The tales from Nonnatus House may form a huge part of the BBC drama but they are based on real-life events in Poplar, East ...

The hit BBC drama is based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, who worked as a midwife in the East End of London in the 1950s ...

Call The Midwife was first broadcast in 2012 and has since become one of the most loved period dramas in British TV history.

London’s theatre scene is the most exciting in the world: perfectly balanced between the glossy musical theatre of Broadway and the experimentalism of Europe, it’s flavoured by the British ...

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Exercise and diet are not the only things to radically change over the last half-century. In the 1950s, a new home cost £2,000 but an office worker's average wage was just £ 14 a week.

Local BBC Radio joins BBC Radio 5 live through the night on a weekday. The Battersea Big Dipper disaster - 50 Years on Survivors of the Big Dipper crash in Battersea Park talk for the first time ...