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JENNIFER: Why do we
give presents at Christmas?

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Because once upon a time

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a child lay in a manger,

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asking for nothing yet needing so much?

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And because three kings

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paid tribute in the only way they could?

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Perhaps the reason does not matter.

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The smiles of those we love
mean more than any ribboned box,

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whether it is offered or received.

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And the most precious gifts
cost nothing whatsoever.

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Merry Christmas, Fred.

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Shh! Less of the "Fred".
I'm Father Christmas's helper.

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You can come in as long as you
don't ring that wretched bell.

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We've half a dozen newborns
trying to get their beauty sleep,

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including Master Rutherford, who's
just arrived by Caesarean section,

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and I assisted in his delivery.

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Oh-hoo, look at you, you little bruiser!

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Now, you been naughty or nice?
Nice, I reckon.

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Merry Christmas!

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Merry Christmas.

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[HUM OF LAUGHTER AND CONVERSATION]

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Two fully assembled
Christmas dinners plated up,

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in the oven and put on a low light -

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one for Nurse Franklin
and one for Nurse Mount.

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To absent friends!

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ALL: Absent friends.

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Merry Christmas, everybody.

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[PHONE RINGS]

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That may be the Mother
House calling early.

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Come with me, we'll
take the call together.

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Here's Sister Monica Joan.

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Happy Christmas, Mother Jesu Emmanuel.

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I hope you've had the most
blessed and peaceful day.

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Oh. I see.

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As you all doubtless know,
our Order supports Hope Clinic,

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a tiny mission hospital in South Africa.

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For some years, there
has been one doctor there

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and a handful of nuns
under Mother Felicity.

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Mother Felicity has just died.

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May she rest in peace and rise in glory.

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The clinic is now so understaffed
it may have to close altogether.

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That would be disastrous.

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Hope Clinic is the only
medical facility for 100 miles.

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And that is why we
have been asked to send

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a small working party out there...
for four weeks.

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Four weeks in South Africa?

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We would be nursing and running an
urgent polio vaccination programme.

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Meanwhile, a cleric of our
choice would disburse a small

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but very welcome grant
from a mission society,

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and assess the future
viability of the clinic.

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I would like Mr Hereward
to take on this role.

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If you would consider it?

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Of course.

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You would have to be scrupulously honest

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and yet the survival of Hope Clinic
will depend on your findings.

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When were you planning on setting sail?

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In a fortnight.

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Nurse Mount is doing sterling work.
Forceps won't be needed after all.

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Now, I've been
researching some logistics.

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Most people spend their
Christmas Day afternoon watching

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Billy Smart's Circus and
eating Quality Street!

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How have we ended up discussing
a mission to South Africa?

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Because God moves in a mysterious manner,

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even on major public holidays.

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I have work to do here,
Shelagh, in Poplar.

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Patrick, London is full of locums

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and that vaccination
programme needs a doctor.

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Our own son had polio once.

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Also, if we cut down our time away
by flying instead of sailing...

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By flying?

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..then Granny Parker
can mind the children.

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Well, she's been begging to
have them and they adore her.

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You really want to go, don't you?

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I want us both to go, Patrick,

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because we need to be somewhere
where we know the medicine

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we're giving out is doing good, not harm.

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Shelagh, you didn't
prescribe thalidomide to anyone.

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What you did, I did. Where you go, I go.

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And I think we should go to South Africa.

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Don't you want me to stay here,
keep an eye on things?

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What about Sister Monica Joan?

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Sister Mary Cynthia will
take exemplary care of her

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and Nurse Mount will run Nonnatus
very efficiently in my absence.

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But I haven't done
sanitary engineering since

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El Alamein, Sister.

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Wouldn't you rather take
an actual missionary?

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Fred, the Army Pioneer Corps
has given you skills that

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no missionary could match -

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logistics, plumbing, mechanics...

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and drains.

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I'd hazard a guess there's
not much in the way

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of drains where we're going.

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Quite.

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♪ Everybody's doing a
brand-new dance now ♪

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♪ Come on, baby, do the loco-motion ♪

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♪ I know you'll get to like
it if you give it a chance now ♪

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♪ Come on, baby, do the loco-motion ♪

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♪ My little baby sister
can do it with me ♪

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♪ It's easy as a line in your ABC ♪

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♪ So come on, come on... ♪

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You next.

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Mr Hereward's waiting outside.

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I shall see to him.

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Oh, I can do his, too.

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You must observe boundaries
whilst we're away -

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I think it's best you
put them in place now.

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The parcel from my sister came.

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Oh, I'm so glad I didn't splash
out on a new swimming costume!

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Hers will do me just fine.

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No-one's wearing ruched one-pieces

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with modesty panels anymore, Barbara.

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It's a good job I packed
you an extra boned playsuit.

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And, last but not least, medical
supplies box number seven.

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Containing 20 gross of sugar
lumps for the administration

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of the oral vaccine.

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This contains more fruit than any
commercial confectioner's item

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and furthermore it is steeped
in such a richness of alcohol

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that it will not fester should you
transfer it through the hemisphere.

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They can't give out Christmas cake
in an African vaccination queue.

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The marzipan would take a
tremendous amount of explaining.

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- Travel safe.
- Bye.

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Bye. Bye.

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Let us know when you get
there safely. Bye. Bye.

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- Safe trip. Have a safe journey.
- Bye.

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Hey, look at that! Goats in the road!

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You wouldn't see that down Chrisp Street.

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Oh, look at you, Barbara.
Brussel-sprout green all over again.

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I thought looking at my
Xhosa phrase book might help

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me take my mind off it.

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You just have to suck on a barley
sugar, like you did onboard ship.

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Are there any left?

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I've all manner of aids to
wellbeing in my bag of tricks.

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I daren't ask if you've got anything
to stop my mascara from running.

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I've some petroleum jelly
you can take it off with.

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Why are we stopping?

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I'll deal with this.

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Passport and visa.

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How many are on the bus?

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Six more passengers and the driver.

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I'm not interested in the driver.

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Why've we stopped?

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Passports and visas, please.

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Sunglasses off, please.

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- Don't smile.
- Oh.

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Thank you very much.
Welcome to South Africa.

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You are so very welcome, Sisters.

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I'm so sorry to have
missed Mother Felicity.

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I do hope her passing was a peaceful one.

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Amoebic dysentery. Better
ways to go, even in this country.

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But she died in harness, which
I suspect would please her mightily.

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Dr Fitzsimmonds?

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It's a long time since
anyone called me that.

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The locals can't seem to
get their tongues round it.

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You can do as they do, call me Dr Myra.

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Did you bring the things we asked for?

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Everything from
penicillin to rubber gloves.

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It shouldn't be easier to ship
things from London than it is

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to get them out of one's
Administrative Health Board,

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but that's another story, and
we're grateful for what we can get.

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I can see the caption now...

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"English roses - African Skies,
exclamation mark."

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My jaw's starting to ache, Phyllis.

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Well, this is a new camera.

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Well, all I can say is thank
goodness the Dansette runs on

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batteries because I don't
know what's worse - this or

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the fact that our complexions are

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going to turn to pudding in this climate.

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We're going to have to find
a shop that sells cucumbers,

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so we can make ourselves
a cooling masque.

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Food? As a beauty aid?

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It might be a bit tactless, Trixie.
People here are really poor.

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Can anyone smell anything slightly musky?

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It isn't me, is it?

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You're not usually challenged in the
personal daintiness department, Barbara.

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Well, circumstances are
rather exceptional.

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You shall have to set
to with the Lifebouy.

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But I was three feet
away from Tom on the bus.

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Bad enough I got that bit of sick on
his trousers in the Bay of Biscay.

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There are some memories
even Lifebouy can't erase.

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Whichever soap you choose, I suggest
you apply it with a bit of backbone.

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I'm sorry, lass, but you've had
enough barley sugar and sympathy.

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It's time to pull yourself together.

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Meanwhile, I shall have to sneak
some surgical spirit from supplies,

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or else blisters will beckon.

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- Argh!
- What?

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Spider.

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Argh!

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As big as a wireless knob

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and it looks to be
heading this way at speed!

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Dead.

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Was it poisonous?

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I can't tell. But it's
crushed to a pulp -

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I can tell that.

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I'd give your shoe a rinse.

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It may have some venom on it...

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or some backbone.

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[FLIES BUZZ]

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Let's rest it here.

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Yes.

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Instruments being sterilised by boiling.

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A perfectly efficient method. We all
knew the facilities would be humble.

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I didn't expect an autoclave,
but this is an oil stove.

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I don't actually think
they've got any electricity.

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Is there no refrigerator?

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It's over there.

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It smells as though it's
powered by paraffin.

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It's at times like this
that I say to myself,

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"What would Sister Evangelina do?"

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Well, first of all, she'd mention the war

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and then she'd remind us
we're here for our patients.

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Yes.

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Sinayo ibhedi kunye namayeza akho.

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Zizophela intlungu, kungekudala.

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Soon you will have no more pain.

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[SHE GROANS]

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Put her in the general ward,

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the end bed, so she can feel the
sun coming in through the window.

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I suspect she has leukaemia.

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She presented four months ago
with joint pain and exhaustion.

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Did you consider sending
her somewhere larger,

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perhaps for radium treatment?

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No, I did not.

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She hasn't the money to pay
for it and, if she had,

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she'd run the risk of
dying far from home.

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And who would take that
final comfort from her, hmm?

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I see someone's made himself at home.

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You speak in jest, kind Reverend,

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but by performing my
ablutions in our new abode,

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I'm in fact marking my territory. I see.

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You see, wild animals, like wolves

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and those little spotty
humpy black dog things, er...

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- Hyenas?
- That's the fellas.

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Wolves and hyenas mark their
territory by leaving their scent.

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Soldiers and Englishmen have
a shave and visit the khazi.

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I've just had a visit to the khazi.

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I thought you was looking a bit pale.

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I thought national service had
prepared me for most things,

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but not long-drop loos
over an open trench.

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I also thought that conducting worship

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would be my biggest contribution...

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..but these people have nothing.

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Tomorrow morning, say your
prayers and write your report,

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and I will wage war on the long drops.

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In the meantime, have a shave.

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We'll have to arrange

247
00:14:58,407 --> 00:15:01,566
for deliveries of extra
vaccine from Cape Town,

248
00:15:01,567 --> 00:15:05,926
with the only phone a mile away
in the village Post Office.

249
00:15:05,927 --> 00:15:08,046
I actually shuddered when she said that.

250
00:15:08,047 --> 00:15:11,886
How does anyone run a hospital
without access to telephone?

251
00:15:11,887 --> 00:15:13,486
What's all this?

252
00:15:13,487 --> 00:15:16,646
It's made of a new
material called Bri-Nylon.

253
00:15:16,647 --> 00:15:20,566
You can rinse it through and
just leave it to drip dry.

254
00:15:20,567 --> 00:15:22,806
Perfect for a colonial climate.

255
00:15:22,807 --> 00:15:24,327
Absolutely.

256
00:15:31,167 --> 00:15:33,566
Honestly, Trixie, I promise you,

257
00:15:33,567 --> 00:15:36,166
nobody will know you haven't
been able to set your hair.

258
00:15:36,167 --> 00:15:38,286
That hat covers a multitude of sins.

259
00:15:38,287 --> 00:15:41,366
It's the first time I've
ever wished I had a wimple.

260
00:15:41,367 --> 00:15:45,166
No-one who comes to Hope
Clinic is ever refused our help

261
00:15:45,167 --> 00:15:48,446
and, if they can't get here,
we will fetch them.

262
00:15:48,447 --> 00:15:53,047
And if they arrive at night,
we rise and light the lamps.

263
00:15:54,247 --> 00:15:56,526
And if their only ailment is starvation,

264
00:15:56,527 --> 00:15:58,326
we'll ensure that they're fed.

265
00:15:58,327 --> 00:16:02,286
But the bedrock of it
all is our open clinic,

266
00:16:02,287 --> 00:16:04,726
which we hold every morning of the week.

267
00:16:04,727 --> 00:16:07,726
And how do you organise your
appointments systems, Doctor?

268
00:16:07,727 --> 00:16:09,140
I don't have one.

269
00:16:10,207 --> 00:16:13,846
I'd be delighted to introduce
you to my Rolodexing systems.

270
00:16:13,847 --> 00:16:17,286
The people I take care
of know when they're ill

271
00:16:17,287 --> 00:16:21,447
and I know that disease
cannot be diarised.

272
00:16:25,807 --> 00:16:27,606
What about the maternity patients?

273
00:16:27,607 --> 00:16:29,326
Are they given regular checks?

274
00:16:29,327 --> 00:16:31,806
If they want them, they
can have them, and many do.

275
00:16:31,807 --> 00:16:34,686
Other women choose to give birth
at home, in their rondavels,

276
00:16:34,687 --> 00:16:36,806
with only their families around them...

277
00:16:36,807 --> 00:16:40,087
and the village witch doctor
chanting just outside.

278
00:16:40,938 --> 00:16:42,137
Really?

279
00:16:42,162 --> 00:16:44,246
I've no objection on religious grounds.

