Call the Midwife Christmas Special

Christmas Day, BBC One

In the absence of Downton, sweetly sentimental family viewing comes with a dash of Call the Midwife. We

nd ourselves at Christmas, 1963, and as the nuns are o to the Mother House, the midwives nd themselves run ragged. A spanner is thrown in the works when ercely intimidating Sister Mildred (a guest turn by Miriam Margolyes) turns up with four Chinese orphans. But as always, all’s well that ends well in the town of Poplar.