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Returning: Call the Midwife

The nurses of Nonnatus House are off to South Africa in 1962, next week on BBC First.

Season 6 of Call the Midwife begins on BBC First next Tuesday night.

Jenny Agutter, Helen George and Linda Bassett return as the nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House, now set in 1962 with scenes in South Africa.

The 8 part series also stars Emerald Fennell, Sinead Cusack, Victoria Yeates, Laura Main, Stephen McGann, Jack Ashton, Helen George, Charlotte Ritchie and Cliff Parisi.

This screens in the UK on Monday (Australian time).

Inspired by the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife follows the nurses and nuns from Nonnatus House convent, who visit the expectant mothers of Poplar, providing the poorest women with the best possible care.

It’s now 1962 and times are changing, from the beacon of the contraceptive pill and the shadow of infamous gangsters the Krays to the new welfare policies introduced by the government.

Christmas time sees the nuns receive an SOS call from a tiny mission hospital in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Under the hot African sun, the Nonnatus family face some of their toughest challenges yet with increasingly limited resources.

Back in Poplar, when the rather austere Sister Ursula is appointed the new head of Nonnatus House, Sister Julienne finds herself demoted and working back alongside the midwives as an ordinary member of staff.

She is not the only one to face challenges closer to home. As they strive to help mothers and families cope with the demands of childbearing, disability, disease and social prejudice, our beloved medics must make choices – and fight battles – of their own. Series 6 sees them laugh together, cry together, and pull together, supporting each other as never before.

Tuesdays at 8.30pm from January 24 on BBC First.

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