Call The Midwife

Jessica Raine looks back: ‘When I was young, I didn’t know how to direct my defiance. It has since become very useful’
The actor and her sister, Sarah, on childhood jealousies, sudden fame with Call the Midwife, and wanting to grow old together
Harriet Gibsone
16, Nov, 2024 @12:00 PM

Rosie Jones’s year in TV: ‘I never thought acting would be open to me, so Call the Midwife was special’
The comedian and writer on being on Celebrity Mastermind, bingeing The Bear, and the good that came out of her controversial documentary
Rebecca Nicholson
11, May, 2024 @3:00 PM

Mouldy homes: is it time for Cathy You Can’t Come Home Yet? | Letters
Letters: Dr Stephen Battersby says the law already protects tenants, but is not being enforced for lack of means, while Fran Turner says a TV drama might lead to action
19, Jan, 2024 @5:47 PM

Christmas Day TV: grab some tissues for the last ever episode of Ghosts
The festive special will have the whole family in tears. Plus: Ncuti Gatwa takes over the Tardis. Here’s what to watch on Christmas Day
Phil Harrison, Hannah Verdier, Ellen E Jones, Ali Catterall and Simon Wardell
25, Dec, 2023 @5:00 AM

Christmas crackers! It’s your ultimate guide to the UK’s best festive TV
From the rush of seeing Ncuti Gatwa as the new Doctor, to the tearjerking final ever episode of Ghosts – here’s your authoritative guide to the finest television
Phil Harrison, Alexi Duggins, Hollie Richardson, Jack Seale, Graeme Virtue, Ellen E Jones, Hannah Verdier and Ali Catterall
15, Dec, 2023 @12:00 PM

Call the Midwife Special review – it wouldn’t be Christmas without this slyly majestic drama
The rousing, touching postwar childbirth drama has reached 1967 and is now so familiar it feels as if it’s been on air ever since. Prepare to be moved
Rebecca Nicholson
25, Dec, 2022 @9:25 PM

Mother of God! It’s Line of Duty already: 100 years of the BBC, part 10
From Jed Mercurio’s bent copper hit to Michaela Coel’s powerful I May Destroy You and Russell T Davies’s prescient Years and Years, the BBC shows it can still be innovative and provocative
Mark Lawson
07, Oct, 2022 @2:00 PM

Call the Midwife review – pure Christmas comfort and joy
Leeches, breech births and heroin … it’s the usual mix of medical emergencies and social commentary in another festive special that yanks on the heartstrings
Emine Saner
25, Dec, 2021 @9:35 PM

Queen of comedy Charlotte Ritchie on Ghosts: ‘It’s loving, uncynical – and people fall over’
She got gross-out laughs in Fresh Meat, died superbly in Call the Midwife – and now she’s back communing with spirits in Ghosts. Is Charlotte Ritchie getting too famous to buy her own leggings?
Rebecca Nicholson
04, Aug, 2021 @5:00 AM

The one where … TV’s tired revivals like Friends reunited cover the same old ground
Why bother with getting the Botoxed gang back together when new shows are what we really need now?
Michael Hogan
30, May, 2021 @6:15 AM

Second to nun: why Call the Midwife’s medical miracles are a joke
The sheer number of rare conditions Dr Turner and the midwives of Nonnatus House diagnose would warrant a Nobel prize – and are making the series as silly as Midsomer Murders
Mark Lawson
27, May, 2021 @3:12 PM

Call the Midwife review – still shining after all these years
It’s been on our screens for a decade, but the BBC’s period drama remains as radical and relevant as ever
Rebecca Nicholson
18, Apr, 2021 @9:00 PM
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