What we know about Call the Midwife series 15 and its 2025 Christmas specials

Yahoo

08-05-2025

Call the Midwife is one of the BBC's best loved shows so it shouldn't be a surprise that the production will be returning for a 15th series.
The show follows the lives and work of nurses and midwives in Poplar, in London's East End, and the cases and experiences they face over different time periods. The BBC has shared new details about the upcoming series as well as the two-part 2025 Christmas special, after it was also announced that a prequel series and movie are in the works.
Here is everything that we know so far about both.
Some characters of Call the Midwife will be swapping Poplar for Hong Kong, with the series following the exploits of the nurses in both locations in the two-part Christmas special later this year.
The two episodes follows senior members of Nonnatus House heading to Hong Kong for a mercy mission, while the younger midwives are tasked with keeping things running as usual in the East End. The story will flip between the two with Sister Julienne (Jenny Agutter) finding new meaning in her work.
Sister Julienne will be excited about the prospect of the Order's future and will finally be able to embrace change after battling against it for so long. And by working with it she will come to realise how important love is too, something that will prove important in series 15.
Series 15 of the BBC show will return to the characters in 1971, with the women starting to embrace change with things like the Women's Liberation Movement. This will have some interesting consequences over the course of the series, with the characters said to even burn their bras outside Nonnatus House in support of the movement.
That's not all, as the midwives will also face an array of intriguing cases including premature birth, placenta previa, kidney cancer, tuberculosis and slavery. It's safe to say there is a lot happening in the upcoming series.
Reflecting on what's to come in the show, creator Heidi Thomas said: "As the classic Call the Midwife series moves further into the 1970s, it also seems the perfect time for our much-loved regulars to take a short break from Poplar and test themselves in an unfamiliar landscape.
"The rise in hospital births, and changes in the NHS, have clipped their wings, and this is their chance to take flight and work out what really matters."
Production has officially begun on series 15 of Call the Midwife, and the series will return with eight new episodes in January 2026. The show will return to its home of BBC One and BBC iPlayer, and an official return date will likely be revealed after the Christmas specials.
Speaking of, an airdate has not yet been confirmed for the Call the Midwife Christmas specials, but they are likely to air on Christmas Day and Boxing Day as that is timeslot the show's previous two-parter was given in 2024. The BBC will confirm further details in due course.
Call the Midwife is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.