That any given episode of Call the Midwife will be emotional is a given. This show churns out a resonant tearjerker week after week by both showing life’s cruel realities and allowing for glimpses of hope. But, in this episode, the aim is more to stir up feelings of rage and exasperation, as a young teacher in a relationship … >
If there’s a connective thread between this episode of Call the Midwife and last week’s instalment, it’s that both are concerned with people in difficult and unusual situations having to dig deep for strength. Season 5’s opener told the story of a family encountering the effects of the drug Thalidomide, and here we see a couple struggle to deal … >
Call the Midwife is back for its fifth season – and it’s now set in 1961, so we can expect some of the changing attitudes within society start to seep into the drama. The show immediately has a more modern feel in this premiere episode, with a little bit of Mad Men’s style to the costuming and the feeling … >
BBC One has released a trailer for the new season of Call the Midwife. The drama returns at 8pm on Sunday 17 January on BBC One, following last month’s Christmas special. > Buy the complete Season 1-4 box set on Amazon. In the first of eight new episodes, Easter 1961 is approaching, and for the … >
Picking things up after the more heartbreaking and downbeat end to its fourth season, Call the Midwife returns to BBC One for its annual Christmas special. Like last year’s festive instalment, and many other episodes of the show, it juggles a significant number of storylines. There are probably about five separately identifiable intersecting strands to the episode’s plot, … >
BBC One has commissioned a sixth season of Call the Midwife, before the fifth season has even begun airing. Taking the nuns and midwives into 1962, Season 6 will consist of a Christmas special in 2016 followed by eight 60-minute episodes in early 2017. > Buy the complete Season 1-4 box set on Amazon. Call … >
Like the best episodes of Call the Midwife, Season 4’s finale is at once uplifting and heartbreakingly sad. And, really, if there’s anything the episode is about, it’s how the good always comes with the bad; it’s most explicitly stated in a single, brief conversation between Tom and Trixie: she on the way back from delivering a child, … >
Call The Midwife Season 4 (including the 2014 Christmas Special) and a complete Call the Midwife Season 1-4 boxset are out on DVD on Monday 9 March from BBC Worldwide. To celebrate the release, we’ve got a Season 1-4 boxset to give away to one of our Twitter followers, with Season 4 DVDs for runners-up! … >
The idea of two babies being accidentally swapped and given to different mothers is a nightmare scenario for new parents and the last thing you’d expect the diligent midwives of Nonnatus House to do. But a water shortage and a fire in the maternity home lead to exactly that happening here, and the weight of the … >
Call the Midwife returns to BBC One for a fourth season. > Buy the complete Season 1-3 boxset on Amazon. Christmas 2014 special Thursday 25 December 2014, 7.50pm > Read our review. The episode opens in 2005. Jennifer Worth is at home preparing for Christmas with husband Philip, and as she reminisces about her … >