280
00:16:44,247 --> 00:16:47,246
But too many of our mothers
were malnourished as children,

281
00:16:47,247 --> 00:16:50,046
so we see a lot of very narrow pelvises

282
00:16:50,047 --> 00:16:53,086
and, in that case,
the witch doctor can't save them...

283
00:16:53,087 --> 00:16:54,486
But we can.

284
00:16:54,487 --> 00:16:55,966
With forceps?

285
00:16:55,967 --> 00:16:58,286
Yeah, with forceps or a Caesarean.

286
00:16:58,287 --> 00:17:01,126
It's why I asked you to
bring the lignocaine.

287
00:17:01,127 --> 00:17:03,526
But lignocaine is a local anaesthetic...

288
00:17:03,527 --> 00:17:08,526
Yes, we can't and don't do any
operations that require a general.

289
00:17:08,527 --> 00:17:11,046
We have our own methods
and we get good results

290
00:17:11,047 --> 00:17:12,887
for both mother and child.

291
00:17:14,767 --> 00:17:16,566
Babies are precious here.

292
00:17:16,567 --> 00:17:18,726
Well, babies are precious everywhere.

293
00:17:18,727 --> 00:17:22,086
Nevertheless, I expect half
your patients come to you asking

294
00:17:22,087 --> 00:17:23,646
you to prevent conception.

295
00:17:23,647 --> 00:17:26,526
Since they licensed the pill,
yes, although...

296
00:17:26,527 --> 00:17:31,366
Well, these women are
poor and they are black,

297
00:17:31,367 --> 00:17:34,406
and they live in a society that
is gradually stripping them of

298
00:17:34,407 --> 00:17:37,366
any dignities or freedoms
that they ever had,

299
00:17:37,367 --> 00:17:43,086
so motherhood is everything.
It's status, purpose, life itself

300
00:17:43,087 --> 00:17:45,486
and we have to help it to happen.

301
00:17:45,487 --> 00:17:47,358
It isn't always easy.

302
00:17:47,383 --> 00:17:48,623
No.

303
00:17:49,327 --> 00:17:52,086
But medicine's never
about doing what's easy -

304
00:17:52,087 --> 00:17:53,846
it's about doing what's essential.

305
00:17:53,847 --> 00:17:56,087
That's why we came - to help.

306
00:17:57,127 --> 00:18:01,366
I'm grateful for your help
with the vaccination programme.

307
00:18:01,367 --> 00:18:03,566
Everything else, you can leave to me.

308
00:18:03,567 --> 00:18:05,967
These people and I understand each other.

309
00:18:14,660 --> 00:18:16,099
[GRINDING]

310
00:18:16,124 --> 00:18:18,003
So this is the hospital truck.

311
00:18:18,028 --> 00:18:19,271
[GRINDING CONTINUES]

312
00:18:20,647 --> 00:18:22,726
Well, that doesn't
sound too healthy, Fred.

313
00:18:22,727 --> 00:18:27,646
Well, it's working. I just
don't know how it's working.

314
00:18:27,647 --> 00:18:31,166
I can see at least three component
parts that come from other vehicles.

315
00:18:31,167 --> 00:18:34,126
How far are you planning
to travel in this tomorrow?

316
00:18:34,127 --> 00:18:38,326
Well, the first village on
tomorrow's list is called Elbaai -

317
00:18:38,327 --> 00:18:39,887
it's about 30 miles away.

318
00:18:41,744 --> 00:18:42,984
Right.

319
00:18:45,847 --> 00:18:48,366
I was working in the kitchen at home.

320
00:18:48,367 --> 00:18:52,687
It was just a cut, but now it hurts
all the way up as far as my elbow.

321
00:18:53,687 --> 00:18:58,766
That is a nasty infection,
but there's plenty we can do.

322
00:18:58,791 --> 00:19:00,984
A healthy mother makes
for a healthy baby.

323
00:19:00,985 --> 00:19:01,781
Yes.

324
00:19:01,806 --> 00:19:04,046
Nurse Franklin, could you spare a moment?

325
00:19:04,047 --> 00:19:06,926
I'll need to lance this hand,
then you can dress it.

326
00:19:06,927 --> 00:19:08,367
Of course, Doctor.

327
00:19:10,247 --> 00:19:12,087
[WOMAN CALLS OUT]

328
00:19:13,327 --> 00:19:14,366
Please help.

329
00:19:14,367 --> 00:19:15,966
Ezikalini. Scales.

330
00:19:15,967 --> 00:19:17,606
Uyagula lomntana.

331
00:19:17,607 --> 00:19:19,006
Sick. Is sick.

332
00:19:19,007 --> 00:19:20,367
Oh.

333
00:19:21,847 --> 00:19:24,709
If Baby is sick, we will
ask Doctor to look.

334
00:19:26,686 --> 00:19:28,739
Oh, molo!

335
00:19:44,287 --> 00:19:46,126
Is everything all right, Nurse Gilbert?

336
00:19:46,127 --> 00:19:47,447
I don't know.

337
00:19:52,087 --> 00:19:53,647
There we go. Sh, sh.

338
00:19:57,967 --> 00:19:59,727
Baby has a very high fever.

339
00:20:01,087 --> 00:20:02,167
102.

340
00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:06,200
[ENGINE RASPS]

341
00:20:11,056 --> 00:20:12,726
Doctor!

342
00:20:12,727 --> 00:20:14,566
Dr Myra! Dr Myra!

343
00:20:14,567 --> 00:20:15,926
What is it, Innocent?

344
00:20:15,927 --> 00:20:18,954
Running a marathon's never a
good idea when you've got TB.

345
00:20:20,047 --> 00:20:21,406
Is it your wife?

346
00:20:21,407 --> 00:20:24,886
Undon. The baby's coming!
And she has failed to walk.

347
00:20:24,887 --> 00:20:25,966
Where is she?

348
00:20:25,967 --> 00:20:28,646
Two to three miles away.
She couldn't walk, so I ran.

349
00:20:28,647 --> 00:20:30,607
Did you leave her by
the side of the road?

350
00:20:31,647 --> 00:20:33,007
He's fitting!

351
00:20:34,087 --> 00:20:35,446
Febrile convulsions!

352
00:20:35,447 --> 00:20:39,526
Baby aged five months,
dehydrated, temperature of 102.

353
00:20:39,527 --> 00:20:41,877
You, come with me to the children's ward.

354
00:20:42,607 --> 00:20:45,807
And, you, get the truck,
see to this man's wife.

355
00:20:47,047 --> 00:20:48,167
Come.

356
00:20:52,231 --> 00:20:53,434
Hiya pha.

357
00:20:53,459 --> 00:20:56,126
You can't drive this,
look, it's misfiring and it's got

358
00:20:56,127 --> 00:20:59,326
a really nasty hissing sound
coming from the manifold.

359
00:20:59,327 --> 00:21:00,766
May I remind you

360
00:21:00,767 --> 00:21:03,486
that I am a member of the
Institute of Advanced Motorists

361
00:21:03,487 --> 00:21:07,766
and a young first-time mother has
been left labouring in a ditch?

362
00:21:07,767 --> 00:21:10,766
Her fear is greater than mine.
Give me the keys.

363
00:21:10,767 --> 00:21:12,046
No.

364
00:21:12,047 --> 00:21:14,126
If the swelling's gone
down tomorrow morning,

365
00:21:14,127 --> 00:21:15,446
doctor will let you go home.

366
00:21:15,447 --> 00:21:18,686
But this will need regular
dressing changes.

367
00:21:18,687 --> 00:21:20,806
Is there someone who can do that?

368
00:21:20,807 --> 00:21:22,126
Oh, yes.

369
00:21:22,127 --> 00:21:25,286
There's my mother, and my
mother-in-law and my mother's mother

370
00:21:25,287 --> 00:21:28,566
and my two younger sisters
and all the aunties.

371
00:21:28,567 --> 00:21:32,486
They'll take good care of me
because we've waited many years

372
00:21:32,511 --> 00:21:33,526
for this baby.

373
00:21:33,527 --> 00:21:34,566
All of us.

374
00:21:34,567 --> 00:21:36,046
But you most of all?

375
00:21:36,047 --> 00:21:39,047
Ten years of marriage
and ten years of prayer.

376
00:21:40,167 --> 00:21:43,126
Well, I'm all for persistence
in the face of adversity.

377
00:21:43,127 --> 00:21:45,486
You look like a modern young woman.

378
00:21:45,487 --> 00:21:47,886
You know, I used to work in Cape Town -

379
00:21:47,887 --> 00:21:50,566
not as a servant but as a secretary.

380
00:21:50,567 --> 00:21:53,206
I had a good education here
at the Missionary School

381
00:21:53,207 --> 00:21:55,686
and I got to work for a coloured lawyer.

382
00:21:55,687 --> 00:21:59,246
Oh! It was the happiest
two years of my life.

383
00:21:59,247 --> 00:22:02,206
I always think it's terribly
unfair when women have to give up

384
00:22:02,207 --> 00:22:04,446
their jobs just because
they're expecting.

385
00:22:04,447 --> 00:22:07,166
I gave up work years ago.

386
00:22:07,167 --> 00:22:09,526
They changed the law so
that you had to carry

387
00:22:09,527 --> 00:22:12,846
a pass to go to the city and
to stay there and to work,

388
00:22:12,847 --> 00:22:14,526
but I never got one.

389
00:22:14,527 --> 00:22:15,966
Why not?

390
00:22:15,967 --> 00:22:17,865
It's just the way things are.

391
00:22:19,287 --> 00:22:23,927
But my mother always says we have
to bloom where we are planted...

392
00:22:25,052 --> 00:22:26,372
..and I'm blooming now.

393
00:22:34,447 --> 00:22:36,206
Any landmarks spring to mind?

394
00:22:36,207 --> 00:22:38,206
I left her under the shade of a tree.

395
00:22:38,207 --> 00:22:40,167
Mm, that was thoughtful of you.

396
00:22:41,607 --> 00:22:44,687
I recommend that you take
deep breaths, Mr Muzungulu.

397
00:22:46,927 --> 00:22:48,127
Ooh!

398
00:22:52,887 --> 00:22:55,086
Shame you haven't got your new camera.

399
00:22:55,087 --> 00:22:58,046
Let's keep our minds on
our patient, shall we?

400
00:22:58,047 --> 00:23:01,727
I take it any jokes about "zebra
crossings" would fall on deaf ears?

401
00:23:04,327 --> 00:23:05,567
[GEARS GRIND]

402
00:23:17,967 --> 00:23:21,406
Your grandson has a gut
infection and he's starving!

403
00:23:21,407 --> 00:23:24,686
Ulambile! Umtyisa ntoni?

404
00:23:24,687 --> 00:23:26,526
What have you been feeding him on?

405
00:23:26,527 --> 00:23:28,526
Isidudu sikamili mili.

406
00:23:28,527 --> 00:23:30,846
Oh, he's too young for mielie pop!

407
00:23:30,847 --> 00:23:33,886
Andinayo eye into endinomnika yona.

408
00:23:33,887 --> 00:23:36,487
If you have nothing else to give him,
you can bring him here.

409
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:39,591
Doctor, she DID bring him here.

410
00:23:42,407 --> 00:23:46,046
Ungabinaxhala. I'll take care of him.

411
00:23:46,047 --> 00:23:48,246
This is the second time
she's come here with

412
00:23:48,247 --> 00:23:49,766
a desperately sick grandchild.

413
00:23:49,767 --> 00:23:52,606
Her daughters are both in
domestic service, miles away.

414
00:23:52,607 --> 00:23:55,726
It's not just feeding them
meal and water that does this -

415
00:23:55,727 --> 00:23:57,606
it's the utter lack of hygiene.

416
00:23:57,607 --> 00:23:59,145
Let ME take the baby.

417
00:24:06,607 --> 00:24:08,367
He needs glucose and water.

418
00:24:16,527 --> 00:24:18,846
Ndiyambona! I see her, I see her!

419
00:24:18,847 --> 00:24:20,207
I see her over there!

420
00:24:28,147 --> 00:24:29,707
[SHE BREATHES HEAVILY]

421
00:24:32,127 --> 00:24:33,447
[SHE MOANS]

422
00:24:35,287 --> 00:24:37,326
Good morning, Mrs Muzungulu!

423
00:24:37,327 --> 00:24:39,127
Or perhaps I should say Molo!

424
00:24:40,487 --> 00:24:41,886
I'm Nurse Crane.

425
00:24:41,887 --> 00:24:44,366
Baby... Baby coming...

426
00:24:44,367 --> 00:24:48,664
Un-ga-bin-axhala. All is well.

427
00:24:50,087 --> 00:24:53,286
We'll have some privacy for
Mother, please, gentlemen.

428
00:24:53,287 --> 00:24:55,847
Keep your distance until
instructed to do otherwise.

429
00:24:57,847 --> 00:25:01,286
You poor lass. You must be
petrified, out here all alone.

430
00:25:01,287 --> 00:25:03,096
You're not alone now.

431
00:25:04,487 --> 00:25:08,966
Nurse Crane, I can see something
moving in those bushes over there!

