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00:00Life unfolds as fates decide.
00:04It carries within its own secrets,
00:08its own power,
00:10its own incontrovertible decisions.
00:15Life does not appear to accept dictation.
00:22And so we seek to pin it down,
00:25to label it,
00:27to assign to it weights and measures
00:30and predicted likelihoods.
00:36But life will not submit to this.
00:40Life thinks life knows best.
00:47Are you gun-bearing gifts?
00:49We really ought to put a ban on ketchup or foods.
00:52They can't possibly get washed out properly.
00:54Mrs. Safari left her sample on the bus.
00:56I've sent her to the ladies to try again.
00:58I'm taking advantage of a brief lull in clinic proceedings
01:01in order to draw your attention
01:03to the forthcoming 1970 birth cohort study.
01:06The designated seven days commence on the 5th of April.
01:11If you're looking for the pasty you left on the side,
01:14it has been removed to the refrigerator.
01:17I can't wait.
01:22There have been surveys of this and studies of that
01:27ever since the National Health kicked off.
01:29But this is going to be teaching us things for 80 years.
01:32So what will we actually do during the designated seven days?
01:37Every birth of every child in the country,
01:40including those that we deliver,
01:42must be meticulously annotated.
01:45Prepare yourselves by perusing the materials provided.
01:48It's productive.
01:49Mrs. Martin, how nice to have you back with us again.
01:55This is number three, isn't it?
01:57For my sins.
01:58I'll have a bottle each of the orange juice,
02:01and the Delrosa for the boys,
02:04and all the milk tokens and whatnot.
02:06I'll have some cod liver oil and all.
02:08Nobody likes it in our house, but at least it's free.
02:11Well, it's certainly discounted.
02:13I'll just work out with yours.
02:15I beg your pardon.
02:17I don't think I owe you anything.
02:19Your circumstances have changed, Mrs. Martin.
02:22Now your husband is working again.
02:24Your entitlements have been revised.
02:28That's exactly seven shillings.
02:34Don't need the cod liver oil.
02:36Or the orange.
02:37You know, I sometimes wonder what the last ball was for.
02:45How far is the airport?
02:47Depends whether you mean New York or Heathrow.
02:50Trixie's coming back this afternoon.
02:52The afternoon is from now until tea time,
02:56and you've only just had your lunch, French.
02:59But why don't you go round the corner and wait for a taxi?
03:02You don't want me to look at these rude magazines.
03:06No, I don't. Your mum will kill me.
03:08And even I'm supposed to do this looking the other way.
03:11Mother is 30 years old.
03:13This is the second baby.
03:15Obstructed labour in the first pregnancy resulted in delivery by cesarean
03:20of a live infant weighing ten pounds three ounces.
03:24Have we any idea why this might have occurred?
03:26Gestational diabetes, sir.
03:28Correct.
03:29But I've been all right this time.
03:30There's not been anything wrong with me at all.
03:33Have we any observations to make about mother's abdomen?
03:36Long vertical incision, sir.
03:38High vertical classical cesarean scar.
03:41Meaning, natural delivery is precluded in this and all future labours due to?
03:47Risk of death, sir.
03:48Risk of uterine rupture.
03:50One of the most serious adverse events in obstetrics.
03:53Mother will be admitted in advance of her due date.
03:57No trial of labour.
03:59I will reopen this scar and conduct a second surgical delivery.
04:04I don't reckon it's even that big a baby this time.
04:07Given your history, that is immaterial.
04:09Big baby, small baby, we will do what's best.
04:15I brought you a cuppa and some ginger nuts to keep you going while you're under pat.
04:19What's all this?
04:20Those sheets were clean on.
04:22I bought my own.
04:23Your own sheets?
04:24Well, the weather will be warming up soon.
04:26And I'm not sure I can face three months cocooned in flannelette.
04:30This is the bedding Matthew and I use in our apartment.
04:33Well, I suppose if it reminds you of him.
04:35It does.
04:37What's all this, dear?
04:42Is someone looking after you?
04:44I'm waiting for a blood test.
04:46For diabetes.
04:48But I don't have diabetes.
04:50Mr. Barry says I've got to have a caesarean.
04:53Come on.
04:56By your eyes, low your nose.
04:59This is really clean.
05:02If I'm a trained professional, I wouldn't offer you a mucky one.
05:09I wouldn't contradict anything Mr. Parry says either.
05:13I can tell you, if you aren't happy with your consultant, you can talk to your GP.
05:18I've never even met my GP.
05:21He's called Dr. Turner, that's all I know.
05:23Tell me your name.
05:24And we'll start from there.
05:26We are so grateful to you for giving us your time, Nurse Ailbert.
05:29The gratitude goes both ways.
05:31The business in New York is really going very well.
05:34But we'll be home within the year and I don't want to let my registration lapse.
05:38I may be asking rather more of you than keeping up your midwifery skills and taking on refresher courses.
05:47The Board of Health have declared war on Nonnata's house.
05:52War?
05:53They do not like that the Order are by definition religious sisters.
05:58They do not like that we wear the habit.
06:00They do not like that we pray.
06:02They do not approve of us delivering contraceptive advice, sexual education or even one suspect's babies.
