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MATURE JENNIFER: Birth is the
shortest journey we will ever make.

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It begins in darkness,
and ends, we think, in light.

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But welcomed and safe,
we rest upon the shore

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for what amounts to moments

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before we begin the greatest voyage
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There is no map, no route,
no arrowhead to follow,

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for none of us have ever
walked this way before.

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All I'm saying, Fred Buckle,

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is that you haven't
thought this through.

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Now, Father Christmas is known

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of transport, and it's a sledge,

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not a rocket!

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Santa has to move
with the times, Vi!

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My old mate Nolly let me
down with the reindeer.

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So I've had to improvise
with some space elves.

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He's not real.
He's just one of the helpers.

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Yeah, but the kiddies
don't know that, Reggie.

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And I should never have let
you convince me

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about these silver gnome things.

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They're not gnomes,
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Everyone's ready and waiting.

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Oh, goodness me,
what lovely...grey pixies?

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BOTH: They're space elves!

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I hope this paint comes
off with soap and water.

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Reggie? The bell.

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Merry Christmas!

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Ho, ho, ho!

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Merry Christmas.
One more week to go till Christmas!

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Ho, ho, ho!

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Merry Christmas!

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Christmas sweets!

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Merry Christmas.

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Well, Miss Higgins.

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I think that now we've run
through the protocols

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for posting the urine to
St Cuthbert's every morning,

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that's everything ticked
off your list for our first day.

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I did find your sputum
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Would you like me
to refresh your memory?

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I think we may need
to refresh the system.

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Phlegm samples tend to accumulate
during the winter months.

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Twice-daily dispatch
might prove preferable?

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Dr Turner has always

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been entirely satisfied.

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Oh, you've brought your own tree!

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Oh, it's only a utility one.

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My late parents bought
it the year that war broke out.

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It was one of the few things

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of their home intact.

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I'm sorry.

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I'll lock up, Mrs Turner.

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You go home and enjoy yourself
with your family.

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MUSIC: It's The Most Wonderful Time
Of The Year by Andy Williams

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be of good cheer

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of the year...

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Happy Christmas! Oh, Patrick!

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Do you not think
it's a bit over-large?

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and we're picking up
a seven-foot tree on the way home!

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To go with that battered old silver
one we put up every year?

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We like that battered old
silver one!

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Mum, can we get a dog

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on days out?

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A dog? I don't think so.

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Angela's written to Father
Christmas for a rabbit,

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and there isn't room for another
living thing in our household.

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Or this car!

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Taxi!

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when loved ones are near

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of the year...

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WRAPPER RUSTLES

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PHONE RINGS

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Nonnatus House.

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Sister Julienne speaking.

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This is Sister Hilda.

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Ah, Sister Hilda!

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It's usually
Mother Jesu Emmanuel who calls.

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One snowman cake,
all present and correct!

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What's all that green stuff
round the edges?

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chopped up to represent grass.

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I bet Trixie was pining for green
jelly while she was in Portofino.

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We must hope that she did not pine
for grandiose illuminations,

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for these spasmodic gewgaws
will surely disappoint her!

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Would you please
join me in my office?

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SHE SIGHS

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As you will both be aware,
Mother Jesu Emmanuel was due to come

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to the end of her tenure
as Superior next February,

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after which her successor
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You have deployed
the future perfect.

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I deduce that this bodes ill.

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Mother Jesu has been diagnosed
with a brain tumour.

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She is expected to live a handful
of months, but no more. No...

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our work here at once,

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and return to the Mother House
until a new Superior is elected.

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Sister, our work is here.

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Sister Mildred is arriving
at the Mother House

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with a number of orphans
from Hong Kong.

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orphanage

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whilst they get
to know their adoptive parents.

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I am told there will be plenty
of work for us to do once we arrive.

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We are called upon to care
for more than infants

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and frail flesh!

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in which we must abnegate

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the evils of the world
with constant prayer!

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I dare say we can make shift,

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with Nurse Franklin coming home.

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She can do the work of three
when she's firing on all cylinders.

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Besides, Sister Winifred
and I should be back

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in time for Christmas.

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Should be?

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I hope there's nothing
to this election

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that you're not telling me about.
Not at all.

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I'm quite sure there are better
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I'm really not happy
with the length of this, Valerie.

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If you do a pirouette on stage,

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people are going to see
everything you've got!

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There's no pirouettes, I'm just
helping out the baby ballet class!

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in their little angel costumes,

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and we all point our toes in time
to You're All I Want For Christmas.

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I'm still going to let the hem down.

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And then if I can see
anything I shouldn't,

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I'm going to put a flounce on it.

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It's Trixie. Come on!

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I'm Sister Mildred,
and I'm indefatigable!

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Except when arriving from the East,
escorting orphans.

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This is Ming.

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There are three more
in the taxi cab,

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of napkin change.

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We were told you were going directly
to the Mother House!

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Fog at the airport, fog on the road.

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Non-appearance at said airport
of Child Care Officer.

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I'm a nun, not a conjuror.

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to declare but my annoyance,

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and I'm hoping you'll tell me
there's room at the inn.

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From left to right,
May, Sui and Chi.

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Ming you've already met.

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And they're all girls,

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as you're about to discover.

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of refugees from China,

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found abandoned as newborns,
in the main.

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Discovered in the street,

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or in the stairwells
of apartment blocks.

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Their files are marked
"Left To be Found".

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when they're older.

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There is love in the gesture
as well as desperation.

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Mmm, not all are so
fortunate, I'm afraid.

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Might I try another portion
of that snowman chappy?

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The trouble with marshmallows,

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air,

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which does little to erode
the digestive vacuum.

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Sister Mildred, why is little May
so much older than the others?

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Let's not discuss her details
in front of her.

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She may not speak English yet

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to understand it.

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Besides, she's going
to the most wonderful family!

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An accountant for a father,
big, sweeping lawns,

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big sister has a pony.

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Are they a Chinese family?

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No.

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to provide homes for all the babies
coming in on this project.

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But the babies need to know
they're Chinese.

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They'll know they're Chinese

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every time they look
in the mirror, bless 'em.

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I'll be sad to see them
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I don't think you've any idea

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how often I gazed at
the Mediterranean in a Pucci tunic,

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dreaming of this.

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I see you're entertaining some
guests. Nurse Franklin.

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Trixie, you look wonderful.

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a decent cup of tea.

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Yes! And if it comes
with cake, yes, please!

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There's one potted-beef sandwich
left.

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I'll go and look into the cupboard

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and see if I can rustle
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Or maybe I'll just go out for
fish and chips.

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Oh! There's my girl.

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Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack!

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What about in the water?
Ooh!

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Quack, quack, quack.

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Quack, quack, quack.

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BABY GIGGLES

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Moths, moths, moths!

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I'm surprised you have a single
intact garment left, Valerie.

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I've got more Crimplene
than cashmere

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and moths
don't really go in for that.

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uniform cardigan!

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We're going to have to fumigate
that wardrobe,

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or you can't hang
a single thing in it!

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My godmother insisted we spent
a week shopping in Paris,

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so she could send me
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prepared for every style
eventuality.

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Does she know which bit
of London you live in?

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She knows that a woman
is defined by her potential

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and not her circumstances,

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and that one exquisite black shift
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can take you anywhere.

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Even out for dinner
with an Italian count.

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An Italian count?

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I bet he never bought you the last
piece of haddock in the chip shop!

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Come on.

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Grub's up.

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I understand the moths made
a banquet of your woollens.

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I shall ensure that naphthalene
sachets are supplied.

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But in the meantime,
you might like this.

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Is it a new one?

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Not new, no.

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the first to give you hers.

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Barbara?

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There's still a label
inside with her name on.

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You can snip it out.

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Or leave it in.

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No tears, lass.

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You're back, and you're well.

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to have a happy Christmas.

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A few extra little bits
to take on our adventure!

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Meanwhile, this morning's post
also brings a Christmas card

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from Nurse Mount and Nurse Busby,
with greetings from Scotland,

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brand-new puppy, Garbo.

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Ahh!

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I've also had an aerogram
from Mr Hereward,

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safely arrived in New Guinea

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and made warmly welcome
by Barbara's father.

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That's nice.

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Sister Julienne?

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To what do we owe the pleasure?

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I'm here to see Sister Monica Joan.

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Sister Monica Joan?

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Ohh!

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When has the pain been
at its worst, Sister?

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When I was forced to make my
way to the telephone

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If you'd knocked on my door,
I would have telephoned the surgery.

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I did not wish to inconvenience you.

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You are so very fixed

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on preparations for your departure
to the Mother House...

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I'm prescribing kaolin and morphine,
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I'm afraid you'll have to
go without her.

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Oh!

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Your carriage awaits, good ladies!

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And I picked up a tin
of those glucose sweets,

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just in case anyone's car sick.

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00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:08,600
If I feel nauseous, I just stick
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256
00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:10,360
Fresh air generally does the trick,

257
00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,400
and if it doesn't,
nobody else is inconvenienced.