432
00:25:08,967 --> 00:25:12,207
I don't know what it is,
but it looks like it might charge...

433
00:25:13,127 --> 00:25:14,538
..or pounce.

434
00:25:14,563 --> 00:25:16,526
And do you have the means
with which to defend

435
00:25:16,527 --> 00:25:18,206
this labouring mother and myself?

436
00:25:18,207 --> 00:25:20,486
- What? What do you mean? A rifle?
- Yes.

437
00:25:20,487 --> 00:25:21,526
No.

438
00:25:21,527 --> 00:25:23,927
Then I don't wish to hear
any more about it.

439
00:25:24,927 --> 00:25:28,327
That's it. Legs nice and wide apart.

440
00:25:29,956 --> 00:25:33,126
Just bend your knees a little,
if you can manage it.

441
00:25:33,127 --> 00:25:36,287
There we go... there...

442
00:25:45,967 --> 00:25:47,007
Hello.

443
00:25:48,127 --> 00:25:49,446
Hello.

444
00:25:49,447 --> 00:25:51,846
I'm just checking on the
water situation in here.

445
00:25:51,847 --> 00:25:53,926
There's a bucket in the corner.

446
00:25:53,927 --> 00:25:56,727
It has a lid, which does
seem to keep the flies out.

447
00:25:57,927 --> 00:25:59,846
This the little chap that had the fit?

448
00:25:59,847 --> 00:26:04,126
Yes. He's already picking up,
thanks to the glucose solution.

449
00:26:04,127 --> 00:26:07,326
Dr Myra thinks we should be able
to avoid putting him on a drip.

450
00:26:07,327 --> 00:26:09,406
Well, that's good, isn't it?

451
00:26:09,407 --> 00:26:12,046
His grandmother went home in tears, Tom.

452
00:26:12,047 --> 00:26:15,326
I didn't come here to
make people feel ashamed.

453
00:26:15,327 --> 00:26:17,366
I came here to make people feel better!

454
00:26:17,367 --> 00:26:19,406
I thought it would be easy.

455
00:26:19,407 --> 00:26:20,927
So did I.

456
00:26:24,487 --> 00:26:26,447
In my mind, I'm kissing you very gently.

457
00:26:27,407 --> 00:26:29,127
And I'm kissing you back.

458
00:26:37,390 --> 00:26:38,950
[FEZEKA CRIES OUT]

459
00:26:42,412 --> 00:26:45,846
Well done, lass. Well done... Fred?

460
00:26:45,847 --> 00:26:49,686
Put the stretcher down and escort
Mr Muzungulu back to the truck,

461
00:26:49,687 --> 00:26:52,086
where he can wait till we're done.

462
00:26:52,087 --> 00:26:55,127
Then come back here.
I shall be requiring some assistance.

463
00:26:58,047 --> 00:27:00,806
When my two were born,
I went down the Hand And Shears.

464
00:27:00,807 --> 00:27:03,806
And if there was a bar in sight,
I'd recommend you do the same.

465
00:27:03,807 --> 00:27:05,406
And I'll come with ya!

466
00:27:05,407 --> 00:27:06,847
Fred!

467
00:27:10,727 --> 00:27:13,446
You may not win many medals
for sprinting, Fred,

468
00:27:13,447 --> 00:27:16,246
but you've got two hands
at the ends of your arms.

469
00:27:16,247 --> 00:27:22,127
Get my bag, get the Dettol,
and give them a good sluicing.

470
00:27:24,037 --> 00:27:28,486
Then empty my instruments into
the smaller of the two kidney

471
00:27:28,487 --> 00:27:33,406
dishes and put them there,
where I can reach them.

472
00:27:33,407 --> 00:27:35,366
[FEZEKA MOANS]

473
00:27:35,367 --> 00:27:38,246
It's all right, lass. It's all right.

474
00:27:38,247 --> 00:27:40,367
Baby's well on the way...

475
00:27:43,487 --> 00:27:45,366
..and the head is born.

476
00:27:45,367 --> 00:27:46,647
You clever girl.

477
00:27:48,127 --> 00:27:49,407
Not yet.

478
00:27:51,887 --> 00:27:57,086
Now, Fezeka, can you give me
a really big, strong push?

479
00:27:57,087 --> 00:27:59,407
[FEZEKA GROANS]

480
00:28:04,829 --> 00:28:08,446
Fezeka, baby needs a
bit more room to get out.

481
00:28:08,447 --> 00:28:10,686
We're going to have to
get you kneeling down.

482
00:28:10,687 --> 00:28:12,246
Kneel down?

483
00:28:12,247 --> 00:28:14,430
And, Fred, I need your shirt.

484
00:28:18,727 --> 00:28:19,847
It's all right.

485
00:28:20,967 --> 00:28:24,526
That's the way. Now kneel down for me.

486
00:28:24,527 --> 00:28:28,886
You grab hold of me, girl, that's it.

487
00:28:28,887 --> 00:28:32,207
You see? Men can come in handy on occasion.

488
00:28:33,527 --> 00:28:36,486
All right, Fezeka, push now! Push!

489
00:28:36,487 --> 00:28:38,127
[FEZEKA GROANS]

490
00:28:39,247 --> 00:28:40,286
I can't...

491
00:28:40,287 --> 00:28:43,046
You can, Fezeka, you can!

492
00:28:43,047 --> 00:28:46,366
Now, you listen to Nurse
Crane and do what she says.

493
00:28:46,367 --> 00:28:48,486
Take some of our strength.

494
00:28:48,487 --> 00:28:51,366
That's it, girl, you use us.
We've got plenty.

495
00:28:51,367 --> 00:28:53,566
We're in this together.

496
00:28:53,567 --> 00:28:55,327
Come on! That's it!

497
00:28:56,727 --> 00:28:57,767
It's all right.

498
00:29:07,007 --> 00:29:08,287
[BABY CRIES]

499
00:29:14,087 --> 00:29:18,687
You clever, brave girl!
You have a daughter.

500
00:29:21,287 --> 00:29:22,566
[FRED CHUCKLES]

501
00:29:22,567 --> 00:29:24,166
See?

502
00:29:24,167 --> 00:29:27,372
I see her! I see her!

503
00:29:34,621 --> 00:29:37,741
You can have your cuddle in
a minute, Nurse Buckle.

504
00:29:50,247 --> 00:29:52,566
What do you reckon they're
going to do with this?

505
00:29:52,567 --> 00:29:56,006
What, the afterbirth?
Fezeka said her family wants it.

506
00:29:56,007 --> 00:29:58,166
They carry out rituals, apparently.

507
00:29:58,167 --> 00:29:59,766
What sort of rituals?

508
00:29:59,767 --> 00:30:01,167
I didn't enquire.

509
00:30:02,287 --> 00:30:05,366
They send them off to the
allotments in Poplar -

510
00:30:05,367 --> 00:30:07,726
I don't enquire about that either...

511
00:30:07,727 --> 00:30:11,313
being vegetarian and fond of a tomato.

512
00:30:12,487 --> 00:30:13,806
[ENGINE GRINDS AND STALLS]

513
00:30:13,807 --> 00:30:14,847
Oh!

514
00:30:17,567 --> 00:30:19,126
Come on!

515
00:30:19,127 --> 00:30:22,086
Oh, hell's teeth.

516
00:30:22,087 --> 00:30:25,167
Could it not have hung on for
another quarter of a mile?

517
00:30:27,047 --> 00:30:29,406
No, looks like we're walking.

518
00:30:29,407 --> 00:30:30,686
[MUSIC PLAYING]

519
00:30:30,687 --> 00:30:33,926
I have to say, basic facilities or not,

520
00:30:33,927 --> 00:30:38,046
the way Dr Myra does a
Caesarean is quite an education.

521
00:30:38,047 --> 00:30:42,166
A much smaller incision and very
little blood loss. I was amazed.

522
00:30:42,167 --> 00:30:43,966
I've been bitten by an insect again.

523
00:30:43,967 --> 00:30:47,246
Cigarette smoke's supposed to
repel them. Do you want one?

524
00:30:47,247 --> 00:30:50,086
I've never smoked, Trixie, you know that.

525
00:30:50,087 --> 00:30:52,566
Well, I'm perfectly willing to teach you.

526
00:30:52,567 --> 00:30:54,206
Phyllis, too, if you're in the mood.

527
00:30:54,207 --> 00:30:55,886
No, thank you, Trixie.

528
00:30:55,887 --> 00:30:59,246
They aren't good for you and the
pair of you should know that.

529
00:30:59,247 --> 00:31:01,686
Besides, even when I was
young and ignorant,

530
00:31:01,687 --> 00:31:04,366
I had a distaste for silky paper.

531
00:31:04,367 --> 00:31:08,486
Hold it out, like this, taking
care to extend the arm to create

532
00:31:08,487 --> 00:31:11,286
a graceful line from the
wrist to the shoulder.

533
00:31:11,287 --> 00:31:13,726
You sound like you're
teaching a keep fit class!

534
00:31:13,727 --> 00:31:15,406
It's not a dissimilar approach.

535
00:31:15,407 --> 00:31:18,646
Keep fit and smoking both
require discipline and poise.

536
00:31:18,647 --> 00:31:21,926
I'm awfully sorry. But has
anybody got anything for sunburn?

537
00:31:21,927 --> 00:31:23,966
I think my forehead's starting to blister.

538
00:31:23,967 --> 00:31:25,686
Oh, surely it wasn't that hot?

539
00:31:25,687 --> 00:31:32,326
No. But... underneath all
of this, I'm... a redhead.

540
00:31:32,327 --> 00:31:35,806
Your eyebrows had
given rise to speculation.

541
00:31:35,807 --> 00:31:37,886
I've got some Pond's Cold Cream.

542
00:31:37,887 --> 00:31:42,292
In a minute, Barbara! Concentrate
on your smoking for a moment.

543
00:31:48,167 --> 00:31:51,686
I think you need to exhale through your
nose before you open your mouth again.

544
00:31:51,687 --> 00:31:54,046
Can't I just wave it
around and frighten off

545
00:31:54,047 --> 00:31:56,486
- the mosquitoes that way?
- Oh.

546
00:31:56,487 --> 00:31:59,086
It seems we have company.

547
00:31:59,087 --> 00:32:02,047
Hello, Rosa, come and join us.

548
00:32:04,927 --> 00:32:08,646
The most pressing problem is
the need to repair that truck.

549
00:32:08,647 --> 00:32:12,566
Without it, we can't get out to the
villages to start the vaccinations.

550
00:32:12,567 --> 00:32:14,966
I'm worried about the
sheer lack of records

551
00:32:14,967 --> 00:32:17,606
and our inability to predict
how many people will actually

552
00:32:17,607 --> 00:32:19,646
turn up to be vaccinated.

553
00:32:19,647 --> 00:32:22,846
I don't know how things here
function as efficiently as they do.

554
00:32:22,847 --> 00:32:25,566
I'm not sure they function
efficiently at all.

555
00:32:25,567 --> 00:32:28,646
The sisters do their best but,
without electricity,

556
00:32:28,647 --> 00:32:30,606
they're struggling to sterilise equipment

557
00:32:30,607 --> 00:32:32,846
and keep their premature new-borns warm.

558
00:32:32,847 --> 00:32:36,126
And the lamps aren't bright
enough to work by after dark.

559
00:32:36,127 --> 00:32:38,166
Would it help if they had a generator?

560
00:32:38,167 --> 00:32:40,526
We made our decision about that long ago.

561
00:32:40,527 --> 00:32:44,526
It was a choice between a
generator and the truck.

562
00:32:44,527 --> 00:32:47,286
We had other means
of making heat and light,

563
00:32:47,287 --> 00:32:49,966
but no other way of travelling.

564
00:32:49,967 --> 00:32:53,686
I'm sorry, Doctor. We shouldn't
have started without you.

565
00:32:53,687 --> 00:32:57,206
I was with my leukaemia patient.

566
00:32:57,207 --> 00:32:58,566
Is that tea?

567
00:32:58,567 --> 00:33:00,852
Yes, Ty-phoo. We brought it with us.

568
00:33:00,877 --> 00:33:02,276
I thought so.

569
00:33:02,301 --> 00:33:06,001
I caught a faint scent of
my mother's parlour from it.

570
00:33:06,026 --> 00:33:07,466
Circa 1919.

571
00:33:10,127 --> 00:33:12,046
What else have you put in your report?

572
00:33:12,047 --> 00:33:14,726
I'm planning to mention that
the water in your tank is at

573
00:33:14,727 --> 00:33:15,926
a very low level and...

574
00:33:15,927 --> 00:33:19,686
Yes, it's unfortunate,
but we make the best of it.

575
00:33:19,687 --> 00:33:22,846
There's a better source not far away,

576
00:33:22,847 --> 00:33:26,126
but we would have had to lay
pipes across somebody else's land

577
00:33:26,127 --> 00:33:29,367
and "somebody else"
wouldn't give us their permission.

578
00:33:30,567 --> 00:33:32,726
I smoked when I worked in
an office in Cape Town -

579
00:33:32,727 --> 00:33:34,526
it's what you did.

