staradvertiser.com MARCH 29 - APRIL 4, 2020 HEARTWARMING Catch up with the midwives and nuns of Nonnatus House when Season 9 of Call the Midwife premieres this Sunday. This ninth installment of the beloved series brings us up to the mid-1960s, a time of social change and upheaval. As the world changes around them, the nurses and nuns work together and do their best to serve local families in the fi ctional area of Poplar, London. Premiering Sunday, March 29, on PBS. Meet the Join host, Lyla Berg, as she invites you to visit some of Hawai¶i’s most cherished landmarks and sits down with guests who people share their work on moving our community forward. Tune and places in to exciting episodes of Island Focus the first and third Wednesday of each month, 6:30pm on Channel 53. that make - Hawai¶i Also available on ¶Olelonet - olelo.org special. WEDNESDAY at 6:30pm and ¶Olelo YouTube. Channel 53 590126_IslandFocus_Ad_Generic_2020_2.indd 1 3/25/20 11:15 AM ON THE COVER | CALL THE MIDWIFE Special delivery PBS presents the ninth serve local families in the fictional area of to the East End.” Much like the show, the Poplar, London. books follow Worth as she worked as a season of ‘Call the Midwife’ Among the team of midwives is the newly nurse for a Whitechapel hospital alongside sober Trixie Franklin (Helen George, “The a group of Anglican nuns from the Sisters of Three Musketeers,” 2011), the prickly St. John the Divine. Worth focused her work By Rachel Jones Phyllis Crane (Linda Bassett, “Calendar on low-income women and families in the TV Media Girls,” 2005), the industrious Valerie Dyer area. (Jennifer Kirby, “RSC Live: Henry V,” 2015) It’s no secret that the “Call the Midwife” BS’s hit series “Call the Midwife” and, one of the newest nurses at Nonnatus series has effects that reach far beyond reminds us that there is a time to be house, the resolute Lucille Anderson entertainment. The characters’ positive Pborn, a time to die and a time for every- (Leonie Elliott, “Black Mirror”), the convent’s perspectives and empathetic attitudes thing in between when Season 9 premieres first black nurse. The nuns and nurses have shined a light on female struggles Sunday, March 29, on PBS. of Nonnatus house are led by Sister- and brought the stories of many forgotten The show follows a group of mid- in-Charge Julienne (Jenny Agutter, women back into the public consciousness. wives who work at the Nonnatus “Logan’s Run,” 1976), whose wisdom, The show has informed viewers about major House and the nuns of the Order kindness and steady hand have helped health issues and good birthing practices, of St. Raymund Nonnatus, who many of the sisters, midwives and and it has been used to showcase midwife- live there. The first season townspeople through difficult times. ry, which is often misunderstood, as a cred- was set in 1957, but this The show is based on the Midwife ible and important career. ninth installment brings Trilogy, a memoir collection by real- Most notably, the drama has educated us up to the mid-1960s, life British nurse Jennifer Worth. viewers by featuring diseases and en- a time of social change The book series consists of couraging vaccination, and some experts and upheaval. As the “Call the Midwife,” “Shadows of attribute a rise in vaccination rates to the world changes around the Workhouse” and “Farewell effect of the show. Due to its overwhelming them, the nurses and popularity and critical acclaim, the series nuns of Nonnatus Jenny Agutter in “Call the has been renewed for at least two more sea- Midwife” house team up to sons, through 2022. 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