Trailer for Oranges and Sunshine
Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson) is an already busy social worker with a huge case load to deal with so when a middle aged woman who has travelled to Britain from Australia contacts her in search of her birth parents it is another case which she doesn't really have the time to deal with. But something intrigues Margaret and her husband Merv (Richard Dillane) about what the woman tells them as she says she was just one of thousands of children who years earlier had been removed from their families and shipped abroad under the promise of a better life where the sun would always shine and they could pick oranges for breakfast. As Margaret starts to look into what the woman said she is shocked and disgusted to learn of the organised deportation by the British Government of children who were orphans, from low paid families or single mums back as late as the 60s, sent to live abroad with a promise of a better life only to end up as child labour. Having headed to Australia to meet some of these now adults she tries to help them find their families back in the UK but finds her investigations frequently blocked by those who would prefer to keep the skeleton in the closet. ... Read Review