06:12And they do not like that our first obedience is to God and not to them.
06:18I've just been called out to Sira Patel.
06:21It's her first baby, isn't it?
06:23You may be up for a long night.
06:25I shall relish it.
06:27Now Nurse Ailbert is back, I doubt I'll be called upon for night duty for a while.
06:31What are we going to do, sister?
06:36We are going to fight back with every weapon at our disposal.
06:41And that, my colleague and friend, includes you.
06:46Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his banner things.
06:58Who forgith all thy sin, and healeth all thy information.
07:13We're almost there, Sira.
07:28You've almost made it.
07:30Oh no, are you talking about it?
07:32Oh no, no, no.
07:45Oh no, are you such a, oh.
07:46What are you doing?
07:47What are you doing?
07:48How are you doing?
07:49Ow.
07:50You're done.
07:51HE SIGHS
07:56HE SIGHS
07:58HE SIGHS
08:01HE SIGHS
08:04HE SIGHS
08:08HE SIGHS
08:11HE SIGHS
08:13Attention, please. Mr Buckle has just telephoned.
08:20After his emergency trip to the warehouse,
08:23and he has managed to locate the missing papers.
08:27Hands up everyone who normally delivers the express or the mirror.
08:32Oh, Paula.
08:33Ooh, thank you, Reggie.
08:35Where is Paula?
08:40Paula, we have a plan.
08:43Are you all right, dear? You kept me so pale.
08:47Oh, Paula.
08:52Oh, you poor pet.
08:55I'd better walk you home.
08:57I'll probably be all right now.
09:01Ow! Ow!
09:03It's full of knots, mate.
09:05It hurt.
09:06It'd hurt less if she cut them out with scissors.
09:09Good morning.
09:11Patrick. Biscuits for breakfast.
09:14While the cat's away, the mice will play.
09:17I've made fresh coffee. How was it?
09:20Oh, long labour.
09:23Posterior presentation.
09:26Tears for the mother.
09:27Aching knees for yours truly.
09:32And it was everything.
09:34Everything this job is meant to be.
09:37Winnie Welsh and her family were indeed transferred to us in January.
09:44When Dr Kinloch's practice closed on the Isle of Dogs.
09:48You do wonder how many amenities the Isle of Dogs can lose.
09:51It's madness.
09:53When the council are building more flats there all the time.
09:56I'll ask one of our midwives to call in on her.
09:59PHONE RINGS
10:02Oh, good afternoon, Mrs Cunningham.
10:04Did my Paula leave her jumper here this morning?
10:06Is it blue?
10:07That's it.
10:08I couldn't tell if it was hers or one of the paper lads.
10:11All your magazines are in, by the way.
10:13Reggie, can you get Mrs Cunningham's gospel and people's friend?
10:22Mrs Cunningham, may I have a word?
10:25I saw Paula at dinner time.
10:28She always comes home for a dinner.
10:30There's too much monkey business in that school canteen.
10:33But she didn't say anything about being sick.
10:35She told me it had happened a few times.
10:39And it was such a nasty, bright yellow.
10:42What do you think it was a bilious attack?
10:45I think she needs to see a doctor.
10:49Every single day, they don't care about us.
10:52It's our children, it's their futures.
10:54We need to stand together, all right?
10:56Excuse me, Constable.
10:58How long is this going on for?
11:01I'm a midwife trying to make a house call.
11:03Is somebody having a baby?
11:05Sorry, Nurse Crane.
11:07The only way you're going to get to deliver a baby this morning
11:09is if you jump in and swim.
11:11Is the bridge up again?
11:13That bridge has been up and down like a stripper's draw since they built it last autumn.
11:17And every time it's up to let us ship in, we're all trapped on the island till the ruddy thing's unloaded.
11:21Oh, Chuck's away!
11:34Cheryl!
11:35Mr. Robinson, hello.
11:37Hello, what brings you here?
11:38What brings you here?
11:39I'm dropping off this month's forms for the mother and baby homes.
11:41I expect they'll probably end up on your desk.
11:44They do.
11:46What's this?
11:48I don't have as much time to spend in a homeless shelter as I did.
11:51They could do with a new volunteer or two.
11:54I might put my name down.
11:57If I don't find something useful to do with my evenings,
12:00Nurse Crane and Miss Higgins will have me helping with the cubs.
12:08I was in hospital for three weeks, Nurse.
12:27I was in so much pain I couldn't even feed the baby.
12:30And they kept him in the nursery for all that time.
12:33The important thing to remember is that once you're discharged,
12:37the district midwives will be looking after you
12:39exactly as if you'd had baby in our little maternity home
12:44or even in this bed.
12:46I had a dream once, but I had it in this bed.
12:49My mum was sitting where you are
12:51and she was holding my hand
12:53and she was egging me on as if she was still alive.
12:56It's funny because this is the bed that she had me in.
12:58Oh, you do surprise me.
13:00This feels like a top-notch mattress.
13:02Oh, it's almost new.
13:03Me and Art's treated ourselves when we got married.
13:06Winnie, most of the time,
13:09birth is just a normal, natural, messy event.
