Call The Midwife creator admits she's unsure how long BBC drama can continue
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The brains behind the beloved BBC drama Call The Midwife, Heidi Thomas, has confessed she's unsure about the show's longevity. However, she reassured fans that she isn't "going to run out of stories". The 62-year-old writer expressed her emotions during the press launch for the final series, admitting: "We're 14 years into this and I still don't quite know how we keep going.".
This revelation follows the airing of two festive specials on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, which saw Helen George reprise her role as Trixie Aylward, contributing to the Nonnatus House celebrations. Heidi further commented: "People are always saying to me that Call the Midwife is something that is going to end very soon because the pill has arrived, so fewer babies will be born and that hasn't happened because for every woman who takes the pill, there is one who forgets or there is one that doesn't know it exists," as reported by Hello! magazine.
She elaborated: "Time and time again, I've been genuinely shocked by the extent to which society and women will create obstacles for themselves even though society is giving them every opportunity to do otherwise. It's in the fragility of human life that these stories exist," said the scriptwriter, who is married to Dr Turner actor Stephen McGann, reports Wales Online.
"I don't know how long we're going to go on, we aren't going to run out of stories," she stated, addressing the endless well of narratives the series taps into. "People ask me every year, 'Where do you get your stories from? ' and the simple answer is, I go to the British newspaper archive or I go into the medical archive.".
