Drama that still delivers
This week, chef Ainsley Harriott shows off his green-fingered expertise. No doubt he’s grown a few ‘Polly Peppers’ in his own horticultural haven – you never know, he may even bring some along when he meets up with Alan Titchmarsh in deepest Hampshire.
Ainsley is promising to add a Mediterranean flavour to the proceedings, which also include tips on tidying up the garden with to have been a part of this show.”
The 68-year-old has been with Call the Midwife since the beginning and admits she was thrown when she first read the script for the drama.
“When I read the first ever script, I remember thinking, ‘Goodness me’.
“I kept looking at the date, and it was 1958 going into 59, but the way they were handling everything seemed Victorian.
“I suppose it was still the post-war era, and you still very much had the sense of that community trying to get its strength back again.
horticulturalist David Domoney. Plus, there’s an insight into the work carried out by search and rescue dogs during the summer months.
This fascinating documentary brings us a week in the life of a hospital in war-torn South Sudan, which is run by local staff and supported by international medics and UK doctors flown in by a humanitarian charity.
The staff have plenty of
“But over the next 10 years, a lot of growth happened. There was a shift in the community, and different problems arose as people became better off.
“The more people had and the more possibilities they had, the more they seemed to want to give up the responsibility of taking care of community, which I think is something that Sister Julienne worries about because she’s gone through two world wars, when there was such reliance on people working together to get through things.
“In the immediate post-war years, there’s still that reliance on community to make things happen.
“But after that, there seems to be
expertise, but they are working under extreme pressures and with limited resources as they deal with patients including a group of boys who were critically injured after playing with a grenade, a man who was shot in the head and a young girl with multiple knife wounds.
Guy Martin
Paul helps staff at Battersea Dogs & Cats Home in London train a lively beagle cross pup, and spends the day with a bichon who, like many pets during lockdown, has got used to living in a busy home.