What BBC and Stan series Ten Pound Poms gets right – and wrong – about the British migrant experience in Australia
- Written by: Carmel Pascale, Visiting Research Fellow, School of Humanities, University of Adelaide
StanThe first episode of Ten Pound Poms opens onto a bleak scene.
As snow falls against a grey sky in Manchester, Terry Roberts (Warren Brown) works to repair buildings damaged during the second world war. We can barely see him through the smog; the sound of hammering dominates the scene. As it gets louder, it triggers flashbacks to his time as a...