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Call the Midwife Christmas Special 2025: this quietly radical show continues to surprise

3/5 A tragedy in Hong Kong overshadows a festive episode of sidequests and subplots

Evening Standard

Helen George's Call the Midwife is more serious than ever: 'What are we sleepwalking our way into?'

The Call the Midwife star is taking on High Society at the Barbican next summer. She talks fashion and the politics of one of the most quietly radical shows on the BBC

Evening Standard

Call The Midwife prequel: When is it set and what is it about?

A Call The Midwife prequel series is in the works, and this has to be be some of the best news we've heard all year

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Call The Midwife film and Second World War prequel series announced

The TV series will be set amid the backdrop of the Blitz and the film will be set overseas in 1972.

Evening Standard

Will there be a Call The Midwife spin-off? Here's what we know

Amid rumours that Call The Midwife could disappear from screens, fans are wondering if a spin-off is in the works

Woman & Home

Call The Midwife season 14 ending explained: Will there be a season 15?

With season 14 of Call The Midwife drawing to a close, fans are already wondering if it'll be returning

Woman & Home

Call the Midwife season 15: cast, plot, latest news and everything we know

Call the Midwife season 15 will see us reunited with all our Nonnatus House favourites for another series.

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Call The Midwife creator says she thinks the drama ‘might take a break’

The BBC series, which charts the early years of Nonnatus House in London’s East End, has been a huge success since it debuted in 2012.

Evening Standard

BBC to air two-part Call The Midwife Christmas special for first time

First-look images from the episodes show the Turner children opening their presents at Christmas.

Evening Standard

Will there be another season of Call the Midwife and when will it return for season 14?

You might be wondering if there'll be another season of Call the Midwife as season 13 draws to an emotional close and here's all we know

Woman & Home

Call The Midwife writer says NHS gives ‘gift beyond price’ to ordinary people

Heidi Thomas said the creation of the NHS 75 years ago, on July 5 1948, meant for the first time that everyone’s health was valued equally by society.

The Independent UK

New cast members to join Call The Midwife for 13th series

There will also be a 90-minute Christmas special

Nottingham Post

New faces to join Call The Midwife for 13th series

There will also be a 90-minute Christmas special

Wales Online

Call the Midwife creator’s behind-the-scenes insights reveal the surprising way they get those perfect heart-warming shots

Call the Midwife creator Heidi Thomas has shared the rather unique way they get those sweet scenes with the real-life babies on the show...

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The Independent UK

Call The Midwife screenwriter among those to be honoured at Windsor Castle

The investiture ceremony will also see Euan Blair, the tech entrepreneur and son of former prime minister Sir Tony Blair, collect an MBE.

Daily Mirror

Call The Midwife star looks like a 'different person' as she ditches iconic blonde bob

Call The Midwife actor Helen George looked very different from her BBC role as she dropped her blonde hair for wavy brown locks, saying she "just needed a change"

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson told: "It's time to deliver justice for Britain's nuclear test veterans"

Campaigners have asked the Prime Minister to use his last week in office to fulfil his promise to the victims of Cold War radiation experiments

Daily Mirror

Call The Midwife 'forced to halt filming' after real-life medical incident

Filming of the medical period drama from 1950s and 1960s Britain was halted at Longcross Film Studios in Surrey after three ambulances were seen on site following a 'medical incident'

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The surprising TV show of the past 25 years that beat Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad

British audiences have voted Call The Midwife the best show of the past 25 years, beating Doctor Who, Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad

Chronicle Live

Call The Midwife star Stephen McGann's wife in tears over BBC drama's plots

Call The Midwife star Stephen McGann has opened up about his wife's emotional response to some of the storylines on the BBC drama

Los Angeles Times

TV rarely gets childbirth right. After Roe, the gory truth matters more than ever

"Bloody show" is a colorful term for the mixture of blood and mucus that indicates the cervix is preparing for labor.

Liverpool Echo

The famous faces from film and TV to have come from the Everyman and Playhouse Youth Theatre

Many stars of stage, TV and film got their start at the Everyman and Playhouse

Daily Mirror

Call the Midwife's Helen George says she can't wait to finally kiss co-star Olly Rix

Helen George reveals she can finally kiss her co-star Olly Rix after filming love scenes with a plastic screen as Covid rules have relaxed on set

Daily Mirror

Call The Midwife series 12 will feature first use of a ventouse during a birth

Set in 1968, season 12 of Call The Midwife will be heavily influenced by Enoch Powell’s divisive anti-immigration speech - which saw him ejected from the shadow cabinet

Daily Mirror

Call The Midwife actor fell ‘madly in love’ with show creator at first meeting

Call The Midwife is known for its co-star romances and now Stephen McGann, who plays Doctor Patrick Turner on the BBC show, has spoken out about his heartwarming connection to the programme

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