Call the midwife, Season 1

Resource Information

The work Call the midwife, Season 1 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in St. Catharines Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Call the midwife, Season 1

Title number

Season 1

Statement of responsibility

a Neal Street production for BBC ; series created and written by Heidi Thomas

Title variation

• Call the midwife
• Call the midwife
• Call the midwife

Contributor

• Parfitt, Judy, 1935-
• Raine, Jessica, 1982-
• Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937-
• Thomas, Heidi, 1967-
• British Broadcasting Corporation, Television Service
• Worth, Jennifer, 1935-2011
• Neal Street Productions
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• BBC Worldwide Ltd
• Agutter, Jenny.
• Ferris, Pam.
• Hart, Miranda, 1972-

Actor

• Thomas, Heidi, 1967-
• Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937-
• Raine, Jessica, 1982-
• Parfitt, Judy, 1935-
• Hart, Miranda, 1972-
• Ferris, Pam.
• Agutter, Jenny.

Distributor

• Warner Home Video (Firm)

Production company

• British Broadcasting Corporation, Television Service
• Neal Street Productions

Publisher

• BBC Worldwide Ltd

Subject

• Television programs -- Great Britain
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Worth, Jennifer, 1935-2011 -- Fiction
• Television programs
• Childbirth -- England | London -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
• East End (London, England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Fiction television programs
• Midwives -- England | London -- Fiction
• Nuns -- England | London -- Fiction
• Poor -- England | London -- Fiction
• Poverty -- England | London -- Fiction
• Pregnant women -- England | London -- Fiction
• Television adaptations

Genre

• Fiction
• Fiction television programs
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Television programs
• Television adaptations

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. Based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women

Member of

• Call the midwife (Television program)

Cataloging source

CaOWLBI

Characteristic

videorecording

Dewey number

791.45/72

Intended audience

Canadian Home Video Rating: PG

Language note

In English with English subtitles ; Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

PerformerNote

Vanessa Redgrave, Pam Ferris, Jessica Raine, Helen George, Jenny Agutter, Judy Parfitt, Miranda Hart

Runtime

360

Target audience

general

Technique

live action