Airdate: Call the Midwife

Season 4 of Call the Midwife will premiere in Australia on BBC First on Tuesday, Express from the UK.

Joining Miranda Hart, Jenny Agutter and Pam Ferris returns are new nurses – Linda Bassett (East Is East) as Nurse Phyllis Crane and Charlotte Ritchie (Fresh Meat) as Nurse Barbara Gilbert.

This series will not air this year on ABC under the current rights deal, but could still screen in 12 months time.

Audiences can expect to see a similar mixture of laughter and tears this time around with fascinating and emotional stories celebrating the people of Poplar and the much-loved residents of Nonnatus House. Series 4 sees the community of nuns and nurses in the 1960s on the cusp of much change in London’s East End. A new decade dawns and with it come different and exciting challenges for the team at Nonnatus House. Can the nuns and midwives hold onto their traditional values in a rapidly changing world?

8:30pm Tuesday BBC First