Meet the incredible Scottish nurses who inspired tonight's Call The Midwife Christmas special
In this year’s one-off episode, the midwives of Nonnatus House are swapping Poplar for the Outer Hebrides. Before you watch tonight, learn about the true story of the women who inspired the episode.’s Outer Hebrides cared for their patients in ways both intrepid and ingenious.took rowboats between island to deliver babies, used local ingredients to make natural medicines for their patients and did whatever they could to treat the pregnant women and infants that were in their care.
Filming in the Outer Hebrides was often disrupted by inclement weather, Thomas explained, which only added to the convivial atmosphere on set. “They were such troopers, I can’t tell you,” Thomas added. “They were writing wet all the way through to their knickers, and Miriam [Margolyes] just waved her hand and she said ‘Darling, it’s just cold filming.’ And they were up for it. Judy Parfitt, her veil was drenched, her coat was drenched.
The real life Queen’s Nurses would have sympathised. These women were used to working through every single possible permutation of weather: rain, hail or shine. Using motorbikes and rowboats, they made their way across their treatment areas – sometimes walking for miles and miles – to care for their patients no matter what.Hebridean Heroines
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