The Earl Grey Girls: Documentary On Newstalk
1 July 2020 - 46 minsNew documentary explores the lives of Irish girl orphans shipped to Australia during the famine
In the latest radio documentary to be broadcast by Newstalk 106 – 108fm as part of it’s weekly Documentary On Newstalk series, producer J.J. O`Shea looks at the controversial scheme in which over 4000 young orphan women were shipped to Australia from workhouses all over Ireland during the Great Famine in “The Earl Grey Girls”
The radio premiere of ‘The Earl Grey Girls’ airs on Newstalk 106-108fm on Sunday 21st June at 7am, with a repeat broadcast airing on Saturday 27th June at 9pm. Podcast goes live after first broadcast.
In the years 1848 to 1850, in the midst of the Great famine, over four...
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