Timewatch · SEASON 27
Ten Pound Poms
Episode 6 · 2008-02-02
- Documentary
Episode overview
Some 30,000 Brits head for Australia each year - just a fraction of the one million who gambled on the ten-pound assisted-passage scheme through the 1950s and 60s, in one of the largest planned migrations of the 20th century. One of the conditions of the deal was that they stay for a minimum of two years. This insightful film charts the lives of nine of the emigrants. 6/6.
50 minutes
Season 27 episodes
1. Viking Voyage2008-01-05
2. Bloody Omaha2008-01-06
3. The Wreckers2008-01-12
4. The Greatest Knight2008-01-19
5. The Pharaoh's Lost City2008-01-26
6. Ten Pound Poms2008-02-02
7. Stonehenge2008-09-27
8. Britain's Forgotten Floods2008-10-04
9. The Boxer Rebellion2008-10-11
10. Young Victoria2008-10-18
11. The Last Day of World War One2008-11-01
