The long-running and immensely popular British television series Call the Midwife is based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, a young Englishwoman who left her comfortable home to work in London’s East End as a midwife. Each episode starts out as the original book did with the question, “Why did I ever start this? I must have been mad! There were dozens of other things I could have been.
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