13:13But once you've had to have one caesarean,
13:16it does make sense to follow suit the next time.
13:20It might make sense in your head,
13:22but it doesn't make sense in my heart.
13:25It's like my body is burning to do the thing that it was made for.
13:29But sometimes, nature must be overruled by science.
13:36All done. Thank you.
13:48How many hamsters have you got, Paula?
13:52Three. In two cages.
13:55Mum wanted me to call them Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.
13:59Like, from the Bible.
14:01But I called them Rosemary, Parsley and Sage.
14:04Think Rosemary might be a boy, though.
14:06It's cystitis, isn't it?
14:08All the women in our family have trouble with our waterworks.
14:12We've got narrow tubes.
14:14I'll certainly take a urine sample away with me,
14:17so we can see what's what.
14:20Paula, have you started your periods yet?
14:24Not really. I had one a couple months ago.
14:28She's been a bit of a late developer.
14:30But I always say to her, you'll catch up.
14:38Come on, time for your toast and peanut butter.
14:40I got a new jar.
14:41Crunchy this week.
14:42Sister Veronica said that this came in the afternoon post.
14:45Where are you going with Uncle Roger tonight?
14:48His company are given a party for the sales reps,
14:51Kerry, Buffy and Danson, according to the invite.
14:54They must have sold a lot of tranquilizers.
14:58That's why Uncle Roger got promoted, isn't it?
15:02Yes, it is.
15:04Now, come here, you're coughing.
15:05I need to rub some menthol on your chest.
15:08Pregnancy test?
15:10Well, that's going to be negative.
15:12She's 13 years old.
15:13Mrs. Cunningham, Paula is showing every sign of being pregnant.
15:18No, Doctor.
15:19No.
15:20I'm sorry.
15:22We know what's what in the modern world.
15:24And we brought Paula up the right way.
15:26I know you go to church, Mr. Cunningham.
15:29We don't just go to church.
15:31We live church.
15:33It's as the Lord says in Deuteronomy.
15:36And these words thou shalt teach diligently unto thy children,
15:40and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house,
15:43and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down,
15:46and when thou risest up.
15:50When they had sex education at school last year,
15:52I wouldn't even sign the letter.
15:55We discussed it, didn't we, Philip?
15:58We agreed there were things she didn't need to know.
16:01Kids learn soon enough though, don't they?
16:05Yes.
16:07They do.
16:09I'm running my gimlet eye over you all,
16:11from the soles of your shoes to the top of your hats.
16:14Please note I'm wearing fully fashioned stockings.
16:17If the pay rise is going to be announced today,
16:19I want to be as well presented as it's possible to be.
16:27Let me answer it!
16:33Uncle Roger!
16:35Do you have any science homework for me to do?
16:37Only the evaporation experiment.
16:40Still the evaporation experiment?
16:42It's like watching water dry.
16:43One more dance.
16:46One more onion baggie.
16:48Then we're making our excuses.
16:50I'll keep dancing,
16:51and you can keep your onion baggie.
16:53I'll keep dancing,
16:54and you can keep your onion baggie.
16:56Yellow green baggie.
17:01One more dance.
17:03One more onion baggie.
17:05Then we're making our excuses.
17:07I'll keep dancing,
17:08and you can keep your onion baggie.
17:19It is with the most profound pleasure,
17:22that as a direct result of our campaign,
17:25I am now able to announce the following.
17:29A two-year, two-part settlement,
17:31comprising a 20% pay rise
17:34from the 1st of April 1970,
17:37with an additional 2%
17:39from the 1st of April 1971.
17:43A total wage increase of 22%.
17:55We did this,
17:56not by allowing our profession to be sentimentalised,
18:00not by tugging at government's heartstrings,
18:04and not by claiming to be an army of Florence Nightingales in short skirts.
18:10We did it,
18:12by acknowledging our own worth,
18:15and persuading society to do the same!
18:22Would you not give Indian food another go, Nance?
18:24I wasn't mad keen on beer when I first tried it.
18:28I persevered.
18:29And the rest is history.
18:30All I've had tonight is grape juice,
18:32because I'm driving back to Surrey.
18:34My mother would be ecstatic.
18:36Has she really never drunk alcohol in the whole of her life?
18:39That's Presbyterianism for you.
18:41Does she know you're walking out with a Catholic?
18:44All I've said, so far,
18:47is that your name is Nancy.
18:50Roger, there's something I have to tell you.
18:53Don't get all serious on me.
18:54It's scary.
18:56That campaign taught me all kinds of things I didn't know.
19:01Phyllis?
19:02Should we stop and get some fish and chips to celebrate?
19:04That's Nurse Crane to you when we're in uniform.
19:07And no eating in the street.
19:11We're to take them back to Ninata's house.
19:14I may be more modern, but I'm not that modern.
19:18The Speaker was right about not being sentimental, though.
19:22We can emote all we like.
19:24We can cite our vocation all we like.
19:27But nothing gets through to those in power like cold, hard facts.
19:34Netherditch Hospital?
19:35I've seen signs for Netherditch Hospital.
19:38It's right in the middle of my sales patch.
19:40I was offered exactly the same job there 18 months ago.