580
00:33:34,527 --> 00:33:37,406
It was like learning to
type or use carbon paper -

581
00:33:37,407 --> 00:33:39,806
it was part of being smart.

582
00:33:39,807 --> 00:33:44,846
I worked in a bakery.
It wasn't thought smart there.

583
00:33:44,847 --> 00:33:48,687
Nobody wants to get ash
on their bread or in it.

584
00:33:49,887 --> 00:33:52,006
Where does your husband work?

585
00:33:52,007 --> 00:33:54,686
In a coal mine in Witbank.

586
00:33:54,687 --> 00:33:56,046
Mine also.

587
00:33:56,047 --> 00:33:58,686
They all come home for
two months every year,

588
00:33:58,687 --> 00:34:01,166
to help with the
ploughing and the sowing.

589
00:34:01,167 --> 00:34:02,846
Three times now,

590
00:34:02,847 --> 00:34:07,127
mine has ploughed and sowed a little
bit more than maize and peppers.

591
00:34:11,047 --> 00:34:14,767
But my first child and my
second child both died.

592
00:34:15,887 --> 00:34:19,087
One in my belly and one in my arms.

593
00:34:20,247 --> 00:34:21,726
I'm sorry.

594
00:34:21,727 --> 00:34:23,526
Why are you sorry?

595
00:34:23,527 --> 00:34:26,166
Oh, i..it's something we say in England,

596
00:34:26,167 --> 00:34:28,327
when someone says
something bad has happened.

597
00:34:29,927 --> 00:34:34,886
It is in the past now.
This baby's in the future,

598
00:34:34,887 --> 00:34:37,967
which is why you should
never be sorry, just be glad.

599
00:34:44,127 --> 00:34:45,647
[MUSIC STARTS]

600
00:34:47,127 --> 00:34:52,007
♪ While I'm far away from you, my baby ♪

601
00:34:53,634 --> 00:34:58,727
♪ I know it's hard for you, my baby ♪

602
00:35:00,447 --> 00:35:05,087
♪ Because it's hard for me, my baby ♪

603
00:35:06,367 --> 00:35:08,286
♪ And the darkest hour... ♪

604
00:35:08,287 --> 00:35:11,087
I ought to go and put my veil on -
ready for compline.

605
00:35:12,167 --> 00:35:13,886
Oh, don't dash off.

606
00:35:13,887 --> 00:35:15,246
If you listen to the lyrics,

607
00:35:15,247 --> 00:35:17,943
they mention the word
"prayer" quite a few times.

608
00:35:19,927 --> 00:35:23,606
♪ A little prayer for me, my baby... ♪

609
00:35:23,607 --> 00:35:25,406
I suppose it is a bit like a hymn.

610
00:35:25,407 --> 00:35:30,686
♪ And tell all the stars above ♪

611
00:35:30,687 --> 00:35:35,607
♪ This is dedicated to the one I love ♪

612
00:35:39,607 --> 00:35:42,846
♪ Life can never be ♪

613
00:35:42,847 --> 00:35:45,286
♪ Exactly like we want it to be ♪

614
00:35:45,287 --> 00:35:47,966
♪ I could be satisfied ♪

615
00:35:47,967 --> 00:35:49,771
♪ Knowing you love... ♪

616
00:35:49,796 --> 00:35:50,865
Enough!

617
00:35:50,890 --> 00:35:55,286
This is a prohibited gathering.
We request that you disperse.

618
00:35:55,287 --> 00:36:00,126
What do you mean, disperse? We're
nurses and these are our patients.

619
00:36:00,127 --> 00:36:04,693
You know the law, and you,
even if they don't. You're Bantu.

620
00:36:05,567 --> 00:36:07,366
They're white. You don't mix.

621
00:36:07,367 --> 00:36:10,607
Get back to your beds, or your
sleeping mats, wherever you belong.

622
00:36:12,087 --> 00:36:16,166
We'll escort these ladies to their
wards, thank you, Sergeant,

623
00:36:16,167 --> 00:36:18,167
and leave you to get
on with your business.

624
00:36:21,687 --> 00:36:23,846
Your truck is abandoned in the lane.

625
00:36:23,847 --> 00:36:25,526
It's obstructing traffic.

626
00:36:25,527 --> 00:36:29,006
Really, Sergeant.
It's half past ten at night -

627
00:36:29,007 --> 00:36:30,646
there is no traffic.

628
00:36:30,647 --> 00:36:34,447
There will be traffic after daybreak -
it will obstruct it then.

629
00:36:42,447 --> 00:36:45,326
Makes me just want to get it
started so I can run him over.

630
00:36:45,327 --> 00:36:48,206
I'm here on a missionary basis
and therefore trying not to think

631
00:36:48,207 --> 00:36:50,206
uncharitable thoughts.

632
00:36:50,207 --> 00:36:53,006
I'm perfectly happy
to think them for you.

633
00:36:53,007 --> 00:36:54,614
That's my girl.

634
00:37:00,007 --> 00:37:01,047
Ow!

635
00:37:03,287 --> 00:37:06,566
Can I bring anything over to
your quarters, Doctor?

636
00:37:06,567 --> 00:37:08,166
No, thank you.

637
00:37:08,167 --> 00:37:12,526
Tempting though your Ty-phoo is,
I fear any more may keep me awake.

638
00:37:12,527 --> 00:37:14,807
I was thinking perhaps some pain relief?

639
00:37:18,247 --> 00:37:20,247
Sorry, I... didn't mean to pry.

640
00:37:23,047 --> 00:37:27,406
I was in fine fettle until
Sister Felicity shuffled off

641
00:37:27,407 --> 00:37:29,126
this mortal coil.

642
00:37:29,127 --> 00:37:32,926
But every institution has
its crumbling old dear

643
00:37:32,927 --> 00:37:37,047
and it would seem that, now she's gone,
falls to me to fill the void.

644
00:37:38,207 --> 00:37:40,046
I will keep you in my prayers.

645
00:37:40,047 --> 00:37:42,526
Oh, I don't believe in any of that.

646
00:37:42,527 --> 00:37:46,327
Not quite what you expect to hear
in a mission hospital, is it?

647
00:37:47,327 --> 00:37:49,806
I've been here so long I can hardly recall

648
00:37:49,807 --> 00:37:51,847
my state of faith when I arrived.

649
00:37:53,247 --> 00:37:56,527
I'm driven by people's need,
now, not by my own beliefs.

650
00:37:58,087 --> 00:37:59,607
Don't tell anyone.

651
00:38:04,127 --> 00:38:05,727
[THEY SING]

652
00:38:10,607 --> 00:38:12,367
[SINGING CONTINUES]

653
00:38:31,327 --> 00:38:33,526
Good morning!

654
00:38:33,527 --> 00:38:35,206
Good morning, Constance!

655
00:38:35,207 --> 00:38:36,646
Good morning, Sister.

656
00:38:36,647 --> 00:38:40,406
I'm just popping in to look you
over before we set out for the day.

657
00:38:40,407 --> 00:38:42,846
Oh! Where's Roza?

658
00:38:42,847 --> 00:38:46,366
She has gone home.
The man doctor said her hand was better.

659
00:38:46,367 --> 00:38:50,606
Yes, but he asked me to see to her
maternity checks before she left.

660
00:38:50,607 --> 00:38:53,206
Her mother came for her, so she went.

661
00:38:53,207 --> 00:38:57,646
Oh. Still, she seemed fit and well.

662
00:38:57,671 --> 00:38:58,751
Mm.

663
00:38:59,755 --> 00:39:02,926
Sister, you are an excellent dancer.

664
00:39:02,927 --> 00:39:04,127
Shh!

665
00:39:07,163 --> 00:39:08,363
[RATTLING]

666
00:39:10,167 --> 00:39:11,326
[ENGINE STARTS]

667
00:39:11,327 --> 00:39:12,887
[ALL CHEER]

668
00:39:18,927 --> 00:39:20,647
[MUSIC: Pata Pata by Miriam Makeba]

669
00:39:55,287 --> 00:39:56,687
[MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH]

670
00:40:12,967 --> 00:40:14,727
[MUSIC FADES]

671
00:40:27,927 --> 00:40:29,447
[KNOCKING ECHOES]

672
00:40:30,647 --> 00:40:32,366
Fred, come and look at this.

673
00:40:32,367 --> 00:40:34,046
I'd better stand upwind of you.

674
00:40:34,047 --> 00:40:37,006
I've been digging trenches
for them long drops.

675
00:40:37,007 --> 00:40:39,206
Inch of maggots in the old ones.

676
00:40:39,207 --> 00:40:41,327
The water's even lower than it was before.

677
00:40:42,767 --> 00:40:44,727
Did that come out of the tank?

678
00:40:46,607 --> 00:40:48,327
Looks like it's full of clay.

679
00:40:50,713 --> 00:40:52,073
We need to put it right...

680
00:40:53,287 --> 00:40:55,367
..but first we have to find the source.

681
00:41:00,727 --> 00:41:02,007
Yeah.

682
00:41:03,607 --> 00:41:05,327
These old pipes ain't too bad.

683
00:41:13,327 --> 00:41:15,247
Here's the source.

684
00:41:16,887 --> 00:41:21,452
I told ya! Clay. You can
make dinner plates with that lot.

685
00:41:22,087 --> 00:41:25,206
What you want is a new source, full stop.

686
00:41:25,207 --> 00:41:26,966
Well, there's a potential one here

687
00:41:26,967 --> 00:41:29,606
but it's not going to be straightforward.

688
00:41:29,607 --> 00:41:32,086
If we can clean and re-lay these pipes,

689
00:41:32,087 --> 00:41:35,340
then the SPG grant might just
stretch to cover the labour.

690
00:41:35,365 --> 00:41:38,366
But we'd be disconnecting
what little supply there is.

691
00:41:38,367 --> 00:41:40,846
Well, that's going to run out
in days anyway without rain.

692
00:41:40,847 --> 00:41:43,287
So, tomorrow, I'll go and get permission.

693
00:41:45,847 --> 00:41:47,407
[MUSIC: Pata Pata by Miriam Makeba]

694
00:41:50,567 --> 00:41:51,927
[MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH]

695
00:41:58,122 --> 00:41:59,729
Look, through there.

696
00:42:01,807 --> 00:42:04,566
♪ Hoo, every Friday and Saturday night ♪

697
00:42:04,567 --> 00:42:07,487
♪ It's Pata Pata time ♪

698
00:42:09,767 --> 00:42:13,406
♪ The dance keeps going all night long ♪

699
00:42:13,407 --> 00:42:16,007
♪ Till the morning sun
begins to shine... ♪

700
00:42:23,180 --> 00:42:26,846
Thank you, Mrs Nonesi. Next, please.

701
00:42:26,847 --> 00:42:28,446
Good afternoon, boys!

702
00:42:28,447 --> 00:42:31,566
My name is Abel. We've
come for the polio vaccination.

703
00:42:31,567 --> 00:42:32,886
I have money.

704
00:42:32,887 --> 00:42:34,286
If I don't have enough for both,

705
00:42:34,287 --> 00:42:36,166
I want my brother to have the injection.

706
00:42:36,167 --> 00:42:37,646
There's no injection, Abel,

707
00:42:37,647 --> 00:42:40,126
it's medicine you swallow
on a sugar lump.

708
00:42:40,127 --> 00:42:41,326
And there's no charge.

709
00:42:41,327 --> 00:42:43,246
Although we do have to
add you to our records,

710
00:42:43,247 --> 00:42:44,846
if you aren't already on our list.

711
00:42:44,847 --> 00:42:47,446
We are not from this place.
I walk eight miles.

712
00:42:47,447 --> 00:42:49,606
No wonder your brother's legs got tired.

713
00:42:49,607 --> 00:42:52,006
Matthias cannot walk - he has had polio -

714
00:42:52,007 --> 00:42:54,607
that's why I want HIM
to have the vaccination.

715
00:42:59,647 --> 00:43:02,366
How long ago did
Matthias have polio, Abel?

716
00:43:02,367 --> 00:43:03,647
Two years ago.

717
00:43:05,847 --> 00:43:08,326
Did you learn to speak English at school?

718
00:43:08,327 --> 00:43:10,686
We learn only handicrafts at school.

719
00:43:10,687 --> 00:43:12,807
Our mother taught me before she died.

720
00:43:17,847 --> 00:43:19,247
Can you feel that?

721
00:43:21,447 --> 00:43:23,766
He feels but he can't move.

722
00:43:23,767 --> 00:43:26,526
That is why we want him
to have the vaccination,

723
00:43:26,527 --> 00:43:29,823
to cure the polio,
like it says on the posters.

724
00:43:31,487 --> 00:43:33,806
You can have the vaccination, Abel,

725
00:43:33,807 --> 00:43:37,927
and there's no harm in giving Matthias one,
too.

726
00:43:39,087 --> 00:43:42,126
But there is something that
you need to understand.

727
00:43:42,127 --> 00:43:44,807
I'm going to tell it to you, man to man.

728
00:43:45,834 --> 00:43:49,753
And neither I, nor anyone else,
is going to take a penny of your money.

