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"Call the Midwife" season 15 finds the show catching up with a world more recognisably like today than the first series set in 1957. Social change is everywhere, the Women's Lib movement has just been launched and medical science has reached the point where ultrasound images and pain relief in the form of an epidural have arrived...
Here’s how to watch "Call the Midwife" season 15 online from anywhere with a VPN — and potentially for FREE.
► "Call the Midwife" season 15 premieres on BBC One on Sunday, January 11 at 8 p.m. GMT. It will also be available on BBC iPlayer.
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This all feels revolutionary and the women at Nonnatus House, young and old, have no choice but to be swept along with the changes while the increasing number of children born in hospital and the reorganisation of the NHS threatens the foundations of their chosen vocation.
And yet, the continued presence of long-term characters Sister Monica Joan (played by Judy Parfitt), Sister Julienne (Jenny Agutter), Nurse Shelagh and Dr Patrick Turner, and Nurse Trixie Aylward (Helen George) and Fred Buckle (Cliff Parisi) assures us all the everything will be alright somehow.
Read on as we explain how to watch "Call the Midwife" season 15 from anywhere.
How to watch 'Call the Midwife' season 15 for FREE in the U.K.
How to watch 'Call the Midwife' season 15 from anywhere
Away from home at the moment and blocked from watching the show on your usual service?
You can still watch the "Call the Midwife" season 15 thanks to the wonders of a VPN (Virtual Private Network). The software allows your devices to appear as if they're back in your home country regardless of where in the world you are. So ideal for viewers away on vacation or on business. Our favorite is NordVPN. It's the best on the market:
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3. Sit back and enjoy the action. Head over to BBC iPlayer and enjoy!
How to watch 'Call the Midwife' season 15 in the U.S.
In the U.S., "Call the Midwife" season 15 premieres on PBS on Sunday, March 22 with each episode available for FREE streaming until June 9.
PBS Passport members will be able to stream each episode four weeks ahead of the scheduled broadcast date, starting February 20. They will also be available with the PBS app.
Not in the U.S. at the moment? Don't worry, signing up to NordVPN will help you access your preferred streaming service when you're overseas.
How to watch 'Call the Midwife' season 15 in Canada
In Canada, "Call the Midwife" season 15 will almost certainly premiere on Britbox with date TBA.
A subscription costs CA$10.99/month or CA$109.99/year after a 7-day free trial.
However, if you're a Brit or an American currently in the Great White North for work or on vacation, you can still catch the show for free by using a VPN, such as NordVPN.
How to watch 'Call the Midwife' season 15 in Australia
"Call the Midwife" season 15 will land on Britbox in Australia on Tuesday, January 13.
A subscription costs $13.99/month or $139.99/year after a 7-day free trial.
Anybody currently Down Under from the U.K. or U.S. can use one of the best VPN services to access their usual streaming service. We recommend NordVPN thanks to its speed, reliability and trusted security features.
'Call the Midwife' season 15 - Cast
- Linda Bassett as Nurse Phyllis Crane
- Judy Parfitt as Sister Monica Joan
- Helen George as Nurse Trixie Aylward
- Laura Main as Nurse Shelagh Turner
- Stephen McGann as Dr Patrick Turner
- Cliff Parisi as Fred Buckle
- Annabelle Apsion as Violet Buckle
- Zephryn Taitte as Cyril Robinson
- Georgie Glen as Miss Millicent Higgins
- Rebecca Gethings as Sister Veronica
- Daniel Laurie as Reggie Jackson
- Renee Bailey as Nurse Joyce Highland
- Natalie Quarry as Nurse Rosalind Clifford
- Molly Vevers as Sister Catherine
- Edward Shaw as Teddy Turner
- April Rae Hoang as May Turner
- Alice Brown as Angela Turner
- Max Ho as Christopher Tang
- Nicolas Tennant as Ernest Bagnall
- Callum Burns as Joel Bagnall
- Natasha Joseph as Josephine Clifford
- David Bark-Jones as Major Aubrey Clifford
- Vanessa Redgrave as Voice of Mature Jennifer Worth
'Call the Midwife' season 15 - Episode Guide
Season 15 Episode 01: The Nonnatus team grow increasingly concerned for the welfare of four young children. Sister Catherine faces her first solo delivery, and the midwives attend a women’s lib meeting.
S15 E02: A new medical technique threatens to change the face of obstetrics forever, whilst a potential rabies outbreak has Poplar in a state of fear. Cyril meets Rosalind’s parents.
S15 E03 to S15 E08: TBA
'Call the Midwife' season 15 - FAQs
What has original member of the cast Jenny Agutter (Sister Julienne) said about season 15?
The beginning of the series deals with a lot of social changes…is there still a place for Nonnatus House in Poplar?
That’s the big question all the way through this series. It all looks as if they’ll have to fall in line with the NHS and what the council want of them. One of their requests is that they not wear habits but uniforms. Well, that's fine in itself but it's actually a bigger question which is that Sister Julienne sees the nuns as being missionaries in the East End, serving a community. And she, as a nun, is very much aware of the fact that the first service they have is to God, a higher order than the council. The habit is very much to do with showing that they are a part of serving the community. So it's not just a matter of identification, it's a matter of knowing what one's role is and what they're meant to be doing and feeling that one's no longer wanted. So it's a conundrum because if Nonnatus House goes, then a lot of the services that are a part of it go too. But I think that she also sees that this is something coming anyway.
Is she fighting this battle alone?
She engages Trixie to be her spokesperson because she recognises that there's one person at the council who really does not like the idea of nuns at all and finds it very difficult to talk to them. So Trixie is her ally, and she's very pleased that she has come back from the States and is able to take on that role.
It’s also a time of Women’s Lib. What does Sister Julienne make of that?
Sister Julienne has a quick look through Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch. Have I ever read it? A long time ago! I don't have a lot of memories about it. But I do remember meeting Germaine Greer around about that time and being very impressed.
How does it feel to be an original member of the Call the Midwife cast?
I can't believe that we're on series 15 because in many ways it feels like no time at all. It's 15 years of my life and how many changes there have been in my life in that time. Then looking at the series – all the changes there have been in those 15 years as well. Social, economic, artistic, scientific and medical - all of those things change in the 15 years that we see on screen, which for me has always been the exciting thing about doing it. It’s interesting because the series is always that 50 years behind us and one's looking at it from a distance, and at the same time, you're comparing it with the world that you're in now, which is another world completely.
What do you think Call the Midwife teaches us?
The realisation that we do change. Sometimes, because it's happening in front of our eyes, we forget where we've come from, and we have no idea where we're going to. And I think that these stories have helped people understand that in themselves. It's a terrifying time now, because it just seems like the world is right on the edge of all sorts of difficult choices and changes. Looking at the 15 years we've done and knowing that people actually make it through those years, go on to new things and overcome different sorts of problems, I think is heartening.
What was 1971 like for you?
A really busy time! I was 18, 19, and I'd done The Railway Children, Walkabout, The Snow Goose… I went to the National Theatre when I was 21. I mean, all of these things were happening for me. But the world I was in back then was not the same world as Sister Julienne’s.
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