19:43And I turned it down.
19:45The same job is vacant again.
19:47The same little house is vacant again.
19:49You have to take it, Nancy.
19:51You'll be nearer to me until we get married.
19:53And Colette will be able to breathe clean air and go to a better school.
19:56You want all that for her just as much as I do.
19:59Don't you?
20:00She's gonna be my daughter.
20:01Who on earth can that be at this hour of the night?
20:02Someone needs emergency, nickel-elastic.
20:04Ha, ha, ha, ha!
20:05Ha, ha, ha, ha!
20:06Ha, ha, ha, ha!
20:09Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
20:10Who on earth can that be at this hour of the night?
20:16Someone needs emergency, Nicker Elastic.
20:23Colette first.
20:25Nuns next.
20:26Then I'm going to phone my mother in the morning
20:28and I'm going to take you both to meet her over Easter weekend.
20:32Grant.
20:34So where's the ring?
20:36It's in my jacket pocket.
20:38It's been there since the day we chose it.
20:40It's in my jacket pocket.
21:09I love that it's an opal.
21:11It's got so many different colours in it.
21:13Like yellow and pink and turquoise.
21:16Flashing like stars or little electric flowers.
21:21It's like you.
21:21I'm sorry I spring on you when you're in your rollers and everything, but you are the mayor.
21:38I most certainly am the mayor, Mr Southwell.
21:42And please be advised that you cannot just make a unilateral declaration of independence on behalf of the Isle of Dogs.
21:50Did it in Rhodesia.
21:51Rhodesia is a country.
21:53The Isle of Dogs isn't even a borough.
21:55It's more of a bulge into the Thames.
21:59And 11,000 people live there where underfunded, overlooked, starved of resources fell up to the back teeth.
22:09That's a very stirring statement, Mr Southwell.
22:13But you aren't an elected politician.
22:16As of midnight, I am president of the island.
22:20And I am prime minister.
22:22Of course, it's about time old Harold Wilson got a run for his money.
22:27And there's eight more men in our committee.
22:30You are a tugboat pilot.
22:32And this is a gimmick.
22:34It's a silly, attention-seeking gimmick.
22:37I'm not giving you my support.
22:40It doesn't matter.
22:42This was only a courtesy call.
22:45Come tomorrow, we are all free men.
22:47To do all ways that is righteous in thy sight.
22:54Through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
22:57Amen.
23:03Sister Julianne, may I have a word?
23:08Are you going to miss us, Sister Julianne?
23:11Our sadness at your departure is completely eclipsed by our happiness for both of you.
23:17I can't put it as elegantly as that, but good on you, lass.
23:23Oh, you'll make me cry.
23:25Save the tears.
23:26There's a wedding to plan.
23:29Yes, when is it going to be?
23:31Yes, when?
23:32And where?
23:33In six months' time.
23:36In Poplar?
23:38Why would I want to get married anywhere other than home?
23:41Dr. Turner has asked me to look after Paula, the little pregnant girl.
24:07The 13-year-old?
24:08He said he needs a midwife who can be gentle with the child and firm with the child's mother.
24:13Adolescent pregnancies are notoriously difficult.
24:15She's at increased risk of eclampsia, anemia, pre-term delivery and antepartum hemorrhage.
24:22One saw it far too often in times gone by.
24:25A half-budded body that should be little and limber, warped and swollen out of all tolerable shape.
24:38And the infants of such children were usually so very small, as though they scarcely dared admit that they were married.
24:51Just because a body can conceive a baby doesn't mean that it can bear it easily.
24:56At such a young age, I mean, can the mother even understand what's happening?
24:59We can bring Paula in in a minute, but ideally I need to speak with her mother too.
25:11Would a home visit be more convenient?
25:13My wife doesn't want to talk to you.
25:15This sort of thing doesn't happen in families like ours.
25:19Or churches like ours.
25:21According to Dr. Turner's notes, you attend Habitation Chapel.
25:24Well, I know it.
25:28Habitation Chapel has been saving lives since 1859.
25:31It says saving souls since 1859 above the door, but I reckon it does more than that.
25:37My life wouldn't have been worth living if I hadn't gone in there and pledged myself to Jesus.
25:42I always say I met God.
25:45I met Grace there.
25:49Grace is my wife.
25:50And everything else, it just, well, it just sort of followed.
25:57Mr. Cunningham, questions will have to be asked about the baby's father.
26:04Who he is and whether any offence has been committed.
26:08It's not me.
26:10I promise.
26:13It's not me.
26:15I've even had one of them vasectomies.
26:18Dr. Turner will tell you.
26:19Have you any idea where the parlour has a boyfriend?
26:26You wouldn't allow it.
26:29Is this picture right?
26:31Can your baby burst out of your body like that?
26:33This is a medical textbook, Mrs. Welsh.
26:36It was written to train and educate people like Nurse Clifford and me.
26:40That's why it doesn't pull any punches.
26:43This one frightens me, and I'm a midwife.
26:45It doesn't happen often, I promise you.
26:48Why didn't anybody tell me that my womb could burst open?
26:51Did Mr. Parry not think I was clever enough to take this in?
