Call The Midwife may well feel like the TV equivalent of a hot cup of tea – perhaps with a chocolate biscuit artfully positioned alongside it.
may well feel like the TV equivalent of a hot cup of tea – perhaps with a chocolate biscuit artfully positioned alongside it. As the season 12 premiere of Heidi Thomas’s award-winning series has proved once and for all, though, it is so much more than cosy Sunday night telly: it’s also a vehicle for exploring some of our real world’s most challenging and divisive issues.
“In this country in 15 or 20 years’ time, the Black man will have the whip hand over the white man,” the Conservative MP can be heard declaring, prompting Lucille to plead with her husband to switch off the radio. Cyril , however, refuses.“Who’s going to arrest a politician?” responds Lucille. “It won’t stop people from acting on his words.”
It seems, for a while, as if Greta is immune to her husband’s racist rhetoric. During her labour, though, she becomes exhausted and overheated, and lashes out at Lucille over the repeated physical examinations. She wants gas and air, and so when Mrs Patel , who is further along in her labour than her, is taken straight through to the delivery room ahead of Greta, she sees red.
“I am an immigrant,” Lucille reminds her, voice breaking with emotion, “but like everybody else from the Commonwealth, I came here to work and to play my part and to take my place. I came to make Britain my home, and I did not expect to be made unwelcome.” “I’m gonna call her Marie,” she says of her own baby girl. “There’s been Maries in my family ever since we came over from France as silk-weavers 200 years ago.BBC TV shows in 2023: 16 series we can’t wait to watch in the new year
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