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The film is based on the true story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham who uncovered the scandal of "home children", [3] a scheme of forcibly relocating poor children from the United Kingdom to Australia and Canada. [4]
Oct 20, 2011 · Oranges and Sunshine, based on the 1994 book Empty Cradles by Nottingham social worker Margaret Humphreys, deals with the fallout from the forced — and largely secret — migration of English...
Oct 20, 2011 · If the film, adapted from Ms. Humphreys’s 1994 book, “Empty Cradles,” tells a true-life horror story, it refrains from exploiting that story for cheap shock.
Oct 19, 2011 · The children who were sent to Australia had been told that their mother or father had died and they were going to live the good life, filled with oranges and sunshine and a perfect family in ...
Oct 26, 2011 · Based on the true story of the collusion between British and Australian governments to illegally ship tens of thousands of children from the U.K. to Australia for more than a century, well into the late 1960s, Oranges and Sunshine is thrillingly efficient filmmaking.
Oct 20, 2011 · Oranges and Sunshine is a true-life drama that tells the story of Margaret Humphreys (played by Emily Watson), a social worker from Nottingham, England who uncovered one of the most...
Oct 26, 2011 · This is all true. When Margaret Humphreys went on TV in Australia to tell the story, she drew crowds of adults who knew they came from the U.K. but had never believed the stories they had been told. If their parents were dead, did they have brothers or sisters?
Oranges and Sunshine tells the true story of Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson), a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovered one of the most significant so...
Apr 19, 2011 · Oranges and Sunshine tells the true story of Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson), a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals in recent times:...
Dec 6, 2010 · Released 6 December 2010. Almost single-handedly, against overwhelming odds and with little regard for her own well-being, Margaret Humphreys reunited thousands of families, brought...
