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Call the midwife. Season one [videorecording (DVD)].

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Warner Home Video, c2012.

DVD CAL Season 1 TV

Worth, Jennifer, 1935- -- Drama.

Midwives -- England -- London -- Biography -- Drama.

Childbirth -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century -- Drama.

East End (London, England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Drama.

[videorecording (DVD)].

2 videodiscs (360 min.) : Dolby digital stereo. sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

Contains all 6 episodes from the British period drama TV series, originally broadcast on BBC Jan. 15-Feb. 9, 2012, plus bonus features on 2 discs.

Special features: Wimples, babies and bicycles ; cast members discuss giving birth to "Call the Midwife".

Aspect ratio: 16:9 enhanced.

"The complete original UK series"--Container.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

A Neal Street production for BBC ; writer, Heidi Thomas ; directors, Philippa Lowthorpe, Jamie Payne.

Jessica Raine, Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Judy Parfitt, Miranda Hart and featuring Vanessa Redgrave.

"Call The Midwife is a moving, intimate, funny and, above all, true-to-life look at the exhilarating stories of a midwife in poverty stricken East London in the 1950s, based on Jennifer Wroth's best-selling memoirs. Jenny Lee knows nothing about hardship, poverty, or, indeed, life itself. Direct from nursing school, Jenny joins an order of nursing nuns at Nonnatus House and a team of midwives providing the poorest women in London with the best possible care. The life that greets Jenny is a world away from what she's used to. 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. The drama follows Jenny as she meets her patients for the first time - women like Conchita, who is on her 25th pregnancy, and Mary, a prostitute, pregnant and just 15 years old - all while hiding her own secret past. Call The Midwife is a fascinating portrayal of birth, life, and death in a community on the brink of huge social change, offering a gripping insight into a world that is so drastically different from how we live now."--Container.

Medical television programs.

Historical television programs.

Television programs -- Great Britain.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Worth, Jennifer, 1935- Midwife : a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times.

Lowthorpe, Philippa.

Raine, Jessica, 1982-

Agutter, Jenny.

Parfitt, Judy, 1935-

Hart, Miranda, 1972-

Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937-

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