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David Sztypuljak

April 1, 2011

 

Loads of great movies are released in the UK today and one of them is Oranges and Sunshine, the new Jim Loach movie which stars Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving & David Wenham. If you missed the trailer, you can catch up here. Icon have sent over this exclusive clip from the movie which shows Margaret visiting Australia House.

Synopsis: The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals of recent times: the deportation of thousands of children from the United Kingdom to Australia.

Almost single-handedly, against overwhelming odds and with little regard for her own well-being, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and drew worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice. Children as young as four had been told that their parents were dead, and been sent to children’s homes on the other side of the world. Many were subjected to appalling abuse. They were promised oranges and sunshine: they got hard labour and life in institutions.

Oranges and Sunshine is based on the novel Empty Cradles by Margaret Humphreys.