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Speaker 1: Jamesy and Amanda gam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Ten pound Poms was the colloquial term for one and

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Speaker 2: a half million immigrants from the UK who paid ten

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Speaker 2: pounds for their boat fare to Australia. I promised a

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Speaker 2: better house, a better job, prospects, better quality of life

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Speaker 2: for only a tenor But life down under wasn't exactly

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Speaker 2: the idyllic dream they'd been promised. There's a new drama,

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Speaker 2: a six part drama called ten Pound Poms. It starts

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Speaker 2: streaming on stand from Monday. Stephen Curry is one of

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Speaker 2: the stars and joins us now Stephen High.

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Speaker 1: Oh James, the man who's I live and breathe?

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Speaker 3: How I look at him? Hey work very well.

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Speaker 2: There are a lot of famous ten pound Poms, John

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Speaker 2: Paul Young, Colin Hay from Men at Work. Kylie Minoake's

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Speaker 2: parents were ten pound Poms and they're on the same

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Speaker 2: boat as the Gibbs and Read Simons.

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Speaker 1: Who's he hadn't even mentioned akadakah over in Elizabeth there

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Speaker 1: was a little boy called James barm But my wife

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Speaker 1: is Scottish. Chief constantly reminds me that without the ten

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Speaker 1: pound Poms we wouldn't have a music industry.

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Speaker 2: She's probably right, absolutely, So tell us about the notion

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Speaker 2: before we get to your drama. The ten pound Poms

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Speaker 2: faced a whole lot of stuff that they weren't expecting.

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Speaker 2: They thought this would be a paradise, didn't they.

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Speaker 1: They did. They thought that everyone in Australia was going

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Speaker 1: to look like well, you know, Jonesy and I you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean, and bron chiseled ossies. They were

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Speaker 1: shown these posters of this kind of idyllic lifestyle and

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Speaker 1: in reality they were kind of taking out here to

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Speaker 1: basically live in internment camps and do all the jobs

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Speaker 1: that no one else wanted to do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so what role do you?

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Speaker 2: What character are you playing?

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Speaker 1: I'm JJ Walker, who's the Aussie guy who runs the camp.

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Speaker 1: Needs a bit of a Philander, and so I thought

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Speaker 1: I might whack a big mustache on, because you know,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing forlanderers love more than a nice healthy mustache. True,

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Speaker 1: but he's a bit put upon unfortunately, j Jay. He

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Speaker 1: sort of comes across as this sort of devil may

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Speaker 1: care guy who's looking to sleep with everyone's wife, but

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Speaker 1: actually his mother owns the camp and he's been spending

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Speaker 1: his entire life trying to come out from under her shadow,

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Speaker 1: and later on the series we start seeing that, you know,

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Speaker 1: come to a head.

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Speaker 4: It is a time because I recently I went down

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Speaker 4: the YouTube rabbit hole and I watched They're a Weird Mob,

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Speaker 4: and you just watch that show and you think, wow,

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Speaker 4: it it was such a time.

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Speaker 1: It really was. And I mean you think about there

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Speaker 1: there were two million ten pound palms over the space

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Speaker 1: of ten years. So we pick up in nineteen fifty

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Speaker 1: six when the influx is sort of in its last

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Speaker 1: kind of a few years. But you think about the

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Speaker 1: population in Australia was twelve million at the time, so

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Speaker 1: culturally this was such a huge shift and they became

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Speaker 1: such a big part of the fabric of Australia, which

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Speaker 1: they have continued to be up until today. You know,

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Speaker 1: and we're in not that dissimilar situation now where there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of work that needs to be done by

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Speaker 1: people and most people in Australia don't want to do it.

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Speaker 1: You know, we need by tenerant workers like we did then.

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Speaker 1: But it's certainly you know, it was the first time

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Speaker 1: that a lot of these people would ever experienced anything

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Speaker 1: like racism because they kind of came out and were

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Speaker 1: the outsiders in this in this situation, the Greeks and

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Speaker 1: the Italian community were, you know, we're already here in

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Speaker 1: great numbers, and the Chinese community had come out for

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Speaker 1: the gold Rush, and so it was Yeah, it's certainly

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Speaker 1: I think this show really does manage to nail the

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Speaker 1: mood of the time and the you know, the incredible,

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Speaker 1: you know challenges that face the tenpompot.

