It’s time to Name the Midwife. Season 14 of the beloved PBS collection premieres Sunday, March 30, bringing with it large modifications in Poplar because the present’s setting shifts into the Nineteen Seventies.
Tales about employees strikes, authorities pink tape affecting the healthcare system, spina bifida, iron lungs, teen being pregnant, and extra are all addressed this season, with the opener coping with a supposed immaculate conception that’s actually only a story of a teen in want of assist her household gained’t give, as star Jenny Agutter advised TV Insider.
“They attempt to get the lady to denounce the satan,” Agutter mentioned. “It’s scary stuff.”
Nonnatus Home additionally has a brand new rival: the native Board of Well being, a bunch that’s decided to realize management of Nonnatus Home’s providers and attempt to bureaucratize the midwives’ grassroots help as a result of they don’t approve of spiritual teams offering medical providers. Agutter’s Sister Julienne and her longtime colleague Trixie (Helen George) will spend appreciable time this season pushing again towards this menace.
As all the time, there are many births this season, however extra social battle than ever because the season focuses on “poverty and all of the social points that come out of it, the abuse that may occur, the difficulties,” says Agutter.
Get a glance inside Name the Midwife Season 14 within the photograph gallery, beneath.
Name the Midwife, Season 14 Premiere, Sunday, March 30, 8/7c, PBS (verify native listings at pbs.org)