Introducing a brand new prequel series, Call the Midwife: Sisters in Arms, which will be set in Poplar during World War Two.
Helmed by the current Call the Midwife creative team; showrunner Heidi Thomas with executive producers Pippa Harris and Ann Tricklebank, the series will feature some well-known Call the Midwife characters as their younger selves and will be narrated by Jenny Agutter.
In September 1939, Sister Monica Joan is in her prime, Sister Julienne and Sister Evangelina are young and zealous, and Nonnatus House is the beating heart of Poplar. Together with Sister Alice, and local GP Dr Kit, the nuns dedicate their lives to mothers, babies and the poor. But there is no gas and air, no penicillin, no cure for TB, and no welfare state. Then war is declared - and life gets even harder. The three young secular midwives who complete the team - Sybil, Olive and Marianne - receive a baptism of fire as the blackout and the Blitz take hold. While bombs rain from the sky, women give birth underground, families are shattered, children run wild, and whole streets are reduced to rubble. But courage, compassion and resilience triumph as the community unites in its efforts to survive.
Filming has begin on a three part Christmas Special, with further details about a full length series to be announced in due course.
