‘Call the Midwife’ 2016 Christmas Special: Writer outlines overall themes

Christmas Specials are a tradition for all British television, and in general they absolutely are for “Call the Midwife.” The latest one is coming to the BBC and PBS later next month, and it will feature the various women of Nonnatus House traveling to the Hope Clinic in South Africa, doing their best to help a group of people who are without resources, persecuted, and in need of any helping hand that they can possibly get.

We have a sense of what the story will be like for the special this year in terms of the plot, but what about some of the emotions associated with it? That’s what we want to do our part to investigate now. Speaking per the Telegraph, show writer Heidi Thomas did her part to lay out what some of the themes are here, and what she wants some viewers to take away from this installment:

“A lot of people used to think Call the Midwife was about nostalgia, but we’re constantly trying to push the envelope in tackling of social issues.

“We often tell the story of people who are in a minority and it says something about the British viewing public that a minority subject gets a majority audience … We have a passion for the way history well told can reflect the way we lived our lives. That passion leads to compassion. Passion, compassion and anger are all there in our Christmas story.”

Ultimately, what the series does so effectively is rally around someone suffering due to common-sense application. If someone is suffering, we all inherently want to do our part to help them. Even though these characters are fictional, the feeling is the same. The “anger” Thomas is referring to here is equivalent to the anger we feel towards some of the people who put these characters in such a position to suffer in the first place.

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