729
00:43:49,778 --> 00:43:51,178
Thank you, Doctor, sir.

730
00:43:52,727 --> 00:43:59,166
Abel, vaccination is to prevent polio,
to stop it from happening.

731
00:43:59,167 --> 00:44:00,886
It is good medicine.

732
00:44:00,887 --> 00:44:02,487
All medicine is good...

733
00:44:03,767 --> 00:44:05,087
..usually.

734
00:44:06,687 --> 00:44:10,646
But vaccination can't make
you better when you've already

735
00:44:10,647 --> 00:44:12,206
had the disease.

736
00:44:12,207 --> 00:44:13,886
Can't it help him to walk?

737
00:44:13,887 --> 00:44:16,047
He was a good walker before he had polio.

738
00:44:17,407 --> 00:44:18,487
No.

739
00:44:25,207 --> 00:44:29,006
They were kids, the pair of them,

740
00:44:29,007 --> 00:44:32,006
and I had to take away
the only thing they had -

741
00:44:32,007 --> 00:44:35,287
the belief that somehow
things might get better.

742
00:44:36,847 --> 00:44:38,886
At least Abel's been vaccinated.

743
00:44:38,887 --> 00:44:42,046
Well, that's no comfort to either of us,
Shelagh, and you know it...

744
00:44:42,047 --> 00:44:44,127
and even less comfort to them.

745
00:44:55,607 --> 00:44:58,487
- Look! Oh, wait.
- Please, Sister Gertrude!

746
00:44:59,612 --> 00:45:02,724
Please! Please come!
Doctor Myra's very, very sick.

747
00:45:10,967 --> 00:45:12,926
I don't need you to examine me.

748
00:45:12,927 --> 00:45:14,687
I'm not playing that game.

749
00:45:16,287 --> 00:45:19,646
When you've been the only
doctor within a 30-mile radius

750
00:45:19,647 --> 00:45:24,366
for 27 years, you develop
an impressive diagnostic prowess.

751
00:45:24,367 --> 00:45:27,966
I don't doubt that and I don't doubt you.

752
00:45:27,967 --> 00:45:29,406
Oh, yes, you do.

753
00:45:29,407 --> 00:45:32,886
Won't you even let me look
at you, just to be sure?

754
00:45:32,887 --> 00:45:36,646
I have jaundice, nausea, weight loss.

755
00:45:36,647 --> 00:45:40,287
Upper right quadrant pain referring
through to the upper back.

756
00:45:41,767 --> 00:45:45,527
Liver cancer's a sordid business,
I know what I'm in for.

757
00:45:47,167 --> 00:45:50,606
Do you think it's primary or metastatic?

758
00:45:50,607 --> 00:45:54,007
The former. End of story.

759
00:45:56,247 --> 00:46:00,486
I don't know what's worse, hope,
like those little boys had,

760
00:46:00,487 --> 00:46:02,816
or no hope at all.

761
00:46:03,847 --> 00:46:08,409
There's never no hope
atall, Patrick. It's 1962!

762
00:46:23,727 --> 00:46:25,367
Oh, disgusting!

763
00:46:28,767 --> 00:46:30,726
I've just changed Doctor Myra's sheets.

764
00:46:30,727 --> 00:46:33,006
Apart from being helped
to drink a little fluid,

765
00:46:33,007 --> 00:46:35,366
it's the only attention she'll accept.

766
00:46:35,367 --> 00:46:38,486
Put them in the basket over there.

767
00:46:38,487 --> 00:46:40,886
The lady from the village who
helps with the washing went home

768
00:46:40,887 --> 00:46:43,006
sick yesterday and
hasn't been seen since.

769
00:46:43,007 --> 00:46:45,526
Sister Edith says two of the
patients in general ward have

770
00:46:45,527 --> 00:46:47,326
developed vomiting and diarrhoea.

771
00:46:47,327 --> 00:46:50,487
Well, I wish I was surprised.

772
00:46:55,447 --> 00:46:58,246
Excuse me. Is this the Starke farmhouse?

773
00:46:58,247 --> 00:46:59,287
Yes, sir.

774
00:47:02,407 --> 00:47:08,914
Every five years, I have
to mount these all over again.

775
00:47:11,287 --> 00:47:17,486
The glue disintegrates and,
when I open the album,

776
00:47:17,487 --> 00:47:21,646
all the photographs fall
out like a deck of cards.

777
00:47:21,647 --> 00:47:25,206
I'm afraid I've called at an
inconvenient time, Mr Starke.

778
00:47:25,207 --> 00:47:31,966
If you're thinking about running a
water pipeline across my land, from

779
00:47:31,967 --> 00:47:38,527
the spring to that hospital,
there will never be a convenient time.

780
00:47:39,527 --> 00:47:42,286
The new stream isn't on
your land and there is just

781
00:47:42,287 --> 00:47:44,006
no other route to the hospital.

782
00:47:44,007 --> 00:47:45,167
Then work it out.

783
00:47:47,007 --> 00:47:50,047
Find another spring or find another way.

784
00:47:51,167 --> 00:47:54,566
Mr Starke, our tank is almost empty.
There is no other way.

785
00:47:54,567 --> 00:47:56,367
Our water's running out.

786
00:48:01,727 --> 00:48:03,327
[GOATS BLEAT]

787
00:48:07,247 --> 00:48:10,422
Nice goat... nice goat...

788
00:48:17,207 --> 00:48:18,487
[GOAT BLEAT]

789
00:48:24,967 --> 00:48:26,487
You're connected.

790
00:48:27,300 --> 00:48:29,166
Hello?

791
00:48:29,167 --> 00:48:31,566
This is Nonnatus House.

792
00:48:31,567 --> 00:48:33,086
'Sister Monica Joan?'

793
00:48:33,087 --> 00:48:36,926
It's Shelagh. I'm calling
from South Africa.

794
00:48:36,927 --> 00:48:40,766
"I left a key at Nonnatus
House before we came away,

795
00:48:40,767 --> 00:48:44,126
so someone could go to our
flat and water the plants."

796
00:48:44,127 --> 00:48:46,926
The parlour palm thrives.

797
00:48:46,927 --> 00:48:52,286
Honesty dictates a poor
report on the begonias.

798
00:48:52,287 --> 00:48:55,006
I'm not worried about the begonias.

799
00:48:55,007 --> 00:48:56,686
I need your help.

800
00:48:56,687 --> 00:49:00,526
Could someone go to the flat and
look in one of the cupboards for me?

801
00:49:00,527 --> 00:49:02,647
[MUSIC: Rubber Ball by Bobby Vee]

802
00:49:06,167 --> 00:49:07,886
♪ Bouncy bouncy ♪

803
00:49:07,887 --> 00:49:09,766
♪ Bouncy bouncy ♪

804
00:49:09,767 --> 00:49:11,286
♪ Bouncy bouncy ♪

805
00:49:11,287 --> 00:49:14,967
♪ Ee-ee-ee... ♪

806
00:49:15,705 --> 00:49:19,502
Yonke into ihamba kakuhle. Perfect.

807
00:49:20,327 --> 00:49:24,166
With your increasing command of
Xhosa and my unerring ability

808
00:49:24,167 --> 00:49:27,046
to draw a crowd through the
deployment of popular music,

809
00:49:27,047 --> 00:49:29,547
we're becoming an indispensable double act.

810
00:49:30,407 --> 00:49:32,806
- Please! Please come very fast.
- Is somebody ill?

811
00:49:32,807 --> 00:49:34,606
Yes, my daughter's baby's coming.

812
00:49:34,607 --> 00:49:36,726
It's been three days since she had pains.

813
00:49:36,727 --> 00:49:38,767
- Three days?
- Yes, please come, please.

814
00:49:40,807 --> 00:49:43,806
Sibiza izinyanya zakwa uMthimkulu,
uMthimkulu kwakona, umPafane,

815
00:49:43,807 --> 00:49:45,927
uGabatha, nezinyanya zakwa Gadebe...

816
00:49:46,792 --> 00:49:48,751
Has your daughter seen the doctor?

817
00:49:48,776 --> 00:49:52,424
No, not for the labour,
only for the bad cut in her head.

818
00:49:57,087 --> 00:49:59,527
Midwives calling.

819
00:50:01,647 --> 00:50:04,487
Hello, Roza. Remember me?

820
00:50:06,584 --> 00:50:09,583
I want to do this the old way,

821
00:50:09,608 --> 00:50:10,807
in my home.

822
00:50:10,832 --> 00:50:13,526
There's no reason to suppose you can't.

823
00:50:13,527 --> 00:50:16,287
Let's see if we can get you
onto the bed, sweetie.

824
00:50:21,487 --> 00:50:26,006
I'm tired of waiting and
sick with bearing down.

825
00:50:26,007 --> 00:50:27,926
First, we'll take a look at you

826
00:50:27,927 --> 00:50:30,207
and then we'll get you
a cup of sweet tea.

827
00:50:40,167 --> 00:50:42,047
And how often are the pains?

828
00:50:43,087 --> 00:50:46,327
Yesterday, four or five times an hour.

829
00:50:47,367 --> 00:50:49,687
And now, just two or three.

830
00:50:53,887 --> 00:50:56,686
You'll be able to have that
cup of tea in a minute.

831
00:50:56,687 --> 00:51:00,206
I just want to give you an
internal examination, Roza.

832
00:51:00,207 --> 00:51:01,886
I know you won't have had one before,

833
00:51:01,887 --> 00:51:04,006
but it shouldn't be too un-comfy.

834
00:51:04,007 --> 00:51:07,167
Heels up to your bottom and
knees nice and wide apart.

835
00:51:08,927 --> 00:51:10,287
That's it.

836
00:51:23,207 --> 00:51:24,687
[SHE GROANS]

837
00:51:26,447 --> 00:51:27,847
Is that a pain?

838
00:51:31,407 --> 00:51:33,047
It's all right, sweetie.

839
00:51:37,727 --> 00:51:39,927
I'm just popping outside for a moment.

840
00:51:54,647 --> 00:51:55,727
Here.

841
00:52:00,727 --> 00:52:03,086
There's no heartbeat, is there?

842
00:52:03,087 --> 00:52:06,246
It's worse than that, Barbara.

843
00:52:06,247 --> 00:52:07,526
There's no baby.

844
00:52:07,527 --> 00:52:09,367
What?

845
00:52:10,607 --> 00:52:14,966
The cervix is hard,
the uterus isn't palpable

846
00:52:14,967 --> 00:52:17,607
and, despite her waves of pain,
she isn't even contracting.

847
00:52:18,767 --> 00:52:20,407
Do you think it's a phantom pregnancy?

848
00:52:22,087 --> 00:52:23,407
I know it is.

849
00:52:24,407 --> 00:52:28,886
I've only seen one once before,
years ago, but you don't forget it.

850
00:52:28,887 --> 00:52:30,286
Trixie.

851
00:52:30,287 --> 00:52:32,367
Don't you see why this has happened?

852
00:52:33,487 --> 00:52:37,646
It's because she's been forced into
a wretched, filthy, narrow life,

853
00:52:37,647 --> 00:52:41,607
where her only worth comes from
what she can grow in her womb.

854
00:52:43,047 --> 00:52:46,726
She wanted that baby so badly
that her body started lying to her

855
00:52:46,727 --> 00:52:48,727
and she believed it.

856
00:52:50,487 --> 00:52:53,447
The baby may be imaginary
but her pains are real.

857
00:52:56,047 --> 00:52:58,566
And now she has to be told the truth.

858
00:52:58,567 --> 00:52:59,687
I know.

859
00:53:02,927 --> 00:53:04,007
I'll do it.

860
00:53:06,327 --> 00:53:07,686
[ROZA SOBS]

861
00:53:07,687 --> 00:53:11,286
I'm sorry, Roza. I'm so sorry.

862
00:53:11,287 --> 00:53:13,286
Words aren't enough,

863
00:53:13,287 --> 00:53:14,806
I know they aren't enough,

864
00:53:14,807 --> 00:53:18,567
but they're all I have, and I can't
just sit here and offer you nothing.

865
00:53:22,607 --> 00:53:24,927
You speak of "nothing".

866
00:53:26,727 --> 00:53:29,007
I am nothing.

867
00:53:30,487 --> 00:53:35,326
I am hollow because I am empty!

868
00:53:35,327 --> 00:53:40,046
You are not empty, Roza.
You are full of love,

869
00:53:40,047 --> 00:53:43,846
for the man you never see,
for the mother you try to please,

870
00:53:43,847 --> 00:53:48,366
for the child some idiot law
of biology won't allow you to

871
00:53:48,367 --> 00:53:54,367
conceive, that your soul spilled
over and your body told you lies.

872
00:53:56,767 --> 00:54:04,767
Biology might be the idiot,
but I, I am the fool.

873
00:54:06,047 --> 00:54:08,566
No. No, Roza.

874
00:54:08,567 --> 00:54:11,407
It takes a lot of wisdom to
love as much as you do...

875
00:54:12,145 --> 00:54:16,324
..and that's why I know
you'll find a reason to go on.

876
00:54:17,833 --> 00:54:19,863
It just won't be today.

