CALL THE MIDWIFE: SEASON ONE [BLU-RAY]

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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 Wroth'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, life, 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; Bryony Hannah; Helen George; Jenny Agutter; Pam Ferris; Laura Main; Judy Parfitt; Cliff Parisi; Stephen McGann; Ben Caplan; Miranda Hart; Jessica Raine; Max Macmillan; Victoria Yeates; Jack Ashton; Emerald Fennell; George Rainsford; Dorothy Atkinson; Leo Staar; Jake Bailey; Cheryl Campbell; Elizabeth Rider; Sophie Cosson; Amy McAllister; Colin Young; Cassandra Compton; Elsie Marquez; Sherry Baines; John Ashton; Tom Colley; Nicola Sloane; Gethin Anthony; Orion Ben; Ben Bishop; Aimee Kelly; Liam Reilly; Lorraine Stanley; Monica Dolan; Sharon Small; Hannah Edwards; Seline Hizli; Terence Frisch; Jamie Thomas King; Anna Maria Everett; Ilan Goodman; Sean Baker; Joanne Matthews; Emma Noakes; Mark Flitton; Sophie Rundle; Susie Baxter; Jake Davies; Monsay Whitney; Lisa Diveney; Rosalind March; Dominic Tighe; Micky Baker; Sarah Counsell; Tom Goodman-Hill; Jenny Bolt; Hermione Gulliford; Beverley Klein; Mitchell Hunt; Thomasin Rand; Kirsty J. Curtis; Raewyn Lippert; Kika Markham; Jennifer Aries; Eoin Geoghegan; Rachel Clarke; Josie Walker; Lizzie Hopley; Valerie King; Darwin Shaw; Hayley Squires; Craige Els; Aaron Harris; Leanne Rowe; Lucy Russell; Ella Smith; Faye Daveney; Gemma Salter; Lacey Turner; Roy Hudd; Jessica Jones; Ami Metcalf; Carolina Valdés; Warren Clarke; Karl Johnson; Lucy Robinson; Amy Molloy; Jenna Russell; Fiona Skinner; Tim Faraday; Tina O'Brien; Claire-Louise Cordwell; Velile Tshabalala; Jason Watkins; Helen Phillips; Reece Pockney; Kate Sichel; Lacey Bond; Tessa Churchard; Sheila Reid; Elizabeth Webster; Scarlett Archer; Victoria Bewick; Alison Newman; Kaye Wragg; Tara Ellis; Sarah Gordy; Roger Morlidge; Killian Scott; Debra Baker; Nicola Munns; Benjamin Wilkin; Alexander Cobb; Robert Putt; Kitty Stafford; Sam Swainsbury; Dean Christie; Katie Maguire; Louise Yates; Sarah Ridgeway; Thomas Aldridge; Lizzie Roper; Neal Barry; Candis Nergaard; Anthony Calf; Lucy Kilpatrick; Trevor Martin; Tilly Vosburgh; Tristram Wymark; Nicholas Agnew; Fern Deacon; Emily Taaffe; Hannah Tointon; David Annen; Terry Bird; Jeff Innocent; David Maybrick; Raymond Coulthard; Christopher Dane; Tristan Gemmill; Julie Riley; Margaret Stallard; Carolyn Tomkinson; Daniel Attwell; Tom Brittney; Christos Lawton; Tommy McDonnell; Brett Allen; Stanley Townsend; John Vernon; Laura Dalgleish; Kelsey Gallagher; Nick Hendrix; Andy McSorley; Charlotte Victoria; Clare Cathcart; Victoria Alcock; Robin Browne; Zandra Andersson; Andrew Ashford; Susan Brown; Robin Cameron; Louise Dylan; Oliver Stoney; Mia Austen; Timothy Speyer; David Kennedy; Penny Layden; Graham Padden; Anton Saunders; Simon Armstrong; Emma Garrett; Catherine Skinner; Prue Clarke; Amanda Daniels; Daniel Fearn; Jamie Taylor; Nancy Carroll; Trixiebell Harrowell; Stephen Ashfield; Jack Bailey; Jessica Boshier; Kirsty Hoiles; Eve Matheson; Tony Turner; Sandi Toksvig; Michelle Duncan; Debra Gillett; Tasha Sheridan; Amelda Brown; Rachel Bavidge; Jim Conway; Nick Bartlett; Dominic Borrelli; Hasan Dixon; Holly Augustine; Dominic Letts; Stuart Birmingham; Nina De Cosimo; Eliza Jones; Laura Swift; Daniel van der Molen; Graham Curry; Gavin Diani; Josh Dyer; Donnie Gellibrand; Hugo Gellibrand; Michael Knight; Robert Roman Ratajczak; Julie Vollono; Stuart Matthews; Darren Hammock; Angela Hartwell; Ed Pearce; Peter Svatik; Mikko Vartiainen; Richard Banks; Chris Cowlin; Richard Herdman; Dexta Mitchell; Scott Stevenson; Anick Wiget; Philippa Lowthorpe; Minkie Spiro; Jamie Payne; Roger Goldby; Juliet May; Thea Sharrock; Jennifer Worth; Heidi Thomas; Harriet Warner; Jack Williams; Esther Wilson; Mark Catley; John Martin; Jess Williams; Gabbie Asher; Liz Lake; Damian Wayling
• Director: Philippa Lowthorpe
• Runtime: 5:55
• Company: BBC
• Media Format: Series