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I think moving away from the books has
been a challenge in some ways, but also

benefit, to make sure that the new story
material felt very much in keeping with

what we'd had before, but that we were
introducing new characters and new

situations and new storylines which
would constantly engage the audience,

provide them with the same mix.

of the heartwarming and the upsetting,
that mix of gritty realism

with joy that they loved in the first
two series.

And I think what Heidi's been so
fabulous in doing is blending in

the original characters into these new
storylines and the new

characters have entered seamlessly to
create a whole.

I think it's certainly true that...

Heidi has been freed up to really
develop the characters who, through the

television series, have captured
people's imaginations.

I'm thinking particularly of the
storyline of Dr Turner and Sister

which is really a creation of the TV
series, so their whole romance and the

that they get married, and it's
something we could only really have

moving away from the original books.

One of the key strengths of the show has
always been the absolute meticulous

research that goes behind the medical
stories.

So our midwifery advisor, Terry Coates,
is always absolutely rigorous in terms

of the detail of those storylines, of
what would and wouldn't have been

at the time.

We're now in 1959, so there's obviously
been some advances, but still there are

things which wouldn't have been
possible, and so we have to be very

to... to show advances that couldn't
have happened.

One of the things that we looked at in
one of the early episodes is cystic

fibrosis. And in fact, that was the
storyline which originally came to us

Jenny Agata, who herself has had
experience in her family of cystic

worked for a charity that supports
people who have the disease. The actual

cystic fibrosis had only recently been
coined for this particular illness.

And that was a fascinating episode to
work on. It's actually been a terrific

episode for Sister Monica Joan because
she's the person who first suspects that

that's what's wrong with these children.
She doesn't know the name cystic

fibrosis, but she recognises the
symptoms.

What I really love about Call the
Midwife is the camaraderie with the crew

the cast, especially in the last couple
of months, because...

You sort of live in each other's
pockets. It's like a work family. So

just lots of in -jokes and lots of fun
to be had.

And you just get to know everyone really
well. And you feel very comfortable.

You feel like, I know who Jenny Lee is
now, and I know her inside out. So it's

a nice way to work.

So Jenny gets a promotion in Series 3,
and she quite...

understandably, I think, because she's a
human being, gets very proud of herself

and does get a little bit too big for
her boots, which really rubs Trixie up

wrong way. Because as you can imagine,
Trixie's been there longer than Jenny.

So she was kind of expecting that
promotion to come to her.

But it goes to Jenny. And Jenny is...
bustling around, kind of ordering her

colleagues around who were, you know,
and are pretty much the same level as

but she just happened to have got this
promotion, so she really annoys

But they're really lovely about it, and
she goes through a really particularly

hard time with a storyline about a
racial storyline where the

mother has to put her baby up for
adoption, and she finds herself on her

because she's been such a bossy boot.

So that brings her back to the girls,
and they sort of take the mickey out of

her, and it's all good again.

I've always been attracted to the show
because of its... It has a kind of sweet

exterior, but a very hard and gritty
interior that if you

saw it on the page, you wouldn't
necessarily see at first, and I think

what gets people.

..in the stomach and makes them cry
because we deal with things that not

show deals with. Just the nature of
birth is emotional in itself, but every

story that comes along, I often find
myself crying reading the script because

they just touch something innately
human.

There's a real theme, I think, in this
series of renewal, and it sounds really

cheesy, but kind of the cycle of life,
if you will. There's some death.

in this series, which hit everyone
pretty hard.

But it's dealt with in the most
incredible way, because Jennifer Worth,

was very interested in death and what it
does to you and how you can deal with

it. So it's not depressing, but it
definitely deals with some really big

like that.

One of the first big changes in this
series, probably the haircut, which

was...

Potentially quite a shock to people, I
suppose, because I'm such a blonde,

-haired character.

I think my taste does overlap a bit. I
mean, I love my clothes and my own life.

Some of my new looks in this season
involve lots of trousers, which we have

before, but I'm teaming them with ballet
pumps and...

It's a lot funkier, it's a lot cooler, a
bit more edgy. There's some really

bright blues and bright greens and we've
gone from the black silhouette and

really introduced reds and blues and
yellows. So she's a lot more vibrant and

suppose it's that sort of French art
house film type look that she's going

now and it's less of the Marilyn, more
of the Jean Seberg.

There's a few costumes that I really
want to take home. I've got this

bright blue suede coat, which is a
gorgeous sort of 60s vibrant colour, and

really want to take it home.

We have it for a lovely scene with my
new love interest.

So, yeah, I definitely want to steal
that one.

I mean, there's quite a lot of furniture
bits that I'd quite like to take home

with me because I've not long moved into
my new home.

