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Call the Midwife

Christmas Special 2012

Babies, nuns and bicycles: Christmas in 1950s East London, with tissues.

  • Family-safe
  • Tearjerker

Content note: Childbirth scenes and some sad storylines

BBC One

2012

First shown 25 Dec 2012

First shown
25 December 2012
Channel
BBC One
Runtime
1 hr 14 mins
Genre
Drama

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Christmas is coming and in Poplar the midwives of Nonnatus House are busier than ever. When an abandoned baby is found on the convent steps, the whole community rallies round to feed, clothe and find his mother. Jenny Lee gets caught up in the sad mystery of an elderly local woman, while newly married Chummy pulls out every stop for a truly memorable children's nativity play. It's a warm, weepy start to a Christmas Day tradition that has now run for over a decade. Not one for small children, but there's tea, kindness and plenty of hankies.

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