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Call the Midwife Season 8 Episode 4 Recap: Caught Out

A pregnant mother-daughter pair go to war, and a desperate young mother-to-be resorts to very dangerous measures to ensure her life goes to plan Continue reading Call the Midwife Season 8 Episode 4 Recap: Caught Out

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Call the Midwife Season 8 Episode 2 Recap: Votes for Women

A family recently arrived from Africa suffers from a mystery ailment while Lucille tries to reach out to an elderly shut-in with a suffragette past Continue reading Call the Midwife Season 8 Episode 2 Recap: Votes for Women

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Call the Midwife Season 8 Episode 1 Recap: No Justice for Young Women

A young model is in distress, a woman gets a bit more than she bargained for with her multiple pregnancy, and two new midwives join the team. Continue reading Call the Midwife Season 8 Episode 1 Recap: No Justice for Young Women

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Call the Midwife 2018 Christmas Special

We’ve got orphans, a convent election that makes Julienne nervous, side-street childbirth, and gospel carols. Merry Christmas, everyone! Continue reading Call the Midwife 2018 Christmas Special

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20th Century, Call the Midwife, Recap, Series

Call the Midwife: Love and Memories

Everyone says farewell to Barbara then gets to work as the maternity home is inundated. An elderly man gets help from his partner and Sister MJ has a birthday. Continue reading Call the Midwife: Love and Memories

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20th Century, Call the Midwife, Recap, Series

Call the Midwife: I’ll Say a Little Prayer for You

Barbara clings to life in the hospital, Lucille considers attending a new church, and Turner helps out a lad in trouble with the law Continue reading Call the Midwife: I’ll Say a Little Prayer for You

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20th Century, Call the Midwife, Recap, Series

Call the Midwife: The Un-Luck of the Irish

A newcomer to Poplar has the worst run of bad luck I’ve ever seen on this show, an uptight mother derails a health class, and Barbara falls gravely ill Continue reading Call the Midwife: The Un-Luck of the Irish

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20th Century, Call the Midwife, Recap, Series

Call the Midwife: The Fear

Lucille deals with a mother who has a serious birth phobia, Violet plans a picnic, and the community searches for a man who may have smallpox Continue reading Call the Midwife: The Fear

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Call the Midwife: Behind Closed Doors

Everyone’s got secrets this week. Trixie’s secretly drinking, a mother’s secretly eating coal, MJ’s secretly going blind, and a man has a secret second wife Continue reading Call the Midwife: Behind Closed Doors

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Call the Midwife: In the Bleak Midwinter

In an episode that pulls no punches, a family faces a Huntingdon’s diagnosis, Magda deals with a problem, and Trixie faces a rough decision Continue reading Call the Midwife: In the Bleak Midwinter

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