Call the Midwife (Call the Midwife – Ruf des Lebens)

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Amy Neil

Claire Winyard

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Spike White
Leon Chapman 1 episode, 2023

Jadie Rose Hobson
Nancy Parry 1 episode, 2019

Josef Davies
Allan Romaine 1 episode, 2018

Alexia Traverse-Healy
Sadie Weatherley 1 episode, 2018

Samantha Spiro
Grace Calthorpe 1 episode, 2020

India Lillie Davies
Joanne Dellow 1 episode, 2021

Payal Mistry
Nimali Patel 1 episode, 2022

Thando Guma
Abel 1 episode, 2016

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Damian Wayling

Jennifer Worth

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Description: Call the Midwife is a BBC period drama series about The lives of a group of nurse midwives living and working in the East End of London in the late 1950s and early 1960s. [Link removed - login to see] The series is produced by Neal Street Productions, a production company founded and owned by the film director and producer Sam Mendes, Call the Midwife executive producer Pippa Harris, and Caro Newling. The first series, set in 1957, premiered in the UK on 15 January 2012. The series was created by Heidi Thomas, originally based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth who worked with the Community of St. John the Divine, an Ang Call the Midwife is a BBC period drama series about The lives of a group of nurse midwives living and working in the East End of London in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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The series is produced by Neal Street Productions, a production company founded and owned by the film director and producer Sam Mendes, Call the Midwife executive producer Pippa Harris, and Caro Newling. The first series, set in 1957, premiered in the UK on 15 January 2012.

The series was created by Heidi Thomas, originally based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth who worked with the Community of St. John the Divine, an Anglican religious order, at their convent in the East End in London. The order was founded as a nursing order in 1849. The memoirs have since been expanded to include new, historically sourced material. For the most part it depicts the day-to-day lives of the midwives and those in their local neighbourhood of Poplar, with certain historical events of the era having a direct or indirect effect on the characters and storylines.

Such events include: the knock-on effects of the post-World War II baby boom, post-war immigration and the 1948 founding of the NHS in the first series and beyond; the introduction of gas and air as a form of pain relief and unexploded ordnance in the second series; the Child Migrants Programme and the threat of nuclear warfare (including emergency response guidelines issued by local Civil Defence Corps) in the fourth series; and the thalidomide scandal and the introduction of the contraceptive pill in the fifth series.

The plot follows newly qualified midwife Jenny Lee, and the work of midwives and the nuns of Nonnatus House, a nursing convent, and part of an Anglican religious order, coping with the medical problems in the deprived Poplar district of London's desperately poor East End, in the 1950s. The Sisters and midwives carry out many nursing duties across the community. However, with between 80 and 100 babies being born each month in Poplar alone, the primary work is to help bring safe childbirth to women in the area and to look after their countless newborns.

Critical reception for the show (in both the UK and the US) has been mostly positive, and the series has won numerous awards and nominations since its original broadcast. The show has also been praised for tackling a variety of topical subjects and contemporary social, cultural and economic issues, including local community, miscarriage and stillbirths, abortion and unwanted pregnancies, birth defects, poverty, illness and disease epidemics, prostitution, incest, religion and faith, racism and prejudice, alcoholism, disability, (then-illegal) homosexuality between men, lesbianism, female genital mutilation, and maternal, paternal and romantic love.
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Release date: 15 January 2012

Tags: 2012 (2), Poverty (2), Birth Control (1), Mother (1), Based On Book (1), Vanessa Redgrave (1), Motherhood (1), Babies (1), Nurses (1), 2010s (1), Bicycles (1), Color (1), Health Care (1), Midwives (1), East London (1), 60 Min (1), Bryony Hannah (1), Helen George (1), Neal Street Productions (1), British Broadcasting Corporation (1)

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