While much of Call The Midwife is fictional, some of the characters are based on people Worth knew in real life. Some of the characters are based on real people. John the Divine just as Lee worked alongside the nuns of Nonnatus House. Worth received midwifery training when she was a nurse in the early ‘50s and worked with the Sisters of St. Worth’s memoirs inspired the series, and the character of Jenny Lee, played by Jessica Raine in the first three seasons and voiced by Vanessa Redgrave as the narrator through the rest, was based on the author herself. Her first book, Call The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times, was originally published in 2002 and became a bestseller, as did her two subsequent books, Shadows of the Workhouse and Farewell to the East End. Jennifer Worth wrote a trilogy of memoirs about her time as a nurse in East End London in the 1950s. Call The Midwife was inspired by a true story. Which begs the question: Is Call The Midwife actually based on a true story? Because if Nonnatus House is real, I suggest a tour as soon as possible. The series has managed to cover a breadth of issues that continue to concern prenatal care to this day while also being deeply personal and specific. Call The Midwife has been on the air for twelve seasons now, telling the stories of midwives and mothers giving birth in the poverty-stricken post-war Britain.
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