Call the Midwife's Stephen McGann Teases Big Twist for Season 11
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Call the Midwife spoilers follow.
Stephen McGann has dropped hints that Call the Midwife's 11th season has a game-changing twist in the works.
The BBC One series returns in the coming weeks for a festive special, but the cast are also looking ahead to the next full series beginning on January 2.
Speaking to Digital Spy and other media, McGann – who plays Dr Turner – teased long-time fans will be in for an unexpected shift in the show when series 11 kicks off.
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"We're not going to tell you any detail, except to say that it's big, it's brilliant, and it is a real challenge," he said. "I think for people who watch the show – I think it's a departure. It's different. It's ambitious. That's when it's time not to tell you anything. But it's one of those things that everybody, in their way, is affected by. Everyone comes into their own."
The actor revealed a bit more about what wife and series creator Heidi Thomas has planned for the future of the series while discussing her writing process.
He explained: "Each year – I've even said it to her privately. I've said, 'How do you do it?' She goes upstairs, and vanishes for a few weeks, and then comes down. She goes up, and she says this lovely thing. She said, 'Well, I go up, and I feel this tension, and then it's like voices say it to me' – it's not spooky, it's just like in her head.
"But she says, 'It's like someone from history says to me – mainly women, who are voiceless, they say, 'Tell my story. You haven't told my story. Tell the story of what happened to women like me. Tell the story of what happened to people like me, or orphan children like me.'
"She said, 'It's like magic, and it's terrifying, because I don't know if it will ever stop. And it's never stopped. But it always comes from the same root. It's like a little voice near the back says, 'Tell my story this time.' Whether it's Lucille's arrival from Jamaica, or those kids being transported to Australia, or it’s little May coming from… or it's little Simon's voice from history. That's what drives her. And she can always find in each year, with the research that she does, more stories to tell. That's what she did this year with this big plot."
Jenny Agutter shed a bit more light on the series at large, explaining that Thomas will explore the theme of abuse and sex education throughout the episodes.
"There is abuse again, which we've had in the past, but it comes back in a different kind of way," she noted. "The pressures are not so obviously financially, but they are there, in terms of how the maternity home runs and the clinic runs, and the nuns are, and doing their work. Because, of course, you're getting many more women going to hospital – because they’re not having their births at home. So all of that affects things.
"The sex education comes into this, and people that object to it. And trying to deal with that, and how one… you know, how that's seen, and how you hand that out, and whether it's a part of what they should be doing or not. Yes, there's lots of new things that come in this particular year."
Call the Midwife's festive special will air on Christmas Day.
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