Call the Midwife
"In 1950's London, they delivered hope for all."
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
Season 5 Episodes
E1
When a baby is born with severe deformities of the kind later identified as caused by the drug thalidomide, the midwives…
E2
Barbara treats a pregnant woman whose dockworker husband is struggling to support her as opportunities for work dry up. …
E3
A outbreak of typhoid erupts, and suspicion over who the carrier could be threatens to break apart a closely knit family…
E4
Sister Julienne is seconded to a maternity ward, and is impressed by how modern technology is being used to help the mot…
E5
Turner and Shelagh are at the forefront of the advances in medical technology, and begin a campaign to ensure better res…
E6
Poplar is rocked by a series of violent attacks on women, and a prostitute is too ashamed to report what she knows - but…
E7
The introduction of the contraceptive pill is welcomed by Dr Turner, but some of his colleagues are less keen on the ide…
E8
Dr Turner is horrified to realise he may be partly to blame as the cause of the recent rise in birth deformities comes t…
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