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Asylum Seeker or Scrounger?

Episode 4 of 5

Julian Putkowski presents a series on cases that show up Civil Service bureaucracy. In 1954, a young man was found aboard a Polish ship. Was he an asylum seeker or a stowaway?

Files from the National Archive reveal preposterous acts both grand and petty. Julian Putkowski distills them down.

Klimowicz was just another Polish stowaway seeking political asylum in London in 1954. The 蜜芽传媒 Office got ready to boot him out. Then the Prime Minister, Churchill, got involved. His solution? Send in the destroyers. With Shami Chakrabarti

Reader: Crawford Logan

Producer: Matt Thompson
A Loftus production for 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4.

15 minutes

Last on

Thu 16 Sep 2010 15:45
蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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  • Sun 14 Oct 2007 14:45
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  • Sat 16 Feb 2008 05:45
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  • Thu 16 Sep 2010 15:45
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