‘Call the Midwife’ Season 14 Photos: A Building Explosion, Iron Lung Patient & More
It’s time to Call the Midwife. Season 14 of the beloved PBS series premieres Sunday, March 30, bringing with it big changes in Poplar as the show’s setting shifts into the 1970s.
Stories about workers strikes, government red tape affecting the healthcare system, spina bifida, iron lungs, teen pregnancy, and more are all addressed this season, with the opener dealing with a supposed immaculate conception that’s really just a story of a teen in need of help her family won’t give, as star Jenny Agutter told TV Insider.
“They try to get the girl to denounce the devil,” Agutter said. “It’s scary stuff.”
Nonnatus House also has a new rival: the local Board of Health, a group that’s determined to gain control of Nonnatus House’s services and try to bureaucratize the midwives’ grassroots aid because they don’t approve of religious groups providing medical services. Agutter’s Sister Julienne and her longtime colleague Trixie (Helen George) will spend considerable time this season pushing back against this threat.
As always, there are lots of births this season, but more social conflict than ever as the season focuses on “poverty and all the social issues that come out of it, the abuse that might happen, the difficulties,” says Agutter.
Get a look inside Call the Midwife Season 14 in the photo gallery, below.
Call the Midwife, Season 14 Premiere, Sunday, March 30, 8/7c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org)
Episode 1
Natalie Quarry as Rosalind Clifford and Linda Bassett as Nurse Crane
Daniel Laurie as Reggie Jackson
Andrea Irvine as Esther Noble
Roger Noble (Conor O’Donnell), Colette Corrigan (Francesca Fullilove), Nancy Corrigan (Megan Cusack), Shelagh Turner (Laura Main), Angela Turner (Alice Brown), and May Tang (April Rae Hoang)
Episode 2
Renee Bailey as Joyce Highland and Helen George as Trixie Aylward
Natalie Quarry as Rosalind
Stephen McGann as Dr. Patrick Turner
Helen George as Trixie Aylward and Abigail Hood as Arlene Brewer
Annabelle Apsion as Violet Buckle
Zephryn Taitte as Cyril Robinson
Judy Parfitt as Sister Monica Joan
Episode 3
Joyce reacts to the building explosion in Episode 3
Stephen McGann as Dr. Patrick Turner and Rebecca Gethings as Sister Veronica
Trixie will be facing off with the Board of Health in Season 14
Jenny Agutter as Sister Julienne
Natalie Quarry as Rosalind Clifford, Linda Bassett as Nurse Crane, Judy Parfitt as Sister Monica Joan, and Jenny Agutter as Sister Julienne
Episode 4
Joanna Horton as Jill Trottwood, Teddy Berriman as Andrew Trottwood, and Laura Main as Shelagh Turner
Joel Beckett as Jimmy Wrigley and Molly Vevers as Sister Catherine
Laura Main as Shelagh Turner, Stephen McGann as Dr. Turner, and Annabelle Apsion as Violet Buckle
Joyce and Rosalind enjoy a bike ride as Sister Catherine (Molly Vevers) and Sister Julienne look on
Sister Veronica tends to a baby
Cliff Parisi as Fred Buckle and Molly Vevers as Sister Catherine
Laura Main as Shelagh Turner and Teddy Berriman as Andrew Trottwood
Episode 5
Laura Hanna as Eva Baldwin with Sister Julienne during a difficult labor
Linda Bassett as Nurse Crane, Rebecca Gethings as Sister Veronica, and Edward Shaw as Teddy Turner
Eisa Latif as Harry Chopra, Sophie Bould as Betty Desmond, Stephen McGann as Dr. Patrick Turner, and Ben Owen-Jones as Owen Desmond
Nurse Crane, Joyce, and Rosalind have a late-night chat
Sister Monica Joan in a celebratory mood
Bailey as Joyce at an event in Poplar
Rosalind and Reggie partake in the fun
What has Sister Julienne so concerned?
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