Fordy is checking out Oranges and Sunshine at a top secret London screening tomorrow night. The film hits cinemas on Friday 1st April, and tells 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.
We’ll have the review on the site soon enough, but here’s a brand new poster for the film, as well as the trailer if you missed it when it was released a couple of weeks back.
