<P> In December 2015, the Director - General of the BBC Tony Hall announced the show had been commissioned for a 2016 Christmas special and a sixth series of another eight episodes to be broadcast in early 2017, taking the characters and plot into 1962 . In November 2016, Charlotte Moore, Director of BBC Content, announced that the drama had been commissioned for a further three series of eight episodes and three more Christmas specials--taking the total number of series up to nine and the story into 1965 . </P> <P> Critical reception for the show (in both the UK and the US) has been mostly positive, and the series has won numerous awards and nominations since its original broadcast . The show has also been praised for tackling a variety of topical subjects and contemporary social, cultural and economic issues, including local community, miscarriage and stillbirths, abortion and unwanted pregnancies, birth defects, poverty, illness and disease epidemics, prostitution, incest, religion and faith, racism and prejudice, alcoholism, disability, (then - illegal) homosexuality between men, lesbianism, female genital mutilation, and maternal, paternal and romantic love . </P> <P> The plot follows newly qualified midwife Jenny Lee, and the work of midwives and the nuns of Nonnatus House, a nursing convent, and part of an Anglican religious order, coping with the medical problems in the deprived Poplar district of London's desperately poor East End, in the 1950s . The Sisters and midwives carry out many nursing duties across the community . However, with between 80 and 100 babies being born each month in Poplar alone, the primary work is to help bring safe childbirth to women in the area and to look after their countless newborns . </P> <P> Call the Midwife is based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, featuring narration--and an appearance in the 2014 Christmas Special--by Vanessa Redgrave as an older Jenny . </P>

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