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Living with Waltzing Matilda

10 episodes · Jan 15, 1988

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  • S15E1

    Living with Waltzing Matilda: Part 1

    Jan 15, 1988

    To celebrate Australia's bicentennial, Alan Whicker visit Brits who have emigrated there. He meets Dorrie Flatman from Liverpool who moved there in 1963 with three children and £45 and now owns a chain of brothels that has made her rich.

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  • S15E2

    Living with Waltzing Matilda: Part 2

    Jan 17, 1988

    Alan Whicker talks to Brits living in Australia, including Jane Makim (sister of Sarah, Duchess of York), Captain John Alliston and his wife Eleanor who writes under the alias of Minka Jones.

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  • S15E3

    Living with Waltzing Matilda: Part 3

    Jan 24, 1988

    Alan Whicker meets Brits who have emigrated to Australia. He visits Western Australia's vast outback, and also meets a former bus driver from Bolton who now mans one of the world's loneliest lighthouses.

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  • S15E4

    Living with Waltzing Matilda: Part 4

    Jan 31, 1988

    Alan Whicker visits Australia to meet Brits who have emigrated there. He journeys to Northern Queensland and meets a man who likes crocodiles, a garden gnome evangelist, and some gold-diggers in a ghost town.

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  • S15E5

    Living with Waltzing Matilda: Part 5

    Feb 7, 1988

    Alan Whicker visits Brits living in Australia. In Sydney, he attends Lady Primrose Potter's fancy dress ball, meeting society columnist Diana "Bubbles" Fisher. He also visits a gay bar where he meets Jeff Hardy who used to work at Fortnums.

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  • S15E6

    Living with Waltzing Matilda: Part 6

    Feb 14, 1988

    In Australia's Northern Territory, Alan Whicker meets Sid & Barbara Smith who run a public house which serves Devonshire cream teas, and visits an Aborigine alcohol rehabilitation centre run by two British doctors, Dr Clare and Dr Neil.

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  • S15E7

    Living with Waltzing Matilda: Part 7

    Feb 21, 1988

    Alan Whicker looks at industrial relations in Australia. He meets a top trade union official, and British millionaire Roger Smith, who is returning to England after 24 years because of restrictive Australian union practices.

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  • S15E8

    Living with Waltzing Matilda: Part 8

    Feb 28, 1988

    Alan Whicker looks at the stereotypical Australian male image with comments from Sally Hurley, Clare Jukka, Sue Becker (the BBC's fitness instructor from the 1970s), Jane Deknatel and Hazel Small.

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  • S15E9

    Living with Waltzing Matilda: Part 9

    Mar 6, 1988

    Alan Whicker visits Brits living in Australia, including Ray Wilmott who has his own fox hunt in New South Wales, wine critic Len Evans, and Dennis Gowing whose horse won the Melbourne Cup.

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  • S15E10

    Living with Waltzing Matilda: Part 10

    Mar 13, 1988

    Alan Whicker talks to people from the arts and entertainment, including Wilton Morley (son of Robert Morley), film producer Phillip Emmanuel, Edmund Capon curator of the NSW Art Gallery, writer Tony Shaffer, and boxer Joe Bugner.

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