SERIES END LEFT SHOW BOSS IN TEARS

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- by NICOLA METHVEN

The Midwife show-runner Heidi Thomas has told how the upcoming final episode of series 15 left her weeping.And she also revealed that, by the time series 16 makes it to the screen in a few years' time, Nonnatus House will have been replaced by a community hospital.

"I shed more tears during the making of that episode than any other," Heidi admitted. "I thought, 'Am I crying because of the story or am I crying because it's our last episode for a while?

"In the end, I think it's a mixture of everything."

The show is taking a break from BBC1 for the first time since 2012 to allow for the making of a three-part prequel set during the war, and a movie featuring the regular cast, set in 1972, which is likely to be filmed in Australia.

So when the final scene for the current run, set in 1971, was being filmed it all got a bit emotional.