Forgot to add that I think in the States you can get this on Netflix. Season 3 is starting this Sunday so if you intend to watch this, start recording Season 3 on your PVR.

The book is good too. I believe it was the only book that every single reader in my book group enjoyed this past year. Two nurses in my group agree with your daughter, Janalyn, that it seems authentic. This is good news, as it is a memoir of Jennifer Worth's time as a midwife. (After the James Frey incident, one never knows.)

Janalyn - we watched the series on PBS-no commercials! It is a favorite with my friends and me and I look forward to the next season.

Pat

This summer I caught a couple of the series and thought it wonderful. Just now, we are watching both "Monarch of the Glen" and "Larkrise to Candleford" which will take us some time to get through. I must put this one on my queue, however.

Just started watching Call the Midwife; love this series!

janalyn, we had some discussion about Call the Midwife a while ago. As you say it is certainly accurate (not that I was giving birth in the early '50's . . . .) and in her book Worth is quite honest is saying what she found most difficult was the smell of the unwashed bodies especially those unfortunate women suffering from VD, something we luckily cannot experience from the small screen. The TV series does a good job in recreating the period feel of those days though often the 'real-life' outdoor shots are much too clean . . . white paint on doors and window frames, and children wearing raggy clothes but with shiny, neat hair. In reality the East End was often a very tough violent place with squalid living conditions and little time for 'do-gooders' though the nuns/nurses were always respected.
Mary you have probably noticed that the children in Larkrise . .. are also surprisingly clean and free from scabs, boils, lice and general suppurations.

I watched two seasons of this program, too, from a recommendation my daughter who is a nurse. I like it very much, and the music is my era.

Vee, realism on TV can only go so far!
I am amused at the perfect teeth in some shows. My mother grumbled that the people in shows about POW and internment camps etc. looked far too well fed!
We dressed my Great-grandson in 1940s period style clothes for an audition for a mini-series and he was probably too neat, now I think about it! An Aussie schoolboy would probably have been a bit rumpled and dusty! He usually gets dressed for his commercial shoots by a stylist and they always get the look right.

Ann, your GGS is a TV star? You should have told us sooner.

Ann I had forgotten about the teeth . . . and the reason so many of our ancestors were photographed looking very grim with their jaws clamped shut; they didn't want to admit to their lack of choppers.
I remember watching a TV play where the hero was being tortured on the rack. He let out a very convincing scream of agony and displayed a mouthful of Tudor 'fillings'.