258
00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:16,440
Ha! We're ready, Mr Buckle.

259
00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:22,040
Hello, you.

260
00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:24,760
Are you ready for the last
leg of your journey?

261
00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:28,520
You've come a long, long way.

262
00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:31,520
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263
00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:36,440
No reason to be peering at her,
Doctor, she's not ill.

264
00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:38,200
Just one of my shyer types.

265
00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:43,320
There.

266
00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:50,680
FRED:
last looked out

267
00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:53,800


268
00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:01,960
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269
00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,840
you're never very keen on going
to the Mother House.

270
00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:10,160
Once, it was a place where I found
my new beginning.

271
00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:17,000
Now, it is where I will
likely meet my end.

272
00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:20,360
Nursed in a narrow bed,

273
00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:23,400
tenderly cared for but without
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274
00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,440
that comes from engagement
with the world.

275
00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:30,040
The only engagement
I want from you now

276
00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:33,880
is with a nice bowl of porridge,
or some egg on toast.

277
00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:40,440
Sister Julienne is arriving soon.

278
00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:44,000
Yes, I'm looking forward
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279
00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:53,240
Is there any sign of
the minibus, Sister Hilda?

280
00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,800
I'm supposed to be helping
when the Chinese babies arrive,

281
00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:58,200
but I've also been told
to do my spiritual reading.

282
00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:00,920
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283
00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:04,720
Well, heads will obviously
roll if I'm disobeyed!

284
00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:06,560
Oh!

285
00:17:20,360 --> 00:17:23,680
Greetings! May we be of assistance?

286
00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:55,680
Goodness!

287
00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:03,280
Blimey. It's normally sheep
and rabbits that make me nervous

288
00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:05,080
in the countryside!

289
00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:06,240
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290
00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:09,560
Or a builder wanting to turn
the convent into flats.

291
00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:14,120
I've seen more than one
of that breed turn tail and run.

292
00:18:17,360 --> 00:18:18,960
Is everyone all right?

293
00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:22,520
I don't know who that was.
We're just going to go in here.

294
00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:27,880
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295
00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:29,360
Confined to her room.

296
00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:32,680
And she's resigned
from her duties completely.

297
00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:45,200
Oh, poor Mother Jesu.

298
00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:48,560
She always sought
to sail the ship alone.

299
00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:50,360
There are records and documentation
here

300
00:18:50,360 --> 00:18:52,840
<font color="
in England, and the world.

301
00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:56,520
She said that was the role
of the Superior,

302
00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:59,040
to navigate on behalf of those
with other work to do.

303
00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:02,840
But she was struggling, clearly.

304
00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:04,200
Yes.

305
00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:06,240
And for longer than we knew.

306
00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:10,560
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307
00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:15,160
You really are the only one who
can step into Mother Jesu's shoes.

308
00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:17,680
I have no desire to do
anything of the kind.

309
00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:18,840
My work is in Poplar,

310
00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:21,960
where I live amongst the people
I serve.

311
00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:25,280
And I am of more use there

312
00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:29,760
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behind a desk here.

313
00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:36,840
I...I'm sure that someone much
more appropriate will be elected.

314
00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:42,320
In the meantime, if I can attempt
to calm this chaos,

315
00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:44,120
I will do so most humbly.

316
00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:53,440
Midwife calling!

317
00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:54,480
Hello, Nurse.

318
00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:55,840
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319
00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:58,040
Is that Russell underneath
all that chocolate?

320
00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:00,320
Doesn't seem five minutes
since I delivered him!

321
00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:02,480
Mmm, I gave him his
selection box early.

322
00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:04,280
Keeps him good.

323
00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,080
I thought I'd drop
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324
00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:08,360
We don't seem to have
seen you for a while.

325
00:20:08,360 --> 00:20:11,000
I've decided to go
to the hospital for this one.

326
00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,120
But we need to refer
you before you can do that!

327
00:20:13,120 --> 00:20:14,560
And why would you want to?

328
00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:17,960
Ah, they treated my sister
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329
00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:19,000
having her Lorraine.

330
00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,200
Breakfast on a tray,

331
00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,360
ashtrays emptied every time
she snapped her fingers.

332
00:20:23,360 --> 00:20:27,560
We really discourage smoking
in expectant and nursing mothers...

333
00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,160
That's the trouble, though,
isn't it?

334
00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:32,280
<font color="
but you lot at Nonnatus,

335
00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:34,760
you come into our homes,
you inspect them,

336
00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:37,480
and then you start telling us
what we can and can't do.

337
00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:40,400
Then after the baby's born,
you all waltz off and leave us

338
00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:42,480
with a pile of dirty washing.

339
00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:45,400
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340
00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,160
but it's St Cuthbert's
for me for this one.

341
00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:56,160
One trifling flick through
the maternity Rolodex

342
00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:59,760
and I've found more than a dozen
mothers who have "changed their
minds"

343
00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:01,720
and plumped for a hospital delivery!

344
00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:03,120
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345
00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:05,320
He won't refer patients
to St Cuthbert's

346
00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:06,920
unless there's good reason.

347
00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:08,880
The trouble is, they ask him to.

348
00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:11,760
Hospitals are telling women
there are a hundred good reasons

349
00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:15,600
for giving birth in clinical
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350
00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:19,040
Young mother. Old mother. Twins.
High blood pressure.

351
00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:22,480
Low blood pressure. Piles.
First-time patient.

352
00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:24,520
Multiparous patient.

353
00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:27,680
Elderly relative
sitting in the corner. What?

354
00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:32,520
<font color="
socioeconomic circumstances".

355
00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:35,360
It used to be called
"living in the East End".

356
00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:50,120
Oh!

357
00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,720
I want my little troupe
all sitting side by side,

358
00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:57,600
with a seat immediately
next to them for me.

359
00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:02,840
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And no food containing cow's milk.

360
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:06,000
Somebody said it was macaroni cheese
and semolina pudding.

361
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,480
I'll go and see if there's
anything plainer.

362
00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:12,760
Some of the children
from the Hong Kong Adoption Project

363
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:16,200
<font color="
a residential establishment,

364
00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:20,080
getting acclimatised
and to know their new families.

365
00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:24,240
I may be biased, but I think
ours is much the best.

366
00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,480
Yeah, it's, er, it's lovely.

367
00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:30,000
It's like a home from home.

368
00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:39,280
Hello.

369
00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:53,640
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370
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,960
I wonder what your name is.

371
00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,240
He's called Neil.

372
00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:01,800
Hello, Neil.

373
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,560
Why isn't he eating
with the other children?

374
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,760
He was brain damaged at birth
through lack of oxygen,

375
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,600
and has to be spoon-fed.

376
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:11,400
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down a bit better

377
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,120
if we can do it one to one.

378
00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:15,280
How long has he been on
the list for adoption?

379
00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:18,040
I asked Sister Hilda that
the first time I saw him.

380
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:21,240
And she said, "He isn't."

381
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,360
Have I got time for a cigarette
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382
00:23:36,360 --> 00:23:38,280
I'm not having any naked flames
near this,

383
00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,080
you'll go up like a bonfire.

384
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:54,800
Wotcha, Fred.
Oh, evening, Nolly.

385
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,920
No hard feelings about the reindeer,
then, eh? We improvised.

386
00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:00,520
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there's trouble at the zoo.

387
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:04,360
No harm done, then. Well, it might
have been nice for the kiddies.

388
00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:08,680
Some of them might have liked
to have seen an animal at Christmas.

389
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:10,800
Would have made it special.

390
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,680
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391
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:22,080
AUDIENCE COO

392
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:31,480


393
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:42,720


394
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:50,920


395
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:55,440


396
00:24:55,440 --> 00:25:05,120

filled with you.

397
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,840
GIRLS GIGGLE

398
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:17,800
APPLAUSE

399
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,440
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400
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:41,680
O Lord, our Heavenly Father,
almighty and everlasting God...

401
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,360
..and grant that this day
we fall into no sin,

402
00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:46,320
neither run into any kind of danger,

403
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:51,480
but that all our doings,
being ordered by thy governance,

404
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,880
<font color="

405
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,520
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

406
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:02,400
..Jesus Christ our Lord.

407
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,920
This tastes horrible.
There's not many to go now.

408
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:20,360
And then you can take
these down to the postbox for me.

409
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:23,560
Where've you been, Fred Buckle?

410
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,480
<font color="
congealing under the grill

411
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:27,960
for an hour and more.

412
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:32,320
A tricycle, a scooter,
a hobby horse and...

413
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,280
..a Scotty dog on wheels!

414
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,760
I've been collecting toys
for the kiddies at the orphanage.

415
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:40,080
It's all old.

416
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:44,000
<font color="
and a coat of paint...

417
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,560
And if we look sharp, we'll get
it off to Santa in loads of time.

418
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:50,440
There's fleas on that Scotty dog,
I can see them dancing from here!

