Season 13, Episode 5
call the midwife

It's summertime in Poplar, and during Violet's first event as mayor, a young mother goes into labor. Among the chaos, May sneaks off and Shelagh receives an unexpected visit from her social worker, which puts her on edge.

Episode Duration: 56 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 1305

About Call The Midwife:

This moving, intimate, funny and true-to-life series, based on the best-selling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth, tells colorful stories of midwifery and families in London's East End in the 1950s.

Jenny Lee, a young woman raised in the wealthy English countryside, has chosen to become a nurse and now, as a newly qualified midwife, has gone to work in the poorest area of the city.

Attached to an order of nursing nuns at Nonnatus House, Jenny is part of a team of women who minister to expectant mothers, many of whom give birth at home in appalling conditions.

The drama follows Jenny as she meets her patients and learns to love the people who live in the East End.


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Tue, Dec 24 3:00 A.M. Call The Midwife Holiday Special     NH Explore (11.2)
Wed, Dec 25 1:00 P.M. Call The Midwife Holiday Special     NH Explore (11.2)
Wed, Dec 25 8:00 P.M. Holiday Special 2024     NHPBS (11.1)
Wed, Dec 25 10:00 P.M. Holiday Special 2024     NHPBS (11.1)
Thu, Dec 26 3:00 A.M. Holiday Special 2024     NH Explore (11.2)
Thu, Dec 26 3:03 A.M. Call The Midwife Holiday Special     NHPBS (11.1)
Thu, Dec 26 5:00 P.M. Holiday Special 2024     NH Explore (11.2)
Sun, Dec 29 12:00 A.M. Holiday Special 2024     NHPBS (11.1)


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