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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, 1960s and 1970s. 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, Linda Bassett and Charlotte Ritchie.
One of the UK's earliest registered nurses, and the last surviving founder of Nonnatus House, Sister Monica Joan (whose birth name was Antonia Keville) retired from practice prior to the events of the series.
She was known for her appearances in Coronation Street, New Tricks and Call the Midwife in which she played Mrs Torpy. [2] Cathcart also appeared in the TV programmes Holby City, Goodnight Sweetheart, Come Fly with Me, Doctors, [3] The Bill, and Casualty. Onstage, she appeared in The Comedy of Errors at the National Theatre, directed by Dominic ...
This Sunday’s Call the Midwife started out like any other installment of the PBS drama. Sister Hilda led the morning meeting for the midwives and noticed that Nurse Nancy seemed preoccupied with ...
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.
Fans grow to know and love reality TV stars as real people, not as characters — which makes the loss hit even harder. In recent years, stars from The Deadliest Catch, The Real World, Survivor ...
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).
Like a garden full of flowers and weeds, PBS’ Call the Midwife blossomed with a Season 11 debut full of life, death, joy and sadness. The episode’s most fascinating juxtaposition occurred ...