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The creativity for the next series of the BBC's phenomenally popular Call the Midwife, starring Miranda Hart. In this particular follow-up to Call the Midwife, Jennifer Value, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s, tells more testimonies about people she encountered. There's Jane, who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House - she was taken to the workhouse as an infant and was allegedly the illegitimate little girl of aristocrat. Peggy and Frank's parents both passed away within half a year of one another, and the kids were left destitute. At that time there is no other option for them however the workhouse. The Reverend Thornton-Appleby-Thorton, a missionary in Africa, trips the Nonnatus nuns, and Sister Julienne serves as matchmaker. And Sister Monica Joan, the eccentric 90-year-old nun, is accused of shoplifting some small items from the neighborhood market. She is let off with a warning, but then Jennifer finds taken jewels from Hatton Garden in the nun's room. These testimonies give a amazing insight in to the resilience and nature that enabled normal people to beat their difficulties.