877
00:54:41,927 --> 00:54:45,166
Would anyone like to try
some of this local sausage?

878
00:54:45,167 --> 00:54:48,766
It smells quite spicy, but the
kitchen ladies were so kind

879
00:54:48,767 --> 00:54:50,606
and I don't want to hurt their feelings.

880
00:54:50,607 --> 00:54:52,526
Hand it over. It'll fill a hole.

881
00:54:52,527 --> 00:54:54,966
I might walk back up that lane,
to that little shop we saw,

882
00:54:54,967 --> 00:54:56,806
see if I can buy us all an ice cream.

883
00:54:56,807 --> 00:54:58,486
Whoo!

884
00:54:58,487 --> 00:55:00,446
We are on holiday, after all.

885
00:55:00,447 --> 00:55:02,566
Well, we're on holiday
for an hour or two.

886
00:55:02,567 --> 00:55:05,126
We're here to do mission work, Tom,

887
00:55:05,127 --> 00:55:08,886
and I'm not sure it's possible,
or right, to take a holiday from that.

888
00:55:08,887 --> 00:55:11,923
Barbara, the work here is hard
cos our patients' lives are hard.

889
00:55:11,948 --> 00:55:15,446
We'll all do it better if we can just put
it out of our minds for a little while!

890
00:55:15,447 --> 00:55:19,206
We can put it out of our
minds for good when we go home

891
00:55:19,207 --> 00:55:20,766
and we may well want to,

892
00:55:20,767 --> 00:55:24,486
because I'm not sure we'll leave
anything worth remembering behind

893
00:55:24,487 --> 00:55:27,886
or take anything away beyond
insect bites and a few photos.

894
00:55:27,887 --> 00:55:29,126
Listen, lass.

895
00:55:29,127 --> 00:55:30,686
If that clinic closes,

896
00:55:30,687 --> 00:55:33,406
it won't be for the want of
us putting the effort in -

897
00:55:33,407 --> 00:55:35,646
it'll because there's no running water

898
00:55:35,647 --> 00:55:37,927
and no doctor left at the helm.

899
00:55:39,407 --> 00:55:43,966
I'm working on that,
but it isn't looking hopeful.

900
00:55:43,967 --> 00:55:47,007
I want to believe that Doctor
Myra's diagnosis is wrong.

901
00:55:52,047 --> 00:55:55,606
I've learned a great deal over
the past couple of years, Tom,

902
00:55:55,607 --> 00:55:57,527
mostly by going to my AA meetings.

903
00:55:58,527 --> 00:56:01,407
One was never to judge
a book by its cover.

904
00:56:03,087 --> 00:56:06,446
Barbara seemed so squeaky
clean when she first arrived.

905
00:56:06,447 --> 00:56:09,846
She still does, if you just
look at her on the surface.

906
00:56:09,847 --> 00:56:12,846
I don't just look at her on the surface.

907
00:56:12,847 --> 00:56:13,927
I know.

908
00:56:15,067 --> 00:56:17,987
Perhaps we should all be
as wise as you or Barbara.

909
00:56:20,647 --> 00:56:22,686
She is wise, isn't she?

910
00:56:22,687 --> 00:56:26,156
She's angry and she's
not afraid to say so.

911
00:56:27,389 --> 00:56:31,297
In fact, Barbara's afraid of
much less than you'd think.

912
00:56:32,487 --> 00:56:35,526
But you don't expect it from her,
so you just don't see it.

913
00:56:35,527 --> 00:56:37,286
I see it.

914
00:56:37,287 --> 00:56:40,006
And that's why Barbara's
the person you should spend

915
00:56:40,007 --> 00:56:41,646
your whole life with.

916
00:56:41,647 --> 00:56:44,447
She's funny, she's
strong and she's clever.

917
00:56:45,607 --> 00:56:49,247
We simply have to overlook her
incompetence at racquet sports.

918
00:56:52,407 --> 00:56:54,086
"Whole life", Trixie?

919
00:56:54,087 --> 00:56:57,927
I've known it for a long time,
possibly longer than you.

920
00:57:00,127 --> 00:57:02,566
But promise me one thing.

921
00:57:02,567 --> 00:57:05,966
If you propose to her, or even when,

922
00:57:05,967 --> 00:57:09,566
don't give her that ring
that you once gave me.

923
00:57:09,567 --> 00:57:12,446
That ring was your
granny's before it was mine

924
00:57:12,447 --> 00:57:16,470
and Barbara's had so many
second-hand things over the years...

925
00:57:17,087 --> 00:57:21,079
..that atrocious swimsuit being merely
the tip of a very dismal iceberg.

926
00:57:22,207 --> 00:57:25,126
I think she looks lovely in it.

927
00:57:25,127 --> 00:57:29,726
Be that as it may,
no hand-me-down rings, Tom.

928
00:57:29,727 --> 00:57:33,287
Get her something brand-new -
she deserves it.

929
00:57:44,207 --> 00:57:45,686
Hello, you.

930
00:57:45,687 --> 00:57:49,126
Hello, you. I'm sorry I lost my temper.

931
00:57:49,127 --> 00:57:52,206
I'm sorry you felt the only way to
make your voice heard was to shout.

932
00:57:52,207 --> 00:57:53,886
Did I shout?

933
00:57:53,887 --> 00:57:55,887
- Not really.
- Oh.

934
00:57:57,767 --> 00:58:01,766
I was too easily defeated
by the landowner,

935
00:58:01,767 --> 00:58:04,126
too dependent on him
giving his permission.

936
00:58:04,127 --> 00:58:07,606
I'm going to strip out, repair,
and move the whole pipeline,

937
00:58:07,607 --> 00:58:09,246
round Starke's land if I have to.

938
00:58:09,247 --> 00:58:13,046
In the meantime, we can fetch water
from the new spring in barrels.

939
00:58:13,047 --> 00:58:16,356
If the old spring's drying up,
we're going to have to do that anyway.

940
00:58:16,381 --> 00:58:19,101
We're going to have to
see what faith can do.

941
00:58:22,647 --> 00:58:26,606
Sister Edith has gone down
with vomiting and diarrhoea.

942
00:58:26,607 --> 00:58:27,647
Her, too?

943
00:58:28,647 --> 00:58:31,126
And I've quarantined Sister Gertrude,

944
00:58:31,127 --> 00:58:34,566
so that she's only working
on the affected ward.

945
00:58:34,567 --> 00:58:37,766
I'd say it's going to be
all hands to the pump,

946
00:58:37,767 --> 00:58:42,006
but under the circumstances
that's just a really tactless pun.

947
00:58:42,007 --> 00:58:45,686
We'll have to ration the amount
of water that's used on laundry

948
00:58:45,687 --> 00:58:49,406
and, with enteric fever going round,
that's going to be difficult.

949
00:58:49,407 --> 00:58:53,446
The best thing we could leave
behind is something that goes on

950
00:58:53,447 --> 00:58:55,526
working after we're gone

951
00:58:55,527 --> 00:58:59,784
and that means Hope Clinic,
which means Doctor Myra.

952
00:59:00,847 --> 00:59:03,246
I might have found a different diagnosis.

953
00:59:03,247 --> 00:59:06,166
If I'm right, she's in with a chance.

954
00:59:06,167 --> 00:59:07,286
A good chance?

955
00:59:07,287 --> 00:59:08,607
A slim one.

956
00:59:09,807 --> 00:59:13,487
But if she won't let me near her,
it means no chance at all.

957
00:59:25,087 --> 00:59:28,047
Oh, I've witnessed
several phantom pregnancies.

958
00:59:30,007 --> 00:59:34,126
The women become deranged by
the simple yearning to conceive

959
00:59:34,127 --> 00:59:35,926
and bear a child.

960
00:59:35,927 --> 00:59:37,447
I knew that yearning once.

961
00:59:38,647 --> 00:59:42,166
I was lucky because it left me
when we adopted our daughter.

962
00:59:42,167 --> 00:59:46,726
But more than once, I clung to
the slightest signs and convinced

963
00:59:46,727 --> 00:59:48,647
myself I was carrying a child.

964
00:59:52,167 --> 00:59:54,846
Our bodies aren't very reliable witnesses,

965
00:59:54,847 --> 00:59:56,966
even when we're in the medical profession.

966
00:59:56,967 --> 00:59:59,686
I'm not imagining I have liver cancer.

967
00:59:59,687 --> 01:00:03,567
You're not imagining you have
liver disease - that's different.

968
01:00:04,887 --> 01:00:06,326
Why?

969
01:00:06,327 --> 01:00:08,526
Because some liver diseases are curable -

970
01:00:08,527 --> 01:00:11,367
if you would just let
Dr Turner examine you.

971
01:00:12,527 --> 01:00:14,806
You think I'm arrogant, don't you?

972
01:00:14,807 --> 01:00:17,927
No. But I think you're scared.

973
01:00:19,807 --> 01:00:25,006
And you've been so brave for so
long, and so alone for so long,

974
01:00:25,007 --> 01:00:28,367
that it's going to take a
lot of courage to admit that.

975
01:00:36,607 --> 01:00:40,046
Right, we'll be starting by
dismantling the current water pipe

976
01:00:40,047 --> 01:00:42,926
and clearing the tubes of any clay residue,

977
01:00:42,927 --> 01:00:45,326
then we'll relay the pipes
all the way from the new,

978
01:00:45,327 --> 01:00:47,886
clean spring to the Hope Clinic.

979
01:00:47,887 --> 01:00:50,646
Everyone working
will be paid a daily wage.

980
01:00:50,647 --> 01:00:54,846
If you have any difficulties,
you're to come to me, Mr Buckle,

981
01:00:54,847 --> 01:00:57,646
or Mr Muzungulu,
who's been appointed foreman.

982
01:00:57,647 --> 01:00:59,367
Right!

983
01:01:00,474 --> 01:01:04,606
If you're feeling unwell, or if
your cough plays up, you let me know.

984
01:01:04,607 --> 01:01:06,527
[MUSIC: Pata Pata by Miriam Makeba]

985
01:01:15,087 --> 01:01:16,527
And out.

986
01:01:17,553 --> 01:01:18,833
[SHE GASPS]

987
01:01:30,007 --> 01:01:32,446
I don't think it's a tumour.

988
01:01:32,447 --> 01:01:35,413
I think it's a hepatic abscess,

989
01:01:35,438 --> 01:01:37,583
but it's sizeable.

990
01:01:38,487 --> 01:01:41,566
We need to get you to the general
hospital in Port Elizabeth.

991
01:01:41,567 --> 01:01:47,046
No. Not three hours
in an un-sprung truck.

992
01:01:47,047 --> 01:01:49,526
If it bursts, I won't survive the journey.

993
01:01:49,527 --> 01:01:52,446
I may be stubborn, but I'm not a fool.

994
01:01:52,447 --> 01:01:54,486
And you're a doctor,

995
01:01:54,487 --> 01:01:57,606
which means I'm listening
to what you have to say.

996
01:01:57,607 --> 01:01:59,207
Likewise.

997
01:02:00,887 --> 01:02:03,846
Medicine is never about doing what's easy -

998
01:02:03,847 --> 01:02:06,007
it's about doing what's essential.

999
01:02:07,407 --> 01:02:09,526
So what do we do next?

1000
01:02:09,527 --> 01:02:14,246
With your permission, I'll drain
the abscess and give you emetine

1001
01:02:14,247 --> 01:02:15,767
to tackle the infection.

1002
01:02:17,127 --> 01:02:18,326
Very well.

1003
01:02:18,327 --> 01:02:21,326
A bit of local anaesthetic,
it'll be drained before you know it.

1004
01:02:21,327 --> 01:02:24,046
No. No anaesthetic.

1005
01:02:24,047 --> 01:02:26,086
We've only got what you brought

1006
01:02:26,087 --> 01:02:29,166
and I'm saving that
for my Caesarean ladies.

1007
01:02:29,167 --> 01:02:32,087
Those are my terms, Doctor.

1008
01:02:33,207 --> 01:02:34,766
Patients first

1009
01:02:34,767 --> 01:02:37,967
and, in this case,
I mean mine, not yours.

1010
01:02:49,247 --> 01:02:51,246
May the Lord bless you and keep you.

1011
01:02:51,247 --> 01:02:54,406
I appreciate the sentiment.

1012
01:02:54,407 --> 01:02:57,567
Now, back to bed, all of you.

1013
01:02:58,855 --> 01:03:00,918
Can't keep my doctor waiting.

1014
01:03:24,167 --> 01:03:25,487
Aspirating.

1015
01:03:33,167 --> 01:03:34,207
Dish.

1016
01:04:15,567 --> 01:04:17,806
How much water do we have left?

1017
01:04:17,807 --> 01:04:19,966
If you really want to be a good patient,

1018
01:04:19,967 --> 01:04:21,687
you'll leave all of that to us.

1019
01:04:22,887 --> 01:04:26,686
Do you know why Mr Starke won't
let the pipe pass over his land?

1020
01:04:26,687 --> 01:04:29,007
I assumed it was... because...

1021
01:04:30,007 --> 01:04:31,566
Because he hates blacks?

