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“Call The Midwife” is returning to PBS for Season 7 and the beloved show is also getting a Christmas special. The “Call The Midwife Holiday Special” will air in late 2017 and the seventh season will air in the spring of 2018.
Joining the cast in Season 7 is Leonie Elliott will join the show playing Nurse Lucille Anderson, the show’s first West Indian nurse. Lucille is described as someone who is quick to settle in and brings a fresh new energy to life at Nonnatus House. Through her eyes, viewers explore the experiences of Caribbean nurses who went to London in the 1960s to support the growing Nonnatus House.
The Holiday Special opens with Poplar under a thick blanket of snow, as the midwives face the challenge of the coldest winter for 300 years. The winter of 1963 saw temperatures plunge to a record low and the whole country brought to a standstill due to the severe weather. Battling snow, ice, power cuts and frozen pipes, the midwives strive to provide the best possible care for their patients. Valerie helps a young couple, newly arrived in London, who experience a traumatic birth, and Sister Julienne strives to reunite a family torn apart by a tormenting father.
“Call The Midwife” stars Jenny Agutter as Sister Julienne, Linda Bassett as Nurse Phyllis Crane, Judy Parfitt as Sister Monica Joan, Helen George as Trixie Franklin, Laura Main as Shelagh Turner, Charlotte Ritchie as Nurse Barbara Gilbert, Victoria Yeates as Sister Winifred, Jennifer Kirby as Nurse Valerie Dyer, Stephen McGann as Dr. Patrick Turner, Jack Ashton as Tom Hereward, Cliff Parisi as Fred, Annabelle Apsion as Violet Buckle, Jack Hawkins as Christopher Dockerill and Leonie Elliott as Nurse Lucille Anderson.
