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Timewatch: Season 2008

2008x06 Ten Pound Poms
TV-PG

  • 2008-02-02T21:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
The stories of the one million post-war Britons who paid ten pounds to emigrate to Australia under the Assisted Passage Scheme. It was one of the biggest planned migrations of the twentieth century. The catch was that they had to stay for a minimum of two years. Many loved their new country, but one quarter fled home disillusioned, fleeing 'pommy bashing' or believing that they had been sold a lie.
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