Call The Midwife Series 13 Part 2

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Or Call Saint Turner, as the show has really turned into.

I have read all the books. Maybe it's that. Thank you.

Yes you're right. Absolutely scarlet I didn't immediately recognise his powers would have been the reason.

I know we're said this before, but it's worth revisiting: I'd absolutely love a series about Millicent and Phylisis.

Wouldn't "Nurse Crane and Miss Higgins" be the ideal Sunday night viewing?

I'd watch the pair of them as lady detectives in retirement.

I'd also love a series about each of their origin stories.

I want a pre NHS Nonnatus series - I would love to see Sisters J, E and even MJ in their younger days when they were attending to woman before the welfare state. Much more interesting than pushing on in to the 70s.

😁 It’s from a Julia Davis series, Nighty Night. Some of the darkest, most grotesque and most brilliant comedy the BBC ever dared to make.

Yes, I agree. The next event will be Christmas, when presumably we will also get the next episode as a special.

@SmashedPrawnsInAMilkyBasket i bloody loved Nighty Night. I lufs Julia Davis - so talented.

She is indeed a queen.

I was thinking the same about them both. I think they'd be great together.

You are (both) right! It was Chummy who delivered in the book and Sr Evangelina and Trixie in the show

Oh goodness. I've started watching from S1 again and forgot how absolutely heartbreakingly moving it was. I've just finished episode 3 and I've shed a tear at every single episode so far!
The recent series are an absolute shitshow in comparison. We didn't know how good we had it 😅

I think this would be a fantastic idea for a series.

I love that idea too. It would be so interesting and I’d absolutely love to see young Sister Evangelina.

Where would the stories come from for a spin-off series though? With CTM, it got off to a flying start because it was based on authentic memoirs but there would ideally need to be equally vivid and accurate memoirs for Edwardian midwifery (it being presumably Edwardian times when the nuns were young).

Maybe the Order of St John the Divine (the real nuns) have records that might help?

The Open University social history would be a good resource. They did a great job on researching the "Back in time for..." programmes.

Well the current series aren't based on memoirs. When the books first ran out they appealed for others who had worked in midwifery/nursing at the time to share their stories by they don't do that anymore.

The current series seem be a bit of historical knowledge and a bit of what illness/accidents events can happen so they hit the 'big' events of the period and churn out birth stories and sometimes they ties to together e.g. polio, thalidomide etc.

A good writer with some in depth research so be able to give us some stories that reflect the pre NHS period and develop characters, back stories for the nuns.

I have no idea what the records are like for the order but there must be some sort of historical records that can be used as A jumping off point.

Loved the ‘Back in time for’ programmes @InMySpareTime

There was quite a bit about Sr Evangelina's back story in the books. She came from the slums herself and worked in a biscuit factory before becoming a nun and midwife.

I have said many times I would love to see the earlier stories. Especially labour and delivery during the actual war. I would love to see how they managed it.

There’s huge amounts of social history from the first half of the 20th century.

Bit of an aside here but I was in a charity shop the other day and came across a paperback called Letters to the Midwife... letters sent to Jennifer Worth and her replies to various people
Was a bargain as well. 50p.

Great idea.

Looks like the romance rumours are true!!

I have covid and am currently watching from the start.
So so wonderful...

Sobbing over Alec Jesmond's death and the mums all singing for him.

The unexploded bomb episode when the tb starts made me feel more than ever I def want a prequel-thinking in the east end in WW2. Would love young Sisters Julienne, Evangelina and Monica Joan.

Hope the CTM show runners lurking on here...