419
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:52,160
Reggie, get away!

420
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,080
I'm going to do them all up.

421
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:55,280
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422
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:59,120
You are as soft as a brush
when the mood takes you.

423
00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:00,640
And you do mean well.

424
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:04,120
But you haven't got the time to do
these up before Christmas.

425
00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:06,760
And no child wants to wake
up to broken toys

426
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,800
that other people have thrown out.

427
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,920
<font color="
when I was a kid.

428
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,080
It was just a thought.

429
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,120
Come in, Sister...

430
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,640
..and sit where I can see you.

431
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:34,680
I still have the sight in one eye,
but it must do the work for two.

432
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,920
I remember clasping hands
with you

433
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,440
<font color="
our novice vows.

434
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,200
After we put on the hand cream?

435
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,080
You remember.

436
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:51,760
Who could forget Sister Gertrude
marching in with the Nivea,

437
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,560
announcing that we would all go
to the altar

438
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:58,000
with hands as smooth
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439
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,800
I love the smell of Nivea, even now.

440
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,680
It's one of the things I missed
when I was voted Superior

441
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,800
and stopped going
into people's homes...

442
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:16,720
..the smell of hand cream,

443
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,920
the talcum powder.

444
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:21,840
Even baby soap.

445
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:25,120
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446
00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:28,840
you will mourn those small
connections to ordinary things

447
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:30,200
as Mother Superior.

448
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,440
But you do.

449
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,280
I pray for you every day.

450
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,680
I want my work to be your work.

451
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,080
I want you to take my place.

452
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:51,920
But you cannot choose.

453
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:57,040
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454
00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:00,720
You are the only one
who has the intellect,

455
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:04,160
as well as the spirit and the heart.

456
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,360
I believe our Sisters see that.

457
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,400
And if they cannot,
there is one who does.

458
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:15,880
They mark the paper.

459
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,520
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460
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,960
PEBBLE CLATTERS

461
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,920
PHONE RINGS

462
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,400
Turner residence.
Shelagh, it's Sister Julienne.

463
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:05,800
Have you time to talk?

464
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:09,080
I'm on holiday from midwifery
until New Year.

465
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:10,600
Angela and Teddy are wrapped up

466
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,680
<font color="
with their nanny.

467
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,920
Tim's lying upstairs listening
to some appalling music,

468
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:17,840
and Miss Higgins
is cracking the whip.

469
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,320
Nobody needs this much time.

470
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,360
I need any you can spare.

471
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,920
I have never seen an office
<font color="

472
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,560
And I cannot restore
it to order alone.

473
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,240
You'll be home in time
for Christmas.

474
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,560
Lord, but you look lonely there,
Sister Monica Joan.

475
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,920
I am in the company of the Almighty,

476
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:51,480
who - being of the masculine
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477
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:56,520
I suspect, be unmoved by my current
skirmish with this carpet sweeper.

478
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,240
I sense the presence
of something malign in it.

479
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,920
You have a bit of cotton
wrapped round the brush.

480
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,040
Sister Monica Joan,

481
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,720
would you like to come
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482
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,560
It's not in some great building,
or even a chapel this size.

483
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,920
But you might find
it feeds your soul a little.

484
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,040
In fact, it would feed
more than your soul,

485
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,240
we serve lots of sweet
cakes and puddings

486
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:30,560
<font color="

487
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,960
I...I dare not vacate these
premises,

488
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,760
when no other is here
to raise their voice in prayer.

489
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:48,720
You must imagine me
veiled in scarlet,

490
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,000
like the Vestals of Rome,

491
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,960
charged with keeping
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492
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,960
Miss Higgins has blocked off
my days away on the calendar

493
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,840
in three different colours of ink.

494
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:25,760
I'm sorry to have to say it,
but she seemed enthusiastic.

495
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:27,760
We'll all be fine.

496
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,200
And Sister Julienne needs you.

497
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,120
<font color="

498
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,480
I'm scared I'll miss the train.

499
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:37,800
Or change my mind.

500
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:46,000
Well done!

501
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,400
Well, that's all done now, Denise.
Thank you!

502
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:50,640
Do you want to take Mandy

503
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,560
and go and watch television
with the others?

504
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,760
<font color="
the mums and dads come.

505
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,040
They're only coming to see
the Chinese babies.

506
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:58,640
They're coming to choose.

507
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,160
They look at all of us
on choosing days.

508
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,200
This isn't a choosing day!

509
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:04,720
Even if there was such a thing.

510
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:06,000
<font color="

511
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,120
who the Chinese babies' new mums
and dads are going to be.

512
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,520
They're just coming
to meet their children,

513
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,160
and have some fun with them.

514
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,200
That's nice.

515
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,480
Oh! Oh, my dear Shelagh.

516
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,160
I brought you some mince pies.

517
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:55,360
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518
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,520
I shouldn't come empty-handed.

519
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,440
Is it self-indulgent to say
I hardly recognise myself?

520
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,640
It's as though that woman
was erased

521
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,880
as completely
as the old Nonnatus House.

522
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,560
Not a wall or a window
<font color="

523
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,400
Your vocation changed.

524
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,680
And you did not disobey the call.

525
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:22,160
I couldn't disobey it.

526
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:24,480
It was stronger than
anything I'd ever known.

527
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:27,320
Shelah.

528
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:30,520
My dread of what I think is coming

529
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,360
is stronger than anything
<font color="

530
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:40,320
Are you really afraid
you'll be voted in as Superior?

531
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:45,360
Mother Jesus Emmanuel
is lying upstairs willing it.

532
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:53,120
And the prayers of the dying
are such a very potent thing.

533
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:58,880
Mother Jesu Emmanuel may be praying
<font color="

534
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:02,400
It doesn't mean she is
praying for what is right.

535
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,480
What do you want to do?

536
00:35:11,240 --> 00:35:13,120
I am a religious Sister.

537
00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:18,240
I am not allowed to want anything.

538
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:23,320
What are you doing, Mavis?

539
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:26,440
I was just showing June

540
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,440
<font color="
were for Russell.

541
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,600
The first thing she said
when she arrived was,

542
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,920
"Ain't you got your tree up yet?"
I said, "I'm not due till New Year."

543
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:35,800
I thought we had ages
to get it organised.

544
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:37,920
Maybe this is just wind.

545
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:39,960
<font color="

546
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:43,040
it's enough for me to take off
in a flaming hot-air balloon.

547
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,200
Denise!

548
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,240
Come and help Neil
to play with maracas.

549
00:36:44,240 --> 00:36:46,520
He likes the noise they make.

550
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,320
We might try and sit
you on the rocking horse later.

551
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,240
<font color="

552
00:36:53,240 --> 00:36:54,920
We could sing...

553
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,920

to Banbury Cross

554
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:05,760

upon a white horse!

555
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:14,760
She ran away as soon as she saw me.

556
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,320
I think we should call the police.

557
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,240
She's heavily pregnant,
<font color="

558
00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:21,880
Well, most pregnant women
would be distressed

559
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,680
if they looked in through the window
of an orphanage.

560
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:28,880
And if they knew what's just
happened to poor little May here,

561
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:32,520
they'd throw back their heads
<font color="

562
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:33,600
What has happened?

563
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:37,680
Her adoptive parents have utterly
failed to materialise! No!

564
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:41,440
Something must have
gone terribly wrong.

565
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,320
I shall ascertain.

566
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:47,160
Make way,
I shall require the telephone.

567
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,000
<font color="

568
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:16,240
Must May really wait a year
before her parents can take her?

569
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,200
Tuberculosis is tuberculosis.

570
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,360
12 months in a sanatorium
ought to see it off,

571
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:24,880
but while the husband's away,

572
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,520
the wife doesn't feel
<font color="

573
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:30,200
May already seems
terribly withdrawn.

574
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,960
May's mother was a refugee
who turned to prostitution.

575
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:41,480
Pretty little thing,
forever determined to reform.

576
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:45,040
Came back to the Hong Kong orphanage
for May three times,

577
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,080
<font color="

578
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:50,280
job as a servant,
place at a night school.

579
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:56,160
She'd take the child away
and then, weeks later,

580
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:57,640
bring her back.

581
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:02,920
One or other of them always
had a black eye or a cigarette burn.

582
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:06,240
I used to wonder which of them
<font color="

583
00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:08,200
Sister.

584
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:10,600
Tea is usually a silent meal.

585
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,960
Today is not a usual day.

586
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,680
Our guest has bought mince pies.

587
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:21,280
Are we to drive her from the room
while we consume them?

588
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,360
No, I don't doubt love was there.

589
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:29,040
<font color="

590
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:30,760
Courage is worth more.

591
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,000
And common sense, more still.

592
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:34,840
May's mother had neither.

593
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,640
She kept coming back,

594
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,680
and the child forever
waiting by the door.

595
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,280
TV: And he won't come
<font color="

596
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,080
No, not this time of night.
Always brings his bed with him.

