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Annie and Terry Roberts leave Britain in 1956 for Australia, where they struggle with the poor living conditions at the migrant hostel and the local attitudes to migrants. Kate, a young nurse arrives without her fiancé. Bill is trying to make up for the loss of his family business back home. Teeanger Stevie is running from a troubled home life. And Indigenous returned service personnel Ron struggles with being an outside in his own country.

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What BBC and Stan Series Ten Pound Poms Gets Right – and Wrong – about the British Migrant Experience in Australia Carmel Pascale , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 12 May 2023;
— Review of Ten Pound Poms Daniel Brocklehurst , 2023 series - publisher film/TV