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 Post subject: The Mail loves "Call the Midwife" despite it being BBC.
PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:58 am 
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Happy ending in more ways than one! Call The Midwife finale sees Chummy Browne tie the knot... as show beats Downton Abbey in ratings battle

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 Post subject: Re: The Mail loves "Call the Midwife" despite it being BBC.
PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:31 pm 
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Why is this news, given that the happy ending was in a book which has been out for years?


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I caught the last few minutes last night, and I was gripped. I thought it was good, and Miranda Hart did fine. Now, do I go back and watch it all on iPlayer or buy the eBook? (Which is more expensive than the paperback, I can never get my head round that. Surely the production of the physical book costs something and after set up the eBook costs almost nothing? Might there be some capitalistic thing going on?)


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 Post subject: Re: The Mail loves "Call the Midwife" despite it being BBC.
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Oh bugger. Was it any good? I refused to watch it on the rather petty reason that I don't watch dramas put out on Sunday evenings. This is due to the trauma of having to watch programmes like Heartbeat and other heartwarming, feel good stuff over the decades.


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 Post subject: Re: The Mail loves "Call the Midwife" despite it being BBC.
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Well, it was definitely heartwarming. Actually the final scenes where the Miranda Hart character gets married were quite witty in two places, one where she informs her shocked mother that a white wedding would 'no longer be appropriate' and the other midwives making a tunnel of stethoscopes for the happy couple as they come out of church...
It fits firmly into the Herriott niche, I think, but with much more implied comment on the social and economic conditions of the time.

I think I'd like it for the East End references, the social history and some personal interest (my grandmother was an unofficial 'laying-in lady' in the first half of the last century).


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 Post subject: Re: The Mail loves "Call the Midwife" despite it being BBC.
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There's a plug for the NHS at least once an episode. Commy Bastards!


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If you want to see a truly sycophantic review of it, go to the Daily Express. Banging on about how it's set in a time we all (no exceptions, everyone thinks this apparently) want to live in.

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Was there a matron on every ward and kids in callipers because of polio?


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I remember my Mum saying that I must have my injections or I might end up in an Iron Lung.

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It was a real fear in my early childhood, often seen in newsreels etc. Some local kids got polio, but fortunately not that bad.
A friend was infected as a child in India, and he has very substandard legs as a result, I'm very pleased that it has been eradicated there.


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Paul wrote:
I remember my Mum saying that I must have my injections or I might end up in an Iron Lung.



Marketing wasn't very good in those days. I had no idea what an Iron Lung was but it sounded like a big, heavy piece of equipment made of steel with big bolts and nuts holding it together.

These days it would be made of smooth, white plastic and called an iLung.


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 Post subject: Re: The Mail loves "Call the Midwife" despite it being BBC.
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"a big, heavy piece of equipment made of steel with big bolts and nuts holding it together." like this:

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It filled me with dread, aged about 5.


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Doesn't look like a lot of fun, you must admit.

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 Post subject: Re: The Mail loves "Call the Midwife" despite it being BBC.
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It filled me with dread, aged about 5.


At about the same age it filled me with confusion when I saw one on TV. I was too young to figure out the "rear-view mirror" thing and wondered how that bodiless head floating above it was possible.

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 Post subject: Re: The Mail loves "Call the Midwife" despite it being BBC.
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Ahh, the earlier version of the iLung, the Apple PowerLung


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