BBC Call The Midwife to take on major civil unrest and racism in jaw-dropping new series
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The new series of Call the Midwife takes viewers into a brand new decade with key storylines covering civil unrest and racism but also some much-needed romance. With the nuns and nurses of Nonnatus House now living in 1970, series writer and creator Heidi Thomas revealed there will be an "aggressive campaign of abuse" against West Indian nurse Joyce Highland, while Poplar will have "insurrection in the streets" over workers' rights. But on a far happier note, there will also be TWO weddings.
One marriage is likely to feature Megan Cusack's character Nancy Corrigan, a single mother and young nurse, who has found a boyfriend in Roger (Connor O'Driscoll), a pharmaceutical rep from Northern Ireland who first arrived during the Christmas specials.
Another developing relationship is between young nurse Rosalind Clifford and pastor Cyril Robinson, who has the complication of already being married - although his wife Lucille, played by Leonie Elliott, has not been seen since she returned to Jamaica suffering from depression and homesickness more than a year ago.
Megan says of Nancy's love-match: "Connor is gorgeous, I said it was going to be the biggest acting challenge of his life having to pretend to fall in love with me - but he's a dote. It's a thing of the time, having a child out of wedlock, those sort of things do seem further away from your grasp. For Nancy, she's always longed for something that is conventional, even though she hasn't been, in many people's eyes, but that's because she hasn't had the option to be.