597
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:52,400
Oh, hello, Francis...

598
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:01,600
Mrs Hollinger?

599
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:03,120
It's Hollier, it's on her card.

600
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:04,840
I'm sorry. Well, I'm pleased
to say

601
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,040
<font color="
wife

602
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:11,400
under the Emergency Bed Service.
At St Jolyon's.

603
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,440
But that's on the other
side of the borough.

604
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:15,120
The matron there is expecting you.

605
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,280
You can either wait for an
ambulance,

606
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:21,000
<font color="
you can make your own way there.

607
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,160
Sister, you're wanted in Room 6.

608
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:25,520
You must excuse me.

609
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:31,360
What do you want to do?
I'm not staying here.

610
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,520
My sister said they treated her
like a queen.

611
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:38,200
As my godmother said,

612
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,960
<font color="
simple silhouette,

613
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:44,320
you can ring the changes
with a multitude of accessories.

614
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:50,160
So she took me to the best couturier
in Paris...

615
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:53,160
..and bought me this!

616
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:57,200
It's very plain.

617
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,720
That's the whole point, Lucille.

618
00:40:59,720 --> 00:41:03,040
<font color="
that, for an informal supper,

619
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,080
I might wear it with
a white mink chapeau.

620
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:08,440
Do you not think your head
might get a bit hot?

621
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:11,680
I'm going to put on these high heels

622
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:14,120
and demonstrate the infinite
possibilities

623
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:15,480
<font color="

624
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,280
Oh, we should have waited
for the ambulance.

625
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:21,960
I thought there'd be a bloody bus!

626
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:23,600
It must be the fog.

627
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,000
There'll be a taxi coming
soon, I promise you,

628
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,280
even if it's just a cabbie
coming home from up West.

629
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:29,880
<font color="

630
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:31,840
I wish we'd never come out!

631
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,000
You've just got to keep walking.

632
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,480
I can't hardly stand,
never mind keep walking!

633
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:44,400
I'm in labour... Mavis, listen to
me. We're going to that phone box,

634
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,400
and we're going
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635
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,760
Come on, you can do it. OK.

636
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:56,760
Oh...

637
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:58,280
SHE MOANS

638
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:01,520
Mavis! Stomach!

639
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,480
The phone's busted,
I don't know what to do!

640
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:11,280
Oh, you'll have to go
to Nonnatus House and get a midwife.

641
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,480
<font color="
I'm not a woman, Mavis!

642
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:16,520
It's next door to the school,
you stupid article!

643
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:17,960
Just...just stay there!

644
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,040
Promise me you'll stay there.

645
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,240
Oh...

646
00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:33,880
I'll say this for the best
couturier in Paris,

647
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,000
<font color="
he certainly fits a lovely zip.

648
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,160
And the beauty of it is,

649
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:40,760
I can wear it with a pair of
elbow-length white satin gloves

650
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,280
and a discreet diamond brooch
for the opera,

651
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:47,920
or a pearl-grey tweed coatee
for a city luncheon.

652
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:52,760
<font color="
like a photographic negative.

653
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:56,360
And what's this, may I ask?

654
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,760
A gorgeous jacket
in a lovely shade of red.

655
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:05,240
It's a fuchsia-pink duster coat
in shantung silk.

656
00:43:05,240 --> 00:43:07,120
FRANTIC KNOCKING AT DOOR

657
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:10,280
<font color="

658
00:43:21,720 --> 00:43:26,040
It's my wife, she's by the phone
box. I think the baby's coming out!

659
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:28,680
We need coordinates.
Which phone box?

660
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:29,920
I can't remember!

661
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,680
And it's goodbye to one pair
of fully fashioned Parisian nylons.

662
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:45,920
<font color="
Hold on!

663
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:48,040
Oh, I can't hold on, I can't!

664
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:51,040
Go and ring for an ambulance,
and tell them to prepare for a BBA.

665
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:52,760
BBA? Born before arrival.

666
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,760
We're on the corner of Bateman
Street and Chandler's Mews,

667
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:57,240
<font color="

668
00:43:57,240 --> 00:43:59,680
then come back with hot water
bottles and clean towels.

669
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,320
Oh, come on, mate, I promise you,
when they come as quick as this,

670
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,120
they come easy as a wink.

671
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,240
As soon as we've got
this contraction out of the way,

672
00:44:13,240 --> 00:44:14,880
<font color="
basic checks

673
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:18,720
to tide us over
until the ambulance arrives.

674
00:44:18,720 --> 00:44:21,400
MAVIS GROANS

675
00:44:30,240 --> 00:44:32,720
It's all right, we're here now.

676
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:38,280
Let's slip these off
and see where we are.

677
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,600
They said I had to go
to St Jolyon's.

678
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:42,000
<font color="

679
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,160
We want it born within
earshot of Bow Bells,

680
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:47,240
or it's not a Cockney.

681
00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:51,240
I can feel something down below,
I reckon it's the head.

682
00:44:51,240 --> 00:44:55,480
With this next pain, you push
if you have the urge to, Mavis.

683
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:56,960
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684
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:58,440
No, you're fine as you are,

685
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:01,320
just keep your feet
nice and wide apart.

686
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,200
Oh...

687
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,840
I can feel the top
of baby's head, Mavis.

688
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:15,360
Push! There you go, chick,
that's the ticket.

689
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:18,160
<font color="

690
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,120
all the way to the end
of this contraction.

691
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:21,920
That's it, you're doing brilliantly.

692
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:28,480
They will keep neither
mother nor infant warm

693
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:31,000
if they are not kept
warm themselves.

694
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:32,360
Thank you, Sister.

695
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,720
<font color="

696
00:45:34,720 --> 00:45:37,040
We need all the help we can get.

697
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:44,760
Keep pushing, Mavis,
like you did with the last one,

698
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:46,400
and the one before.

699
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,120
Good girl.

700
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:52,360
Thank you. That's all right, chick.

701
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,360
Now, you catch your breath,
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702
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:55,600
for the next one.

703
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:58,680
Is the head out?

704
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:03,080
When I was having Russell,
you let me reach down and feel it.

705
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:07,520
I think Russell was a little bit
more biddable than this one.

706
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:09,840
Dragging its heels a bit, is it?

707
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:18,000
<font color="
a really big, brave push.

708
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:22,120
We're with you. Keep pushing,
that's it.

709
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:26,600
Come on, chick, you can do it.
Don't let go of this, Mavis.

710
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,000
You have to keep pushing.

711
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:33,320
Clean towels, two hot water bottles,
<font color="

712
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,120
And I wish I could say
I did see an ambulance,

713
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:38,400
but there isn't any sign.

714
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:44,840
That was a superb push, Mavis,
but baby's not moving.

715
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:47,440
I need to get you
onto one knee, sweetie.

716
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:50,000
No, I can't!
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717
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,720
You have three of us,
all to yourself.

718
00:46:52,720 --> 00:46:55,160
One of us is even wearing
her uniform.

719
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:58,280
Just think of us as the Beverley
Sisters, but with rubber gloves.

720
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:02,240
Gently now, that's it.

721
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:08,000
All right, there we go.

722
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:15,680
<font color="

723
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:18,160
Here we go.

724
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:26,440
And push, push, push, push, push.

725
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:27,920
The pain's gone!

726
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:30,240
Then push anyway.

727
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:37,800
That's it, that's it, that's it!

728
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:40,720
BABY CRIES

729
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,040
Posterior shoulder first.

730
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:47,840
BABY KEEPS CRYING

731
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:10,720
Oh, there we go.

732
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:21,600
<font color="

733
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:23,360
I think somebody's Christmas

734
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:25,680
has come a little bit early,
hasn't it?

735
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:34,040
You've got a little boy, Mavis.

736
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:44,400
I'll have to give him
a Christmassy name now, won't I?

737
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:46,520
Like Noel.

738
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:48,440
Or Robin.

739
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:51,080
Gabriel, like the angel.

740
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:54,360
<font color="
till the shock's worn off!

741
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:55,920
AMBULANCE BELLS APPROACHING

742
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:03,040
Come and see your beautiful baby.
Is she all right?

743
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,800
Mr Hollier?
It's a bit bloody late now!

744
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:10,600
Now, Mr Hollier. Let's have
a bit of peace and goodwill.

745
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:23,120
<font color="

746
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:26,640
You're not going anywhere where
we can't look after you properly.

747
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:40,000
Mavis's husband is lying down
across the chairs in reception.

748
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,680
I put two spoons
of sugar in his cup.

749
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:46,240
How are you getting on?

750
00:49:46,240 --> 00:49:48,600
<font color="
all the blood out,

751
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,440
but I'm having less luck
with the vernix.

752
00:49:56,360 --> 00:50:01,120
It's only a dress,
and a birth is never just a birth.

753
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:08,280
I could call him Nicholas.

754
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:13,440
It's Father Christmas's name
in some of the old-fashioned books.

