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Call the Midwife - Season 5
Set in 1961, the season opens with a baby is born with severe deformities of the kind later identified as caused by the drug thalidomide, the midwives find it difficult to handle the situation, and the baby's father rejects her completely, to his wife's dismay...
27 August 1986
20 April 1972, Walthamstow, London, England, UK
1953
1953 in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, England, UK
29 November 1950, London, England, UK
January 19, 2016
If Vanessa Redgrave's doleful fortune-cookie narration about love and life still continues to grate, it's a small price to pay for a series that brings back events in living memory, contextualises them and consistently entertains.
January 19, 2016
I think the BBC was going for "heart-warmingly upbeat" when it commissioned yet another series of Call the Midwife. Sadly, what it got was more "gut-churningly twee".
June 13, 2016
Call the Midwife takes tragedy seriously, dwelling in the promise that medicine might treat human suffering as something essentially spiritual, not merely mechanical.
