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How Call the Midwife team drew upon their own experiences of motherhood
Executive producer Pippa Harris and writer Heidi Thomas both faced fertility issues.
How Call the Midwife team drew upon their own experiences of motherhood- Jenny Agutter: I saw a beautifully crafted character
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- How Miranda Hart joined Call the Midwife
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- Andrew O'Hagan on drawing inspiration from life for The Illuminations
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- Germaine Greer on The Female Eunuch
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- Dan and Peter Snow: Introduction to Waterloo
- Karen Armstrong: Freedom was only for selected privileged Europeans
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