The young actor who plays little Bertie is so...watchable, lol, he really stands out. His face is so expressive. I actually looked him up on IMDB, his name is Adam Hayes, & his first of only two acting roles was as the young Oscar in 1997's 'Oscar & Lucinda' (an amazing film with Ralph Fiennes & Cate Blanchett). His second role ever--& his last--was as Bertie in this series the following year, 1998. The actor was obviously very talented, & I'm sure he was offered more roles, but he never appeared on screen again following 'Berkeley Square'. I wonder why he stopped acting. Apparently now he's a professional self-taught drummer, so it appears he's found his passion in life, but...he's just so luminous & affecting in this role as Bertie.
johnnydtractive I remember watching a young Mark Lester in the movie version of “Oliver!” He was brilliant. As far as I know he never acted again either.
Hopefully being of the limelight saved him. His acting was great, but so many child actors seems to be abused, as well as finding being trust in the lime light very difficiult! Hopefully he lives a happy life!
@@human7491 That's very true. When I first started watching British TV, I was shocked at how much they looked like average people. It definitely makes their shows more believable!
Yes I know it's just a story, but in real life keeping a secret like that, and not being able to miss his dead charlie would have messed up the boy so bad!
What a terrible thing she did if they find out the switched she'll be locked up for life,she was so stupid and insensitive with Charlie omg she's an evil.
@@nicoleteakm Oh, Nicole, a mother's love knows no boundaries. In a way it's rather poetic because now the son of a lord has the opportunity to be raised a gentleman.
Maybe Bertie has something to do with the deaths of his siblings. He doesn't seem to be quite normal, possibly due to the nanny's and the parental abuse
It's one thing to cheat on her husband but does she have to treat him with such contempt? He seems like a nice enough person. It's not as if he's a wife beater.
The captain is already gone. Theses two women working together to save one child; no matter what. I cried as she was burying the baby having to relive her own and doing it all alone. What strength these women had that endured all.
yes, and the what is right and what is wrong thing.....as if the law provided a right path of action for young poor women without a husband and a baby....you seemed to be deemed criminal or having to do `criminal things` only for saving yourself or your baby....how right is that?
@@coolJessie123 Great minds think alike! now I’m watching another one, it was recommended to me by somebody on here And it’s late in London- I’m in the middle of listening to my hypnosis to help me sleep but I promise I will give you the name of it tomorrow! By episode three you will be hooked!!!! Sweet dreams, angel blessing blessing and may all of your hearts 💕 desires manifest in perfect divine timing! Sorry that meditation has made me all spiritual! LOL! 💛🌟✨👑✨🌟💛
This is one of the most profoundly humane works I've ever seen on the screen. It is the essence of what are the humanities--it plunges its fingers deep down into the experience of human bodies and souls, and pulls out the threads of their essence--in expressions, gestures, words, tears, laughs, the heaving of the body, interactions with each other, the breathing together in close quarters and in shared crises. The height of this is the revelatory scene when Bertie and Hannah save the baby together--his part is astounding--you can FEEL his shared joy with her and his new sense that he helped, that he himself is of real value to someone. I have seen a lot and this is the most remarkable illustration for me of how theater works, in fact all of art.
That's right, Kimmy. Every day. Every hour. Millions of people make silly choises. All in the name of, often misunderstood but mostly desperate, love....💖 💔
i think its quite realistic, when you re in an utter panic (for fear of losing your baby,say,), you quite often take unbeneficial decisions, you re really not thinking straight. Realisation of the consequences only comes later. Thats typical human behaviour and therefore very realistic@@ArtingFromScratch
I watched this particular episode for 2 days.My heart kept racing...I couldn't get past Hannah's decision. Tough and totally inconsiderate of Charlie's parents. But I guess its easier to speak when you are not wearing a persons shoes and being a mother comes with tough choices.Phew!! I pray never to ever be in her shoes. Love Bertie's voice and acting... he will do very well. Love English classics shaa.
