This year the ‘Call the Midwife’ Christmas Special, scored by Maurizio Malagnini will air in two parts. Part 1 airs 8pm, Christmas Day and part 2 airs 7.30pm, Boxing Day on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
‘All of the “well-loved characters” will be back for the two-parter, which picks up in Christmas 1969. The midwives are “all busy delivering babies and doing the job they are most dedicated and committed to”, while Poplar also welcomes a funfair, which adds “a burst of colour and excitement to the frosty landscape. But there will be challenges, including influenza and the Hong Kong flu, not to mention an escaped prisoner. As the neighbourhood prepares for a carol concert, fears grow that he may be in the local area after a spate of break-ins.
Elsewhere, the Turner children are caught up in the fever surrounding the Blue Peter Christmas appeal to collect dinky cars and scrap metal, Trixie makes a fleeting visit to Nonnatus House and is delighted to see her brother Geoffrey, and Miss Higgins has her grandson Harry stay for Christmas. Violet also has her hands full hosting a mince pie competition, “but the Buckles’ preparations for Reggie’s homecoming are thrown into turmoil.’