Call The Midwife: Season 8

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  • Call the Midwife follows the nuns and nurses of Nonnatus House convent as they provide the expectant mothers of Poplar with the best possible care. Series 8 continues to explore complex medical and personal situations on the midwifery and district nursing rounds. It is now 1964 and it’s evident how the times are changing: from the beacon of the contraceptive pill and the shadow of the 1967 Abortion Act, to the introduction of a new cancer-screening programme. The nuns and nurses continue to face a variety of challenging issues including interracial adoption, cleft palate, sickle cell and cot death. And for one of the team, romance could be on the horizon.



  • Episode 1
    It's Spring time, and with extra help needed in Poplar, Mother Mildred decides to send Sister Frances and Sister Hilda to Nonnatus House, where they will live and work.

    Episode 2
    Lucille is deeply concerned by her elderly patient, Clarice Milgrove's living conditions. She is a hoarder living alone among towering piles of rubbish, books and tins of food with a malodorous leg ulcer.

    Episode 3
    Measles is becoming rife in the East End and Dr Turner decides to educated the mothers and hopes to start a trial on Measles vaccination. Meanwhile a grieving mother is in distress over her daughter's health and cannot accept she is okay.

    Episode 4
    Sister Julienne is drawn into a family rift between an estranged mother and daughter who are both pregnant. Meanwhile Nurse Crane realises she has an admirer, and Sister Frances' shyness starts to concern Sister Julienne.

    Episode 5
    The prospect of a new romance for Lucille brightens the mood at Nonnatus House and the husband of an expectant mother suffers with some inexplicable pains, similar to his wife's pregnancy symptoms.

    Episode 6
    Mother Mildred returns and helps a docker family tackle end-stage pneumoconiosis. Lucille cares for an unmarried teenage mother who wants to keep her baby.

    Episode 7
    Mother Mildred decides it's time for Sister Frances to attend her first solo birth. Trixie consoles a patient who discovers she has gonorrhea.

    Episode 8
    Sister Hilda digs deep to give her terminally-ill patient her final wish whilst the Turners must prepare to say goodbye to May. Fred and Reggie are keeping secrets from each other.

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    Episode 1
    It's Spring time, and with extra help needed in Poplar, Mother Mildred decides to send Sister Frances and Sister Hilda to Nonnatus House, where they will live and work.

    Episode 2
    Lucille is deeply concerned by her elderly patient, Clarice Milgrove's living conditions. She is a hoarder living alone among towering piles of rubbish, books and tins of food with a malodorous leg ulcer.

    Episode 3
    Measles is becoming rife in the East End and Dr Turner decides to educated the mothers and hopes to start a trial on Measles vaccination. Meanwhile a grieving mother is in distress over her daughter's health and cannot accept she is okay.

    Episode 4
    Sister Julienne is drawn into a family rift between an estranged mother and daughter who are both pregnant. Meanwhile Nurse Crane realises she has an admirer, and Sister Frances' shyness starts to concern Sister Julienne.

    Episode 5
    The prospect of a new romance for Lucille brightens the mood at Nonnatus House and the husband of an expectant mother suffers with some inexplicable pains, similar to his wife's pregnancy symptoms.

    Episode 6
    Mother Mildred returns and helps a docker family tackle end-stage pneumoconiosis. Lucille cares for an unmarried teenage mother who wants to keep her baby.

    Episode 7
    Mother Mildred decides it's time for Sister Frances to attend her first solo birth. Trixie consoles a patient who discovers she has gonorrhea.

    Episode 8
    Sister Hilda digs deep to give her terminally-ill patient her final wish whilst the Turners must prepare to say goodbye to May. Fred and Reggie are keeping secrets from each other.