755
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:14,880
<font color="

756
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:17,840
I like that.

757
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:22,320
Gravel.

758
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:26,000
You must have come off the cape
when you were pushing.

759
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:27,840
As one Poplar girl to another,

760
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,280
am I allowed to say
I'm proud of you?

761
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:33,760
Yeah, we did all right, didn't we?

762
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:38,120
Everyone tells
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763
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,600
The hospital tells
you hospital's better.

764
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:43,320
They never tell you
there might not be a bed.

765
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:47,520
There you are.

766
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:49,880
What a smart little soldier.

767
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:53,560
Bringing him to meals and feeding
him alongside the other children

768
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:55,560
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769
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:01,200
I've noticed that little May
hardly eats at all.

770
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:04,560
I picked her up to put
her on the rocking horse yesterday.

771
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:07,000
I know what a well-nourished
three-year-old

772
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:08,560
should feel like in your arms

773
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:10,560
<font color="
like a bird.

774
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:11,600
Sister Mildred says

775
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:15,000
some children do less well
than others in residential care.

776
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:16,920
May just isn't suited
to orphanage life.

777
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:19,200
It's gone on too long for her.

778
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:22,600
I wish there was
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779
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:24,600
I pray, for all of them.

780
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:28,320
I don't think I've stopped
praying since I got here.

781
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:37,880
Young Nicholas is looking
a little bit peckish, Mrs Hollier.

782
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:45,680
I'll pull the curtains round

783
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:48,120
so you can have some privacy
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784
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:51,560
Can't I stay?
It's nothing I haven't seen before.

785
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:57,560
Please? You'll find a selection
of reading matter in reception.

786
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:08,320
Oh, Nurse, Nurse,

787
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:11,000
I'm sorry, but it hurts so much!

788
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,200
<font color="

789
00:52:15,240 --> 00:52:18,240
Oh, it hurts so much!

790
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:25,960
SHE WHISPERS PRAYERS

791
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:51,800
Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't
mean to startle you.

792
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:56,160
I saw you before when
you were looking in the window.

793
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:58,480
Did you come here
because you need help?

794
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:12,640
<font color="

795
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:17,560
Please, miss, stop!

796
00:53:20,240 --> 00:53:22,160
I'm glad you stopped running,
it's bad for you,

797
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:23,400
it's bad for your baby.

798
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:25,200
I suppose you're one
of the midwives?

799
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,320
We're all midwives,
it's what our order does.

800
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:28,360
I know that.

801
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:35,080
<font color="
I used to be at the orphanage.

802
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:37,720
Oh...

803
00:53:37,720 --> 00:53:40,600
Will you tell me your name?

804
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:43,640
It's Lena.

805
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:45,680
Why didn't you knock on the door,
Lena,

806
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:48,080
why didn't you just ask
to speak to someone?

807
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:50,360
I just don't know.

808
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:52,320
<font color="

809
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:55,400
Were you unhappy at the orphanage?

810
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:56,440
No.

811
00:53:59,960 --> 00:54:03,560
It was the last time
I ever felt happy in my life.

812
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:22,240
You poor thing.

813
00:54:22,240 --> 00:54:25,560
You have a vaginal haematoma,

814
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:27,920
a massive collection of blood
under the skin.

815
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:32,400
<font color="
since you gave birth.

816
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:33,440
How big?

817
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:38,080
Well, if you're looking
for a more seasonal image,

818
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:40,560
about the size of a tangerine.

819
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:44,840
Oh...

820
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:48,600
Your blood pressure
is just a little high.

821
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:51,880
<font color="
and warmth,

822
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:56,880
but I would like to check your
urine if you can provide a sample.

823
00:54:56,880 --> 00:55:00,480
My earliest memory is of one of you,
when my brother was born.

824
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:02,360
I was only two then, maybe three.

825
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:04,000
Was he born at the cottage hospital?

826
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:05,200
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827
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:06,480
In London, in Poplar.

828
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:09,000
Our order's been in Poplar
for a number of years.

829
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:12,080
It was one of you who brought me
down here on the bus.

830
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:14,600
They said my brother
Billy couldn't come,

831
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:16,680
because he had a club foot.

832
00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:20,240
<font color="
and wear a special shoe.

833
00:55:20,240 --> 00:55:22,160
How old were you?

834
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:23,680
When my parents died?

835
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:27,800
I think I was seven, maybe eight.

836
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:34,200
I had one big tooth and one
baby tooth at the front,

837
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:35,360
I remember that.

838
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:38,200
The nun who met me here

839
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:41,680
<font color="
smiled at,

840
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:43,960
or I might not get picked.

841
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:48,120
It's OK. Sister Hilda asked if you
could go and help with the children.

842
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:51,640
Neil seems unsettled
and she thinks he might want you.

843
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:53,080
Oh.

844
00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:57,520
<font color="
with Billy on the pavement.

845
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:02,400
We were looking at each other
through the window of the bus.

846
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:06,560
Such a dirty window,
we could hardly see each other.

847
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:09,240
I was crying and crying,

848
00:56:09,240 --> 00:56:13,760
and the nun said
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849
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,520
because if I didn't stop,
the bus wouldn't go.

850
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:20,360
And I wiped my eyes
with the back of my hands,

851
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:22,600
and the bus pulled away.

852
00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:27,720
I never saw my brother again.

853
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:33,240
Do you want to tell us
what happened after that?

854
00:56:33,240 --> 00:56:34,560
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855
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:41,000
I was sent to Australia.

856
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:43,920
On the children's
farm school scheme?

857
00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:48,440
It gives children such
a wonderful chance in life.

858
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:50,520
Kills some of them.

859
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:52,040
Yeah, they killed me.

860
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:08,080
We should be ready now, Dr Turner.

861
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:11,840
<font color="
a tiny incision

862
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:14,800
and drain all of the blood
out of the haematoma.

863
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:17,240
You'll soon feel much better.

864
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:18,720
It's already stopped hurting.

865
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:22,640
That little scratch you felt
before was a local anaesthetic.

866
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:24,680
I need to go home.

867
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:26,960
<font color="

868
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:30,040
It's nearly Christmas Eve. The baby
won't know, but Russell will.

869
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:32,560
How will he know it's
Christmas without one?

870
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:35,000
I want you to take deep
breaths of the gas now, Mavis.

871
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:41,320
I haven't even wrapped the presents
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872
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:44,440
That's it, good girl.

873
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:49,400
She's had a rotten run
of luck, poor lass.

874
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:52,520
Christmas should be
a happy time for a young family.

875
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:55,120
Yes, it should.

876
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:01,480
You often hear of children
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877
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:03,760
I thought most of them went
to small children's homes

878
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:07,680
in the countryside. Lena didn't, she
said she was taken to a farm,

879
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:11,200
put to work, and treated
absolutely brutally.

880
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:14,520
She also says she married
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881
00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:18,000
she used the small amount
of money she was left

882
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:19,320
to pay for a passage home.

883
00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:22,680
That's all Sister Julienne and I
have been able to get out of her.

884
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:24,920
At least you managed
to persuade her to stay the night.

885
00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:27,160
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in a room above a pub.

886
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:29,240
That doesn't sound at all suitable.

887
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:31,000
The order has never put
any children

888
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:33,680
to the child migrant programme
directly.

889
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:36,240
We only ever liaised
with charities who did,

890
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:39,960
<font color="
the records seem so sketchy.

891
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:43,160
Well, what if the records
are sketchy?

892
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:45,640
What if nothing was ever
properly written down?

893
00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:48,400
If they weren't,
then they should've been.

894
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:50,400
Facts may sometimes
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895
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:52,600
but everyone has a story.

896
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:56,160
The least we can do is make
sure that it's told.

897
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:53,080
FORK TINKLES AGAINST GLASS

898
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:55,080
Your attention, please,
Sisters...and guest.

899
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:58,120
Or should that be guests?

900
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:03,760
Neil and I are experimenting
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901
01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:08,720
He seems to be digesting better,
and he's trying to look around more.

902
01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:12,160
Wonderful.

903
01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:14,040
I've been with Mother Jesu Emmanuel,

904
01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:17,640
and the chaplain general will visit
to oversee the election

905
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:19,320
the day after tomorrow.

906
01:00:21,240 --> 01:00:24,080
<font color="

907
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:29,400
whose grasp of the religious life
means she may lead us

908
01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:32,640
with both confidence and grace.

909
01:00:32,640 --> 01:00:36,600
In addition, she commends
Sister Julienne

910
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:40,720
for so swiftly establishing
good governance in the office.

911
01:00:45,160 --> 01:00:48,280
<font color="
as we used to say in the war.

912
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:49,600
You'll be looking forward

913
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:51,760
to going back to Poplar,
Sister Winifred?

914
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:55,000
I don't want to go back.

915
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:56,760
I want to stay here.

916
01:00:56,760 --> 01:01:00,200
Sister, we have to go
where we are called.