So there's a few bits that I think, like
dining room tables and chairs and, you

know, bits in the kitchen I'd really
like to take home with me. So I just

removal van, really.

I wish I was as fearless and as
confident as she is in every situation.

But, yeah, I definitely think I'm quite
gung -ho when I want to be, so I think

there's similarities, definitely.

In series three, we see Cynthia grow
more and more in confidence.

She feels much more comfortable with her
friends.

She can use her authority when she needs
to. She's still a little nervous, but

there's a wonderful story where she's...

she gets into sort of the breathing of
the births and things and she really

starts to find her niche in midwifery
and sort of in the world and that's

joyful cynthia has a patient who's
extremely nervous she's lost her own

and she's got really anxious about the
birth and cynthia goes to a lecture and

hears that most of fear

can be solved through how you think and
that breathing really relaxes you

relaxes the body i mean things that
we're getting back to a medical science

today i think much more holistic
approach so cynthia takes us on board

invites the lecturer to come to the
mother craft sessions and then he

her and she in fact takes the session
herself and really helps this young

and gets her through

And it's just lovely to see Cynthia take
the bull by the horns and really go for

what she believes in. It's lovely.

We are all such good friends. It's
actually quite boring. There's no real

gossip. There's no nasty one in the
pack.

We love each other dearly, and I hope
that comes across, especially when the

girls get together. There are scenes in
the bedroom when we're drinking or out

on the town. They're really such great
days to film.

And then coming back to the dinner table
each time, for us young ones, on our

second day ever of filming, that was a
real pinch -me moment to be with Pam

Ferris, Judy Parfitt, Jenny Agata, hear
their tales of the old Hollywood.

And even now, whenever we come to those
scenes, it really is special.

It's still special, even today, and we
get on ever so well.

In Tommy World, what's new for Series 3
is she's with child.

and she's in her marital home for the
first time, which is very exciting.

So not only is there a new Nonata's
house, but there's a new chummy set for

house, which is great fun.

Yeah, I love chummy as a mummy.

Yummy chummy mummy, I call her.

Om.

Because all the love that she didn't get
when she was younger, she sort of pours

into this child, and, you know, you just
know that she wants to do her best for

him.

I don't know how much it came across in
the story, but I often played the fact

that she'd look at her child and just
whiff that her mum looked at her like

she's looking at her child, if that
makes sense.

She misses midwifery and she misses that
role in her life and needs it to be

fully her.

It's sort of dealing with...

whether she can go back to work at the
beginning of the series, basically.

Whether she can kind of admit that
that's what she wants to do.

I'm sure some of Tommy's neighbours
would have frowned upon her at the

going back to work.

You know, why aren't you staying at
home? The beginning of the series starts

a whole new setting, which has been
quite fun to film in, as well as good

the story and the characters.

We've got some new characters this
series.

Jenny's got an interesting storyline as
regards... She's got a few romantic

choices to be made.

Aren't I a tease?

You, of course, have the ongoing
loveliness of Sheila and Dr. Turner.

Oh, I loved that.

Even though I knew they got together,
I'd be watching it going, are they going

to get together?

I'm totally invested in that story. It
was brilliant. So, yes, they've got

a journey to go on. No spoilers here.
Not from these lips. No. There's a lot

the old and a lot of new.

I don't just like Tommy, I love and
adore Tommy.

For the minute I read her entrance in
the Jennifer Worth book, when she sent

them to me, I just thought, I have to
play this woman, she's just great.

And just goes on that wonderful journey
of being a complete fish out of water,

but just determined to...

see because it's so on her heart and she
believed that God gave her a gift to do

this but it just didn't make any sense
on any level she was practically not

good technically not very good at
midwifery but she has the best bedside

because she's so compassionate and so
empathetic and I think

that comes from having had a tough
upbringing and that's what I love about

is that she's so vulnerable and so sweet
but anyone who's been through tough

times in their life do end up being the
most compassionate people.

It doesn't matter about her background
or where she came from. They just want

her to succeed and fit in because we've
all felt like the fish out of water.

So I wanted to kind of honour the
audience, I suppose, in terms of their

identifying with Chummy. In my head,
there's no overlap at all between Chummy

and Ryan. Well, I suppose when I'm doing
it, it's completely different, but I

suppose... The similarity is that fish
out of water trying to fit in thing.

So it's two women in their very
different ways, simply trying to

cope with life.

But then I think that's probably all
women at some point in their life. All

people, in fact, at some point in their
life. So it's not some massive

revelation. But yeah, the thing is that
sort of every woman feel of showing

their vulnerability and admitting they
can't cope.

And so I suppose I love playing that
vulnerability and going, I can't do

And then you just hope the television
audience goes, oh, phew, no, nor can I.

was too scared to say it.