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Call the midwives

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Bruce

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Wollongong, Australia

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19-01-2015, 01:42 PM

Re: Call the midwives

Originally Posted by carol ->

I just love that programme... It's so brilliantly produced and acted and the storylines are so evocative of the times ...

Is this the new series without the main character?

Meg

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Worcestershire

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19-01-2015, 02:27 PM

Re: Call the midwives

Originally Posted by Bruce ->

Is this the new series without the main character?

Yes Bruce

'Jenny' is narrating but not present...

Meg

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Worcestershire

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19-01-2015, 02:29 PM

Re: Call the midwives

Originally Posted by Eliza ->

Ive just been looking through Newspapers from 1800/1950 at these cases of Neglect ,there was so many of them.Including in my distant family.
And it was mainly the parents spending their money on beer that brought these neglect cases not of poverty .

I can remember them when I was at school in the 50s two families in particular both large

, ragged village children with impetigo.

Bruce

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Wollongong, Australia

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20-01-2015, 12:09 AM

Re: Call the midwives

Originally Posted by Meg ->

Yes Bruce

'Jenny' is narrating but not present...

Thanks Meg will have to download it when I get Broadchurch

Alan Cooke

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25-01-2015, 10:07 PM

Re: Call the midwives

Such a well written story. Even I had a tear in my eye tonight.

jodie

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25-01-2015, 11:40 PM

Re: Call the midwives

I was a kid in London at the time this was set. The general ambience portrayed is great - basic food, hardly any heating, life being simpler. But the people in everyday life were rarely as twee & sweet as the bunch on there, they'd just come out of a war & were pretty traumatised.. they were nothing like as polite, especially to kids, everyone and anyone thought they had a right to whop you at any point - teachers, parents, cops. Authorities and hierarchies were rigid - discipline was everywhere, there was little sympathy for anyone who stepped out of line. I do enjoy the series but they're definitely looking thru rose tinted glasses.