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    New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

    A 10-year LABOUR OF LOVE

    May 16, 2021 5 minutes

    When Call the Midwife first aired in 2012, the cast and crew only thought it would run for six episodes. But the TV show about dedicated nuns, midwives and nurses working in the tough East End of London in the ‘50s and ‘60s is now in its 10th series, and still going strong – in fact, the 11th series is currently being filmed.

    The success of the programme came as a surprise to writer Heidi Thomas, who created the series based on three memoirs by midwife Jennifer Worth. “Before we started to film it, people told us nobody would watch it – young women would be frightened by it, older women would be disgusted and men wouldn’t watch at all.

    “People often ask what our secret is and if I knew, I would bottle

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