26:54Mrs. Welsh, has seeing this changed the way that you feel about having a surgical delivery?
26:59To be right, it has.
27:00I'm scared of the operation, but I'm terrified of the alternative.
27:03I'm happy, Sister Veronica, but I'll miss you doing this.
27:25I'm happy, but I will miss this too.
27:31I was just about to leave.
27:59I thought there was no one home.
28:04Cast your eye upon my visage.
28:07Have I the untainted complexion of youth?
28:11Not really.
28:12Then it will not surprise you to learn that I am hault in my antiquity,
28:17and I can no more run to this door than I may fly.
28:26The supply of hot beverages to callers is no longer within my purview.
28:31This must suffice.
28:40I'm surprised the Pope even let you have a television.
28:44You'd think you'd encourage self-discipline if nothing else.
28:47Dr. Townley never did this.
28:50Now, we know for sure you're going to have a baby.
28:53He wants to make sure you have all the usual checks.
28:58Is this all right, honey?
29:00It feels a bit funny.
29:01I'm sorry.
29:03It's one of those things us girls have to get used to.
29:05If we're going to look after our bodies properly,
29:08this won't take too long.
29:15I'm going to get you a tissue.
29:18You might see a tiny bit of blood.
29:20Am I having a period?
29:21No, I don't think it's that.
29:24Angela and Mike hope they'll be bridesmaids.
29:27They've never been asked by anyone before.
29:29Have they not?
29:30Well, they might be getting a nice surprise.
29:32Really?
29:33I'm going to talk to Auntie Violet about making all the dresses.
29:37Hello.
29:38My name is Esther Noble.
29:43And I take it you're the young lady
29:45whom my son intends to marry.
29:50Well, this hymen is still there, Doctor.
29:52To the point where I think I tore it slightly
29:54when I tried to examine her.
29:55Sometimes the hymen doesn't completely stretch across the vagina.
29:59An intact hymen is not heard of in a pregnant patient.
30:03But in this case, it's just totally unhelpful.
30:07He implied you were respectable.
30:09I am completely respectable.
30:11You're an unmarried mother.
30:12I was also reared by nuns and I still live in a convent.
30:15It is of no consolation to me that you're Roman Catholic.
30:19These nuns are Anglican.
30:21The distinction is immaterial.
30:23I question one.
30:25Where were you baptised?
30:27Two.
30:27Where will you marry?
30:28Three.
30:30Where do you go to worship God?
30:33Question one, you'd have to ask my mother.
30:35He's been dead for 20 years.
30:37Two.
30:38The registry office.
30:40Three.
30:42I don't.
30:45I see.
30:47Roger had a very different upbringing.
30:48And it's clear to me that he is making the most terrible mistake.
30:53I told you.
30:56And my daughter told you.
30:58And now her body has told you.
31:02She is a virgin.
31:04She is also expecting a baby.
31:06If that child is expecting a baby and her hymen or whatever you call it has never been broken,
31:14there are only two ways this could have come about.
31:16She's either pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
31:23Are you saying this is an immaculate conception?
31:27Or she's been interfered with.
31:30By the devil.
31:31Nurse Corrigan.
31:37Nurse Corrigan.
31:39Your fiancé is on the phone.
31:44Roger, your mother's been here.
31:47What?
31:48In London?
31:49She told me nothing.
31:51She told me plenty.
31:52What do you do in a case like Winnie's when the mother is so scared and so desperate?
32:02Well, sometimes just hearing them out is as good as talking them round.
32:07But what I could never say to Winnie Welsh is the worst thing I ever witnessed was a woman
32:12dying of exactly the complication that this second caesarean is aiming to avoid.
32:18Uterine rupture.
32:19It's as if it's branded into my mind's eye.
32:27The mother had the most beautiful tummy.
32:30Not a stretch mark on it.
32:32You never forget a thing like that.
32:35But during second stage, there was this rippling underneath the skin.
32:42You could see the muscles contracting and contracting and contracting into this sickening hourglass shape.
32:53The other thing I never forget is the way she screamed before she died.
33:01As though animals were tearing her apart.
33:03She'd bought a beautiful new nightie for wearing afterwards turquoise nylon with a little lemon frill.
33:15I had it warming on the fire guard.
33:20But I had to lay her out in it, dead.
33:26With the baby tucked into the crook of her arm.
33:30I felt such a fraud sympathising with Winnie over Mr. Parry and his scalpel.
33:42But the fact of the matter is, if there is any risk at all of Uterine rupture, the knife is the only way ahead.
33:53Yes, I am aware that the Isle of Dogs has declared itself an independent republic.
33:59This has not been put to any sort of vote.
34:01And as Mayor of Tower Hamlets, I neither acknowledge nor condone it.
34:06Men are filming outside.
34:11What?
34:18Don't let anyone in.
34:20Where's Fred gone?
34:22I had to catch an aeroplane.
34:25And the only boarding house available is like the United Nations.
34:29I am in love and I'm getting married.
34:31It's not a crisis, Mother. I'm nearly 30.
34:33You're 27 years and 8 months old tomorrow.
34:38If we're to have a helpful conversation about this, it would be best if we adhere to facts.
