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Author
Publisher
Highbridge Audio
Pub. Date
[p2012]
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Reflects on the experiences of Jennifer Worth as a midwife in London's postwar East End, including the nuns from whom she learned her craft and the interesting and challenging births she aided during her career.
Author
Publisher
Phoenix
Pub. Date
2008, c2002
Physical Desc
340, 11 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Life in London's docklands in the 1950s was tough. The brothels of Cable Street, the Kray brothers and gang warfare, the meths drinkers in the bombsites-this was the world that Jennifer Worth entered when she became a midwife at the age of twenty-two. Babies were born in slum conditions, often with no running water. Jennifer Worth describes the romance and beauty of the great port of London, the bug-infested tenements, the spectre of disease, the...
Series
Call the midwife volume Season 3
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (547 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1957, twenty-two year old Jenny leaves her home to become a midwife in a deprived nursing convent helping poor pregnant mothers coping with harsh living conditions.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
disc 3 of 3 videodiscs (approximately 182 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With Nonnatus House scheduled for demolition, Jenny, Chummy, and Sister Julienne search for a new location nearby, while Jenny's relationship with Alec continues to blossom. But an outbreak of polio affects the nurses and nuns more than they could have imagined.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
3 digital videodiscs (555 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Now nearing the 1960s, the community enters a new time of social change, while stories of birth, life and death continue to touch your heart. Will live-wire Nurse Trixie marry her young curate? What new project calls for a heart as big as Chummy's? How will Sister Evangelina react to two new nurses? And why does Sister Julienne appear so unsettled by a mystery benefactor?