Mary Bryant: The Girl from Botany Bay

ITV aired a very moving historical drama based on the life of Mary Bryant, 18th century convict, transported to a penal colony in Australia for the crime of stealing a lady's cloak in order to feed her family. Later Mary organised an escape: she, her convict husband, two young children, and several male convicts stole a boat and escaped all the way to East Timor, thousands of miles away.

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