Disaster Down Under?
What's on TV
|May 13, 2023
Faye Marsay and Warren Brown play married Brits arriving in Australia in the 1950s but their dream doesn't start too well...
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.
This story is from the May 13, 2023 edition of What's on TV.
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