Call the Midwife Seasons 1-7 DVD Special Features
Actors: Finn Jones, Jessica Henwick
Language: English
Boxed Set: Yes
Number of discs: 21
Condition: New
Region: Region Free
Weight: 1.2 kg
Format: Support both NTSC & PAL
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
DVD Release Date: 2018
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Call the Midwife Seasons 1-7 DVD Box Set Overview
The series was created by Heidi Thomas, originally based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth who worked with the Community of St. John the Divine, an Anglican religious order, at their convent in the East End in London. The order was founded as a nursing order in 1849. The memoirs have since been expanded to include new, historically sourced material. For the most part it depicts the day to day lives of the midwives and those in their local neighbourhood of Poplar, Call the Midwife Seasons 1-7 with certain historical events of the era having a direct or indirect effect on the characters and storylines. Such events include: the knock on effects of the post World War II baby boom, post war immigration and the 1948 founding of the NHS in the first series and beyond; the introduction of gas and air as a form of pain relief and unexploded ordnance in the second series; the Child Migrants Programme and the threat of nuclear warfare in the fourth series; Call the Midwife Seasons 1-7 DVD and the thalidomide scandal and the introduction of the contraceptive pill in the fifth series.
