Call the Midwife (TV Series)

Christmas Special (2013)

Vanessa Redgrave: Mature Jenny

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Mature Jenny : [narrating]  At Christmas we like to see things in their proper place. We unwrap the ancient legends and the oldest truths. We like our angels unchanged and our rituals familiar. We like the right faces around the table, the right carols to be sung, the promise that this is how it is and will always be. Because that is Christmas. The one still point in a world forever turning.

• Mature Jenny : [narrating]  We ate our turkey at separate tables that year. Our community was scattered, but not to the four winds. We were offered refuge, separately and together in temporary lodgings across Poplar. Christmas turned to New Year, and New Year to early spring. And it was Chummy who found her new home first. Whilst the rest of us hoped, and resumed our work as best we could. And when Nonnatus House was demolished, we heard its dying fall only in the distance.

  [a distant rumbling during prayer time] 

• [last lines] 

  Mature Jenny : Fate might shake us, but our roots run deep. And we have love to water them. And so we bloom where we are planted. Turning our faces to the sun.