Now nearing the 1960s, the community enters a new time of social change, while stories of birth, life and death continue to touch your heart. Will live-wire Nurse Trixie marry her young curate? What new project calls for a heart as big as Chummy's? How will Sister Evangelina react to two new nurses? And why does Sister Julienne appear so unsettled by a mystery benefactor?

Chronicles the lives of a group of midwives who care for expectant mothers in the East End of London in the late-1950s to mid-1960s. A drama about the lives of a group of midwives who care for expectant mothers in the East End of London. It is now 1964 and times are changing, from the introduction of the contraceptive pill, to cancer-screening programs, and the construction of new high-rise buildings. The nuns and nurses continue to face challenging...

"True-to-life look at the exhilarating stories of a midwife in poverty-stricken East London in the 1950s"--Container.

Go behind the scenes of both seasons of the BBC/PBS television show, Call the midwife. Learn how Jennifer Worth's experiences as a midwife among the slums and buzzing dockyards of London's East End in the fifties were brought to life through flawlessly re-created fifties fashions and homes. Immerse yourself in a world that provides a glimpse of history.

With Nonnatus House scheduled for demolition, Jenny, Chummy, and Sister Julienne search for a new location nearby, while Jenny's relationship with Alec continues to blossom. But an outbreak of polio affects the nurses and nuns more than they could have imagined.

A young linen weaver's dreams are destroyed when he is falsely accused of a crime. Isolating himself, he becomes a selfish, despondent miser until he adopts an abandoned child.

Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout"--a tribal initiation into manhood.