Ten Pound Poms (1997)
Ten Pound Poms (1997)
A group of Brits leave dreary post-war Britain in 1956 to embark on a life-altering adventure on the other side of the world. For only a tenner, they have been promised a better quality of life by the sea in sun-soaked Australia, but life down under isn’t exactly idyllic. Struggling with their new identity as immigrants, we follow their triumphs and pitfalls as they adapt to a new life in a new country, far from Britain and familiarity.

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0x01 Ten Pound Poms: The Real Story

14 April, 1997 12:00 pm
The pioneers of the Assisted Passage Scheme, devised in 1947 by the Australian government to bring white British settlers into Australia, tell their story.

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