“I developed an infection in my good ear which led to a small perforation and then I was in trouble.
Until you’ve had it, influenza is When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. It was terrible in winter – you would get condensation on the bed. STEPHEN MCGANN: One day, while visiting the family doctor, my mother opened up about the difficulties of life with her depressive husband, Joe. Get a daily email direct to your inbox with our newsletterOn screen we know Stephen McGann as Call The Midwife’s GP Dr Patrick Turner, who spends his time curing the patients of post-war Poplar in East London.In real life, however, he is more used to being on the other end of the stethoscope, declaring himself to have been “a very sickly child”.“My brothers and sister affectionately called me ‘Bone’ because I was so thin you could see all my ribs,” he recalls.“I suffered from childhood asthma, which led to sinus trouble and ear trouble.
"There's only one thing we share. All registered in England and Wales. But if that goes, I’ve got problems.”There was, however, one occasion when Stephen’s hearing loss almost sabotaged his ability to perform.“About 10 years ago I was in The Glee Club at The Library Theatre, Manchester, in which we had to sing and harmonise,” he explains. Bright blue eyes. The first answer to that was, anyone who wants to come along and make me a film star, they could come along. They can come in for a little part around me that will be fine. I remember thinking, ‘No, no it can’t be, it must be some terrible disease’. "And there was one brilliant moment where I came out of the bedroom. 845898) I was really deaf.“I was told by the doctor not to worry too much as it would heal, as most perforations do, but I knew from my previous experience that there’s also a chance it wouldn’t, so it was a worry. She doesn't look at the way I do lines or whatever. I was hospitalised with pneumonia once and developed bronchitis. "Once I came out in tears, saying 'how could you?!' I loved it," says the Liverpool-born actor. The book explores how various diseases in history have moulded him as a person.Stephen and his wife Heidi have one son, Dominic, aged 17.As well as starring in the West End musicals, Blood Brothers and Footloose, Stephen has also been in The Hanging Gale, The Strauss Dynasty and Emmerdale.From 1999 – 2002, Stephen played haulage boss Sean Reynolds. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. “It’s an eye-opener when you get the real thing – you certainly know all about it. Actor Stephen McGann, who plays GP Dr Patrick Turner in the hit BBC series, was affectionately called 'Bone' by his brothers and sister when he … Here's what you need to know about Stephen's role as Dr Turner in Call the Midwife.As if we can’t get enough of Call the Midwife, Stephen McGann, aka Dr Turner, has teased us with the exciting prospect of a Call the Midwife film. VAT no 918 5617 01H Bauer Publishing are authorised and regulated for credit broking by the FCA (Ref No. That feeling of drowning, of not being able to grab any useful oxygen, is one I’ve never ever forgotten.” By his mid-teens Stephen had thankfully grown out of the asthma that plagued his early years, but his constant ill health had left the former Emmerdale star with a permanent souvenir – he is significantly deaf in “My chest infections would periodically spread to my ears and when I was seven one left me with a perforation in my left eardrum,” reveals the 56-year-old, who lives in Hertfordshire with his wife Heidi, 57.“While perforated eardrums generally heal up on their own, occasionally they don’t. Actor Stephen McGann has revealed how his wife Heidi Thomas' near-death experience after childbirth led to her creating BBC powerhouse drama Call The Midwife. He replaced Sylvester McCoy when he became the official Eighth Doctor in Doctor Who (1996). "Being married to the shows writer, Heidi Thomas, Stephen should be the first to know if there’s any exciting plans to write a film script, but he revealed that the couple are very good at keeping private when it comes to their professional work, insisting that he doesn’t interfere with the writing process whilst Heidi refrains from commenting on his acting.He said: "We have a certain unspoken thing. Stephen McGann is a British actor, author and science communicator who has starred in numerous TV series including Catherine the Great, Milk and the Hanging Gale with his brothers!
I watched her eyes … Trivia (8) He is the younger brother of Joe McGann and the elder brother of Mark McGann and Stephen McGann. "I read them in the bedroom and she waits outside to hear what I think," he told the TV Times. Joe McGann, Mark McGann and Paul McGann. It was damp, dangerous, cold and it contributed to my breathing problems.”Holidays were particularly tough, causing dust allergies to flare when Stephen was staying somewhere new.“I remember very clearly a time when we were staying at a holiday camp and my brother Joe took me out of the chalet for a walk by the sea because the dust was making me so short of breath.“There was a point on the sand where I was so weak that I began to fear for my life because I couldn’t breathe at all. I always had a bad chest.”Of those early years, Stephen, who was one of five children, says, “We were a working-class family, so we all lived together in a terraced house in Liverpool.