Hannah made an extremely foolish decision - what happens when Billy grows older? What happens if she's dismissed from service or wants to leave London, how will she take Billy with her? Also, if she was going to do it, she absolutely should not have told Matty!
Charlie's parents didn't act like they really give a s*** anyway sorry that the little baby died but why shouldn't she bring her baby there and let her have a better life
Hannah had few choices under the circumstances a Mother who loved and cared about her child while Charlie was no more cared for by parents then a pedigree dog. The big mistake was telling the other maid.
i,m being careful not to spoil it for anyone who hasn,t seen this episode yet and is browsing the comments first,........... i felt so sorry for the lady who had to perform that " little service" twice..... a touching episode , indeed...
God love him, Bertie is a calculating body. His father's training and lack of love from both parents gave him the ability to ally himself with one person and ride or die with them.
I don't think he's all that calculating. The only family he felt he had was Charlie, and a ''new'' Charlie was better than one who went away to join his deceased sister. The poor little fellow was just using kid logic so as not to be so alone in the world.
trust me, human behaviour more often or not is more wildly imaginative then any writer could concoct.....often the truth is more illogical then fiction
How is Hannah expecting this to end?! By installing her baby she just lost control of his long term upbringing. If Charley's mother has an iota of maternal instinct (which she probably doesn't since she left him for a whole year- who does that?!) she will know the baby is not hers. Switching him may save Billy now but having him under that roof means she is no longer his mother. Odd rationale for a woman who refused to give her baby to his own, albeit horrid, grandmother because she would not have any rights to him
She did not refuse his grandmother because she would not have any rights to him - that was not her motivation. She refused because the baby's father was brought up with no love, by parents who regarded him as theirs to control, with no rights to make decisions in his own life - she decided that even a life of poverty in Limehouse, where he would be loved and treated as his own individual, was preferable to that.
Exactly, Shinybud. The actress who played Hannah CLEARLY did an excellent job, as her character is THE most complicated, complex of the 3 nannies. Although I would agree that she did not "think things through" for the long term, the fact of the matter is, she did not have TIME to think long term while the fever outbreak was spreading rapidly in the area. She certainly didn't know that Mrs. B would bury the dead baby in her YARD (that was beyond stupid). She had the mindset of a desperate Mother, trying to save her baby who she loved, who just happened to be the one Human Being tied to the MAN she loved, who she lost. There's no way on Planet Earth that Hannah would've stood by and done nothing to save her child. Right or wrong...that was the only motivation she had, just as she told Matty: It was about her baby and "Nothing else mattered". THIS mother was NOT going to let her child die.
There was another mother who did something similar to save her baby by putting him in a reed basket so that he would be found by a childless princess and raised as a pharoah, his name was Moses. This is in fact a very old story.
such an interesting and intense episode, well done, some tough choices and decisions, I'm glad that the other baby was saved at least, the parents of the dead baby sadly didn't even care for it as much, they left their home for a whole year...thanks for uploading!
Well, I'm having second thoughts on whether a real-life mother would do what fictional Hannah has... She refused giving the baby to his grandmother for fear he would not be loved. And by switching identities, she would put his life into control of these people who would basically be able to do with him whatever they wanted, no matter how sick or cruel that might be, although he would not be their son... And she could only take care of him and protect him as long as he was small enough to remain in the nursery!
Mrs St John contemplating leaving her husband and secure life for love is very romantic ... and foolish. I hope she makes the right descion. I will continue watching lol. I know nobody will read this as the most recent comments are 3 years old. Still had to share with someone lol.
i think she fucked up and drugged the baby again, causing the baby's death, and figured she'd be caught. It's only because of Hannah's decisions that the baby's death wasn't investigated.
A maelstrom of impossible situations for everyone involved. All because of class distinction and propriety. I'm sure things like this happened more often than not back in the day.
WOW ! THIS ONE TRULLY HAD PINCHED MY HEART, UP TO NOW, I MARVELED AT THIS GOOD HEARTED LADY, AND THANK THE LORD WE HAVE SOME, BUT NOW, I REALISE SHE WAS A AN HOLOCAST SURVIVER, I AM SO STRICKEN AND IMPHATISE WITH HER BEING A JEWESS MYSELF.. ALL I CAN SAY ALL OF U ARE BEAUTIFUL , FOR TOUCHING OUR HEARTS SO....THANK YOU ALL...