1022
01:04:31,567 --> 01:04:35,487
- Yes.
- No. It's because he loved his wife.

1023
01:04:37,287 --> 01:04:39,366
She was younger than him

1024
01:04:39,367 --> 01:04:43,247
and you never saw a girl look
so pretty on her pedestal.

1025
01:04:44,367 --> 01:04:48,086
And when their first-born came along,
she went into labour early

1026
01:04:48,087 --> 01:04:51,846
and they had no time for a
transfer to a private nursing home,

1027
01:04:51,847 --> 01:04:53,246
so they sent for me.

1028
01:04:53,247 --> 01:04:58,967
I delivered her of a four-pound
boy that lived for six days.

1029
01:05:00,527 --> 01:05:04,967
She was too ill to realise what she'd lost,
but Mr Starke wasn't.

1030
01:05:06,247 --> 01:05:10,726
And she survived only 24 hours
more - puerperal fever.

1031
01:05:10,727 --> 01:05:15,566
Has Mr Starke held a grudge
against Hope Clinic all this time?

1032
01:05:15,567 --> 01:05:17,126
In his eyes, I...

1033
01:05:17,127 --> 01:05:22,327
I transmitted the disease
from my patients to his wife.

1034
01:05:23,407 --> 01:05:26,966
When people have no love to live for,

1035
01:05:26,967 --> 01:05:32,687
it's so very easy to
fill that void with hate.

1036
01:05:34,647 --> 01:05:36,007
Yes.

1037
01:05:44,487 --> 01:05:46,887
Water is now officially on the ration.

1038
01:05:47,967 --> 01:05:51,726
No more washing, it's for
consumption and sterilisation only.

1039
01:05:51,727 --> 01:05:53,166
All right.

1040
01:05:53,167 --> 01:05:54,737
[HE SIGHS]

1041
01:05:55,687 --> 01:05:59,326
Is that the aspirate from
Doctor Myra's abscess?

1042
01:05:59,327 --> 01:06:00,966
It's definitely amoebic

1043
01:06:00,967 --> 01:06:04,726
and that means the drugs
we're using should be working,

1044
01:06:04,727 --> 01:06:06,406
but she's getting worse.

1045
01:06:06,407 --> 01:06:09,646
Could you be bold and try
a different treatment?

1046
01:06:09,647 --> 01:06:13,406
I'm not sure there is one
and I've been bold already.

1047
01:06:13,407 --> 01:06:17,646
I stuck my neck out draining the
abscess and look where we ended up.

1048
01:06:17,647 --> 01:06:21,166
We haven't ended up anywhere yet, Patrick.

1049
01:06:21,167 --> 01:06:23,286
There's a time and a place for caution,

1050
01:06:23,287 --> 01:06:24,847
but not here and not now.

1051
01:06:25,927 --> 01:06:27,766
And I'm not going to say anything else,

1052
01:06:27,767 --> 01:06:30,126
because I'm afraid I might speak sharply

1053
01:06:30,127 --> 01:06:33,012
and, no matter how high the stakes,
you don't deserve that.

1054
01:06:37,167 --> 01:06:38,486
Good morning, ladies.

1055
01:06:38,487 --> 01:06:39,886
Good morning!

1056
01:06:39,887 --> 01:06:43,167
And the Hotel Hope Clinic is
once again open for business.

1057
01:06:45,687 --> 01:06:47,327
All right, Constance?

1058
01:06:49,447 --> 01:06:53,846
I think maybe yes... maybe no?

1059
01:06:53,847 --> 01:06:56,127
Today I think something might happen.

1060
01:06:57,287 --> 01:06:59,967
Well, if it does,
you're in the right place.

1061
01:07:07,927 --> 01:07:10,206
Sustenance for the workers,

1062
01:07:10,207 --> 01:07:12,766
after which we're collecting
water from the stream to take back

1063
01:07:12,767 --> 01:07:14,126
to the hospital.

1064
01:07:14,127 --> 01:07:15,886
Why didn't you bring the truck?

1065
01:07:15,887 --> 01:07:17,926
Nurse Crane said we shouldn't waste fuel.

1066
01:07:17,927 --> 01:07:19,286
We won't have to do it for long,

1067
01:07:19,287 --> 01:07:21,127
just until the new pipeline's connected.

1068
01:07:28,361 --> 01:07:31,326
That's it, Constance, that's it.

1069
01:07:31,327 --> 01:07:33,966
How much longer? One hour?

1070
01:07:33,967 --> 01:07:35,206
Or two?

1071
01:07:35,207 --> 01:07:36,486
A few.

1072
01:07:36,487 --> 01:07:39,767
Come on. Think how long
you've waited for this baby.

1073
01:07:43,927 --> 01:07:45,367
Oh, no.

1074
01:07:51,127 --> 01:07:52,327
Excuse me!

1075
01:07:54,767 --> 01:07:56,286
You were right, Shelagh.

1076
01:07:56,287 --> 01:07:58,566
If we act now, there's
one last thing that we can try.

1077
01:07:58,567 --> 01:08:00,007
Oh, Patrick, I hope so.

1078
01:08:02,207 --> 01:08:03,647
She's coming round.

1079
01:08:04,847 --> 01:08:07,406
It's all right, Myra.
We're going to help you.

1080
01:08:07,407 --> 01:08:08,766
I promise.

1081
01:08:08,767 --> 01:08:10,366
I came as quickly as I could.

1082
01:08:10,367 --> 01:08:13,366
We need to get her to a hospital,
preferably in Port Elizabeth,

1083
01:08:13,367 --> 01:08:17,246
and persuade them to give her
a drug called metronidazole.

1084
01:08:17,271 --> 01:08:19,772
It's new. It's still experimental,

1085
01:08:19,797 --> 01:08:22,877
but I've read reports on
it and I'm prepared to beg.

1086
01:08:33,207 --> 01:08:35,006
She deserves better than this.

1087
01:08:35,007 --> 01:08:38,574
Don't worry. She'll get the
very best that we can give her.

1088
01:09:08,946 --> 01:09:11,169
Not long now, Constance.

1089
01:09:16,567 --> 01:09:18,846
Mr Hereward?

1090
01:09:18,847 --> 01:09:21,766
The situation at the clinic
is becoming desperate.

1091
01:09:21,767 --> 01:09:23,886
We're working as fast as we can, Sister.

1092
01:09:23,887 --> 01:09:27,086
When will the pipeline
be connected to the tank?

1093
01:09:27,087 --> 01:09:28,886
It could take as long as two months.

1094
01:09:28,887 --> 01:09:33,486
Two months? We've barely
enough water for two days.

1095
01:09:33,487 --> 01:09:37,086
Without Mr Starke's permission
to put the pipe across his land,

1096
01:09:37,087 --> 01:09:40,806
we have to lay it around his
boundary - which runs for miles.

1097
01:09:40,807 --> 01:09:43,126
And he won't give you that permission?

1098
01:09:43,127 --> 01:09:45,648
No. He just refuses.

1099
01:10:00,087 --> 01:10:01,806
Well done, Constance.

1100
01:10:01,807 --> 01:10:04,646
Now let's see if we can get
you a bit more comfortable.

1101
01:10:04,647 --> 01:10:06,166
How are we getting on?

1102
01:10:06,167 --> 01:10:08,046
She's still not fully dilated.

1103
01:10:08,047 --> 01:10:10,566
The cervix is oedematous
and the head's very high.

1104
01:10:10,567 --> 01:10:11,886
Narrow pelvis?

1105
01:10:11,887 --> 01:10:15,269
Very. And she's lost two babies before.

1106
01:10:15,294 --> 01:10:16,974
[SHE MOANS]

1107
01:10:19,487 --> 01:10:22,367
It's all right, sweetie. It's all right.

1108
01:10:26,887 --> 01:10:28,767
I will fetch Mr Starke.

1109
01:10:49,447 --> 01:10:50,567
Oh...

1110
01:10:52,087 --> 01:10:54,646
Thought you were Mother Felicity.

1111
01:10:54,647 --> 01:10:58,686
If you had been,
would've thrown you straight out.

1112
01:10:58,687 --> 01:11:02,126
Mother Felicity has died,
Mr Starke, of dysentery.

1113
01:11:02,127 --> 01:11:05,807
- She lived to a considerable age, but...
- Lucky her.

1114
01:11:09,127 --> 01:11:13,486
I have spoken with Dr Myra and I
do understand why your feelings

1115
01:11:13,487 --> 01:11:17,406
towards Hope Clinic are...
less than warm.

1116
01:11:17,407 --> 01:11:21,578
Good. Then leave my
house and leave me alone.

1117
01:11:24,567 --> 01:11:27,566
I have generally been quite
a fortunate woman, Mr Starke.

1118
01:11:27,567 --> 01:11:31,006
I've experienced little
in the way of loss,

1119
01:11:31,007 --> 01:11:33,166
but I know what it is to have nothing but

1120
01:11:33,167 --> 01:11:35,967
a photograph or two
to look at and to love.

1121
01:11:38,367 --> 01:11:39,767
They fade...

1122
01:11:41,007 --> 01:11:43,286
...people don't tell you that.

1123
01:11:43,287 --> 01:11:47,127
The photographs fade and
the glue disintegrates.

1124
01:11:49,207 --> 01:11:54,647
Now, I never took any photographs
of Celeste in her last days...

1125
01:11:55,927 --> 01:12:00,686
..because her face was so
swollen and discoloured.

1126
01:12:00,687 --> 01:12:02,686
I can imagine.

1127
01:12:02,687 --> 01:12:07,287
And I never took any
photographs of the child at all.

1128
01:12:10,207 --> 01:12:12,407
I can't answer for what happened then.

1129
01:12:13,807 --> 01:12:15,926
But will you let me say I am sorry?

1130
01:12:15,927 --> 01:12:18,927
Why? Why should you feel guilt? Hmm?

1131
01:12:20,087 --> 01:12:24,087
I don't, but I feel so much sorrow.

1132
01:12:25,287 --> 01:12:29,086
I feel it every time a child is lost,
every time a mother is lost.

1133
01:12:29,087 --> 01:12:31,886
I feel it every time
I see somebody weeping,

1134
01:12:31,887 --> 01:12:34,446
even if they don't allow the tears to fall.

1135
01:12:40,927 --> 01:12:46,726
♪ Each night before you
go to bed, my baby ♪

1136
01:12:46,727 --> 01:12:49,486
♪ Spare a little... ♪

1137
01:12:49,487 --> 01:12:52,526
ROZA JOINS IN:
♪ ...prayer for me, my baby... ♪

1138
01:12:52,527 --> 01:12:57,607
♪ And tell all the stars above ♪

1139
01:12:59,327 --> 01:13:03,207
♪ This is dedicated
to the one I love... ♪

1140
01:13:05,527 --> 01:13:08,086
I think now we should send for a doctor.

1141
01:13:08,087 --> 01:13:11,486
She doesn't need a doctor,
does she, Nurse Franklin?

1142
01:13:11,487 --> 01:13:13,706
Of course not. She's got us.

1143
01:13:14,102 --> 01:13:15,462
[ROZA GROANS]

1144
01:13:15,487 --> 01:13:16,607
That's it.

1145
01:13:17,687 --> 01:13:19,166
Mr Starke,

1146
01:13:19,167 --> 01:13:22,006
if your wife did die because
of bacterial infection,

1147
01:13:22,007 --> 01:13:24,486
you could help prevent that
happening to any other mother.

1148
01:13:24,487 --> 01:13:28,166
All you have to do is to
stop blaming Doctor Myra

1149
01:13:28,167 --> 01:13:32,006
and her black patients for the
death of your wife and baby.

1150
01:13:32,007 --> 01:13:35,846
You ask a great deal of
a man who has nothing.

1151
01:13:35,847 --> 01:13:39,126
You have land, Mr Starke,
land that could be traversed with

1152
01:13:39,127 --> 01:13:42,606
a water pipeline in a
matter of just a few days.

1153
01:13:42,607 --> 01:13:46,206
Believe me, a clean water
supply to the hospital would be

1154
01:13:46,207 --> 01:13:50,166
a better memorial to your
wife than any photograph,

1155
01:13:50,167 --> 01:13:52,766
even if the smiling faces are not her face

1156
01:13:52,767 --> 01:13:56,087
and the children saved are not your child.

1157
01:14:06,567 --> 01:14:09,246
I have asked a great deal,
Mr Starke, I know.

1158
01:14:09,247 --> 01:14:11,926
But I will not ask your
permission to pray for you,

1159
01:14:11,927 --> 01:14:13,606
I will do that anyway,

1160
01:14:13,607 --> 01:14:18,327
because I cannot bear the thought
of leaving you alone in such pain.

1161
01:14:28,337 --> 01:14:30,447
[SHE GROANS]

1162
01:14:32,672 --> 01:14:34,229
[GROANS CONTINUE]

1163
01:14:37,887 --> 01:14:39,806
She's making no progress.

1164
01:14:39,807 --> 01:14:40,966
She can't pass urine

1165
01:14:40,967 --> 01:14:43,887
and there's a ridge in the muscle
in the lower part of the uterus.

