While we can expect to return to Poplar in the upcoming Christmas special this December, the new 13th series<\/a> will air next year \u2013 with some brand new faces joining the cast.<\/p>\n As revealed in this week\u2019s issue of Radio Times magazine<\/strong>, the series will welcome\u00a0student midwives and roommates, Joyce and Rosalind.<\/p> Renee Bailey plays Joyce Highland, a Trinidadian pupil midwife described as \u201chardworking, fiercely bright and deeply kind\u201d. But as is often the case with any new arrival at Nonnatus House, Joyce is hiding a secret traumatic past of her own.<\/p>\n Bailey has previously appeared in BBC Three\u2019s Mood<\/a> as Paris, Netflix\u2019s Rebel Cheer Squad<\/a> as Leila and is set to also star in Channel 4\u2019s upcoming detective series, Get Millie Black.<\/p>\n Natalie Quarry, who has appeared in Atlanta<\/a> and BBC long-running medical soap Doctors<\/a>,\u00a0will star as fellow pupil Rosalind Clifford in Call the Midwife.<\/p>\n Rosalind is described as \u201cnaive at times, but with an inner steeliness\u201d. Her demeanour could very well come in handy as season 13 will pick up in 1969 when the midwives have to face maternity bed pressures, deadly diseases and further personal turmoil.<\/p>\n Read more:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Speaking to Radio Times magazine<\/strong>, series creator and writer Heidi Thomas said: \u201cNewcomers Joyce and Rosalind arrive with much to learn. As 1969 unfolds, we\u2019ll see change and challenge rock the world of our beloved nuns, nurses, medics and midwives.<\/p>\n \u201cEven as man prepares to walk on the Moon, we see them grappling with life\u2019s eternal questions. Who are we?What is love? And where do we belong?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re a wonderful addition to the show,\u201d adds executive producer Dame Pippa Harris. \u201cI can\u2019t wait for the audience to meet Joyce and Rosalind and to follow their journeys, by bicycle, through the streets and lives of Poplar\u2019s residents.\u201d<\/p>\n After the news of Call the Midwife\u2019s return was confirmed earlier this year, Thomas said in a statement: \u201cIt\u2019s an incredible privilege to be able to look back on a decade of Call The Midwife, and yet know that our journey is still very far from over. We are thrilled to be going on for a few more years.<\/p>\n \u201cLike Nonnatus House itself, we have a proud past but an even more exciting future \u2013 full of old favourites, fresh faces, higher hemlines, new ideas. The stories we tell are like babies \u2013 they never stop coming, we love them all, and we vow to do our best by every single one.\u201d<\/p> ![\""Renee\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/07\/Call-the-midwife-new-cast-s13-e26d054.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413"\" "\\"\"Call-the-midwife-new-cast-s13\"\\"\/")
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