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Series
Call the midwife volume 2
Publisher
Highbridge Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
8 CDs (10 hrs., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When young, middle-class Jennifer Worth became a midwife in the direst section of postwar, East-End London, not only did she deliver babies but she became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Here are the true stories of people she met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a Dickensian institution that limped on into the middle of the 20th century. Second in the series.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1957, twenty-two year old Jenny leaves her home to become a midwife in a deprived nursing convent helping poor pregnant mothers coping with harsh living conditions. A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (355 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Season Two continues to follow Jenny and the other midwives as they deal with all the problems the neighborhood of Poplar has to throw at them. 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 way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (558 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The life and times of a group of midwives working at Nonnatus House--a nursing convent serving the impoverished of East London in the late 1950s and early 1960s--are chronicled in this appealing British series based on true events. The women learn powerful lessons about life's struggles while visiting with expectant mothers and poor children.
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