917
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:03,080
<font color="

918
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:10,520
Well, with respect, Sisters,

919
01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:12,920
I think there is a difference

920
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:15,320
between going where we are called
by God

921
01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:19,080
and doing what we are told
by human beings.

922
01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:23,120
I think perhaps I should withdraw.
No, do stay.

923
01:01:23,120 --> 01:01:25,080
<font color="
might persuade our Sisters

924
01:01:25,080 --> 01:01:27,040
to moderate their quarrel.

925
01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:33,360
The quarrel is not between
ourselves, it is within us.

926
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:40,720
The quarrel is between one's own
desires and that which is demanded.

927
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:44,480
The quarrel is between
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928
01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:50,480
the soul and its terrors,
and the mind, yearning to be free.

929
01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:53,520
The quarrel defines us.

930
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:58,800
It drives us forwards, upwards,
to our knees in prayer.

931
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:01,160
You must embrace the quarrel.

932
01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:06,480
The quarrel will lead
us to the answer.

933
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:09,520
<font color="

934
01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:15,160
Tea is supposed to be a silent meal.

935
01:02:18,120 --> 01:02:23,360
Well, I feel called to stay here,
and I don't care who's calling me.

936
01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:33,520
Oh, come on, Reggie,
eat your Swiss roll and custard.

937
01:02:33,520 --> 01:02:35,720
In a few days' time,

938
01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:38,880
everything will have dried fruit in
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939
01:02:38,880 --> 01:02:40,320
DOORBELL RINGS

940
01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:44,920
Oh, get that, Fred, I'm running late
for the WVS sherry party.

941
01:02:53,200 --> 01:02:55,880
DOORBELL KEEPS RINGING

942
01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:59,160
What's the panic, Noll,
your knicker elastic gone?

943
01:02:59,160 --> 01:03:03,120
I am a man of conscience,
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944
01:03:03,120 --> 01:03:04,160
and I've been thinking

945
01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:06,520
about them little 'uns we
disappointed over the reindeer.

946
01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:08,280
ANIMAL BRAYS

947
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:10,360
That's not a reindeer.

948
01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:17,720
It's a donkey,
and it's got sand in its fur.

949
01:03:17,720 --> 01:03:20,400
Maybe it cut through Clacton
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950
01:03:20,400 --> 01:03:24,000
I'll need him back
after the holidays.

951
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:25,800
Merry Christmas.

952
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:35,280
Violet, sweetheart?

953
01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:40,000
I've just got to pop down
the civil defence headquarters.

954
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:43,600
Well, no stopping off down
the Black Sail afterwards.

955
01:03:43,600 --> 01:03:46,360
<font color="

956
01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:48,360
It's a donkey!

957
01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:51,200
Shh!

958
01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:54,840
Reggie, I've taken
a special delivery.

959
01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:57,760
I know, Fred, and it's a donkey!

960
01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:02,080
Look, just go back inside
and don't say anything.

961
01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:06,280
Come on, you.

962
01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:09,600
No, come on, come on,
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963
01:04:09,600 --> 01:04:12,240
DONKEY BRAYS
Shh.

964
01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:14,880
Good evening, Doctor.

965
01:04:14,880 --> 01:04:18,560
More seasonal confectionery
from grateful patients.

966
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:24,960
I can't allow that on the premises
until it's passed a fire test.

967
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:28,200
Aluminium trees are
<font color="

968
01:04:28,200 --> 01:04:31,200
Ah, Mr Hollier! Just the person.

969
01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:35,400
I thought you and your
family might like this. A tree?

970
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:38,720
Take it, take it home,
turn the lights on.

971
01:04:38,720 --> 01:04:40,560
You'll have a little
bit of Christmas then,

972
01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:44,160
<font color="
Thank you, Doctor.

973
01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:46,000
I'll go through and tell Mavis

974
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:49,200
so she can stop fretting
and concentrate on getting better.

975
01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:50,960
PHONE RINGS

976
01:04:50,960 --> 01:04:53,120
Surgery reception,
how may I be of assistance?

977
01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:57,400
It's for you.

978
01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:01,040
<font color="

979
01:05:01,040 --> 01:05:03,720
Dad, what's happened
to our silver tree?

980
01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:07,120
Look over your shoulder,
Tim, what can you see?

981
01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:10,000
Angela, looking broken-hearted.

982
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:12,640
And another tree.

983
01:05:12,640 --> 01:05:16,520
Dad, you're always giving things
away, even when it's not Christmas.

984
01:05:16,520 --> 01:05:17,960
<font color="

985
01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:34,200
Sister, I don't feel well.

986
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:44,160
Come on, donkey,
come on. No, this way.

987
01:05:45,560 --> 01:05:47,600
You need a hand, Fred?

988
01:05:47,600 --> 01:05:50,360
Oh, no, no, no, me and old...
old Eeyore here,

989
01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:52,920
we understand each other. I'm trying
to get him up the allotment

990
01:05:52,920 --> 01:05:54,720
<font color="

991
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:57,400
I would let him graze,
but I think he'd run amok.

992
01:05:57,400 --> 01:05:58,960
He's not running amok now.

993
01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:00,800
DONKEY BRAYS

994
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:04,520
Listen, you haven't got
any peppermints on you,

995
01:06:04,520 --> 01:06:06,640
have you, Doctor? Only...

996
01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:09,200
..I got him all the way here

997
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:11,680
<font color="
I found in me pocket.

998
01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:21,080
What are you doing with that donkey?

999
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:23,120
I'd move that tin a little bit
if I was you, Doctor,

1000
01:06:23,120 --> 01:06:26,280
because he seems to have his eye
on the toffee penny.

1001
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:33,320
There we go, that's a good donkey.
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1002
01:06:33,320 --> 01:06:35,760
There you go. This way.

1003
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:37,240
This way.

1004
01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:40,560
Oh, I told you to stay at home!

1005
01:06:40,560 --> 01:06:42,520
I got the donkey a blanket.

1006
01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:46,920
You're a bit keen to get this animal
under wraps, Fred.

1007
01:06:48,920 --> 01:06:51,200
Well, given your upstanding
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1008
01:06:51,200 --> 01:06:54,560
Doctor, I'll let you get off home.

1009
01:06:54,560 --> 01:06:56,760
I'll leave you the Quality Street.

1010
01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:00,800
Right, come on, then, let's...

1011
01:07:00,800 --> 01:07:03,000
..let's see if we can get you in
here.

1012
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:04,960
Come on.
Oh, look at all these lovely...

1013
01:07:04,960 --> 01:07:06,400
No, come back, come back,

1014
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:09,680
<font color="
come on, come on, good donkey.

1015
01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:11,240
That's a good donkey.

1016
01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:13,160
No, you're not going to go?

1017
01:07:13,160 --> 01:07:14,680
Please.

1018
01:07:18,400 --> 01:07:21,720
The fog has made the road
to the hospital impassable,

1019
01:07:21,720 --> 01:07:24,280
but Sister Hilda let
me into the stores

1020
01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:26,640
<font color="
in there that I might need.

1021
01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:28,200
Is it good again?

1022
01:07:28,200 --> 01:07:29,800
It's perfect.

1023
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:33,280
I want to be good at
this, it's like...

1024
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:35,200
I want to get good marks.

1025
01:07:35,200 --> 01:07:38,720
When I was on the farm,
I never got anything right.

1026
01:07:38,720 --> 01:07:42,480
<font color="
or leave smears on the dishes,

1027
01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:47,840
tea leaves mixed up in the mop,
I couldn't make anything clean.

1028
01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:49,520
And that's when they'd hit you

1029
01:07:49,520 --> 01:07:52,000
with the flat of their hand
or a stick,

1030
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:54,680
when you couldn't
make things perfect.

1031
01:07:56,520 --> 01:07:59,600
<font color="
to do the best we can,

1032
01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:01,240
whatever is asked of us.

1033
01:08:01,240 --> 01:08:03,640
You always do your best.

1034
01:08:03,640 --> 01:08:05,720
You even did your best by Billy.

1035
01:08:05,720 --> 01:08:06,800
Billy?

1036
01:08:06,800 --> 01:08:08,600
My brother.

1037
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:11,920
I can remember you holding
his hand when I was looking

1038
01:08:11,920 --> 01:08:13,720
<font color="

1039
01:08:13,720 --> 01:08:15,880
I was holding his hand?

1040
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:20,720
You've been in my mind
like a photograph for years,

1041
01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:26,080
and yesterday, when I saw the light
fall on your face

1042
01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:28,240
and I knew it was you...

1043
01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:34,720
There were always
so many children in Poplar,

1044
01:08:34,720 --> 01:08:37,360
<font color="
to a family sometimes.

1045
01:08:37,360 --> 01:08:41,360
There was only me and him,
but I knew he'd be all right.

1046
01:08:41,360 --> 01:08:43,160
He was holding your hand.

1047
01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:48,680
SHE MOANS

1048
01:08:59,040 --> 01:09:01,920
That was a wonderful push.
We have baby's head.

