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‘Call the Midwife’ Recap: Series 5 Episode 3

Carmen Croghan

17 Apr 2016 — 8 min read

Sister Julienne (Jenny Agutter) and Sister Winifred (Victoria Yeates). (Photo: Courtesy of Red Productions Ltd 2015)

This week’s Call the Midwife reliably delivered another dose of medical drama, hope, kindness and innocent romance. Not to mention another unthinkable example of how women suffer for their indiscretions while the men go basically scot-free. Let’s get on with the summarizing, shall we?

(In case you need it, last week's recap is right this way.)

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