34:43The principal facts being Nancy is a Catholic and has a child outside what you would call wedlock.
34:48And you don't want me to marry her.
34:50I don't want you contracting a marriage that will end in tears.
34:55Yours or mine.
34:58What about Nancy?
34:59She doesn't deserve a day's more unhappiness than she's already overcome.
35:03Because in spite of all that she has endured, she is the brightest, lightest spirit.
35:09And she and her little girl has shine on me like sunlight.
35:15She has turned your head.
35:19And she's turning you away from all that you have ever known.
35:23You're the one who's turning me away.
35:25If you carry on like this, there'll be no coming back.
35:27She tore Roger to shreds.
35:35I don't want a mother-in-law that hurts her son like that.
35:43Tinned salmon with just a suspicion of salad cream.
35:46I want to go and fight her.
35:55That would just hurt him more.
35:57And he wants to go and fight her, but that would hurt everyone.
36:01You need someone to vouch for you, Nancy.
36:04Someone who can bring a supplementary point of view.
36:06You have no one, Miss Higgins.
36:10You know perfectly well that that's not the case.
36:14Right, come and be like, let's go!
36:16No one passes.
36:17It's an argument for me!
36:25Win?
36:27Winnie, can you please stop cleaning?
36:29The place is filthy.
36:31And it doesn't help that the immersion heat is bust again.
36:34I wish you'd give over with them banners.
36:36There was nothing wrong with the last ones.
36:38I forgot the V.
36:40There was only room for We Are People,
36:42and that's a foregone conclusion in anybody's book.
36:45You don't look comfy, Win.
36:47I'm not comfy.
36:49Maybe the midwives would have something to treat wind.
36:53Reviewing these accounts, sister,
36:54it's clear that the council's budget only works
36:56because the Order does a great deal of work for nothing.
37:00We are sisters of charity.
37:02That's always been our way.
37:04That was your way before the National Health came into being.
37:07But there's no reason why it should have continued afterwards.
37:10Well, there may be no reason, but there is need.
37:14The council are using you so that they can save money.
37:19Is this going to be awfully contentious?
37:23Yes, it is.
37:26Sometimes things happen in this life
37:29which appear to be inexplicable.
37:33Do you know what inexplicable means, Paula?
37:36Does it mean there's no reason for it?
37:39It means that there seems to be no reason for it.
37:43But, Paula, there is always a reason
37:45for everything that happens on this earth.
37:48Because God in heaven has decreed it.
37:50Or because the devil is trying to make things otherwise
37:55by striving to make us alter our behaviour.
38:00Do you believe in God, Paula?
38:05And do you believe in the devil?
38:09No, I don't.
38:10But if you don't believe in him,
38:13that means you don't fear him.
38:17And that is very, very dangerous.
38:21Mummy!
38:42Don't hit me!
38:44Paula, I've never, ever hit you.
38:45Not even a smack on the legs
38:46when you were little and you were naughty.
38:48But this, this is not you.
38:51This is not something you have done.
38:54Can't you see that?
38:56Would it be better if I had done something?
38:58Would everyone stop shouting at me?
39:00If you'd done something,
39:02that would be even worse.
39:14Excuse me!
39:15Do you have a spare balloon?
39:16We'll tie it to the wing mirror.
39:17Why are you encouraging them?
39:21By all accounts,
39:22they've occupied the Blue Bridge
39:24and they're blocking this one.
39:31My apologies, madam,
39:32but we're not allowing any more food traffic
39:34until after the president arrives.
39:36The president?
39:37What do you mean, the president?
39:39Tom Southwell.
39:40President of the Isle of Dogs.
39:42He's on his way back from the BBC.
39:44He's been giving interviews all morning.
39:45I see.
39:45And who are you?
39:51He's a press spokesman.
39:52Well, I, as a matter of fact,
39:54I'm the prime minister.
39:55And I'm I'm secretary.
39:57Well, if you're home secretary,
39:59then you're responsible for law and order.
40:01So I suggest that you allow me to pass
40:04before I perform a citizen's arrest.
40:07Mrs. Conanham, I need to see your daughter.
40:14She requires regular appointments.
40:15Paula, this is Joyce.
40:26Joyce Highland.
40:30I am the nurse who came to see you.
40:33You can telephone me at the Nata's house
40:35at any time.
40:36We're in Wick Street.
40:37No one can force you to face this alone.
40:42She isn't facing anything alone.
40:45She has parents that love her.
40:48And a church that is praying for her soul.
40:50We want citizens.
40:56We want doctors.
40:57We want schools.
40:59We want the masses.
41:00We're going for all...
41:01We're going for all...
41:02Miss Crane?
41:03That lady's on our books.
41:05She's five months pregnant.
41:07Oh, yes, Ingrid Martin.
41:09No show without punch.
41:12Here's me.
41:14We're no fault.
41:16This is our home.
41:18Our island of docks.
41:20Mrs. Martin!
41:21Wick, Ingrid!
41:22I really don't think that's an awfully safe place to stand.
41:26Thank you, nurse, but I'm not in any danger.
41:28I'm standing firm.
41:29Along with the people of the independent republic
41:32of the Isle of Docks.
