CALL THE MIDWIFE

The best selling book by the late Jennifer Worth, "Call The Midwife," which she based on her experiences as a pupil midwife and later as a staff midwife working with the Community in the 1950's, in Poplar in the East End of London, has now been made into a 6 part TV series. It is showing on BBC 1 from Sunday 15 January 2012 at 8pm

The aim of the series is not only to tell the story of district midwifery in the 1950's, but also to illustrate the social history context of people living in the East End of London at that time, in the wake of World War II and the early days of the National Health Service.