Call the Midwife creator Heidi Thomas is used to being told unexpected things over her shopping trolley. “I was in the supermarket, and a woman came up and said, ‘I gave birth standing up’,” she laughs. “What am I going to do with that?” Probably more than you might think, given she’s behind the popular TV series which tells a myriad of birth stories. Thomas’s Bafta-winning BBC drama explores the lives of the midwives and nuns who live together in a convent, Nonnatus House, and the families they care for in post-war east London. “Call the Midwife will always be a drama for me about women and the working classes,” she tells the BBC. The British writer’s superpower is arguably her ability to deftly mix stories of care and warmth with the brutal realities of poverty, racism, backstreet abortions, child loss and domestic abuse, to name but a few.
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