotional.

[readyforno2]

Caught up on Iplayer. So sad. Very well portrayed though.
I never watched strictly, I like Trixie. I love the way the series is progressing

[bettys]

Just realised Patsy's girlfriend's mother is cocking Rhian from Stella!