- Radio Times
- Review by:
- Alison Graham
After a really big PUSH!!! BBC1 delivers a bouncing second series of its biggest drama hit in years. Everyone – nuns and midwives – is back at Nonnatus House to tend to the screaming mothers-to-be of 1958’s teeming East End tenements.
After a particularly grim Christmas special, the mood lifts ever so slightly when we return to Poplar, as the girls celebrate Jenny’s birthday with cake and a trip to the cinema to see South Pacific. There are some giggles after nice Dr Turner and his revolutionary nitrous-oxide machine cheer up the birthing mums no end, sending them into delighted stupors.
But the fun can’t last for ever. Jenny attends a young mother married to an abusive brute, while silly Trixie and battleaxe Sister Evangelina are called out to a difficult birth on a ship. As for dear old Chummy (Miranda Hart),
it seems like she might have itchy feet.
About this programme
1/8. The return of the popular drama about a team of nuns and midwives bringing babies into the world in 1950s East End London. Jenny is concerned about a mum-to-be involved in an abusive marriage, while Trixie and Sister Evangelina find themselves in unusual circumstances on board a Swedish cargo ship looking after the captain's daughter, who is about to have her first child. Jessica Raine, Helen George, Pam Ferris and Miranda Hart star.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Jenny Lee
- Jessica Raine
- Sister Julienne
- Jenny Agutter
- Sister Evangelina
- Pam Ferris
- Chummy Noakes
- Miranda Hart
- Sister Monica Joan
- Judy Parfitt
- Trixie Franklin
- Helen George
- Cynthia Miller
- Bryony Hannah
- Sister Bernadette
- Laura Main
- PC Peter Noakes
- Ben Caplan
- Dr Turner
- Stephen McGann
- Fred
- Cliff Parisi
- Bella Collins
- Claire-Louise Cordwell
- Molly Brignall
- Scarlett Archer
- Ritchie Brignall
- Alexander Cobb
- Smudger Collins
- Thomas Aldridge
- Mrs Marjorie Gray
- Tilly Vosburgh
- Capt Bjorgsen
- Christopher Dane
- Kirsten Bjorgsen
- Zandra Anderson
- Glaswegian sailor
- Andy McSorley
- Voice of mature Jenny
- Vanessa Redgrave
Crew
- Director
- Philippa Lowthorpe
- Producer
- Hugh Warren
- Writer
- Heidi Thomas
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