A trailer has been released for this year’s Call the Midwife Christmas special.

The feature-length episode of the period drama airs at 7.50pm on Christmas Day on BBC One.

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Watch the trailer…

The episode opens in 2005. Jennifer Worth is at home preparing for Christmas with husband Philip, and as she reminisces about her youth at Nonnatus House, the drama cuts back to 1960. Rehearsals are underway for the Sunday School Christmas Concert, and while Chummy tries to choreograph dancing snowflakes, Trixie sets to work designing a Father Christmas outfit for Fred to wear.

Chummy is enlisted to help run a poorly managed Mother And Baby home, and with Patsy’s help succeeds in bringing some Christmas joy into the residents’ lives.

Cynthia is drawn deeply into a case concerning two former residents of a Victorian mental hospital who have been left to fend for themselves, and are barely coping. This causes Cynthia to make a life-changing decision. There is only question in all of their hearts, though it goes unspoken – what will 1960 bring?

BBC One recently commissioned a fifth season of Call the Midwife, before the fourth season has even aired.

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