1049
01:09:01,920 --> 01:09:03,680
Really? Really.

1050
01:09:03,680 --> 01:09:08,440
<font color="
very clever girl, Lena.

1051
01:09:08,440 --> 01:09:11,120
And when the next pain starts,
we're going to tell you to push,

1052
01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:15,560
and if you push steadily,
baby will be with us,

1053
01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:17,840
and we'll be able to place
<font color="

1054
01:09:17,840 --> 01:09:21,520
Shh. We'll soon find out
if it's a boy or a girl.

1055
01:09:21,520 --> 01:09:24,760
I don't mind what it is,

1056
01:09:24,760 --> 01:09:26,760
once he's here, I'll have flesh
and blood again.

1057
01:09:26,760 --> 01:09:28,400
It's been such a long time

1058
01:09:28,400 --> 01:09:30,680
since I've had flesh and blood
<font color="

1059
01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:35,440
That's it, Lena.

1060
01:09:35,440 --> 01:09:38,040
That's it, keep pushing,
keep pushing.

1061
01:09:38,040 --> 01:09:39,080
Keep pushing.

1062
01:09:43,240 --> 01:09:44,760
BABY CRIES

1063
01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:46,920
Success!

1064
01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:49,240
It's a boy, Lena!

1065
01:09:53,160 --> 01:09:55,840
A gorgeous little boy!

1066
01:10:03,960 --> 01:10:05,680
Is he all right?

1067
01:10:05,680 --> 01:10:07,920
He's perfect.

1068
01:10:10,440 --> 01:10:13,000
<font color="

1069
01:10:29,840 --> 01:10:31,880
I'm going to call him Billy.

1070
01:10:53,040 --> 01:10:56,240
ON TELEPHONE: Ah, Mrs Turner,
I'll be with you in just a minute.

1071
01:11:13,920 --> 01:11:16,000
Mrs Turner, how may I assist you?

1072
01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:19,120
I'm trying to connect some records
we have at the Mother House

1073
01:11:19,120 --> 01:11:21,000
with those of a family
<font color="

1074
01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:26,040
before the war, two children,
called Lena and Billy,

1075
01:11:26,040 --> 01:11:27,160
or possibly William.

1076
01:11:29,200 --> 01:11:31,480
I don't know what's
going wrong with Poplar.

1077
01:11:31,480 --> 01:11:35,400
Time was that you could leave the
door to your whole house wide open

1078
01:11:35,400 --> 01:11:37,960
<font color="
was safe.

1079
01:11:37,960 --> 01:11:40,200
Has something gone missing?

1080
01:11:40,200 --> 01:11:43,080
Oh, the Brussels sprouts,
and two pounds of parsnips!

1081
01:11:43,080 --> 01:11:44,800
PHONE RINGS

1082
01:11:44,800 --> 01:11:47,240
I hung them up outside in my string
shopper

1083
01:11:47,240 --> 01:11:49,640
so that they'd get a nip
<font color="

1084
01:11:52,280 --> 01:11:58,520
Poor beggars, must've been starving
to rob all that raw veg!

1085
01:11:58,520 --> 01:11:59,960
PHONE RINGS AT OTHER END

1086
01:11:59,960 --> 01:12:01,120
Hello?

1087
01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:02,440
Mrs Buckle?

1088
01:12:02,440 --> 01:12:04,160
Oh, is that Mrs Turner?

1089
01:12:04,160 --> 01:12:06,920
I'm afraid I'm coming
to you with my begging bowl.

1090
01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:08,280
<font color="

1091
01:12:08,280 --> 01:12:11,320
to fulfil any charitable requests,
Mrs Turner.

1092
01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:13,600
It's quite a big begging bowl.

1093
01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:17,520
I need you to fill it
with angel costumes,

1094
01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:20,920
and possibly animal costumes.

1095
01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:25,240
Animal costumes with heads on,
or just very long johns,

1096
01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:27,560
<font color="

1097
01:12:27,560 --> 01:12:30,760
I don't mind, but we're putting
on a nativity play

1098
01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:32,520
for the Mother House orphanage

1099
01:12:32,520 --> 01:12:35,520
before some of them go off
to their adopted families

1100
01:12:35,520 --> 01:12:39,600
and to give those that don't
a Christmas memory to look back on.

1101
01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:42,080
<font color="

1102
01:12:42,080 --> 01:12:45,480
but I want every single child
to have a costume.

1103
01:12:48,640 --> 01:12:51,320
How many are there?

1104
01:12:51,320 --> 01:12:53,200
About 20.

1105
01:12:58,880 --> 01:13:00,960
Well, he's settled in quite nicely.

1106
01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:03,160
Fred, it's not ours.

1107
01:13:03,160 --> 01:13:04,360
No.

1108
01:13:04,360 --> 01:13:06,080
Give him to the orphans.

1109
01:13:07,160 --> 01:13:08,720
<font color="

1110
01:13:08,720 --> 01:13:11,640
Well, better than
those old broken toys.

1111
01:13:11,640 --> 01:13:14,680
No fleas, only sand.

1112
01:13:57,760 --> 01:13:59,200
Thank you.

1113
01:13:59,200 --> 01:14:01,960
I've seen so many people waiting
for news as a midwife.

1114
01:14:01,960 --> 01:14:04,800
Now I'm waiting for news of my own.

1115
01:14:04,800 --> 01:14:08,480
<font color="
than I ever imagined.

1116
01:14:12,680 --> 01:14:14,200
I'm worried we won't hear the bell

1117
01:14:14,200 --> 01:14:17,840
when it rings to announce
that the vote has been declared.

1118
01:14:17,840 --> 01:14:20,120
Maybe I don't want to.

1119
01:14:20,120 --> 01:14:25,800
Maybe I simply want to stretch
this moment out and make it last,

1120
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:29,600
<font color="

1121
01:14:29,600 --> 01:14:33,360
If you could choose one thing now,
what would it be?

1122
01:14:34,440 --> 01:14:36,080
A cigarette.

1123
01:14:37,160 --> 01:14:39,000
I mean it, Shelagh.

1124
01:14:41,680 --> 01:14:45,160
I keep them for nervous fathers

1125
01:14:45,160 --> 01:14:49,400
and unexpected social situations.

1126
01:14:49,400 --> 01:14:50,720
Patrick doesn't know.

1127
01:14:52,600 --> 01:14:56,440
This was the last thing
<font color="

1128
01:14:56,440 --> 01:14:59,840
It was the first thing
I did when I renounced mine.

1129
01:15:00,840 --> 01:15:04,240
I had to speak to Mother Jesu
on the telephone.

1130
01:15:04,240 --> 01:15:07,560
If she'd been angry,
it would have been so much easier.

1131
01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:11,840
But she said, "Child,
make room for God,

1132
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:15,440
<font color="
you can never imagine."

1133
01:15:16,480 --> 01:15:19,720
I put the phone down,
and all I could think about was,

1134
01:15:19,720 --> 01:15:22,520
would he fill it
with a pack of Henley's?

1135
01:15:25,560 --> 01:15:27,560
CHURCH BELL TOLLS

1136
01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:55,600
OK?

1137
01:15:55,600 --> 01:15:56,640
Can you manage?

1138
01:16:06,160 --> 01:16:09,000
NUNS SING

1139
01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:26,280
<font color="

1140
01:16:30,160 --> 01:16:33,120
May I present your new
Mother Superior...

1141
01:16:55,120 --> 01:16:57,280
You have made your will known.

1142
01:16:58,920 --> 01:17:03,160
I am to serve you as your Superior.

1143
01:17:04,160 --> 01:17:06,840
May his will be done.

1144
01:17:06,840 --> 01:17:10,240
And may I come to accept
it with his grace.

1145
01:17:12,080 --> 01:17:17,120
<font color="
upon the rule of obedience,

1146
01:17:17,120 --> 01:17:19,840
I trust Sister Winifred will not
resist my request

1147
01:17:19,840 --> 01:17:23,920
that she remain here,
working with the children,

1148
01:17:23,920 --> 01:17:28,240
whilst Sister Julienne must
forthwith at once to Poplar

1149
01:17:28,240 --> 01:17:32,120
<font color="

1150
01:17:32,120 --> 01:17:38,000
We will arrange for two new Sisters
to join you in Poplar in due course.

1151
01:17:49,840 --> 01:17:51,040
What's all this?

1152
01:17:51,040 --> 01:17:53,720
Fortification for your labours,
which, on this occasion,

1153
01:17:53,720 --> 01:17:55,240
have nothing to do with childbirth

1154
01:17:55,240 --> 01:17:57,280
and everything to do
<font color="

1155
01:17:58,400 --> 01:18:02,840
One bag of presents,
all shopped for weeks ago

1156
01:18:02,840 --> 01:18:04,800
by your loving hands.

1157
01:18:04,800 --> 01:18:06,880
And enough paper, sticky tape
and ribbon

1158
01:18:06,880 --> 01:18:09,640
to get them all wrapped
up and ready for Christmas morning.

