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Megan Nisbet

BBC Ten Pound Poms full cast list: Who stars alongside Michelle Keegan in the drama?

Ten Pound Poms is BBC's new Sunday night drama and viewers have been gripped since it made its debut on May 14. The six-part series starring Michelle Keegan follows a group of Brits as they leave dreary post-war Britain in 1956 to embark on a life-altering adventure in Australia

Michelle plays Kate, a nurse who has left the UK to go to Australia for a very different reason from the rest of the characters. Speaking of her character, Michelle explained: "She has an emotional connection to the country and we find out as the show progresses what her intentions are and why she has gone there."

She stars alongside an incredible cast list, including Warren Brown and Faye Marsay, as well as Hattie Hook, Finn Treacy, Leon Ford and Rob Collins and many more. Ten Pound Poms is created by BAFTA-winning Danny Brocklehurst (Brassic, Ordinary Lies) and produced by Eleven, the team behind the award-winning and Welsh-filmed Sex Education.

Read more: BBC Ten Pound Poms start date, full cast list, plot, locations and how many episodes

And while the characters and the stories in Ten Pound Poms are works of fiction, the Assisted Migration scheme of the 1950s, which intended to substantially increase the population of Australia and to supply workers for the country’s booming industries, did exist.

According to the BBC, the Ten Pound Poms scheme attracted more than a million migrants from the British Isles between 1945 and 1972. Ten pounds, which is the equivalent of around £350 today, bought a six-week assisted passage on chartered ships and aircraft and the promise of good employment prospects, affordable housing, endless sunshine, and a brand new, more optimistic life down under. However, as the series explores, on arrival, migrants were sometimes placed in basic migration hostels and the expected job opportunities were not always readily available. You can read more about the plot here.

Ten Pound Poms cast (BBC/Eleven/John Platt/Mark Rogers)

BBC Ten Pound Poms full cast list

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

Ten Pound Poms will continue on Sundays at 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. Alternatively, all episodes are available to binge on iPlayer now. For more showbiz and television stories get our newsletter here.

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