Call the Midwife: New trailer sees Nonnatus House nurses head to South Africa
A NEW trailer for the Christmas special of Call the Midwife has been released and sees the Nonnatus House nuns head off to South Africa.
New Call the Midwife trailer sees Nonnatus House nurses head to South Africa
Call the Midwife Christmas trailer
In the 30-second clip, the nurses receive news that a mission hospital is understaffed and desperately needs their help.
Determined to help Hope Clinic over the festive period, Sister Julienne (played by Jenny Agutter) and Nurse Crane (Linda Bassett) leave England behind.
Shots of the clinic show the locals queuing up to be seen by a doctor at the hospital which promises never to turn a patient away.
And it seems the nurses who volunteer to go to South Africa will certainly have their hands full caring for newborns and delivering new babies.
The nurses swap snowy London for sunny South Africa
Sister Julienne and the midwives head to South Africa to help the Hope Clinic
The festive special will see the team carry out an urgent immunisation programme as polio sweeps through the local community.
They will also be forced to carry out an emergency Caesarean by candlelight when Hope Clinic loses electricity and Dr Turner is called away.
Meanwhile, vicar Tom Hereward (Jack Ashton) will be busy trying to reroute the clinic's water pipes in order to restore its dangerously low water supply after the neighbouring white farmer refuses access across his land.
The nurses will certainly have their hands full
The nurses will help to deliver a baby in candlelight
Cliff Parisi, who plays handyman Fred Buckle has promised fans that they will love the Christmas special as it will "lift your spirits".
He previously told Express.co.uk: "I think this is probably the best Christmas episode we’ve done. None of us could believe it when we heard we would be flying out to Africa."
Call The Midwife, Christmas Day, BBC One, 8pm.