Call the Midwife(2012)
Overview
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
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Jennifer Worth (voice)
Trixie Franklin
Sister Julienne
Sister Monica Joan
Phyllis Crane
Violet Buckle
Shelagh 'Sister Bernadette' Turner
Fred Burkle
Matthew Aylward
Millicent Higgins
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