History from Below Is Where You Find It

By: Charlotte Lydia Riley

Ignore the sepia filter — Call the Midwife, which returns in 2023, has long been one of the most radical programmes on British television.

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Call the Midwife was an instant hit when it was first broadcast on BBC1 in 2012; the second series was commissioned on the strength of the pilot episode alone, which attracted almost ten million viewers. It has now run to eleven series, with a twelfth scheduled to be broadcast in 2023. The series is loosely […]

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Call the Midwife was an instant hit when it was first broadcast on BBC1 in 2012; the second series was commissioned on the strength of the pilot episode alone, which attracted almost ten million viewers. It has now run to eleven series, with a twelfth scheduled to be broadcast in 2023. The series is loosely […]

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Call the Midwife was an instant hit when it was first broadcast on BBC1 in 2012; the second series was commissioned on the strength of the pilot episode alone, which attracted almost ten million viewers. It has now run to eleven series, with a twelfth scheduled to be broadcast in 2023. The series is loosely […]

Call the Midwife was an instant hit when it was first broadcast on BBC1 in 2012; the second series was commissioned on the strength of the pilot episode alone, which attracted almost ten million viewers. It has now run to eleven series, with a twelfth scheduled to be broadcast in 2023. The series is loosely […]

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