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Call The Midwife review: What would Nurse Crane make of today's cynical striking doctors? writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: The redoubtable Nurse Crane (Linda Bassett) pulls a face at the mention of 'progress' like a woman who has found a kipper in the washing basket.
What would she make, half a century later, of nurses on picket lines or junior doctors staging cynical walk-outs to undermine the government, playing politics at the expense of patients' lives? If he ever fancies taking over Doc Martin's old practice in Portwenn, he can test himself on even stranger ailments: Kawasaki disease, birdshot chorioretinopathy and Guillaume Barré neuropathology were among the oddities identified in the Cornish population. Dermot O'Leary's list of phone contacts reveals he knows everyone in the business, which is no shock, and former Spandau Ballet star Tony Hadley could hardly sing for laughing at the trick played on him.
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