Call the Midwife: Sisters in Arms is an upcoming British period drama television series that will serve as a prequel to Call the Midwife. It will follow a group of nurse midwives working in the East End of London during World War Two.
The TV series will be produced by Neal Street Productions with Call the Midwife creator and executive producer Heidi Thomas serving as the show's writer and executive producer alongside Pippa Harris. It is set to premiere initially as a three-part mini-series in Christmas 2026, with a feature-length series to air at a later date.
Premise In September 1939, Nonnatus House is the beating heart of the East End community of Poplar. The nurses and nuns dedicate their lives to mothers, babies and the poor. But there is no gas and air, no penicillin, no cure for TB and no welfare state. Then war is declared - and life gets even harder.
While bombs rain from the sky, women give birth underground, families are shattered and whole streets are reduced to ruins.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Julie Hesmondhalgh as Sister Alice, Nurse and Midwife Amy Booth-Steel as Sister Evangelina, Nurse and Midwife Helen Schlesinger as Sister Monica Joan, Nurse and Midwife Helena Wilson and Jenny Agutter (narration) as Sister Julienne, Nurse and Midwife Bally Gill as Dr. Kit Malhotra Liv Andrusier as Nurse Marianne Siegler, Nurse and Midwife Lizzie Back as Nurse Sybil Maxted, Nurse and Midwife Ellie Mckay as Nurse Olive Dobbs, Nurse and Midwife Ciaran Bowling as Fred Buckle, Army Officer Ami Metcalf as Betty Buckle Ben Rose as Dr. Patrick Turner, General Practitioner
Guest cast
Martin McCann as Tommy Moffat Rachel O'Connell as Mary Moffat
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