How on Earth can you have thought that this was set at some point after the Holocaust, which would be the late 1940s or after? The clothes, the horse-drawn carriages, the interiors of the houses, the frequent references to the coronation of Edward VII (which happened in 1902 -- and the opening credits clearly state that date) -- ?
Agh; I find the vicarious ‘Coronations’ of the Nobles - by Themselves - so ridiculous. Remember watching a coronation scene at some-point, where Each Peer in attendance crowned Themselves - as the new Monarch was crowned. This custom - as with People dressing as the King and Queen, here - seemed to Me the epitome of Self Aggrandizement.
Nothing in this episode washed with me, especially the baby switch. Wasn't Hannah worried that one day Charlies's older brother would blab out to his parents the whole thing? Children can't be trusted with such important issues. It's also a traumatic experience for him, whichever way one looks at it. And the cheating wife is absolutely unbearable, a despicable character. Don't understand why her husband didn't divorce her.
Look. I realise that much of the care of kids was delegated to nannies, but does anyone actually believe one baby could be swapped for another without the parents noticing?
es una lastima que los subtitulos no esten pegados......si se descarga esta hermosa serie para poder verla cuando quieras es imposible porque no se descargan lo subtitulos........gracias igualmente , es todo un detalle de tu parte brindarnos series tan lindas como esta....graciassssssssssss
Actually they're not. This is a very realistic peek into life in Britain a hundred and nineteen years ago. The upper class marriages were mostly arranged. It was money for titles. The women all hoped for an heir and a spare. As they considered having children a chore. Once done with, both parties were straight back to their lovers... Little boys were sent to boarding school. Some from the tender age of two ! People resorted to nannies, nursemaids and governesses, to care for their children. Both servants and children's nurseries were hidden away in the attic. Upper class children barely ever saw their parents. The nannies were the ones who loved them. With the odd exeption. Like nanny Simmonds.
it would come to no surprise to me...but still....are you a historian? I would love to know more! Thank you for this information@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131
Typhoid fever and certain death ... or switching babies and having to watch your son grow up not knowing who you are and now belonging to the family you work for. I think I would have sent him to his Grandmothers where she might have had the chance to let him know that she was his Mum 😢
@@BOLLOCKS1968 not saying the lie was ok, but she said earlier that the father of her child said never heard anyone said I love you before she did. So I guess that's why! He was never loved you wouldn't want your child to grow up like that!
Is it true and normal that the parents didnot take care of the kids themselves? Or even we can say they ignore their kids? But on the other side how much have I had to do? I am nanny, I am home teacher, I cook, I clean, I wash, I take care of garten, I have to work and get the money, and they tell me I am a free woman!
Yes, it was absolutely normal that parents of a certain class did not look after their own children. Did they ignore them? It varied - some were loving, they just didn't do the drudgery-work of being a parent. Others had practically nothing to do with their children, hardly spend any time with them at all.
years ago in England it was very normal to send kids away to public (private) schools (my husband left at six!) and if not sent away, if $$ was no problem a nanny, cook, sep. maids quarters etc etc was all provided. watch more UK series, it's all true!
Right below the red timeline and to the right.....and/or click the gear wheel and you will find more options under subtitles. This is on a pc. Hope this helps
such a fine level of acting...The sacred blessing of a brave woman of heart means a thousand, no, a billion times more than any priest or official of those mean hearted religions could ever bring. The series , though I noticed that each episode is written b a different person, is excellent in its portrayal of the situations of the various people in those times.. Thanks again for the upload.
