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Nobody does it thinking what award can I get, you just want it to be right, I’m such a perfectionist. The autumn 2012 PBS broadcast of the first series received widespread critical acclaim, earning a Metacritic score of 8. She has worked on several BBC shows: Dr Who Christmas specials, The A Word and the adaptation of David Walliams’ popular children’s book The Boy in The Dress, which featured Kate Moss in a cameo role.

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The first series, set in early 1957, tackles the "Baby Boom", issues of poverty in the East End and post-war immigration. I made Valerie’s version from photographs and I got in touch with Barbara Hulanicki via Instagram and she sent me a lovely message back. Tested as never before in 1963, the nuns and nurses face challenging issues, from leprosy, tokophobia and stroke to Huntington’s chorea and unmarried mothers. On 4 March 2019, the BBC announced it had commissioned two further series and Christmas specials, through to an eleventh series in 2022, moving the plot into the late-sixties.Many of the exterior scenes are shot at The Historic Dockyard Chatham standing in for East London streets and buildings.

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The eighth series, set in 1964, covers the topic of abortion (which was not legalised until 1967), sickle cell disease, babies born with cleft lip and cleft palate, and intersex people. This special programme goes behind the scenes at Nonnatus House and gives viewers an insight into how the costume, design, music and make-up teams work to finesse every detail seen on screen.There’s no point in having these beautiful costumes if they don’t work with the background or look out of place. Series seven, again consisting of eight episodes, began airing on Sunday, 21 January 2018, with episode one viewed by 9. Record number of delegates head to biggest ever BBC Worldwide Showcase in Liverpool to celebrate a significant anniversary: Notes to Editor".

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Claire said: “We suddenly realise towards the end of the episode that she had fought for women and how she’s almost been forgotten by society, so I very subtly dressed her in Suffragette colours with greens, purples, lilacs. The tenth series, set in 1966, compares the practice at Nonnatus House with the private Lady Emily Clinic in Mayfair, PKU, diabetes, and the controversy of abortion on the eve of legalisation. In October 2023, a group of academics suggested that the show should come with a health warning due to the depiction of 'inaccurate' birthing practices.A second series was immediately commissioned after the opening episode attracted an audience of nearly 10 million viewers. Claire joined the show, adapted by Heidi Thomas from the bestselling memoirs of Jennifer Worth, was seeing out the final days of 1963 and her work on series eight captures the look of 1964, a pivotal time for fashion as the sixties begin to swing. For the most part it depicts the day-to-day lives of the midwives and those in their local neighbourhood of Poplar, with certain historical events of the era having a direct or indirect effect on the characters and storylines. Joseph's Missionary College in Mill Hill, North London until the building was converted to luxury flats at which point a new Nonnatus House set was created at Longcross Studios in Surrey where sets were built for the new Nonnatus and interior sets.