Helen George has been a staple in the ‘s long running period drama since the very first episode in 2012, as nurse Trixie Aylward.
She enters her thirteenth year on the show as season 14 kicks off on One tonight (January 5) so clearly enjoys the job. However, as she reflected on filming the 2019 Christmas special she admitted it was difficult.
“I was in the Isle of Harris to film the Call The Midwife Christmas special. We’d get up at 4am to film in the snow as we wanted the carpeted white landscape to be a focus of the Christmas episode,” she revealed.
“It was long hours and it rained a lot, but I did stay in the most amazing castle,” she admitted.
We had many moments where we’d all sit around a big, grand table and eat four-course dinners while sharing ghost stories,” she told The Telegraph at the time.
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Helen George has reflected the filming experience for the 2019 Call the Midwife Christmas special (Image: BBC)
The 2019 festive special, which is available to watch on the iPlayer, saw Mother Mildred (Miriam Margolyes) and the Nonnatus House team head to the Outer Hebrides in response to a nursing shortage.
With a bout of influenza hitting both Nonnatus House and the Turner family, it seemed an ideal opportunity for the nuns and midwives to convalesce in the bracing Scottish air.
Sister Monica Joan (Judy Parfitt) was thrilled at the idea as she associated the Outer Hebrides with St Eustace’s White Stag, a symbol of Christ, and was disappointed to be left behind in Poplar.
The team stayed in a freezing cold converted church but as they set about establishing an antenatal clinic and treating the local population, they had to battle the weather and bleak terrain as well as the the suspicions of some of the islanders.
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Helen George is back as Trixie Aylward in the new series of Call The Midwife on BBC One (Image: BBC)
The new season of Call The Midwife sees the show move into the 1970s – a period that marked huge change for Britain.
This year’s two-part festive special was the last one set in the 1960s taking place during 1969.
It saw escaped prisoners hiding out in Poplar, a family thrown out on the streets and influenza and the Hong Kong flu spreading throughout the area.
Call The Midwife is on One on Sunday nights at 8pm. Alll previous episodes are available to watch on the iPlayer.