Call The Midwife

[chessington]

Im sad it is finishing this Sunday, its such a brilliant programme

[Cloverjo]

Is this the final ever series?
I stopped watching when it became all made up, rather than based on Jenny's memoirs.

It all got a bit soap-like.

[waterboatman]

I agree with you. One of the best programmes on!

[waterboatman]

Morning jo. xxx This series has improved and is realistic.

[ummmm]

I really enjoy it too but there's only so far they can go.

[ummmm]

As soon as the NHS was introduced home births started getting less common.

[Cloverjo]

Hi Boaty,
Perhaps I should have given it longer and kept watching.
I went off it particularly when Trixie developed a 'drink problem'. If it's supposed to based on real people, I thought it wrong to make up a storyline like that.
Oh well, I'm glad others have been enjoying it.

[waterboatman]

That's true enough. The programme is coming up to that time when the NHS came into existence.

[waterboatman]

Yes jo. That was pushing it a bit, but it is better now. much more like it really was then.

[grumpy01]

The programme also shows the care displayed by GP's for their patients.It was different then, no "medically qualified" receptionists or triage nurses to get through before seeing the Doctor.

[New Judge]

"The programme is coming up to that time when the NHS came into existence."

The programme is currently set in the early Sixties (The Cuban missile crisis, October 1962, featured heavily a couple of episodes ago). The NHS Came into existence on 5th July 1948.

Services such as that in "Call the Midwife" existed under the auspices of the NHS. They received much of their funding from the taxpayer and followers of the programme will notice the increasing influence the "bean counters" had over their operations.

[woofgang]

Not the last series
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-12-25/bbc-commissions-three-more-series-of-call-the-midwife

[hc4361]

In 1965 women were paid to have home births.

[ummmm]

Really?

I could imagine that home births are much less stressful as long as something doesn't go wrong.

[Sqad]

I can't imagine any woman wanting a "home birth" especially if it is her first.

[trt]

I remember when I was about 7/8yrs old, and had to go to a horrible clinic with my Mum as I had a Verruca.

Had to sit in a big room with lots of people, then when it was my turn, I was sat in the middle, while a women soaked my foot in disinfectant, then started to dig it out with a scalpel type knife.

Will never forget the pain, and about 30 people all gawping at me.

[chessington]

Im so glad it is not ending for good, I just know this coming Sunday is the last in the series

[ummmm]

Sqad - you've never given birth!!

[bobbie22]

Please can anyone tell me what happened. Last Sunday? I recorded it, but for some reason, the recording would not play. Thanks in advance

[chessington]

The family were back in it with the little girl with Thalidamide Susan, she is 18 months old now (so cute). Trixie told her new boyfriend the dentist about going to AA meetings, he had a secret too, he has a daughter and is divorced, The welsh nurse (can't place her name) read in the paper about her gf father dying and is upset she has not heard from Patsy. Nurse Crane had a car accident and ran a boy over, he survived, can you not watch it on catch up, it was really good.

[bobbie22]

Thanks for the reply chessington. Sorry I have been so long replying, but I have been away, and only just looked in the Answerbank. I'm not very sure how to watch programmes on catchup, but thanks anyway.