No less an eminence than Vanessa Redgrave narrates. Working with the U.K.’s National Health Service, an order of Anglican nuns, assisted by several secular nurse-midwives, provide pre- and post-natal care to Poplar families as the series has progressed through more than ten seasons (and counting!), it’s also moved forward in time to show characters dealing with limb differences caused by Thalidomide an outbreak of diptheria and the introduction of the Pill. ![]() But while struggling residents must endure deprivations of all kinds-unethical landlords, insecure employment, open racism for new immigrants of color-one boon they can count on is top-notch medical care. Life can be rough in late ’50s Poplar, a disadvantaged neighborhood in London’s East End.
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