Premiering on BBC Entertainment (channel
120 on DStv) will be the Christmas Special and Series 2 (eight episodes) of Call the Midwife which will be aired
from June 2 at 21h00.
Based on the best selling memoirs by
Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife
follows Jenny Lee, a young nurse working as part of a team of midwives from
Nonnatus House who visit the expectant mothers of Poplar, providing the poorest
women with the best possible care.
The life that greets Jenny is a world away
from what she’s used to – either at home or in the hospitals where she was
trained. The streets teem with children – families of between six and ten
children are commonplace – and with just one eight-bed maternity ward to serve
the whole district, most deliveries take place at home.
In the Christmas Special, the midwives of
Nonnatus House are busier than ever. When an abandoned baby is discovered on
the steps of the convent, the whole community rallies round to provide food and
clothing and to try and trace his mother. Meanwhile, Nurse Jenny Lee (Jessica
Raine) gets caught up in the heartbreaking mystery that surrounds an elderly,
semi-vagrant local woman, Mrs Jenkins (Sheila Reid). For newly-married Chummy
(Miranda Hart), other challenges await, as she pulls out all the stops to mount
a truly memorable children's nativity play.
Series two continues to follow Jenny and
the other midwives as they deal with the all the problems Poplar has to throw
at them and is a fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on
the brink of huge social change. Call the
Midwife offers a gripping insight into a world that is so drastically
different from how we live now.
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