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T2 WHATS UP! March 29 - April 4, 2020 BY RACHEL JONES TV Media P BS's hit series "Call the Midwife" reminds us that there is a time to be born, a time to die and a time for everything in between when Season 9 premieres Sunday, March 29, on PBS. The show follows a group of midwives who work at the Nonnatus House and the nuns of the Order of St. Raymund Nonnatus, who live there. The first season was set in 1957, but this ninth installment brings us up to the mid-1960s, a time of social change and upheaval. As the world changes around them, the nurses and nuns of Nonnatus house team up to serve local families in the fic- tional area of Poplar, London. Among the team of mid- wives is the newly sober Trix- ie Franklin (Helen George, "The Three Musketeers," 2011), the prickly Phyllis Crane (Linda Bassett, "Calendar Girls," 2005), the industrious Valerie Dyer (Jennifer Kirby, "RSC Live: Henry V," 2015) and, one of the newest nurses at Nonnatus house, the reso- lute Lucille Anderson (Leonie Elliott, "Black Mirror"), the convent's first black nurse. The nuns and nurses of Non- natus house are led by Sister- in-Charge Julienne (Jenny Agutter, "Logan's Run," 1976), whose wisdom, kindness and steady hand have helped many of the sisters, midwives and townspeople through difficult times. The show is based on the Midwife Trilogy, a memoir collection by real-life British nurse Jennifer Worth. The book series consists of "Call the Midwife," "Shadows of the Workhouse" and "Farewell to the East End." Much like the show, the books follow Worth as she worked as a nurse for a Whitechapel hospital along- side a group of Anglican nuns from the Sisters of St. John the Divine. Worth focused her work on low-income women and families in the area. It's no secret that the "Call the Midwife" series has effects that reach far beyond enter- tainment. The characters' pos- Leonie Elliott, Helen George and Linda Bassett from "Call the Midwife" Heartwarming continued on page T10 TV FEATURE