1166
01:14:45,007 --> 01:14:46,807
Would you examine her, Sister?

1167
01:14:50,247 --> 01:14:51,367
This?

1168
01:15:00,247 --> 01:15:01,526
You're right, Nurse Franklin.

1169
01:15:01,527 --> 01:15:04,287
If we don't intervene,
the uterus will rupture.

1170
01:15:06,127 --> 01:15:07,927
The heartbeat's still slow.

1171
01:15:20,767 --> 01:15:21,807
Sister?

1172
01:15:23,127 --> 01:15:25,206
Constance needs a Caesarean section -

1173
01:15:25,207 --> 01:15:28,006
without one, neither she nor
the child can survive -

1174
01:15:28,007 --> 01:15:31,046
and there's no-one here
that can do that for her.

1175
01:15:31,047 --> 01:15:34,566
Then we have no choice -
we have to operate ourselves.

1176
01:15:34,567 --> 01:15:38,126
We're midwives, Nurse Franklin.

1177
01:15:38,127 --> 01:15:42,447
I don't normally wish we were
doctors, too, but I do today.

1178
01:15:44,127 --> 01:15:48,846
Sister, I've seen so many
Caesareans at close quarters,

1179
01:15:48,847 --> 01:15:51,006
I've even assisted in stitching.

1180
01:15:51,007 --> 01:15:53,086
We have the instruments we need,

1181
01:15:53,087 --> 01:15:55,967
we're skilled enough
and desperate enough.

1182
01:15:57,287 --> 01:15:59,446
Please don't plead with me.

1183
01:15:59,447 --> 01:16:03,686
I'm not pleading. I'm saying
again that we have no choice

1184
01:16:03,687 --> 01:16:06,326
and I want that to be a powerful thing,

1185
01:16:06,327 --> 01:16:08,966
a thing that makes survival possible.

1186
01:16:08,967 --> 01:16:12,126
Not a miserable,
grinding version of "no choice",

1187
01:16:12,127 --> 01:16:15,326
which means we'll have two bodies to
bury in one coffin in the morning!

1188
01:16:15,327 --> 01:16:18,326
That may be the situation
anyway, Nurse Franklin,

1189
01:16:18,327 --> 01:16:21,007
even if we do as you suggest.

1190
01:16:22,367 --> 01:16:24,327
But at least we will have tried.

1191
01:16:31,007 --> 01:16:32,926
Trixie's already scrubbing up.

1192
01:16:32,927 --> 01:16:35,566
Nurse Crane sent me to collect
the instruments and the drugs.

1193
01:16:35,567 --> 01:16:39,046
It's all in hand, including a strong
sedative and plenty of lignocaine.

1194
01:16:39,047 --> 01:16:42,166
Sister Gertrude says Nurse Franklin
will need to inject it into

1195
01:16:42,167 --> 01:16:44,046
each layer of muscle as she proceeds.

1196
01:16:44,047 --> 01:16:45,647
Are the instruments ready?

1197
01:16:47,007 --> 01:16:50,127
Erm, they need another 50 seconds.

1198
01:17:04,007 --> 01:17:05,487
[ROZA'S GROANS CONTINUE]

1199
01:17:11,927 --> 01:17:13,686
Extra Tilley lamp.

1200
01:17:13,687 --> 01:17:15,486
Thank you, Fred.

1201
01:17:15,487 --> 01:17:17,126
Can I do anything else?

1202
01:17:17,127 --> 01:17:18,447
Not this time.

1203
01:17:38,487 --> 01:17:40,087
Has the anaesthesia taken?

1204
01:17:43,487 --> 01:17:44,767
Scalpel.

1205
01:17:54,247 --> 01:17:56,127
That's it, Constance, that's it.

1206
01:18:13,167 --> 01:18:14,567
She needs more gas.

1207
01:18:20,447 --> 01:18:22,127
Uterus exposed.

1208
01:18:43,887 --> 01:18:45,806
I'm going to pull the baby out now.

1209
01:18:45,807 --> 01:18:47,607
Ready to receive.

1210
01:18:53,647 --> 01:18:55,407
It's stuck, I can't move it.

1211
01:18:57,607 --> 01:19:01,246
I need... I need someone to put
their hand into the birth canal

1212
01:19:01,247 --> 01:19:03,247
and push the baby back upwards.

1213
01:19:04,887 --> 01:19:06,807
Barbara, will you do it?

1214
01:19:08,407 --> 01:19:09,767
Yes.

1215
01:19:18,127 --> 01:19:19,567
Applying pressure.

1216
01:19:26,487 --> 01:19:27,567
Barbara!

1217
01:19:30,687 --> 01:19:32,167
Again, Barbara!

1218
01:19:44,567 --> 01:19:46,886
[BABY CRIES]

1219
01:19:46,887 --> 01:19:49,887
Come on, come on, open your eyes, Mummy!

1220
01:20:21,247 --> 01:20:26,367
Well done, Trixie.
I couldn't be more proud of you.

1221
01:20:27,647 --> 01:20:29,366
Well done.

1222
01:20:29,367 --> 01:20:31,127
Well done.

1223
01:20:33,887 --> 01:20:36,966
I can't really think of
anything else to say,

1224
01:20:36,967 --> 01:20:39,286
except I'm so glad you taught me to smoke

1225
01:20:39,287 --> 01:20:42,686
because right now there's nothing
I want more than a cigarette.

1226
01:20:42,687 --> 01:20:44,983
[THEY BOTH CHUCKLE]

1227
01:21:14,247 --> 01:21:16,966
I've come to speak to you, Sister.

1228
01:21:16,967 --> 01:21:19,726
I'm afraid I can't oblige
you now, Mr Starke.

1229
01:21:19,727 --> 01:21:23,847
This baby's mother required surgery
and I need to get back to her.

1230
01:21:24,847 --> 01:21:27,926
Don't you bath a baby
when it's just been born?

1231
01:21:27,927 --> 01:21:32,006
Mother Felicity bathed my
little girl when she was born,

1232
01:21:32,007 --> 01:21:33,687
I remember it clearly.

1233
01:21:34,807 --> 01:21:37,686
We don't have sufficient water, Mr Starke

1234
01:21:37,687 --> 01:21:42,087
and, as I said, I can't oblige you now.

1235
01:21:47,047 --> 01:21:48,247
I'm sorry.

1236
01:21:49,367 --> 01:21:50,647
Truly sorry.

1237
01:21:57,087 --> 01:21:58,687
And I want to make amends.

1238
01:22:27,487 --> 01:22:28,887
[CHATTER AND LAUGHTER]

1239
01:22:44,327 --> 01:22:45,647
They're back.

1240
01:22:47,167 --> 01:22:49,126
What news of Dr Myra?

1241
01:22:49,127 --> 01:22:51,846
She's been admitted to
hospital in Port Elizabeth.

1242
01:22:51,847 --> 01:22:54,406
Dr Turner persuaded them
to try metronidazole.

1243
01:22:54,407 --> 01:22:56,806
It remains to be seen if it will work.

1244
01:22:56,807 --> 01:23:00,046
Meanwhile, we stopped off at
the airport and collected this,

1245
01:23:00,047 --> 01:23:02,406
fresh from Nonnatus House.

1246
01:23:02,407 --> 01:23:03,566
Oh!

1247
01:23:03,567 --> 01:23:08,327
Then... we stopped off in a certain
village and picked up these.

1248
01:23:12,767 --> 01:23:13,807
Molo.

1249
01:23:17,167 --> 01:23:19,447
Come on, lads. We've got work to do.

1250
01:23:22,807 --> 01:23:24,006
What is this cake?

1251
01:23:24,007 --> 01:23:25,606
It's Christmas cake.

1252
01:23:25,607 --> 01:23:26,806
It's a bit late.

1253
01:23:26,807 --> 01:23:28,367
No. It's a bit early.

1254
01:23:33,502 --> 01:23:35,447
Ah. Ooh.

1255
01:23:45,167 --> 01:23:47,726
Phyllis seems to have
got her camera working.

1256
01:23:47,727 --> 01:23:51,086
I thought that, when the water comes
through, we could get a picture.

1257
01:23:51,087 --> 01:23:54,046
That way we'll have proof
we left something behind.

1258
01:23:54,047 --> 01:23:57,166
We don't need proof.
We'll always know it's here.

1259
01:23:57,167 --> 01:24:00,086
In the meantime, tuck into this.

1260
01:24:00,087 --> 01:24:02,487
I don't fancy looking at
it in the Bay of Biscay.

1261
01:24:08,607 --> 01:24:10,167
Barbara.

1262
01:24:11,967 --> 01:24:13,886
I want you to have this.

1263
01:24:13,887 --> 01:24:16,646
No-one's hand ever touched it but mine

1264
01:24:16,647 --> 01:24:19,646
and it's as though it
was just growing here,

1265
01:24:19,647 --> 01:24:21,446
waiting for this moment.

1266
01:24:21,447 --> 01:24:23,086
Oh, Tom.

1267
01:24:23,087 --> 01:24:26,566
There'll be a gold ring,
there'll be a diamond if you want one,

1268
01:24:26,567 --> 01:24:30,006
but... for now - you beautiful girl -

1269
01:24:30,007 --> 01:24:32,806
will you just let me love you

1270
01:24:32,807 --> 01:24:34,807
and accept this blade of grass?

1271
01:24:36,167 --> 01:24:37,526
Yes, I will.

1272
01:24:37,527 --> 01:24:40,927
Barbara Gilbert, will you marry me?

1273
01:24:50,647 --> 01:24:52,406
Doesn't your boy need these anymore?

1274
01:24:52,407 --> 01:24:53,727
No.

1275
01:24:55,007 --> 01:24:57,566
Our boy - Timothy - got stronger.

1276
01:24:57,567 --> 01:24:59,206
These are yours now.

1277
01:24:59,207 --> 01:25:00,727
Yeah.

1278
01:25:02,687 --> 01:25:04,127
[HUM OF CHATTER]

1279
01:25:08,887 --> 01:25:10,326
Thank you all for coming.

1280
01:25:10,327 --> 01:25:11,662
[CHATTER SUBSIDES]

1281
01:25:12,767 --> 01:25:15,487
Now it's time to see if
the new spring works.

1282
01:25:20,327 --> 01:25:21,727
There you go, chap.

1283
01:25:24,967 --> 01:25:26,487
Oh, bless him.

1284
01:25:31,207 --> 01:25:32,687
Three, two, one...

1285
01:25:40,647 --> 01:25:43,726
JENNIFER: Not all gifts
come tied in ribbons

1286
01:25:43,727 --> 01:25:45,606
or at a special time of year.

1287
01:25:45,607 --> 01:25:49,326
Some blessings surprise us,
arriving unlabelled,

1288
01:25:49,327 --> 01:25:52,527
and we embrace them in a blaze of joy.

1289
01:25:54,816 --> 01:25:58,535
Good afternoon,
Nurse Gilbert. Mrs Turner.

1290
01:25:58,560 --> 01:26:00,631
Roza. You look so smart.

1291
01:26:01,727 --> 01:26:04,886
Once a secretary, always a secretary.

1292
01:26:04,887 --> 01:26:09,766
Roza Mphaphane was appointed
clinic administrator, which gave her

1293
01:26:09,767 --> 01:26:14,166
dignity and purpose, and
the hospital the chance to thrive.

1294
01:26:14,167 --> 01:26:17,486
Clean water and renewed
and increased funding from

1295
01:26:17,487 --> 01:26:20,926
the mission made
Hope Clinic viable again.

1296
01:26:20,927 --> 01:26:25,206
It could at last look to the future
with the woman who served it

1297
01:26:25,207 --> 01:26:30,566
for so many years restored to
her place as its beating heart.

1298
01:26:30,567 --> 01:26:32,886
I hope you're going to behave yourself

1299
01:26:32,887 --> 01:26:36,966
because, until you're fully recovered,
Dr Myra, I'm in charge.

1300
01:26:36,967 --> 01:26:38,207
Ooh.

1301
01:26:44,327 --> 01:26:46,327
Go on, off you go, go on...

1302
01:26:47,567 --> 01:26:48,807
Right.

1303
01:26:50,287 --> 01:26:52,766
Oh, that's nice. Now
just get a bit closer.

1304
01:26:52,767 --> 01:26:54,047
Smile!

1305
01:27:01,727 --> 01:27:06,926
The once frail hospital flourished
long after the visitors from

1306
01:27:06,927 --> 01:27:09,806
Nonnatus said goodbye.

1307
01:27:09,807 --> 01:27:13,126
But though they had given
their labour and their love,

1308
01:27:13,127 --> 01:27:16,206
they also took and they learned...

1309
01:27:16,207 --> 01:27:20,126
and they went home wiser, enriched,

1310
01:27:20,127 --> 01:27:22,606
in ways that they could not count.

1311
01:27:22,607 --> 01:27:24,007
Ready!

1312
01:27:25,173 --> 01:27:27,087
[CAMERA WHIRS]

1313
01:27:30,307 --> 01:27:32,603
Cheese!

1314
01:27:34,408 --> 01:27:38,866
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