23/02/2010
"Forgotten Australians", private schools and will Al Qaida target Indian sporting events?
In a heart-rending interview Gabby meets some of the "forgotten Australians". They were among tens of thousands of people shipped to Australia as children from the UK - and subjected to the most horrendous abuse. Tomorrow they'll get an apology from Gordon Brown.
As the Prime Minister announces that more schools in England are to be taken out of local authority control and handed over the independent organisations, Gabby looks into whether schools run by the private sector are the future of education.
With new fears over whether militants linked to Al Qaida will target sporting events in India, Gabby gets the lowdown on security ahead of the IPL and speaks to a British sporting team who are about to fly out to the sub-continent.
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Gordon Brown to apologise to the Lost Innocents
For decades a child migration policy in the UK sent tens of thousands of children overseas. Some were as young as three. Australia aplogised for its part last year; Britain will do so tomorrow.
Duration: 04:32
Marcelle and Mary, both shipped to Australia as children
Marcelle O'Brien was sent to Australia at the age of four, and Mary Mason was shipped Down Under at the age of eight, as part of Britain's Lost Innocents child migration policy.
Duration: 18:11
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- Tue 23 Feb 2010 12:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 5 Live
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