Why Call the Midwife satisfies our enduring need for heroic stories of fertility and birth
- Written by Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario, Adjunct Research Fellow, Monash University
Jenny Agutter and Laura Main in Call the Midwife.
Call the Midwife has returned for its seventh season, taking the BBC period drama through to London’s East End circa 1963. The series follows the lives of midwives and nuns at their headquarters, Nonnatus House. Portrayals of childbirth on screen are not unusual today, but rarely are the women...