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Disaster Down Under?

May 13, 2023

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Faye Marsay and Warren Brown play married Brits arriving in Australia in the 1950s but their dream doesn't start too well...

- NATASHA HOLT, SEAN MARLAND, STEVEN PERKINS

Disaster Down Under?

TEN POUND POMS Sun, 9pm, BBC1 Drama (box set, BBC iPlayer)

Sun, sea and secrets are in store for a group of Brits on a one-way trip to the other side of the world in BBC1's six-part period drama Ten Pound Poms.

Set in 1956, it begins with Terry Roberts (Warren Brown) and his wife Annie (Faye Marsay) signing up for the Australian government's assisted-migration scheme in a bid to escape dreary post-war Britain.

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