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    TELEVISION

    May 07, 2023 4 minutes

    SATURDAY MAY 13

    MIRIAM MARGOLYES: AUSTRALIA UNMASKED

    Going walkabout

    Screening: Living, 7.30pm

    Streaming: SkyGo

    The unquestionably British Miriam Margolyes has been an Australian citizen since 2013 – she and her partner have a home in Robertson, in the southern highlands of New South Wales. And Margolyes has already done one gadabout the Lucky Country for the ABC, in the 2020 series Almost Australian, which is now showing on Netflix.

    This recent one has her back in the campervan for three episodes. In the first, she’s pondering the history of Tasmania, then in subsequent instalments, it’s matters of class differences in Victoria as she swings between polo matches and bogan burnouts, before it’s off to South Australia to complete her study of what a

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