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CALL THE MIDWIFE
Produced by Neal Street for BBC & PBS - Series 5: Ep5 & 6, Series 6: Ep5 & 6

Call the Midwife’s combination of warmth and grit has made it an enduring hit. It follows the lives of the
midwives of Poplar house as they work tirelessly to help the community they live in during the 1950s and 60s.

I think of Call the Midwife as the Trojan Horse of story telling.  The audience love the characters and trust the storytelling so there is an opportunity to tackle stories that wouldn’t always sit comfortably with an 8pm Sunday night BBC audience.   The episodes I directed explored a number of challenging issues including FGM.  Such issues require a delicate touch but the fact that a percentage of the audience will not previously have had the opportunity to think about FGM made all the hard work worthwhile.
 

Lisa Clarke 2023 ©

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