41:34Yeah!
41:37Come here, Mr. Rascos.
41:40Have I seen the times down when that was?
41:42Oi!
41:45It's about to hardly show them.
41:47Just hop away, mate.
41:53Winning.
41:54It's two of them.
41:55It's just as well.
41:56I reckon I'm a Labour.
41:58Proper Labour.
41:59What was that awful noise?
42:01The people have occupied the bridge,
42:02so there's a cargo ship locked outside of the dock.
42:04I feel I'm going to burst open.
42:06No, no, you're not.
42:15Mr. Welch, could you go to the telephone box
42:17and make for an ambulance?
42:19I can't have it here.
42:21If I do, I'll rupture.
42:22Tell them an emergency maternity transfer is acquired
42:27due to risk of you to run rupture.
42:29Be this child's protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
42:42Oh, prince of the heavenly host.
42:44By the power of God thrust into hell all evil spirits who wander through the world seeking
42:51souls to feed from and innocents to ruin.
42:54When will I know when it's time to stop pushing?
42:59Try to stay calm for you.
43:05Deep, slow breaths are better than fast, shallow ones.
43:08Deep and slow now.
43:10Deep and slow.
43:12Oh, I'm going to have it here, aren't I?
43:15Yes, I believe you are.
43:17I can't breathe.
43:19There's no sign of the ambulance.
43:21She needs to be in the hospital.
43:23This baby needs to be delivered by caesarean.
43:33Go back to the kitchen, Mr. Welch, and keep boiling water.
43:37Nurse Crane, we might have better luck if you call them this time
43:41and state that this is a medical emergency.
43:44When I start to push, is that when I'm going to tear open?
43:49No, Wish.
43:51It is not.
43:52You see, child, the case, the wickedness and snares of the devil.
43:57Look at me.
43:58Look at me.
44:00Send, Paula.
44:02Say I reject you.
44:04I don't know what you mean.
44:05Say I reject you.
44:08Help me, Daddy.
44:10That's enough.
44:11Come on, Paula.
44:13Run to the nurse's house.
44:15Run.
44:16Run.
44:17I'm sorry, but this is unacceptable, Mr. Southwell.
44:32They called me Mr. President at the BBC.
44:35You are not improving people's lives.
44:38You are disrupting them.
44:40We shall not.
44:42We shall not remove.
44:44We shall not.
44:45And he's no business going on the BBC saying that council tenants will not be paying rent
44:50to Cowher Hamlets anymore.
44:52All rents will be going direct to the Citizens' Council.
44:55And who decided that?
44:56The Citizens' Council.
44:57This is democracy.
44:58This isn't democracy.
45:01This is a farce.
45:03Who voted for you?
45:05Who are your supporters?
45:06We are.
45:07Not us.
45:08We didn't.
45:10Fred.
45:11We shall not.
45:13We shall not.
45:14You want to come over here and calm your missus down?
45:20Hello, Vi.
45:21I'm scared.
45:30I feel like I shouldn't be pushing and then I can't help it.
45:33Baby wants to be born, Winnie.
45:35But we are going to make sure that happens safely and smoothly.
45:40Do you hear me?
45:40But I'm really scared.
45:42We are going to do this together.
45:44They said the ambulance is on you, Holt.
45:47But the street's blocked by protesters.
45:50I keep thinking about my mum.
45:55When she died, me and my brothers and sisters put an obituary in the Gazette.
46:00And there was this poem in it.
46:02And it said, if there were votes in heaven, mum, we'd ring you every day.
46:06I can't remember the rest of it, but those are some lovely rhymes.
46:09That's a lovely sentiment.
46:12Many's the time I've wished I could nip to the phone box and call my mother.
46:16If you could ring her, what would you say?
46:19I would say, I'm in your bed, mum.
46:22I'm giving birth to your ninth grandchild.
46:24Every time I push, the midwife says that she can see its head.
46:28And I think about you and what you would have heard when you were having me and Sally and Errol and Dawn
46:35hanging on to these bed rails, like Granny did before us.
46:44Because I'm not having a cesarean, mum.
46:47I'm going to do this myself.
46:49Come on.
47:16No rupture.
47:37No rupture.
47:38And no cesarean.
47:40All your own work.
47:43Oh, lass.
47:45Oh, lass.
47:47Oh, both of you.
47:49How about all of us?
47:51It's a girl.
47:52Is it a girl?
47:57Go into the kitchen, stand by the sink, and run the cold tap over your feet one at a time.
48:04Your wife just had a baby, and we've got work to do.
48:07Shush!
48:13Here comes the placenta.
48:18Gentlemen, we have a baby girl.
48:21We also have a scalded father.
48:27Your attendance would be appreciated.
48:31Those scones were as light as a feather, Miss Higgins.
48:33I was taught to always combine the mixture using a bone-handled knife.
48:38The logic was, the blade stayed cool, preventing the warmth of the hands from affecting the butter.
48:43I was taught to make pastry with a bone-handled knife.
48:53I'm sorry your son's engagement is so hard to come to terms with.
48:58I do appreciate that the religious differences run very deep.
49:05It's bred into the sinew where we come from.
