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Call the Midwife review: a heartfelt, slightly madcap crowd-pleaser

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If the run-up to Christmas and all its attendant admin has left you exhausted, count your blessings: at least you didn’t volunteer to organise an old-fashioned  tableau, complete with a squealing newborn baby and actual livestock. That’s exactly the task that the nuns and nurses of Nonnatus House sign themselves up for during this festive edition of BBC One’s  as if their hands weren’t already full enough helping the expectant mothers of the East End. 

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