Sunday 24 February
8.00-9.00pm
BBC ONE


Crowded living conditions have always meant that tuberculosis has been rife in Poplar. However, with the advent of the mass-Xray programme to diagnose the disease early, Dr Turner is determined that the community will no longer live under the threat of TB.
While the nuns and nurses support the doctor in his campaign to bring proper screening facilities to the area, Jenny’s district nursing rounds lead her to a family who have suffered devastating misfortune from the disease. The Mastersons were decimated by TB and now, as the father is in decline with heart failure, Jenny works to reconcile the dying man with his only remaining daughter, Julia.

Having succeeded in securing a visit from a TB-screening van, Dr Turner pulls off an epic day backed by the midwives, but little can prepare them for what the results will mean for one of their own.