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Call the Midwife is a British period drama television series about a group of nurse midwives working in the East End of London in the late 1950s and 1960s. The principal cast of the show has included Jessica Raine, Miranda Hart, Helen George, Bryony Hannah, Laura Main, Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Judy Parfitt, Cliff Parisi, Stephen McGann, Ben Caplan, Daniel Laurie, Emerald Fennell, Victoria ...
Call the Midwife is a British period drama television series based on the best-selling memoirs of former nurse Jennifer Worth, who died shortly before the first episode was broadcast. [1] It is set in the 1950s and 1960s and for the first three series centred primarily on Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine), based on the real Worth.
Jennifer Louise Worth RN RM (née Lee; 25 September 1935 – 31 May 2011) was a British memoirist.She wrote a best-selling trilogy about her work as a nurse and midwife practising in the poverty-stricken East End of London in the 1950s: Call the Midwife (2002), Shadows of the Workhouse (2005) and Farewell to The East End (2009).
The next season of the cozy British drama Call the Midwife may not hit our screens until 2025 (season 14 is set to debut next March!) but there’s still one more dose of Poplar’s favorite ...
The dramatic 13th season of Call the Midwife is coming to a close, but fans of the nurses of Nonnatus House can breathe easy, because the midwives of Poplar will be returning for yet another outing.
Call the Midwife just wouldn't be the same without film and television veteran Parfitt's turn as the heart of Nonnatus House, Sister Monica Joan. Netflix/Getty Images Linda Bassett as Phyllis Crane
Pupil Midwife Anne "Nancy" Corrigan is an Irish midwife in training from Cork in her early 20s and is delivered to Nonnatus House by two Catholic nuns. At the dinner table, she reveals everyone calls her "Nancy" after Nancy Sinatra, explaining she wears a lot of boots (referencing Sintra's then-popular " These Boots Are Made for Walkin' ").
The first twelve seasons of Call the Midwife so far are available to U.S. viewers on Netflix, as well as for purchase on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV. Shop the books that inspired the show.