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Nov 24, 2020 · Call The Midwife creator and writer Heidi Thomas has opened up about the secrets behind the hit show, revealing how her husband Stephen McGann (who plays Dr Turner) is moved to tears when...
- Jen Crothers
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Feb 16, 2022 · Call the Midwife star Stephen McGann has revealed the heartbreaking connection between Nurse Barbara's tragic death and his wife Heidi Thomas, who is the show's writer and creator. MORE:...
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- Nicky Morris
Feb 25, 2022 · In a romance that could have been taken from the show's script, Call The Midwife actor Stephen McGann has revealed how he fell 'madly in love' with the creator Heidi Thomas after a chance...
Dec 25, 2023 · Call the Midwife's Stephen McGann with wife Heidi Thomas (Image: BBC via Getty Images) Speaking to Good Housekeeping in November 2020, Heidi admitted Call the Midwife is the 'sole topic of conversation' in their household, but she never gives her husband a sneak peek at the storylines.
- Angie Quinn
- Why Are You Excited About The New Book?
- What Are Your Favorite Parts of Your New Book?
- Obviously, Showing The Birth of Babies Is A Major Aspect of The Show.
- Tell Me How You Became Dr. Turner?
- But It Wasn’T The Sleeper Everyone expected.
This book is really different. We’ve done a couple of books so far, and this one is the best attempt to get everybody’s voices in. I was approached about this book in the middle of COVID when working was very tough. We’d had two seasons scrunched together instead of five or six months apart, between them. And because we had to film one late, we had...
What makes it different and why the readers will really love is that there are wonderful nuggets after 10 years; some of them I didn’t even know. For example, Eve Stewart, our great designer, had to rebuild the East End because the town of Poplar in London’s East End doesn’t exist anymore. It has been poured over with concrete and modernized. What ...
Yes, and there was the aspect of how do you film babies being born? No one had ever done that before to the degree that we’ve done it. Also, in the U.K. there is the ‘watershed time period’ before 9 p.m. when you can’t cuss, show murder, or blood, you have to tone down the graphic nature of what you show because they assume the children are still a...
My wife and I hadn’t worked together for 25 years and I knew she was making this six-part show I knew as’ that midwife thing.’ She was reading it in bed and felt she could do something with it. I went back to university part-time, I was at the Imperial College of London, studying science communication, and studying these scientists in popular cultu...
It virtually exploded. As it happened, everybody in Britain watched it. So, everything changed. I was still a university student in Season 2 but managed to juggle both parts of my life. What’s been fascinating for me over these years, and I still give talks in England and I do science festivals in England. So instead of going on to get my Ph.D., wh...
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RELATIVE VALUES. Call the Midwife’s Stephen McGann and Heidi Thomas on work and marriage. The actor and his wife, the series’ writer, on empty nests and love at first sight. Stephen, 59,...
Feb 28, 2022 · Call the Midwife star Stephen McGann has opened up about meeting and falling "madly in love" with his wife and creator of the hit show, Heidi Thomas. The couple first met back in the...
