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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 Us / Canada
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 555 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The beloved nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House return to warm your heart as they care for the poorest women in London's East End. Life never stands still as the midwives face surprise pregnancy, disease, blossoming romance and missing friends.
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.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (480 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's 1968 and Enoch Powell's infamous 'Rivers of Blood' speech creates serious tension in Poplar, especially when a group of dockers march in support of Powell. The midwives welcome a new nun, Sister Veronica, who's an instant hit with everyone, except Nurse Crane. Meanwhile, Trixie's relationship with Matthew goes from strength to strength, while Nurse Crane helps Nancy with her financial woes. Sister Julienne enjoys helping out on the district rounds,...
Author
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.
Author
Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 3
Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
9 CDs (10 hrs., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The final chapter in the memoir trilogy set in London's East End after WWII, the basis for the hit BBC series. Here is the story of Chummy's courtship and wedding; identical twins Megan'mave, who share a browbeaten husband; and a return toSister Monica Joan, who is in top eccentric form.
Author
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I was a midwife, and I was on my way to deliver a baby. It was cold and raining outside, and I was pedal-powered. The sound of the moving river was always present.
#2 I was able to talk to Muriel as she was having her baby. I gave her a sterile sheet, and two fingers into her vagina. The head was well down, and her waters had not yet broken. I told her everything...
Author
Description
THE NIGHT THE MIDWIFE CAME TO CALL is the recollections of a modern Midwife. It is mostly autobiographical, although there are times when two situations of different births fit one birth with more excitement. All birth stories are essentially true, the names may have been altered for privacy of the client or the Midwife. The stories begin in 1974 and go through 2003. It would be impossible to recall all the births as there were sometimes 3 or 4 births...
Author
Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Ecco/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Here, in the final book of the Call the Midwife trilogy, is the full story of Chummy's delightful courtship and wedding. We also meet Megan'mave, identical twins who share a...
Author
Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Highbridge Co
Pub. Date
p2012
Physical Desc
11 CDs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies all over London - from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives to the woman with twenty-four children who can't speak English, to the prostitutes and dockers of the city's seedier side - illuminate a fascinating time in history.
Author
Description
The real stories, lives and dramas behind the smash hit BBC series Call the Midwife which premieres on PBS September 30, 2012.
The official companion to seasons one and two, The Life and Times of Call the Midwife, gives fans a deeper insight into the period, the stories and the characters, and how Call the Midwife, based on the bestselling memoirs by Jennifer Worth, was brought to the screen.
With never before seen photographs taken on set as well...
Author
Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Reflects on the experiences of Jennifer Worth as a midwife in London's postwar East End, including the nuns from whom she learned her craft and the interesting and challenging births she aided during her career.
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