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Call the Midwife: Season 1 (DVD)

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Genre Drama
Format Subtitled, Color, Multiple Formats, Full Screen, NTSC
Contributor Miranda Hart, Roger Goldby, Jamie Payne, Jessica Raine, Helen George, Ben Caplan, Pam Ferris, Stephen McGann, Laura Main, Bryony Hannah, Philippa Lowthorpe, Jenny Agutter, Vanessa Redgrave See more
Language English
Number Of Discs 2
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Call the Midwife: Season One (BBC/DVD)

A moving, intimate, funny and, above all, true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the Fifties, based on the best-selling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty or indeed, life itself. Attached to an order of nursing nuns at Nonnatus House, Jenny is part of a team of midwives who visit expectant mothers, providing the poorest women with the best possible care. Here, the streets teem with children and with just one eight-bed maternity ward to serve the whole district; most deliveries take place at home. Following Jenny as she travels through the streets to meet her patients - like Conchita, who is on her 25th pregnancy and Mary, a prostitute and pregnant at just 15 - Call the Midwife offers a fascinating insight into a community on the brink of huge social change.

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In drawing from the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, the BBC's Call the Midwife instantly distinguished itself from most other medical dramas, largely because it's a more character-driven piece. Jessica Raine, who evokes the openhearted Judy Garland of The Wizard of Oz, plays Jenny Lee, a middle-class 22-year-old who takes a job at an Anglican convent in 1957, where the young nurses work alongside experienced nuns: calm Sister Julienne (Jenny Agutter), stern Sister Evangelina (Pam Ferris), and spacey, cake-addicted Sister Monica Joan (Judy Parfitt, who costarred with Ferris in Little Doritt).

Jenny is hardy judgmental, but the depth of poverty permeating London's East End provides a wake-up call (suffice to say, gynecological care has come a long way since the 1950s). To be effective, though, she must learn to put her preconceptions aside about teenage prostitutes, unwed mothers, squalid living conditions, and inappropriate relationships. Her upper-class colleague, Camilla "Chummy" Cholomondley-Browne (Miranda Hart, quite affecting), seems like she'd be even deeper out of her depth, but looks can be deceiving--even if Chummy finds it harder to handle the bikes the nurses use to cycle between appointments. Written by Cranford's Heidi Thomas and narrated by Vanessa Redgrave, the show has proven to be as much of a favorite among PBS viewers as ITV's Downton Abbey, to which it's garnered a few comparisons, possibly due to the period setting, even if there's a greater emphasis on women's issues. If anything, the postwar milieu brings the films of Terence Davies and Mike Leigh to mind, particularly Leigh's Vera Drake, in which Imelda Staunton provided off-the-books care to desperate mothers. Though Worth was involved with the spectacularly successful first season, she passed away two weeks before filming began. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.6 x 5.4 x 7.6 inches; 3.2 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 26411218
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Roger Goldby, Philippa Lowthorpe, Jamie Payne
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Subtitled, Color, Multiple Formats, Full Screen, NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 5 hours and 55 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ November 6, 2012
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Jessica Raine, Stephen McGann, Miranda Hart, Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ BBC Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0093I913W
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
  • Customer Reviews:
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Women have A Great Blessing in Call the Midwife
I watched 33 episodes of Midwife. I felt so awesome to be a woman. It was factual and extremely addicting. The bond between these women carries through the wonders of birth and the pain of labor. Trully shares the very core of womenhood. I wish everyone would see this incredible story. AUTHOR of The Yellow Cake Genie, A True Story Of A Uranium Miner And His Family. Gloria Iturralde
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