49:09You are who you are from the day you're born.
49:13It was bad enough before all this new carry-on.
49:16So-called civil rights demonstrations all across Belfast, and fighting in the streets.
49:22But Roger has a career and a life in England now, like his wife-to-be.
49:27Roger is hobbling himself.
49:30The girl has a child in tow.
49:33And how will they run a decent home, not knowing what side of the divide they're on?
49:36I think they will run a decent home by not accepting there is a divide of any kind.
49:44I don't mean to be rude, Miss Higgins.
49:47You're a woman of rectitude and discretion.
49:51And it was very kind of you to invite me into your home.
49:54But what can you know about this sort of mess?
49:59About illegitimacy?
50:02About religions getting all mixed up with one another?
50:05Mrs Noble...
50:06I know more than you might think.
50:13Bodies are strange things, honey.
50:15We feed them, we clothe them, and we live inside them, but we don't know them quite as well as we may think.
50:22And sometimes they take us by surprise.
50:26And sometimes our bodies want things that we don't understand, but can't run away from.
50:32I couldn't run away from Lenny.
50:36Lenny?
50:38He doesn't need to leave the same paper around as me.
50:41Sometimes we walk back down the tight path together.
50:44So you're her friends?
50:46We have a laugh.
50:48And play fight.
50:50All the lads do that.
50:52Lenny always isn't one of the lads.
50:53And would you be alone on the towpath?
50:59And is that where you did your playfighting?
51:02I liked it.
51:04He liked it.
51:08When we was alone.
51:10It's different.
51:12Honey, if you want to tell me to stop asking questions, you can.
51:17It's all right.
51:18Did Lenny ever interfere with your clothing?
51:26He interfered with his.
51:29But I didn't see anything.
51:31I don't even know what we did.
51:34I didn't mind it.
51:37We was just laughing.
51:38Laughing and fighting.
51:40Paula, do you think you had sexual intercourse?
51:44I don't know.
51:46My mum wouldn't sign the note when we did fax-a-life at school.
51:49Oh, honey.
51:50And now I can never go home again.
51:57You're a brave woman.
51:59Telling me about your son.
52:02Telling me your private story.
52:08Tolerance and compromise are such gentle things.
52:11But like everything goes well, they can take so much courage.
52:29How old are the others in this mother and baby home?
52:34Most are older.
52:36Some are in their 20s and will only be there for six weeks.
52:38But Aubrey House has a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old who will stay longer.
52:42So they would be company for Paula.
52:46I don't want to come in under the influence of girls like that.
52:48Grace.
52:50Paula is a girl like that.
52:53Until we get her home and the baby's adopted,
52:56she's a girl like that and we are going to have to accept it.
52:59I can't accept it.
53:00I can't accept that this is what God wants.
53:02This is nothing to do with God.
53:04This is about the way we brought her up.
53:25I've come for the hamsters.
53:28What?
53:29Joyce rang the mother and baby home.
53:31They said Paula can take them with her.
53:32Come inside.
53:35Thank you, Mrs. Buckle.
53:37Oh, hello, girls.
53:40We're going to have so much fun choosing these dresses.
53:43I've got this idea that they could all wear different colours.
53:46Maybe three shades of pink or one yellow, one blue and green.
53:51I like lilac.
53:53Maybe we should ask some Miss Higgins.
53:57Oh.
53:58When I was a girl,
54:00we used to call mixed colours at a wedding sweet pea shades.
54:05Fred, stand by with the pastel taffeta.
54:08What are you doing up there?
54:09I thought you were running around the island crusading for the free world.
54:12Fizzled out.
54:13President and Prime Minister resigned.
54:17Possibly because we all have better things to do with our time.
54:21I think we will start with the Wedgwood and then we will work our way through.
54:27How much did a baby wear?
54:45Seven pounds, two ounces.
54:47No intervention required.
54:50Other than a single perineal stitch from me.
54:54Congratulations, Mother.
54:55I couldn't have done it without the midwives.
54:57But you did do it without me.
54:59You know, sometimes it's rather splendid, to be wrong.
55:17I keep crying.
55:20I had to tell Nurse Crane it was because of the rumours about the Beatles splitting up.
55:24I didn't know you liked the Beatles.
55:27I thought everybody did.
55:29Don't you?
55:30Well, I wouldn't turn them off if I heard them on the radio.
55:36I keep thinking about the work we do.
55:40And the way we try and fail.
55:43Well, the Beatles sing, all you need is love.
55:50But that isn't really true, is it?
55:52The decade was scarcely newborn at Narnata's house, but it was already marked and measured.
56:11Every day was made to count, despite the fever of a changing world and the unruly actions of the human heart.
56:20Which is the stronger, life or love?
56:33Life persists in the face of all rejection, all despair.
56:39And so does love.
56:41The wounds all bleed, and they are not divisible.
56:45Love, like life, unfolds in flowers, as it will.
57:03It, too, carries its own secrets, its own power.
57:07And, like life, it will make its own decisions.
57:21Love laughs in the face of dictation.
57:26Do not try to pin it down.
57:28Do not attempt to label it.
57:30Because love will have none of it.
57:33And love knows best of all.