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  • The Oldie

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    May 31, 2023 3 minutes

    The BBC is currently going Down Under, and what an education it is.

    Ten Pound Poms (BBC1), Danny Brocklehurst’s new Sunday-night drama, begins in snowy Stockport in 1956, where Annie Roberts (Faye Marsay) spots the ad for £10 tickets to Australia on the newspaper she is using to soak up her drunken husband’s vomit. Things haven’t been right with Terry (Warren Brown) since he was captured in the war.

    The next time in reverse.

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