The Residents of Poplar and Midwife Patients
A section featuring some of the Residents of Poplar and Expectant Mothers who were cared for by The Midwifes.
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The Voice of Call the Midwife - Venessa Redgrave
tThe narrator — who gives voice to Jennifer Worth, the real-life midwife upon whose memoirs the show is based — is Vanessa Redgrave.
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Doctor Turner - Stephen McGann
Dr Turner is Poplar's local physician. He works closely with the midwives, helping at clinics, deliveries and at the birthing hospital and is incredibly dedicated to his patients and to his work, including fighting bureaucratic red tape to save lives with a tuberculosis x-ray screening van. He is a widower and father to Timothy and does his best to juggle the demands of being a single parent with his responsibilities as a doctor. In Series 2, it becomes apparent that he has fallen in love with Sister Bernadette, but her vows stand in the way of that love. After her diagnosis with tuberculosis forces her to examine what she truly wants, he makes it quietly clear to her that while the decision is hers, he is in love with her and wishes to share his life with her. She leaves the convent and chooses a different path, accepting his proposal of marriage after she has overcome her tuberculosis.
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Timothy Turner - Max Macmillan
n Poplar, Dr. Patrick Turner (Stephen McGann) and Shelagh Turner (Laura Main) is a steady and caring medical team, often in demand by residents who have fallen ill, or those looking for a healthy dose of advice.
When not at their medical practice, however, they are a loving and attentive parenting team that has the pleasure of raising their young, intelligent and conscientious son, Timothy (Max Macmillan). Wise beyond his years and always willing to lend a hand, it’ll be exciting to continue following Timothy’s adolescent evolution toward adulthood.
During a recent “Call the Midwife” video interview, McGann marvelled at Macmillan’s ability to quickly adapt to
a role and storyline that wouldn’t have been easy for many child actors.
When not at their medical practice, however, they are a loving and attentive parenting team that has the pleasure of raising their young, intelligent and conscientious son, Timothy (Max Macmillan). Wise beyond his years and always willing to lend a hand, it’ll be exciting to continue following Timothy’s adolescent evolution toward adulthood.
During a recent “Call the Midwife” video interview, McGann marvelled at Macmillan’s ability to quickly adapt to
a role and storyline that wouldn’t have been easy for many child actors.
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Fred Buckle - Cliff Parisi
Fred is the handyman at Nonnatus house. He is friends with all of the midwives and often gives them help and advice. He's always got a new money making scheme under his belt but none of them are ever much good. He is dad to Dolly and grandfather to Anthony and Samantha. He fell in love with, and eventually married, shop owner Violet at the end of series four.
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Fred and Violet Buckle - Cliff Parisi / Annabelle Apsion
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Rev Tom Hereward - Jack Ashton
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Tom joined the Midwifes in the third episode of Season Three where he meets Beatrix Franklin and Sister Julienne when they are attending a pregnant inmate at a women's prison and Tom becomes close to Trixie. At the beginning of Season Four, Tom proposes to Trixie and she accepts, but later breaks off the engagement upon learning Tom was going to be assigned to a new parish in Newcastle as she didn't think she'd be able to accompany him and to be the sort of wife a reverend needs.
In the next series Tom starts dating Trixie's colleague Barbara though the union is met with some initial opposition from Trixie who seems unable to let Tom go. She later gives the relationship her blessing, although she is still sad not to have anyone of her own to love.
In the 2016 Christmas Special, Tom accompanies some of the nuns and nurses from Nonnatus House on a mission to South Africa, and at the end becomes engaged to Barbara. He and Barbara get married in the last episode of Series Six with Barbara's father, himself a clergyman, conducting the service.
In the next series Tom starts dating Trixie's colleague Barbara though the union is met with some initial opposition from Trixie who seems unable to let Tom go. She later gives the relationship her blessing, although she is still sad not to have anyone of her own to love.
In the 2016 Christmas Special, Tom accompanies some of the nuns and nurses from Nonnatus House on a mission to South Africa, and at the end becomes engaged to Barbara. He and Barbara get married in the last episode of Series Six with Barbara's father, himself a clergyman, conducting the service.
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PC Noakes - Ben Chaplin
PC Noakes is the Local Bobby in Poplar. He met, fell in love and married Midwife 'Chummy'.
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Miss Hggins - Georgie Glen
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Georgie Glenn joins Call the Midwife in Series 8 as The new receptionist at Dr Turner’s surgery.
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Sergeant Woolf - Trevor Cooper
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Nadine Mulvaney - Tamla Kari (Series 7 Episode 1)
Nadine works as a stripper in a seedy nightclub and gets pregnant by a man she doesn't know. She tries to hide her 'bump' on stage when performing her act with her fur coat. Her original thoughts are to adopt the baby but when a difficult breach birth is delivered by Nurse Trixie she realises she can't give the baby up or return to her previous job. Nurse Valerie Dyer helps her by selling her Auntie Edith's Ballet and Dancing Classes which Nadine pays for by selling her Fur Coat. She remains in Poplar and opens Nadine's School of Dance.
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Tina O'Brien - Cathy Powell (Episode 6)
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Marie Amos - Cara Theobold ( Series 4 Episode 3 )
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Gert Mills - Una Stubbs ( Series 4 : Episode 7 )
Barbara makes a revolutionary suggestion to help Sister Mary Cynthia’s bedsore patient, Tommy Mills. However, it is discovered that it is his steadfast wife, Gert, who is the one most in need of care.
The love between Tommy and Gert makes Fred think about taking the next step in his relationship with Violet.
In the episode we see an elderly relative of Fred (his father’s cousin, played by the late David Ryall) being cared for by Sister Mary Cynthia and Barbara. He’s been bedridden for a long time, but the real heart of this story comes from the plight of his wife Gert (Una Stubbs) as she comes to learn that she has cancer and will need a mastectomy.
The difficulty of her realisation is played with emotional resonance between all the actors involved, and has an effect on Fred’s new relationship with Violet (Annabelle Apsion) too. This new relationship is played as rather cute and sweet, but there’s a sadness and a loss to it too, as the two of them uneasily navigate the difficulties of loving again later in life.
The love between Tommy and Gert makes Fred think about taking the next step in his relationship with Violet.
In the episode we see an elderly relative of Fred (his father’s cousin, played by the late David Ryall) being cared for by Sister Mary Cynthia and Barbara. He’s been bedridden for a long time, but the real heart of this story comes from the plight of his wife Gert (Una Stubbs) as she comes to learn that she has cancer and will need a mastectomy.
The difficulty of her realisation is played with emotional resonance between all the actors involved, and has an effect on Fred’s new relationship with Violet (Annabelle Apsion) too. This new relationship is played as rather cute and sweet, but there’s a sadness and a loss to it too, as the two of them uneasily navigate the difficulties of loving again later in life.
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Thema Haig - Nicola Stephenson (Series 11 : Episode 3)
