So I’ll preface this by saying that I don’t really watch much television and Call the Midwife is very typically Sunday teatime viewing from the BBC (women frequently give birth on the show in about two minutes with absolutely no mess at all, so…) which isn’t a criticism as such, just something to…
Probable spoilers at the link for non-UK peeps, but I’m just going to take the opportunity to highly, highly, highly recommend both this television series and the basis memoirs by Jennifer Worth (the second book just became available on the Kindle here in the US). I’m only about ¼ into the second book, but learning about some of the workhouse conditions endured by the impoverished has been so incredibly sobering (and frightening).
I second all of this, Call The Midwife is brilliant. And while last episode was hard to watch, I think it was worth it.