Call the Midwife star was forced off set after catching hypothermia
ok.co.ukIt’s 1969 when the midwives and nurses of Nonnatus House return to help deliver lots more babies - and some of their best scenes yet.
Series thirteen of Call the Midwife returns with a guest appearance from comic Rosie Jones and two new faces join the team. All our old favourites are back too - and writer Heidi Thomas tells us what’s coming up. “We have multiple births, our trusty enemy syphilis puts in an appearance.
We’ve really upped our haemorrhage game this series. We have at least three episodes of spectacular bleeding, not all from below the waist,” says Heidi. “We discover that Miss Higgins had an interesting girlhood and Violet runs for mayor of Tower Hamlets.Trixie and Matthew embark suffer severe financial challenges.
And as part of episode five, I had the bright idea that we should have an outing to the seaside that we managed to film during Storm Agnes.” The residents of Nonnatus House decide to go on a trip to the seaside, but when the cast headed to West Wittering - they encountered what some would say is a classic British summer. “The crew had goggles on and full wet weather gear,” laughs Laura Main, who plays Shelagh Turner. “It’s funny because we had Christmas in sunshine and then a day out to the seaside in rain.” “Everything was going sideways,” adds Cliff Parisi (Fred Buckle). “The wind was unbelievable, it was so cold.
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