Call the Midwife
BBC1
★★★★☆
Vera
ITV
★★★☆☆
The last time I reviewed Rosie Jones in these pages it was for her documentary about the online abuse she receives for the apparent crime of having cerebral palsy. In Rosie Jones: Am I a R*tard? she told how it was commonplace for words such as “window licker”, “spastic” and “crip” to be hurled at her. Jones’s condition was also central to the plot of Call the Midwife. As you would expect from a classy drama series, though, it took a rather more intelligent, humane approach than a bunch of moronic trolls.
The actress and comedian Rosie Jones, in the wheelchair, plays Doreen Challis in Call the Midwife
NEAL STREET PRODUCTIONS, OLLY COURTNEY
Jones played Doreen, a young woman who had been starved of oxygen at birth and more recently had been trying to hide her pregnancy