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Speaker 4: I remember experiencing that as a kid because my dad

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Speaker 4: was an aline pilot and we got shipped over to

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Speaker 4: England when I was four years of age and I

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Speaker 4: had to go to school in England.

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Speaker 3: That's over I used to call a convict and my accent.

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Speaker 4: I used to try to, you know, hone down my

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Speaker 4: Australian accent, and even the teacher said, what are you

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Speaker 4: what are you speaking?

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Speaker 3: Boys speak the Queen's English.

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Speaker 4: And so I was over there for a couple of years,

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Speaker 4: came back to Australia and everyone called me Palm because

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Speaker 4: I saunded English.

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Speaker 1: Yeahour they did you were you were you were stuck

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Speaker 1: in the middle while you were there, though, did you

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Speaker 1: rob them?

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Speaker 3: Well? You know what happened?

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Speaker 4: The teacher said on my first, on my first day

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Speaker 4: in front of the class, they said, Jones here is

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Speaker 4: from Australia.

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Speaker 3: What do we know about from Australia? And someone said

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Speaker 3: convicts and Ralph Harris.

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Speaker 4: And then when I got back home, when I come

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Speaker 4: back to Australia, they said, Brenda's just come back from England.

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Speaker 3: What do we know about England? They went convicts, Rolf Harris.

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Speaker 1: That was it a very different connotation now, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Well that was also this batch of influxes also where

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Speaker 2: we got the term winging palm, didn't.

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Speaker 1: We Yeah, well that's it. And then my character JJ

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Speaker 1: Walker manages to coin that in his very first scene

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Speaker 1: in this whole show. Is he has a genuine distape

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Speaker 1: for these people who he sees is winging poems who

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Speaker 1: come over from post war Britain with its rationing and

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Speaker 1: it's terrible weather, and all they do is sit around

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Speaker 1: complaining rather than going out and taking what's theirs. So,

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Speaker 1: mind you, he's been a bit of a hypocrite, is

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Speaker 1: it's exactly what he wants to do. But he's got

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Speaker 1: a pop at least, at the very least he's an

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Speaker 1: addie with an oddie hat, and.

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Speaker 4: You rock that so well, and like really on our screens,

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Speaker 4: it's just Steve Curry everywhere. You're going to be on

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Speaker 4: that blow Up show as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so mustache different vibes, he witty at the same time. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So that's that's on seven, and that's that's on Monday.

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Speaker 1: So ten Pound ponds on Sundown Stand and blow Up

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Speaker 1: on seven on Monday.

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Speaker 3: Steve Curry straddling the network.

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Speaker 2: Well, I hope you don't get your characters confused, because

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Speaker 2: if you're a nasty character JJ Walker goes near the

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Speaker 2: balloons as a prick, you know what might happen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, hey, and that you know what a man.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing a few interviews today. That's my first balloon

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Speaker 1: pun So, thank you very much. You're welcome Boom you

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Speaker 1: cross your cross shows too. That's good. That's good.

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Speaker 3: Always great to talk to you. Steven. Ten Pound Palms

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Speaker 3: starts streaming on Stand from Monday. Did you say Sunday Sunday?

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Speaker 1: It's factly changed the Sunday now you move to Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Okay. Is everyone on the same page? Great? Diriize that

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Speaker 3: I will be watching you mate, thank we have no choice.

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Speaker 3: You're on everything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's it. That's that. That was my plan,

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Speaker 1: sort of slowly kind of coming into either world domination

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Speaker 1: or just never having to do a real job. So

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Speaker 1: I'm not quite deal which one.

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Speaker 2: All the wall curry for it, mate had that night

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Speaker 2: in Berlin, think of curry.

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Speaker 3: Goodness right here. Thanks mate, thank you,