TEN POUND POMS - SUNDAY 9pm bbc. TV PACE. NO SPOILERS

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In dreary postwar Manchester, Annie Roberts is at her wits end when husband Terry spends all his wages down the pub. Desperate for a better life for her children, Annie responds to an emigration advert that promises Brits a prosperous new life in Australia for a tenner. Expecting whitewashed houses and sun-soaked adventures, the Roberts family arrive in Sydney to find life down under isn't quite what they've been sold.

Ten Pound Poms is the new original drama series created by BAFTA-winning Danny Brocklehurst (Brassic, Ordinary Lies) produced by Eleven, the team behind the award-winning Sex Education. A co-production between BBC and Stan, the series will premiere on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK and as a Stan Original Series in Australia.

The six-part series follows a group of Brits as they 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 house, better job prospects and a better quality of life by the sea in sun-soaked Australia.

But life down under isn’t exactly the idyllic dream the new arrivals have been promised. 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.

At the heart of the drama are Annie (Faye Marsay) and Terry Roberts (Warren Brown). They try to make the best of the situation for their family, but the poor living conditions at the hostel and local attitudes towards immigrants test them in ways they couldn’t have imagined.

They aren’t the only people at the hostel avoiding the truth. Kate (Michelle Keegan) is a young nurse who arrives without her fiancé and will do whatever it takes to try and rewrite her devastating past.

Bill (Leon Ford) has lost his family business back home and is so desperate to prove he’s living the Australian dream that he’ll stop at nothing in order to get a lifestyle he can’t sustain.

Teenager Stevie (Declan Coyle) comes from a troubled background and hopes to use this new adventure to escape his oppressive father.

Meanwhile Ron (Rob Collins), an indigenous Australian war veteran, struggles with feeling like an outsider in his own country.

Cast
Michelle Keegan - Kate Thorne
Faye Marsay - Annie Roberts
Warren Brown - Terry Roberts
Hattie Hook - Pattie Roberts
Finn Treacy - Peter Roberts
Stephen Curry - JJ Walker
David Field - Dean
Emma Hamilton - Sheila Anderson
Leon Ford - Bill Anderson
Berynn Schwerdt - Arty
Cheree Cassidy - Marlene
Rob Collins – Ron

There was a TV drama in the 1990s called "The Leaving of Liverpool" which was about child migrants to Australia. I remember it as being pretty harrowing.

I think the daughter is pregnant
She burnt a photo and the person in it was black ,so that won't go do down well if it's his.
I hope that the dad and Aussie man are found out for what they did to that young boy too
Kate will find her son I suppose and try and kidnap him.
The mother will start an affair with her glamorous new boss in Wilson's ( she bound to get the job. ) Her husband will hit the ' grog ' big time and they will all end up in the big hole he was digging

@Nat6999 yes all will be on iPlayer

Binge if you must

This thread as always my threads are , is tv pace so no spoilers please

I like to be able to chat /dissect each episode and get other peoples views

For example teen girl being preg possibly - I don't pick up on that - but obv saw her roll about with ball to stomach

I’ve only watched one episode but also reached the conclusion the daughter is pregnant. I also think the pregnancy is a result of a mixed race relationship. I do think that the scene where she was concerned about the ball hitting her stomach was a little jarring. I’d have said in 1950’s Britain as a schoolgirl she would’ve been trying to conceal the pregnancy/be in denial. I also thought that the chap in the photo looked way older than her. Teacher maybe?

I think I would have preferred a more documentary style ,bit put off by all the dramatic story lines .Though hey ,it's not a documentary and not many episodes so I guess they've got to crack on .
I have a close friend who's family went over in the mid 60s when she was 13 .She's not said much about it but did say that the attitude from Australians was very harsh - basically you had to agree that Poms were shit or you were bullied at school .And they lived in those POW huts which she said were miles from anywhere .
Her dad loved it ,mum hated it and they came home a few years later .So for her more teenage pain as another reintroduction to secondary school .
I knew she'd been and came back but I've never considered the huge impact it must have had on her and her education .

Made me smile that the mum didn't even take them to school ! No form filling or introductions or checking it out first ( unless they had already done that bit)
It must have been within walking distance too and that place looked remote.
If she is pregnant, it's handy that their new neighbour is a nurse.

Probably a bus that picked up the camp kids and took them to school in the nearest town / city.

@Wingedharpy @MMadinMarch

Sorry I don't think that's the one, I think it might have only been part of the character's life story in the book I read.

I will have to check back on what my reading group have read as I think it was one I read with them.

Oh yes, a bus !
Of course. I always walked to school ( about a mile for secondary )

I'd forgotten that - the way you kept speaking over each other.

Robbo from H&A has let himself go a bit 🤣 I found the background music irritating and wasn’t quite as gritty as I expected it to be but it was ok for a Sunday night and a bit of insight into something I know little about.

I really enjoyed it. Home and Away fans, did you spot a very different-looking Robbo (he was the boss)?

I was surprised at the contempt shown to the brits by the Australians...I hadn't realised it was as bad as that.

I did like the boss. Rather cute

Winder what happened to his leg

Friend of mine moved there in the late 70s and she said the discrimination was bad even then
I think if you had married an Australian you had a bit more of a chance of fitting in.

Why did they Aussies hate the English so much

Fascinating stuff and the basis for a fab drama. Id love to learn more about this.

But this is a bit far fetched isnt it? . Anything with MK puts me off.

@Blondeshavemorefun

Same reason the British hated migrants

Brits have always treated immigrants from Africa, asia , caribbean with contempt

But willing to work

Guessing Aussies were the same with immigrants from other parts of the world. Even today, the Aussies can be quite racist

Coming over here, taking our jobs

No more than the British. I've lived in both countries, have you?

My uncle married an Australian and he emigrated there around this time. I do think that this helped a lot tbh.
The heat would put me off living there.
Not that's it an option now anyway !

I watched this because I quite fancy Warren Brown. Michelle Keegan's microbladed brows and filled lips looked a bit incongruous for the era.

The theme is fascinating the programme not so much. Yes to this thread being more interesting!

British have always treated those from overseas with contempt?Everyone.Thanks for that.I started work in the 70s and a lot of my colleagues were from the Caribbean and Asia.We worked shifts and we laughed till we cried on our breaks sometimes and shared amazing food .Not everyone is prejudiced you know.