Behind the scenes on Call the Midwife Series 8: Nearly done! Today we bring you an exclusive video clip from behind the scenes at our film studios in Longcross, Surrey, UK, where the final episodes of Call the Midwife series 8 are now in progress! We take you on a quick walk through the working studio environment to our Turner set, where our trusty crew are setting up for a major scene :-) There is little more than a month of filming left in our long shooting season. After which....the countdown

Behind the scenes of Call the Midwife: weaving history The secret of a successful long-running historical drama lies not just in the broad history it depicts, but in the careful exposition of its characters' interconnected pasts. It's not enough simply to represent historical eras, however accurate. One must also weave an authentic character history for each of its participants - knotted together into a shared community that remembers past events and builds them into meaningful moments of future

Behind the scenes on Call the Midwife: light and shade Making an emotional and often hard-hitting medical drama like Call the Midwife can seem like a very tough job. The stories we handle are not for the faint-hearted, and at first glance it's a world in which laughter and lightness seem to be in very short supply. However, this is simply not the case. Our screenwriter-creator Heidi Thomas has a unique way of combining lightness and shade in the stories told across each series, so that however h