Spoiler Alert ⚠ aka "Synopsis" ⚠ 6 "When the Bough Breaks" 14 June 1998 50min. Hannah finds baby Charlie dead in his cot. After Nanny Simmons goes to attack Bertie and blames him for Charlie's death, Hannah sends her down to tell the family that the baby has died but she disappears. Bertie, not wanting Hannah to leave, suggests swapping Charlie for Billy. Hannah, stunned at first, agrees and leaves Bertie with Matty while she goes to collect Billy. Mrs. Bronowski assures her she will properly dispose of the infant's body and buries him in the small yard behind her house. Hugh is attacked by Matty's brother in revenge for his behaviour to Lydia. Matty discovers Ned is wanted for murder and that "baby Charlie" is actually Hannah's illegitimate son. (SOURCE= Wikipedia)
Are you talking about the POLISH character who clearly identifies herself as Polish in her first appearance and whose name in the credits -- Mrs. Bronowski --is clearly a Polish name?
Very stupid thing that Randall has done. Her son was being well cared for by a loving and wonderful woman. Randall's son will not be hers anymore and he will not be calling her mother.
This was a difficult episode to watch the death of the baby, the head nanny running off, the cover up, and the lack of awareness of what dealing or not dealing can bring. Also seeing how Lydia was being sexually harassed was upsetting. Sadly, there is nothing new under the sun!
Everyone in the comments are talking about Hannah. I'm trying to figure out what the footman sees in that young nanny. Either the romance wasn't developed properly, or it flew right over my head lol
Did anyone find the nannies' reaction to Charlie's death a bit odd? It's almost as if it were nothing....I wonder if this is because babies died so often then.
bze...I think it was the nasty head nanny's fault and she knew that. The baby had been given laudanum /opium each night to keep him quiet so she could have her drinks.
Babies dying was much more comon back then, but I think her real fear is thyphoid fever which was an epidemic! Sanitation for the poor in London in those times were awful, as well as food hygiene. Many children died from cows milk infected with bacteria.
hi. i am american. i am also black. i know that in the 19th there were black, indian, and jewish communities. i love pd films. addicted really. i have seen american pd films with black people in them. where are the pd films with black, indian, or jewish (i did see one with mini driver as a jewess). plz give me some titles. would like to see some pd films from uk with minorities in them.
Hi. I'm sorry, I don't know. May be if you ask for these titles in a forum about PD. I can suggest two: C19 (English) and HDE in Spanish. c19.proboards.com/ www.historiasdepoca.es/search.php?search_id=newposts&sid=bee2e2b45702e840f7825b2fcf0f2907 I know there people there who can help you.
Hannah's decision is just horrid... for Charlie, mrs. Bronowski, the Hutchinsons and for herself. Even if nobody notice the switch - what is next? She'll be his nanny to the age of 10 or whenever the children were sent to school. And thats it. Would she then kidnap "Charlie Hutchinson"? And I really doubt she could be this childrens nanny for so long. Remember the father. He wants a little soldier with no complaints. Would she be able to bring up the children so strict? Hell no. And that is just nonsence about disease. Mrs. Bronowski lives alone and the illness has almost the same chances to catch a baby in both new and old houses. Nanny Collins told about the death of the upper class baby, remember
One of these Nannys, Mattie, looks so much like John Candy. Wonder if could be a grand daughter. So Matie goes to door and lies to police immediately after judging Hannah. It is comical everyone saying can I trust you.
Well, that sudden inconsistency in Mattie's behaviour is what the story is about--young women growing up & making adult decisions, discovering whether their society's rigid concept of right & wrong which they've internalized as children is, in fact, really right & wrong. Mattie came into the story believing the police & society's justice are the proper solution for every mis-step, but she is learning that what society calls 'crimes' can sometimes just be about being poor, desperate, & having few choices. Sometimes what society calls 'justice' is merely punishing poor people for doing what they have to do to survive the worst of what life throws at them. I really like that each of the characters has an arc, a learning curve, an opportunity to learn & grow.
tbf I blame the bloke who got her pregnant too; he should have just done the right thing and married her. Wouldn't have been perfect but a lot of this nonsense would have been avoided.
She did the best she could do under the circumstances. In our day and age we can't understand the misery of those times who had no power or safety net. es.
