CALL THE MIDWIFE: SEASON ONE

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• Release Year: 2012
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Call the Midwife is a moving, intimate, funny and, above all, true-to-life look at the exhilarating stories of a midwife in poverty-stricken East London in the 1950s, based on Jennifer Worth's best-selling memoirs.; ; Jenny Lee knows nothing about hardship, poverty, or, indeed life, itself. Direct from nursing school, Jenny joins an order of nursing nuns at Nonnatus House and a team of midwives providing the poorest women in London with the best possible care. The life that greets Jenny is a world away from what she's used to. The streets teem with children - families of between six and ten children are commonplace - and with just one eight-bed maternity ward to serve the whole district, most deliveries take place at home. The drama follows Jenny as she meets her patients for the first time - women like Conchita, who is on her 25th pregnancy, and Mary, a prostitute, pregnant and just 15 years old - all while hiding her own secret past.; ; Call the Midwife is a fascinating portrayal of birth, lifr, and death in a community on the brink of huge social change, offering a gripping insight into a world that is so drastically different from how we live now.
• Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Raine, Pam Ferris, Helen George, Laura Main, Judy Parfitt, Bryony Hannah, Jenny Agutter, Ben Caplan, Cliff Parisi, Miranda Hart, Stephen McGann, George Rainsford, Elizabeth Rider, Sophie Cosson, Amy McAllister, Syd Macartney, Juliet May, Philippa Lowthorpe, China Moo-Young, Minkie Spiro, Darcia Martin, Lisa Clarke, Sheree Folkson, David O'Neill, Jamie Payne, Roger Goldby, Kate Cheeseman, Thea Sharrock, Thaddeus O'Sullivan, Dominic Leclerc, James Larkin, Rebecca Johnson, Claire Winyard, Christiana Ebohon-Green, Kate Saxon, Noreen Kershaw, Amy Neil, Emma Sullivan, Jennifer Worth, Heidi Thomas, Harriet Warner, Carolyn Bonnyman, Andrea Gibb, Louise Ironside, Damian Wayling, Debbie O'Malley, Jack Williams, Esther Wilson, Mark Catley, John Martin Johnson, Jess Williams, Gabbie Asher, Liz Lake, Helen Blakeman, Kelly Jones, Lauren Klee, Lisa Holdsworth, Loren Mclaughlan, Amy Roberts, Jonathan Harvey, Helen Raynor, Paul Walker
• Director: Syd Macartney
• Runtime: 6:00
• Company: BBC
• Media Format: Series