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Meet the men working down under, down under.
Twenty years ago, Oxford Terry was an advertising executive in London. Now he’s an opal miner in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales.
Forty years ago, Billy Capp was a mouth organ player in Liverpool. Now he’s an opal-mining mouth organ player in Lightning Ridge, NSW.
Lightning Ridge is a remote town in the outback and the home of the black opal. Here self-imposed exiles drift in from all over the world to try their luck in Australia’s premier lo-tech industry; their equipment dates back to the time of the ‘seven dwarfs’.
Meet Terry, Billy and their fairytale friends, Ken the Digger, Julius the Cutter, Les the Driller and Andy the Finn – the golfing hermit. See the Tivoli Theatre, the Digger’s Rest Hotel and the puddling tanks. Experience the alternative lifestyle.
Clip taken from The World About Us: Down Under, Down Under, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 15 June, 1986.
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