1159
01:18:09,640 --> 01:18:11,960
Then if we all get cracking,
<font color="

1160
01:18:11,960 --> 01:18:14,800
to send them to the North Pole
for delivery by sleigh.

1161
01:18:16,560 --> 01:18:18,680
Thanks, all of you.

1162
01:18:21,040 --> 01:18:23,600
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.

1163
01:18:23,600 --> 01:18:25,200
Merry Christmas, love.

1164
01:18:26,440 --> 01:18:28,120
SEWING MACHINE CLATTERS

1165
01:18:30,880 --> 01:18:34,080
Hello, my love. Erm...

1166
01:18:34,080 --> 01:18:36,720
<font color="
something to tell you.

1167
01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:38,840
Well, unless it's going
to be of some benefit

1168
01:18:38,840 --> 01:18:39,960
to this nativity play,

1169
01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:42,280
then I'm afraid it's of no
interest to me.

1170
01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:02,240
Room for two more?

1171
01:19:02,240 --> 01:19:04,960
Yes, please.

1172
01:19:06,960 --> 01:19:08,680
That one there.

1173
01:19:12,400 --> 01:19:17,120
<font color="
the way they're carrying on.

1174
01:19:17,120 --> 01:19:20,160
Are you sure you don't want
to go with them for the ride?

1175
01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:27,480
Vi, I told you, hang them
up in the back of my van.

1176
01:19:27,480 --> 01:19:29,520
It's full of scrap timber

1177
01:19:29,520 --> 01:19:33,440
and it's too close to the trailer,
<font color="

1178
01:19:33,440 --> 01:19:35,520
Too many sprouts!

1179
01:19:56,440 --> 01:19:57,840
Oh!

1180
01:20:01,840 --> 01:20:06,120
I missed you all so much.
Is Miss Higgins here?

1181
01:20:06,120 --> 01:20:07,880
All present and correct.

1182
01:20:18,320 --> 01:20:20,480
Oh, this is May, Angela.

1183
01:20:20,480 --> 01:20:22,520
Would you like to say hello?

1184
01:20:22,520 --> 01:20:23,920
Hello.

1185
01:20:26,440 --> 01:20:28,280
Dr Turner?

1186
01:20:28,280 --> 01:20:32,000
<font color="
with your wife, Dr Turner,

1187
01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:35,560
and she's now under orders
to have a word with you.

1188
01:21:04,080 --> 01:21:07,720
Lena, I have a visitor for you.

1189
01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:13,880
Billy, step into the light
where your sister can see you.

1190
01:21:26,200 --> 01:21:29,560
I took a picture
of you with my mind.

1191
01:21:33,240 --> 01:21:36,480
<font color="
the bus was so dirty.

1192
01:21:42,760 --> 01:21:45,320
I'm sorry I couldn't look after you.

1193
01:21:45,320 --> 01:21:47,880
I'm sorry I couldn't look after you.

1194
01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:51,840
I did all right, Lena. Did you?

1195
01:21:51,840 --> 01:21:53,920
Dr Barnardo's is all right.

1196
01:21:55,120 --> 01:21:57,720
I was good at my arithmetic.
Were you?

1197
01:21:57,720 --> 01:21:59,600
<font color="
and measures,

1198
01:21:59,600 --> 01:22:03,320
married a girl from the typing pool.

1199
01:22:03,320 --> 01:22:07,760
No kids, but I made a nice life.

1200
01:22:09,200 --> 01:22:11,600
I'm glad.

1201
01:22:11,600 --> 01:22:12,880
Don't cry.

1202
01:22:12,880 --> 01:22:16,000
If I don't stop, the bus won't go.

1203
01:22:22,040 --> 01:22:27,040
You come home with me,
and you bring the little 'un.

1204
01:22:29,280 --> 01:22:32,360
<font color="
and we'll be together.

1205
01:22:41,640 --> 01:22:43,840
I'm not sure it'd stand
up to a force nine gale, Fred,

1206
01:22:43,840 --> 01:22:48,800
but I don't think
they had much wind in Bethlehem.

1207
01:22:48,800 --> 01:22:53,280
They didn't have a donkey who was
partial to Christmas veg either!

1208
01:22:58,200 --> 01:23:02,880
<font color="
any tights on

1209
01:23:02,880 --> 01:23:06,200
and a pair of trotters that haven't
got a home, so can everybody please

1210
01:23:06,200 --> 01:23:09,400
look at their feet and then
look at the feet of the angel

1211
01:23:09,400 --> 01:23:12,800
or animal next to them
and put their hand up

1212
01:23:12,800 --> 01:23:14,680
<font color="

1213
01:23:16,520 --> 01:23:20,520
You're going to look like the
best-dressed king in the stable.

1214
01:23:20,520 --> 01:23:23,040
I think he might be the most loved.

1215
01:23:31,800 --> 01:23:35,480
I'd take all of them back with me
if I could. I would too.

1216
01:23:36,760 --> 01:23:39,520
A lot of them thrive here.

1217
01:23:39,520 --> 01:23:41,320
It's secure and stable.

1218
01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:42,360
<font color="

1219
01:23:43,680 --> 01:23:45,880
But Mother Mildred is adamant

1220
01:23:45,880 --> 01:23:48,840
that any more time in a Home
with a capital H

1221
01:23:48,840 --> 01:23:52,760
instead of a small one
would be very damaging for May.

1222
01:23:52,760 --> 01:23:56,680
It might well have
damaged her already.

1223
01:23:56,680 --> 01:24:00,080
I just wish the people
<font color="

1224
01:24:03,400 --> 01:24:05,200
We could take her now.

1225
01:24:07,080 --> 01:24:11,600
Not adopt her, just foster her,
just for the few months she needs...

1226
01:24:12,560 --> 01:24:16,800
..show her that there's a world
that's just the right size,

1227
01:24:16,800 --> 01:24:19,520
that there's a place
where she will fit.

1228
01:24:21,600 --> 01:24:23,680
<font color="

1229
01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:31,080
I said we had no room for another
living creature in our household,

1230
01:24:31,080 --> 01:24:32,440
or our car.

1231
01:24:32,440 --> 01:24:38,680
It's an enormous car,
and our life just keeps expanding.

1232
01:24:38,680 --> 01:24:41,960
There's room in it
for everything that matters.

1233
01:24:47,560 --> 01:24:49,360
Look at you!

1234
01:24:49,360 --> 01:24:52,520
<font color="
angels everywhere.

1235
01:24:56,680 --> 01:24:59,640
Perhaps we only think to look
for them at Christmas,

1236
01:24:59,640 --> 01:25:04,000
when their wings can be seen,
when their halos glow with light,

1237
01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:05,880
but they are always there...

1238
01:25:11,360 --> 01:25:15,480
..there in the quiet corners,
<font color="

1239
01:25:15,480 --> 01:25:21,440
there in their ordinary clothes,
and they are beautiful.

1240
01:25:21,440 --> 01:25:23,920
Make room for the angels,

1241
01:25:23,920 --> 01:25:25,960
for they will catch you unawares,

1242
01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:30,040
and fill your heart in ways
you never could imagine.

1243
01:25:37,040 --> 01:25:39,960
DONKEY BRAYS

1244
01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:41,800
LAUGHTER

1245
01:25:45,080 --> 01:25:47,160
<font color="

1246
01:26:02,120 --> 01:26:05,360
Good evening.
Good evening. Evening.

1247
01:26:06,760 --> 01:26:09,080
You have a gentleman
caller, perhaps?

1248
01:26:09,080 --> 01:26:10,120
No, Sister.

1249
01:26:11,160 --> 01:26:13,320
I couldn't bear to see
you praying your way

1250
01:26:13,320 --> 01:26:16,880
to the good Lord's birthday
all alone.

1251
01:26:16,880 --> 01:26:18,800
<font color="

1252
01:26:41,080 --> 01:26:43,880
Home in time for Christmas.

1253
01:26:43,880 --> 01:26:46,520
VOICES SING

1254
01:26:48,280 --> 01:26:50,040
What's that?

1255
01:26:51,880 --> 01:26:54,080
Come in!

1256
01:27:08,040 --> 01:27:09,920
SINGING WITHIN

1257
01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:15,120


1258
01:27:15,120 --> 01:27:19,360


1259
01:27:19,360 --> 01:27:25,040


1260
01:27:25,040 --> 01:27:29,560
<font color="

1261
01:27:29,560 --> 01:27:34,640


1262
01:27:34,640 --> 01:27:39,200


1263
01:27:39,200 --> 01:27:43,880

second birth...

1264
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MATURE JENNIFER: None of us have
ever truly walked this way before,

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but if there is no map, no route,
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there is sometimes a star,

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and we do not make our way
without companions.

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As the road unfolds,

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we travel side by side
and share the shift

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from darkness into light.

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Oh, that was gorgeous!