Call the midwife

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The call the midwife christmas special is on bbc 1 in 2 parts. The first part will be shown on christmas day at 20:00. The second part will be shown at 19:30 on boxing day. Series 14 will start on 5th January. I am suprised that it has not been renamed as the doctor Turner show.

I've not watched CTM in a while but they were based in the books, and real life cases from Jennifer Worth. I don't know if that's still the case. The actress Jessica Raine who played her obvs buggered off to better things.

There must be some of the earlier cases who recognise themselves. That Spanish woman with the 14 kids is a bit disclosive

I don't think that it will last long. I struggle to understand what she is saying now.

Is the 1970 cohort study ongoing still? The internet suggests it might be. That's amazing - what an incredible thing to do.

It would suggest it is now April. Didn't Nancy and Roger only meet at Christmas? And they're getting married in 6 months? 10 months from meeting to marriage is incredibly quick!

Aibu to refuse permission for my dd to do sex education at school. My daughter is pregnant. Aibu to think that she is carrying the devil's child.

They run out of material from the books when series 2 finished.

I think CTM started as a fairly serious historical drama but it's basically a soap opera now and no more realistic than any other soap really. As long as you watch it with that in mind and can ignore the preachy-ness it's an entertaining enough way to kill an hour on a cold winter evening. But they really need to find a better way of dealing with the absence of actors who portray long running characters other than having them disappear across the Atlantic. Both the Lucille/Cyril and Trixie/Matthew scenarios are beyond ridiculous. Either kill off the absentees or recast. People always complain about recasting initially, especially if it's a popular character, but it has been done successfully in plenty of other long running series. It would be no more difficult to believe in someone else playing Lucille than it is to accept that a woman with her deep religious convictions would have abandoned her husband without a second thought.

yes, there could be a climate disaster for Lucille,

No - I agree with snowmensballs- that exactly how it came over to me too, even if it wasn’t meant to!

It deals with really gritty issues, so don’t see how you can treat it as more of a comedy!

Like others i would like a prequel that focues on the work of the midwives during world war 2. I hope that we don't get a sequel about doctor turner's son saving the world.

It's funny. I've got 2 close friends who watch CTMW and neither of them find Dr Turner annoying. They like him.

I met a man in december. Aibu to marry him although i have only known him for 3 months?

There must be some of the earlier cases who recognise themselves. That Spanish woman with the 14 kids is a bit disclosive

24 kids!

My parents married in 1970 - about a year after they met. It was common to get married after a fairly short engagement and to get engaged sooner living together wasn't really an option so things tend to move along much faster.
The longest married couple I've ever known (over 70 years) had only met a couple of times for a few hours before they tied the knot - WWII wedding met on one weekend of leave, met up on the next leave, got engaged on the 3 leave and married on the 4th!

My mum likes doctor turner.

That was my favourite christmas special. It was so sad.

My parents got engaged after four months I think. It was a long engagement with a lot of saving up for wedding/house.

Actually it's a terrible idea, but it was more common back then.

It had a lot to do with the societal expectation and pressure to marry, I think at one point Roger says he is 32; that would have been considered very late for a man to still be a bachelor. Nowadays even a professional young couple wouldn't have had a hope of owning or renting a home in the South East (Surrey!) so why are we surprised that the twentysomething marriage/birth rate is in freefall?

I enjoyed hearing it too! It was the first record I bought!

I was at a girls secondary school in the 60s/early 70s.

There was one “sex education” lesson in my entire time at school, probably just before we took O levels. The headmistress (a former Biology teacher) told us at length about venereal disease. That was it.

I dropped Biology in favour of Physics and Chemistry when we made our O level choices aged 14. By then we’d got as far as cockroaches, not people. Only the bottom set could take O level “Human Biology.”

Were “sex education” lessons in secondary schools, which parents could refuse permission for their children to attend, really common in 1970?

I remember doing lesson observation in a primary school in 1972 where the 10-11 year olds watched a BBC programme about human bodies, but I don’t think it covered the idea of “having sex.”

And “ bad moon rising “ was played a lot then. I was born in the late forties, I think they have recreated the eras very accurately.

My parents met at a new year party in the early 70s and married at the start of August - just over seven months later. They were not well suited...

When my mum was pregnant with me she had an internal and the consultant also squeezed her knee .
I remember my mum telling me when I was pregnant .
She found him very creepy .

My parents met and married within 6 months in the early 70s. Married to this day.

I was also at (non religious, state) school in the 70s and definitely didn't have any sex education. The nearest thing to it was a lesson in the first year of secondary school when the boys and girls were split up and we got a talk about the menstrual cycle and period products. No idea what the boys did in that time. We did cover human reproduction in Biology but only in a technical kind of way, it was probably the lesson after pollination!

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See, if that is in even only half accurate to the case Jennifer Worth was writing about they'd have been able to recognise themselves