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BBC’s Call the Midwife will feature some brand new faces when it returns later this year.
2023 will see another 90-minute Christmas Special featuring the Sisters of Nonnatus House, and 2024 will ring in a brand new season too!
The BBC have confirmed that all of the Call the Midwife regulars will be back for the new series, and in the first episode, Nonnatus House will kick off a new pupil midwife-training scheme, welcoming pupil midwives Joyce Highland and Rosalind Clifford.
Mood star Renee Bailey will join as Joyce, who wants to become Matron of a British hospital. She’s described as “hardworking, fiercely bright and deeply kind” but she has a “traumatic past that she cannot conceal forever.”
Doctors actress Natalie Quarry will star as Rosalind, a “young, warm, passionate and funny” woman, who “might seem naive at times, but has an inner steeliness that will lead her to make some life-changing decisions.”
Those familiar faces returning to the series include Jenny Agutter as Sister Julienne, Helen George as Trixie Aylward and Cliff Parisi as Fred Buckle, to name just a few.
Speaking in a statement announcing the news of the Nonnatus House arrivals, Call the Midwife writer and creator Heidi Thomas said: “After so many years, our much loved regular characters are like family to me - and our wonderful fans so often tell me that they feel the same. I know they will be as thrilled as I am that Series 13 of Call the Midwife is full of beautiful moments that celebrate the young, the old, and the precious ties that bind them.
“After Trixie’s spectacular wedding, the Nonnatus House community feels more tightly-knit than ever, but life in Poplar has never been a fairy tale. As 1969 unfolds we will see change and challenge the world of our beloved nuns, nurses, medics, and midwives. Newcomers Joyce and Rosalind arrive with much to learn, and much to give. And yet even as man prepares to walk on the moon, we see them grappling with life’s eternal questions. Who are we? What is love? And where do we belong?”
According to the official synopsis, Call the Midwife series 13 will explore “complex medical and personal situations” around the midwifery rounds in 1969, with more babies being born than ever before.
This series will see stories from within the Sylheti and Nigerian communities. Poor housing continues to blight areas of Poplar, bringing complex social and health challenges to the Nonnatus team. It will also explore issues surrounding Cerebral Palsy, Congenital Hip Dysplasia, Tetanus, Porphyria and TB.
Cameras started rolling on Call the Midwife series 13 back in May, with the official social media accounts showing the cast getting to grips with their new storylines.
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