Oh wait, Call the Midwife reversed the sad ending of their lesbian couple storyline and they actually are still together? Good, because I love Call The Midwife and need to catch up
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WATCH :: Just picked up season two of Call the Midwife, can’t wait to curl up in bed and do a marathon. How cute are these Chummy illustrations by Jana Christy?
It is a controversial topic and one that may make for uncomfortable viewing.
BBC drama Call The Midwife is to tell the story of a pair of disabled lovers forced apart and ridiculed after the woman becomes pregnant.
Disability charities yesterday welcomed the plotline, saying it highlights how far society has come since the judgmental 1950s in which the programme is set.
The episode, which is to be aired on Sunday night, will feature the characters of Sally Harper, who has Down’s syndrome, and Jacob Milligan, who has cerebral palsy.
The pair live in an institution, having been sent there by their parents – as was common at the time.
But after they fall in love and Sally becomes pregnant, the couple are separated and Sally faces ridicule from her mother and father.
The episode deals with the prejudice and stigma she would have experienced.
Call The Midwife is shown on BBC One before the nine o’clock watershed, and in the past storylines featuring abortion, incest and infidelity have shocked viewers. But yesterday campaigners welcomed the inclusion of disability and love as a theme.
The character of Sally is played by Sarah Gordy, and Jacob by Colin Young. Both actors have the disability that they portray on screen.
Both actors have the disability that they portray on screen.
Both actors have the disability that they portray on screen.
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.
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Christ, Call The Midwife is bleak and depressing today…
